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Robert T. Glass (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1834?

Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Owen Glass and Elizabeth H. Glass. Married Sophronia B. Alves Glass in Henderson County on September 4, 1860. Student in Henderson County in 1850. Household owned thirteen enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1853. Served in the Henderson County State Guard as third lieutenant from May 24, 1859. Attorney in Henderson County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Henderson County in 1860. Household owned an additional thirteen enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860. Attorney in Henderson County in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson, Division 1, p. 563.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson, District 1, p. 478, p. 5 of 33 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 152B, p. 28 of 45 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 73, p. 771 of 773 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Centre College Catalogue, (Danville, KY, 1864), 24.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Henderson County, KY, July 1863, p. 18, p. 405 of 629 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, Kentucky, 1887), 202, 744.

Citation

Glass, Robert T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207251 (November 12, 2026).

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