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Robert J. Breckinridge (Louisville, KY, physician)

b. 1828-12-02 d. 1867-07-08

Louisville, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Son of William L. Breckinridge and Frances Breckinridge. Married to Kate G. Hunt Breckinridge in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 15, 1853. Father of Fanny Breckinridge, Hunt Breckinridge, and Robert Breckinridge. Physician in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Physician in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 296A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 853.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 601.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 288B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 38.

"Robert James Breckinridge Sr. (1828-1867)," Find A Grave, Memorial 93620478, accessed December 27, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93620478.

Citation

Breckinridge, Robert J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208695 (November 12, 2026).

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