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Samuel McAdams (Hancock County merchant)

b. 1812-08-13 d. 1863-07-14

Hancock County, Kentucky, merchant. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sarah Wroe McAdams. Father of Eliza McAdams, Ann McAdams, William L. McAdams, Catherine McAdams, Forrest McAdams, Frank McAdams, and Charles McAdams. Raised in Indiana and returned to Hawesville, Kentucky in 1831. Merchant in Hancock County in 1850. Commissioner of the Hancock Manufacturing Company and the Hancock Mining Company in 1851. Merchant in Hancock County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860. Hired one enslaved person in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 114.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 10.

E. Polk Johnson, _A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, vol. 3 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 1530.

"An Act to incorporate the Hancock Manufacturing Company," _Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at November Session, 1850), 260-262 and 316-318.

Citation

McAdams, Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205383 (November 12, 2026).

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