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Robert Armstrong Athey (Kenton County, lawyer, asst. adjutant general for KY vols (U.S.A.))

b. 1825-12-19 d. 1901-04-17

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Married to Elizabeth J. Wallace Athey. Married to Mary Katherine Stephens Athey in Kenton County, Kentucky, on January 17, 1865. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Graduated from Transylvania Law School in 1845. Member of the Lexington City Council in 1849. City attorney in Lexington from 1849 to 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Fayette County from 1850 to 1851. Served in the Kentucky State Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) as a major and Assistant Adjutant General until August 31, 1863. County attorney for Kenton County, Kentucky, from 1864 to 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Ward 1, Covington, p. 26.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Kenton County Marriages, Film 001943299.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 426.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), VII.

"Judge Athey," The Daily Leader (Lexington, KY), April 18, 1901, p. 8.

“Judge Robert Armstrong Athey (1825-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 89872523, accessed on May 17, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89872523.

Citation

Athey, Robert Armstrong. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199911 (January 18, 2026).

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