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John Glover Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, & col Mercer Co militia)

b. 1840-04-02

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Andrew G. Kyle and Jane H. Glover Kyle. Educated at Transylvania University and withdrew due to health issues. Studied law in Mercer County in 1860. Graduated from the Law School of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1862. Began law practice in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Judge of the Harrodsburg Police Court in 1864. Served in the Mercer County Militia as a colonel during the Civil War.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 715.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 687-88.

KYR-0001-004-0395.

Citation

Kyle, John Glover. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200454 (November 12, 2026).

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