Person

Alexander Macklin Ferguson (Scott County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer)

b. 1833-05-22 d. 1902

Scott County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John R. Ferguson. Laborer in Scott County in 1850. Household owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Household owned an additional forty enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 469A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 914.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, pp. 217B-218A.

"Alex Macklin Ferguson (1833-1902)," Find A Grave, Memorial 116530931, accessed December 12, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116530931.

Citation

Ferguson, Alexander Macklin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207743 (November 12, 2026).

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