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Charles G. Wintersmith (Hardin County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1812-07-15 d. 1881-10-14

Hardin County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Emily Cotton Wintersmith in Nelson County, Kentucky, on October 15, 1857. Married to Malvina Underwood Gorin Wintersmith in Louisville on January 16, 1862. Attorney in Hardin County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hardin County in 1838, 1847, and from 1851 to 1855. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1853 to 1854. Attorney in partnership with F. T. Fox, Jr., in Elizabethtown in 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Northern District, p. 306.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Upper or Northern District.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown, p. 41.

"Judge Charles G. Wintersmith (1812-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial #11924891, accessed June 27, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11924891.

_Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, 1783-1951, Film #001929414, p. 273.

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, 1862-1863, Film #000819615.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 307.

"Wintersmith & Fox, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 29, 1862, p. 1.

Zachariah Frederick Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville: Courier-Journal Printing Company, 1892), 899.

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Wintersmith, Charles G.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207219 (November 12, 2026).

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