Person

Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney)

b. 1798-05-03 d. 1877-12-08

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Gorin and Elizabeth Franklin Gorin. Father of Melvina M. Gorin, Franklin Gorin, Underwood Gorin. Married to Frances C. Boardman Gorin in Davidson County, Tennessee, on July 30, 1841. Father of Alice A. Gorin. Married to Deborah P. Campbell Gorin in Warren County, Kentucky, on January 23, 1852. Father of Harry C. Gorin and Anna Gorin. Admitted to the bar in January 1820. Resident in Barren County in 1830. Owned three enslaved persons in Barren County in 1830. Owned Mammoth Cave from 1838 to 1840. Resident in Barren County in 1840. Owned four enslaved persons in Barren County in 1840. Attorney in partnership with John Bell in Nashville, Tennessee. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay at Gorin and Gazlay in Louisville from 1859 to 1863. Owned five enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay and Jack Fry in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 129.
Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 157.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 1, p. 394B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow Division 1, p. 190.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 525.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 286B.
Find A Grave, "Franklin Gorin (1798-1877)," Memorial #7181990, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7181990 (accessed February 11, 2020).
Tennessee Marriage Records (1780-2002), Tennessee State Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, Davidson County Marriages, p. 75.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film #000339890.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-1860 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1860), 102.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 102.
Mary Young Southard and Ernest C. Miller, eds., Who's Who in Kentucky: A Biographical Assembly of Notable Kentuckians (Louisville: The Standard Printing Co., 1936), 538.
E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Vol. III (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1912), 1673-74.
Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 323.
KYR-0001-004-0364.

Citation

Gorin, Franklin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201810 (January 24, 2026).

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