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Robert Young Bush (Hancock County lawyer and common schools commissioner)

b. 1826?

Hancock County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Ann Millian Stone Bush. Attorney in Hancock County in 1854 and 1856. County attorney in Hancock County in 1856. County commissioner of the Hancock County common schools in 1854, 1861, and 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

John Livingston, Livingston's Law Register: A Guide for Every Man of Business, and Hand-book of Useful Knowledge (New York: Office of the Monthly Law Magazeine, 1854), 109.

John Livingston, Livingston's Law Register: Containing a Complete List of Lawyers in the United States (New York: Davies and Roberts, 1856), 133 and 303.

"Report of the Superintendent Public Instruction to the Governor of Kentucky, for the Year 1854," Kentucky Public Documents: Legislative Document, No. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1855), 104.

"Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the School Year Ending December 31, 1861," (Frankfort, Ky.: Yeoman Office, Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 63 and 135.

"Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the School Year Ending December 31, 1863," (Frankfort, Ky.: Commonwealth Office, Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 65.

Citation

Bush, Robert Young. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199141 (November 12, 2026).

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