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Joseph G. Harrison (Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer, collector and sheriff)

b. 1814?

Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer, collector, and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret L. Harrison. Father of Thomas Harrison, Edwin Harrison, Sabina Harrison, M. W. Harrison, and Joseph G. Harrison. Farmer in Daviess County in 1850. Collector in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed C. Howard as a laborer in Owensboro in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Owensboro in 1860. Sheriff in Daviess County from 1863 to 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 389B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 1, p. 667.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 1.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 81.

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Harrison, Joseph G.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207382 (November 12, 2026).

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