Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Versailles, Kentucky, farmer and physician. Kentucky native. Married to Caroline R. Steel. Father of John A. Steel. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Physician in Woodford County in 1850. Dueled James Blackburn in 1854 in Fayette County. Farmer in Versailles in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 453B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 123.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 536A.

U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924, Ancestry, Transylvania University, 1836, p. 8.

John Winston Coleman and John Lyde Wilson, Famous Kentucky Duels (Lexington, KY: Henry Clay Press, 1969), p. 145.

Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: James A. Hodges, 1876), p. 4.

Citation

Steel, Theophilus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198159 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (2)

Legal/Financial
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Theophilas Steele, Indictment
Correspondence
William T. Scott to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-11-07

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