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Lewis Triplett (Adair County, Kentucky, saddler, dentist, inventor.)

b. 1822 d. 1902

Adair County, Kentucky, saddler, dentist, and inventor. Kentucky native. Married to Francis A. Murrel Triplett in Adair County, Kentucky, on November 29, 1844. Father of Eugene Triplett, John F. Triplett, Laura Triplett, James Triplett, Mattie Triplett, Nannie Triplett, and Minney Triplett. Saddler in Adair County in 1850. Dentist in Adair County in 1860. Received U.S. Patent Number 45,361 for the Triplett & Scott repeater carbine on December 6, 1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 26B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 131.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film #000469187.

Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives during the Second Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, 1864-65, vol. 10-11 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865), p. 961.

"Lewis Triplett (1822-1902)," Find A Grave, Memorial #89233558, accessed December 17, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89233558.

Citation

Triplett, Lewis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203262 (November 12, 2026).

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