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Bushrod Washington Foley (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and police guard)

b. 1809 d. 1867

Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and police guard. Wood County, Virginia, native. Married to Elvira S. Foley. Father of James Foley and Bushrod Foley. Mayor of Covington from 1845 to 1860. Attorney in Covington in 1860. Employed Lizzie Smith, Ellen Dugan, and Julia Lalley as servants in 1860. Police guard of the Kentucky Central Railroad from September 17, 1861, to December 10, 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 2, p. 30.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 4, p. 152.

“Covington Mayors.” December 30, 2013. http://www.kentonlibrary.org/genealogy/regional-history/covington/downtown/covington-mayors.

A. G. Hodges, Reports Communicated to Both Branches of the Legislature of Kentucky at the December Session, 1845 (Frankfort, Kentucky: A.G. Hodges State Printer, 1845). Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (New York, NY, United States: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.)

Theodore H. H. Harris, "Underground Railroad, Campbell and Kenton Counties," in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 903.

Find A Grave, "Bushrod Washington Foley ( 1809 - March 16, 1867)," Memorial #94192591, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94192591 (accessed June 26, 2017).

Citation

Foley, Bushrod Washington. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203779 (November 12, 2026).

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