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William C. Brown (Gallatin County, Kentucky, judge, farmer and justice of the peace)

b. 1808?

Gallatin County, Kentucky, farmer, judge, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Brown. Father of John R. Brown, Augustine Brown, Lewis Brown, Mary J. Brown, Frances Brown, and William Brown. Married to Henrietta Brown. Farmer in Gallatin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Gallatin County in 1850. Resident in Gallatin County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Gallatin County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Gallatin County in 1862. Presiding judge in the Gallatin County Court in 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, p. 160B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, p. 6.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, p. 11B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, District 2, p. 315A.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

KYR-0001-017-0542.

Citation

Brown, William C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208893 (November 12, 2026).

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