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Aaron Donald Kennedy (Logan County, merchant, postmaster, and county judge)

b. 1815-01-19 d. 1890-08-03

Logan County, Kentucky, merchant, grocer, postmaster, and county judge. Tennessee native. Married to Mary B. Gordon Kennedy in Todd County, Kentucky, on November 7, 1835. Father of Benjamin Kennedy, John W. Kennedy, and Mary Virginia Kennedy. Merchant in Logan County in 1850. Postmaster in Gordonsville from January 31, 1855 to December 28, 1864. Grocer in Logan County in 1860. Presiding judge of the Logan County Court in Logan County in 1864.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 2, p. 108A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 2, p. 23.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Gordonsville, p. 379A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Tood County Marriages, Film #000367186, p. 75.

"Aaron Donald Kennedy (1815-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #48252481, accessed December 3, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48252481.

KYR-0002-022-0102.

Citation

Kennedy, Aaron Donald. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208957 (November 12, 2026).

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