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John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant)

b. 1809-02-01 d. 1882-02-09

Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant. Shelbyville, Kentucky, native. Married to Sophia Bledsoe Taylor Cardwell in March 1830. Father of John T. Cardwell, Telulia Cardwell, James M. Cardwell, Susan L. Cardwell, Thomas M. Cardwell, Samuel Creed Cardwell, Wesley K. Cardwell, Nannie Cardwell, and Llewellyn Davis Cardwell. Apprentice in a printing house. Trustee for the Harrodsburg Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1842. Notary Public in Mercer County in 1847. Co-founder of Monadelphian Society of Industrial Education in 1849. Dry goods clerk in 1850. Partner and, later, full owner of Capt. Bull’s Corner dry goods business. Owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Cashier of Harrodsburg Savings Institution in 1860 and 1863. Served in the Mercer County Home Guard as captain in June 1861. Provost marshal in Mercer County.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 271B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 837.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, pp. 685-86.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 581A.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1841 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1842), 174.

Taliaferro P. Shaffner, ed., _ The Kentucky State Register, for the Year 1847_ (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 133.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1848 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1849), 409-10.

Thomas W. Westerfield, ed., Kentucky Genealogy and Biography: Sketches from Adair, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland, Garrard, Green, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor, Washington Counties, vol. 5 (Owensboro, Ky.: Genealogical Reference Company, 1975), 74. Reprint of W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 4th ed.

"John Wesley Cardwell (1809-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #100176979, accessed April 23, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100176979.

KYR-0002-022-0123.

Citation

Cardwell, John W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198501 (November 12, 2026).

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