Person

Edward Mitchell (Boyle County, Kentucky, clerk and agent for Liverpool and London)

b. 1837? d. 1872-02-27

Boyle County, Kentucky, clerk and banker. Boyle County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Mitchell and Mary A. Mitchell. Married to Blanche "Bettie" Prather Mitchell in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 20, 1859. Father of Louisa Mitchell and Jessie Mitchell. Attended school in Boyle County in 1850. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Attended Centre College in Boyle County in 1851. Clerk in Boyle County in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Clerk in Boyle County in 1863. Agent for the Liverpool and London Globe Insurance Company in 1864. Banker in partnership with Henry S. Julian and Thomas D. Tilford in H.S. Julian & Company in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 362B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 596.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 915.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 148A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 95A.

Kentucky, Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 167.

Kentucky, Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 181.


Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Boyle County, KY, August 1863, p. 70.

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), 376, 446.

_The Twenty-Seventh Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, for the Year Ending June 26, 1851, (Danville: Students of Centre College, Lexington Observer & Reporter Print Office, 1851), p. 15.

KYR-0001-004-0499.

Citation

Mitchell, Edward. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208869 (November 12, 2026).

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