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Richard J. Smith (Simpson Co, Ky attorney & Warren Co KY printer)

b. 1821?

Simpson County, Kentucky, attorney and Warren County, Kentucky, printer and editor. Kentucky native. Married to Caroline Smith. Father of Thomas Smith, William Smith, Richard Smith, Sarah A Smith. Printer and editor of the Bowling Green Standard in Warren County in 1850. Employed R. W. Meredith as a printer in Warren County in 1850. Warren County candidate for the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1853. Attorney in Simpson County in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Simpson County in 1860. Attorney in Simpson County in 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, pp. 26A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 134.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 307B, p. 26 of 27 of microfilm.

The Louisville Daily Courier, "Selected Items on all Sorts of Subjects," June 17, 1853, p. 2.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Kentucky, 3rd Congressional District, Simpson County, Vol. 3 of 3, February 1864, p. 143 of 176 of microfilm), (Accessed via ancestry.com on July 21, 2020).

Citation

Smith, Richard J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202133 (November 12, 2026).

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