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Solomon C. Perrin (Kenton Co, KY, minister, attorney, court clerk, and judge)

b. 1802?

Covington, Kentucky, minister, attorney, clerk, judge, and politician. Kentucky native. Son of W. C. Perrin. Married to Mary J. Perrin. Father of William Josephus Perrin, Charles Perrin, and Franklin Perrin. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Harrison County in 1833 and 1836. Christian minister in Kenton County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Clerk of Kenton County Court from 1859 to 1862. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of Kenton County Court in 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 3, p. 251.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, 111.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 5, p. 259.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 3.

"Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859,” in 1860 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 292.

"Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), p. 189.

"The War in the West: Kentucky, from Green River, from Zollicoffer's Camp, the National Court," The New York Times, 15 January 1862.


KYR-0001-020-2147.

KYR-0001-007-0406.

Citation

Perrin, Solomon C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198220 (February 11, 2026).

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