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William Proctor Mellen (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent)

b. 1814 d. 1873

Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent. Massachusetts native. Father of William S. Mellen. Married to Isabella Mellen. Father of Malcom Mellen and Isabel Mellen. Married to Ellen S. Mellen. Father of Ellen S. Mellen and Charlotte Mellen. Attorney in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Coal manufacturer in Lawrence County in 1860. Appointed commissioner of deeds for Kentucky in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861. Port authority in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Treasury agent in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, My District, p. 471A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 589.

F. & J. Rivers & George A. Bailey, The Congressional Globe and Appendix, Third Session Forty-First Congress: In Three Parts pt. 2 (Washington DC: Office of the Congressional Globe, 1871), 1026.

Find A Grave, "William Proctor Mellen (1814-1873)," Memorial #78996603, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78996603 (accessed September 25, 2018).

KYR-0001-017-0088.

Citation

Mellen, William Proctor. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201889 (November 12, 2026).

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