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Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep)

b. 1826-04-08

Oldham County, Kentucky, teacher, attorney, and politician. Jefferson County, Kentucky, native. Attended St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Kentucky, from 1845 to 1848. Teacher in Oldham County from 1848 to 1850. Read law with George Armstrong in Oldham County. Attorney in LaGrange, Kentucky, in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1857 to 1859. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1859 to 1863. Attorney in Oldham County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Oldham County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1863 to 1865. Owned the Jefferson and Hardin Coal and Rock Oil Company in partnership with John Roberts, James S. Pirtle, William T. Applegate, John L. Hem, Charles G. Wintersmith, S. B. Thomas, Charlton D. Shean in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 842.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 166A.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Adjourned Session (January, 1865) (Frankfort: George. D. Prentice, 1865), 143.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 668.

Oldham County Historical Society, Oldham County, Kentucky, History & Families: The First Century, 1824-1924 (Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, 1996), 272.

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DeHaven, Samuel E.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197907 (November 12, 2026).

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