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George William Rearden (Cairo, Illinois, merchant, land agent, deputy marshal, and trader)

b. 1827?

Cairo, Illinois, merchant, land agent, deputy marshal, and trader. Illinois native. Son of Elmira P. Rearden. Married to Virginia Dennis Rearden in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 2, 1853. Father of Frank M. Rearden and Albert P. Rearden. Merchant in White County, Illinois, in 1850. Member of the Cairo Vigilance Committee for the First Police District in Cairo in 1858. Land agent in Cairo in 1860. Employed Mary Kelly as a servant in Cairo in 1860. United States deputy marshal for the Southern District of Illinois in 1860. Trader in Cairo in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, White County, Grayville, District 13, p. 304B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Alexander County, Cairo, p. 23.

”Arrival of a Gang of Counterfeiters,” Sangamo Journal/Illinois State Journal (Springfield, IL), December 20, 1860.

”The Case of the Counterfeiters,” Sangamo Journal/Illinois State Journal (Springfield, IL), December 22, 1860.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Cairo, IL, June 1863, p. 202.

Illinois Marriage Records, White County Courthouse, Carmi, Illinois, White County Marriages, Film #005204400, p. 68.

”The Overflow at Cairo,” Sangamo Journal/Illinois State Journal (Springfield, IL), June 19, 1858.

Citation

Rearden, George William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207555 (November 12, 2026).

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