Person

Robert A. Hamilton (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1837?

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of James Russell Hamilton and Sarah E. Hamilton. Student in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Jefferson in County in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 1, p. 44B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 1, p. 141.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 596.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 261B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 349A.

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 110, 303.

Citation

Hamilton, Robert A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200339 (November 12, 2026).

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