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John Ray (Hopkins County, Kentucky, physician and politician)

b. 1791?

Hopkins County, Kentucky, physician and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Ray. Father of John T. Ray, James S. Ray, Sarah E. Ray, and Charles Ray. Physician in Hopkins County in 1850 and 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1850 and seven in 1860. Member of the House of Representative of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 51. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 249. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 11. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 343. KYR-0001-029-0571.

Citation

Ray, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199674 (November 12, 2026).

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