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William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep)

b. 1828?

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and government official. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Mulholland Samuels in Hardin County, Kentucky, on May 24, 1850. Father of Hugh Samuels, Robin Samuels, and Fanny Samuels. Attorney in Hardin County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hardin County from 1851 to 1853. Attorney and clerk in Hardin County in 1860. Clerk of the Hardin County Court. Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort from September 1861 to 1862. Commissioner for Hardin County to the stockholders' meeting of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1862 and 1863. Auditor of Public Accounts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 31, 1863, to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Upper or Northern District, p. 306B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, 3rd District, p. 91.

Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Company, Commencing on the First of July, 1861, and ending on the Thirtieth of June, 1862, (Louisville: Hanna & Co., 1862), 58, 71.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 25.

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, 1793-1862, Film #000390788.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 307.

KYR-0001-037-0253.

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Samuels, William T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202442 (November 12, 2026).

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