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William Josephus Perrin (Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and clerk)

b. 1825-08-03 d. 1898

Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Solomon C. Perrin and Edna Perrin Perrin. Married to Nancy D. Oldham Perrin in Pendleton County on December 16, 1851. Father of Ruth Perrin, Clark Perrin, and Thomas J. Perrin. Attended Bacon College at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, from 1841 to 1842. Served in Humphrey Marshall's cavalry regiment in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. Constable of Harrison County from 1849 to 1852. Admitted to the bar in 1857. Attorney in Falmouth, Kentucky, in 1859. Deputy clerk of the Kenton County Court in Covington, Kentucky, from 1860 to 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 125A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, Falmouth, p. 405A.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, Falmouth, Enumeration District: 159, p. 367A.

Find A Grave, "William Joseph Perrin, Sr. (1825-1898)," Memorial #,79785702, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79785702/william-joseph-perrin (accessed March 11, 2020).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, Film #000272807, p. 675.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 189-190.

Citation

Perrin, William Josephus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206203 (February 11, 2026).

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