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William N. Dora (Bracken County, Kentucky, merchant, postmaster, and private (usa))

b. 1831?

Bracken County, Kentucky, merchant, postmaster, and soldier. Bracken County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Dora and Elizabeth Dora. Married to Amanda Melvina Barker Dora in Pendleton County, Kentucky, on December 2, 1852. Father of Elizabeth Dora, Millard Dora, and William N. Dora. Merchant in Bracken County in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Bracken County in 1850. Postmaster in Brookville from June 7, 1853, to June 22, 1858. Resident in Newport in 1860. Real estate agent and note broker in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1861 to 1862. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Ohio in 1861. Served in the 42nd Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) as private from September 2, 1862, to October 2, 1862. Foreman in Cincinnati in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 414 B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 650.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 509.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994052, Pendleton County Marriages.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Bracken County, Kentucky, p. 20.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 880.

Williams’ Cincinnati Directory, City Guide, and Business Mirror for Year Commencing June 1, 1862 ed. Williams and Company. (Cincinnati: Williams & Company, 1862), 121.

Williams’ Cincinnati Directory, City Guide, and Business Mirror for Year Commencing June 1, 1863 ed. Williams and Company (Cincinnati: Williams & Company, 1862), 148.

KYR-0001-017-0129.

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Dora, William N.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205661 (November 12, 2026).

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