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Atwood Gaines Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, clerk of court, banker, and soldier)

b. 1815-11-02 d. 1898-01-04

Warren County, Kentucky, clerk of court, banker, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married Juliet Ann Van Meter Hobson on November 23, 1836. Father of Mary E. Hobson, William E. Hobson, Jonathan Hobson, and Joseph V. Hobson. Clerk of court in Warren County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Banker in Warren County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860. Served in the Union Army as colonel in 1862. Served as provost marshall for U. S. Volunteers.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 35A-35B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 10 of microfilm.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 4-5.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 3.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 18.
Marriage Records: Kentucky Marriages (Richmond, KY: Madison County Courthouse), film no. 000339890, p. 48 of microfilm.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T289, Roll 750.
Find A Grave, "Atwood Gaines Hobson (2 Nov 1815-4 Jan 1898)," Memorial #28020359, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28020359/atwood-gaines-hobson# (accessed December 31, 2018).

Citation

Hobson, Atwood Gaines. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202306 (November 12, 2026).

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