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John Quincy Ward (Harrison County, KY, Com'th atty pro tem)

b. 1838-08-29 d. 1899-06-26

Scott County, Kentucky, and Harrison County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth’s attorney. Scott County native. Son of Cary Aldry Ward and Eliza Jane Risk Ward. Married to Mary E. Miller Ward in Harrison County, Kentucky, on November 30, 1865. Student in Scott County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown in 1858. Law student in Scott County in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. County attorney of Harrison County in 1862. Commonwealth’s attorney pro tem in Harrison County in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p.421A .

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 581.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 810.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 242B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 2, p. 337.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 141-43.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, 1862-1869, Film 000216898, p. 96-97.

“John Quincy Adams Ward (1838-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial 83871978, accessed November 11, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83871978.

KYR-0001-004-0388.

Citation

Ward, John Quincy. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203600 (November 12, 2026).

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