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Melancthon Wade Oliver (Cincinnati, Ohio, clerk, lawyer and judge. )

b. 1824-12-27 d. 1899-10-12

Cincinnati, Ohio, clerk, attorney and judge. Ohio native. Son of Rebecca Oliver. Married to Ann E. Gere Oliver in Butler County, Ohio, in June 1850. Father of Lucy Oliver, Ellen Oliver, Fielding Oliver and Willard Oliver. Clerk in Cincinnati in 1850. Attorney in Cincinnati in 1860. Employed Mary Hufkiss as a servant in Cincinnati in 1860. Judge in Cincinnati in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 2, p. 146A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 16, p. 79.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 21, p. 686B.

Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Butler County Marriages, Film 000355779, p. 92.

"Melancthon Wade Oliver (1824-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial 79008720, accessed May 6, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/ 79008720.

Citation

Oliver, Melancthon Wade. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201214 (November 12, 2026).

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