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Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary)

b. 1798 d. 1871-12-31

Frankfort, Kentucky, banker and member of military board. Kentucky native. Married to Jane L. Swigert. Mayor of Frankfort in 1849. Owned twenty-two slaves in Frankfort in 1860. Partner with William McKee in the Lexington, Frankfort & Louisville Railroad in 1858. Clerk in Frankfort in 1850. Clerk in Frankfort in 1860. President of the Farmers Bank of Kentucky in Frankfort in 1860. Secretary of the Military Board of Kentucky in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 107.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 1, p. 119.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin, Frankfort District 1, p. 27.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort , p. 12.

Carl E. Kramer, "Frankfort" in John E. Kleber, ed. The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 353.

Report of the Military Board of Kentucky, Made to the General Assembly, September 10, 1861 (Frankfort: Yeoman Office, 1861), 3.

Find A Grave, “Philip Swigert (unknown-1871),” Memorial #68833254, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68833254 (accessed May 22, 2017).

Citation

Swigert, Philip. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202897 (November 12, 2026).

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