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Farmer Dewees (Lexington, Kentucky, teller and banker)

b. 1795-10-15 d. 1869-07-28

Lexington, Kentucky, bank teller and gentleman. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Dewees and Mary Coburn Dewees. Teller at the old branch of the United States Bank in Lexington. Teller at the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington. Gentleman in Lexington in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 116.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 59.

Mrs. Philip E. LaMunyan, The Dewees Family: Genealogical Data, Biographical Facts and Historical Information (Norristown, PA: William H. Roberts, 1905), 105-06.

George W. Ranck, History of Lexington Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1872), 402-03.

Find A Grave, "Farmer Dewees (1795-1869)," Memorial #99746794, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99746794/farmer-dewees (accessed January 5, 2018).

Citation

Dewees, Farmer. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197616 (November 12, 2026).

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