Person

Benjamin L. McGlasson (Kenton County, Kentucky merchant)

b. 1818 d. 1889

Kenton County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah McGlasson. Father of Frank McGlasson, Benjamin L. McGlasson, Mary Ann McGlasson, and Laura McGlasson. Farmer in Gallatin County in 1850. Postmaster at Slusher, Boone County, from July 27, 1853, to April 8, 1854. Merchant in Covington, Kenton County, in 1860. Employed Mary Nudd in 1860. Dry goods merchant with J. H. McGlasson in Covington in 1861.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, p. 290A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington 5th Ward, p. 761.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Independence, p. 277A.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Boone County, Kentucky, Volume 14, p. 206 of microfilm.

Williams’ Covington Directory, 1861. Covington, Kentucky, p. 434, p. 14 of microfilm (accessed through ancestry.com on March 31, 2020).

Find A Grave, "Benjamin Leathers McGlasson (1818-1889)," Memorial 200824654, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200824654 (accessed March 31, 2020).

Citation

McGlasson, Benjamin L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197793 (November 12, 2026).

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