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Oswill C. Woolley (Clark County, Indiana, basketmaker / Mayor of Jeffersonville 1861-65)

b. 1808-03 d. 1895-02-16

Clark County, Indiana, mayor and basketmaker. New York native. Married to Sarah A. Woolley. Father of Almina Woolley, Jacob G. Woolley, and Robert E. Woolley. Resident of Clark County, Indiana, in 1840. Wooden basketmaker in Jeffersonville in 1850. Employed Samuel Laferer in Jeffersonville in 1850. Basketmaker in Jeffersonville in 1860. Mayor of Jeffersonville from 1861 to 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, p. 281-82.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, p. 157A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, p. 382.

Carl E. Kramer, "Jeffersonville, Indiana," in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 443-45.

"Oswell C. Woolley (1808-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial #30790353, accessed August 19, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30790353.

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Woolley, Oswill C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205750 (November 12, 2026).

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