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Sylvanus Clark Bascom, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, student and clerk)

b. 1843-01-23 d. 1909-10-17

Bath County, Kentucky, student and clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Sylvanus Clark Bascom, Sr. and Mary Nicholas Owings Bascom. Attended school in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Clerk in Bath County in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 2B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 298.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 74A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 68B.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 159: 1920, p. 156.

"Sylvanus Clarke Bascom (1843-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial 45091391, accessed September 26, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45091391.

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Bascom, Sylvanus Clark, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201353 (November 12, 2026).

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