Person

Benjamin B. Campbell (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and bank director)

b. 1820?

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and bank director. Kentucky native. Son of James Campbell and Catharine Campbell. Married to Ellen Campbell in Mercer County, Kentucky, in March 1856. Father of William Campbell, Annie Campbell, and Mary Campbell. Horse trader in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Member of board of directors of Harrodsburg Savings Institution in Harrodsburg in 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 244B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 754.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 56B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191863, p. 256.

KYR-0002-225-0043.

Citation

Campbell, Benjamin B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206063 (November 12, 2026).

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