Robert Ferguson

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c1823

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1874-09-22

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"Robert Ferguson" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020068, (accessed May 2, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Hugh Ferguson. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Resident of Louisville in 1860. Flour merchant in partnership with Hugh Ferguson in Ferguson & Son in Louisville in 1861. Flour inspector in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 320B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 847.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 681.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 86.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 296.
"Robert Ferguson (1823-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial 95798160, accessed May 22, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95798160.

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