Benjamin F. Bowen

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c1822

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1884-05-18

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"Benjamin F. Bowen" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00018771, (accessed May 23, 2024).

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Bourbon County, Kentucky, justice of the peace, soldier, farmer and butcher. Kentucky native. Married to Enfield Ammerman Bowen in Harrison County, Kentucky, on April 3, 1851. Father of Mary Franklin Bowen and Lola Bowen. Resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Bourbon County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Bourbon County in 1861. Served in the Harrison County Kentucky Home Guard (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant. Farmer in Edgar County, Illinois, in 1863. Butcher in Edgar County in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Ruddels Mills, p. 591.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbom County, Ruddel Mills, p. 144A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, Paris, p. 177A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film 000216896.
Illinois State Marriage and Death Records, Edgar County Courthouse, Paris, Illinois, Edgar County Register of Deaths, Film 004661389, p. 95.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application 551318.
Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T289, Kentucky, Application 551318.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Edgar County, IL, June 1863.
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 32, Edgar County, Illinois, 1865, p. 21.
KYR-0001-020-0740

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