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David Edgar Harcourt (Scott County, Ky, merchant)

b. 1814?

Scott County, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Anne M. Howard Harcourt in Spencer County, Kentucky, on November 30, 1842. Father of Emily M. Harcourt and Susan Harcourt. Married to Mary "Mollie" E. Elliott Harcourt in Scott County on June 5, 1855. Father of Nolie Harcourt. Postmaster of Mount Eden from January 30, 1844. Merchant in Spencer County in 1850. Grocery merchant in Georgetown in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 78A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 785.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film #000183225, p. 217.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Spencer County Marriages, Film #000482501, p. 110.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, RG 28, vol. 14, p. 264 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Citation

Harcourt, David Edgar. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199114 (November 12, 2026).

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