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Samuel M. Bernard (Hopkinsville, KY attorney, asylum manager, and Jefferson Co, KY, notary public)

b. 1826?

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney, asylum manager, and notary public. Kentucky native. Attorney in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Hopkinsville in 1860. Manager of the Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky in Hopkinsville in 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1864.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 424.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 145.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 186. p. 9

Statement of the Board of Managers of the Western Lunatic Asylum, to the Governor of Kentucky, In Relation to the Burning of Said Institution, Accompanied by Estimate of Cost for Reconstruction (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1861), p. 10.

KYR-0001-007-0197.

Citation

Bernard, Samuel M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198165 (November 12, 2026).

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