Ben Adrian Besancon

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c1840

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"Ben Adrian Besancon" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020444, (accessed December 27, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, tavernkeeper. Native of Switzerland. Son of Conrad Besancon and Mary Besancon. Married to Josephine Gubler Besancon in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 16, 1864. Immigrated to the United States on November 14, 1848. Attended school in Erie County, New York, in 1850. Tavernkeeper in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Tavernkeeper in Jefferson County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Erie County, Buffalo, District 4, p. 328A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 23.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 9, p. 165B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482710.
New York, U.S. Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1957, Passenger Arrival Lists (1817-1897), NARA Series M237, RG 36, Ship St. Denis, 1848.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, June 1863, p. 52.

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