Benjamin F. Howard

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1830-03-10

Death Date

1904-02-11

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White

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"Benjamin F. Howard" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00012679, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Magoffin County, Kentucky, farmer, deputy sheriff, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William Slusher Howard and Elizabeth Howard. Farmer in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Magoffin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Deputy sheriff of Magoffin County in 1863. Served in the 49th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant and captain from September 19, 1863, to December 26. 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, District 1, p. 40B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Magoffin County, Licking Station, p. 48.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0449.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 496.
Find A Grave, "Benjamin F. Howard (1830-1904)," Memorial #10857970, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10857970 (accessed May 14, 2020).
KYR-0001-004-0332.

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