William Wallace Harney

Birth Date

1832-06-20

Death Date

1912-03-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and editor. Indiana native. Son of John Hopkins Harney and Martha Rankin Wallace Harney. Married to Mary F. Brock Harney in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 23, 1849. Resident in Louisville in 1850. With his father, John Hopkins Harney, and William E. Hughes, editor of the Louisville Democrat in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861. Editor of the Louisville Democrat in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 181B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 1104.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #0000482707, p. 241.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 112.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1865 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1865), 338.
"William Wallace Harney (1832-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial #25625441, accessed September 15, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25625441.

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