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William Pennebaker Boone (Louisville attorney and soldier)

b. 1813-10-12 d. 1875-01-24

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Harrison County, Indiana, native. Son of Samuel Boone. Married to Eliza Rowan Harney Boone. Father of John R. Boone, Ann M. Boone, and Samuel Boone. Teacher in Harrison County, Indiana. County Clerk in Harrison County. Attorney in Harrison County. Attorney and partner in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, with P. Thomasson in Thomasson & Boone from 1836 to 1861. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Member of the Union Democratic State Central committee. Member of the Louisville Board of Aldermen. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County in 1861. Served in the 28th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from November 6, 1861 to June 27, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 438B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 4 Ward 8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 637.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 288B.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 260, 911.

"William P. Boone (October 12, 1813-January 24, 1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial 63586694, accessed January 28, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63586694.

United States Adjutant General’s Office, _ Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 , vol. 4, (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1282.

_History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties, vol. 1 (Cleveland, OH: L.A. Williams & Co., 1882), 496c-496e.

Theodore Johnson, “William P. Boone and J. Rowan Boone,” _The Magazine of Western History, 9:(November 1888-April 1889), 715-18.

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Boone, William Pennebaker. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199816 (November 12, 2026).

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