Stephen F. Gano

Birth Date

1807-04-02

Death Date

1901

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Scott County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, politician, and soldier. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Gano and Elizabeth Ewing Gano. Married to Mary Jane Herndon Gano in 1831. Father of Cornelia Gano Long, Robert Gano, Bettie Gano, and William Gano. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1828. Whig member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1837. Farmer and manufacturer in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1840. Whig member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1847. Physician in Scott County in 1850. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Farmer and physician in Scott County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Served in the 7th District of Kentucky (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and surgeon from 1862 to 1865.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 100.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 408A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 10-11.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 820.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 246A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film 000183225.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 632.
"Dr. Stephen F. Gano (1807-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 101569489, accessed October 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101569489.

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