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John Donan (Hart County, Kentucky, soldier, attorney, and politician.)

b. 1826-02-08 d. 1905-04-26

Hart County, Kentucky, soldier, attorney, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Henrietta Wood Donan. Served in the U.S.-Mexican War. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hart County from 1857 to 1861. Attorney in Hart County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Hart County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, Munfordville, p. 954.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, District 2, p. 138B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, Munfordville, p. 345B.

"Veteran of Mexican War Dies at Munfordville," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 27, 1905, p. 7.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), p. 332.

"John Gillaspy Donan (1826-1905)," Find A Grave, Memorial 158841799, accessed August 29, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158841799.

KYR-0001-004-1071.

Citation

Donan, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207244 (November 12, 2026).

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