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Innes Brent Hopkins (Oldham County, Kentucky, clerk and attorney)

b. 1822 d. 1884-03-08

Oldham County, Kentucky, clerk and attorney. Henderson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Virginia Caroline Taliaferro Hopkins in Oldham County, Kentucky, on April 23, 1845. Father of Mattie Belle Hopkins, Robert Hopkins, Innes Hopkins, Brent Hopkins, and Samuel Hopkins. Master in Chancery of Oldham County Court, in Oldham County, Kentucky, from 1853 to 1856. Elected Clerk of the Oldham County Court in 1854. Appointed as aide to Governor Beriah Magoffin in January 1860. Clerk in Oldham County in 1860. Unsuccessful candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 846.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 7.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482447.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 360.

"Commissioner's Sale of Land and Negroes," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), February 21, 1853, p. 3.

"Oldham County," _Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), August 9, 1854, p. 3.

"Governor's Aids," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), January 6, 1860, p. 2.

"Full Official Vote of the State," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), September 5, 1860, p. 3.

“Death of Col. Brent Hopkins,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), March 9, 1884, pg. 8.

"Captain Innes Brent Hopkins (1822-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial 106802447, accessed October 5, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106802447.

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Hopkins, Innes Brent. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207188 (November 12, 2026).

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