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Selby Harney (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, editor, and soldier.)

b. 1838-06-19 d. 1893-05-09

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, editor, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John H. Harney and Martha Wallace Harney. Married to Caroline R. Taylor Harney in Hamilton County, Ohio, on September 17, 1859. Father of Selby Harney, Jr., John H. Harney, and Elizabeth Harney. Attended school in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in partnership with William W. Harney in the law firm Harney & Bro., in Louisville in 1860. Editor of the Louisville Daily Democrat in Louisville in 1860. Served in the Louisville Provost Guard (U.S.A.) as a major from March 10, 1862, to October 3, 1862. Served in the 34th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel, from October 3, 1862, to December 15, 1863. Attorney in partnership with William G. Reasor in the law firm Reasor & Harney in Louisville in 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 181A.

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

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Two Mile House Precinct, p. 32.

“Harney, Shelby,” Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0408.

“Harney, Selby,” Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0470.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 490.

The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-60, ed. Henry Tanner, (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1859), 103.

Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Hamiilton County Marriages, Film 000355094.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 316-17, 346.

"COL Selby T Harney (1838-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial 81660388, accessed December 19, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81660388.

Citation

Harney, Selby. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207957 (November 12, 2026).

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