Person

Samuel Lusk (Garrard County, Kentucky, politician, circuit judge, attorney, and planter.)

b. 1800?

Garrard County, Kentucky, politician, circuit judge, attorney, and planter. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Letcher Lusk in Garrard County, Kentucky, on September 4, 1828. Father of Alexander Lusk. Married to Eliza A. Jennings Lusk in Garrard County on December 24, 1836. Father of William J. Lusk, Mary D. Lusk, Nancy B. Lusk, John Lusk, Eliza J. Lusk, Margaret S. Lusk, and Fanny Lusk. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Garrard County from 1834 to 1836. Circuit judge in Garrard County in 1850. Owned twenty-eight enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1850. Attorney in Garrard County in 1860. Owned twenty-four enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 266A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 97.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 657.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 18B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 434A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film 000183256.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 288.

Citation

Lusk, Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200388 (November 12, 2026).

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