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Andrew Barnett (Marion County and Green County Attorney; Commonwealth's Attorney)

b. 1827-03-04 d. 1910-02-11

Marion County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of William Barnett Married to Francis Katherine "Kate" Tyler Barnett in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky on December 11, 1856. Father of William P. T. Barnett and Tyler Barnett. Attended Georgetown College in Scott County, Kentucky. Attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in Louisville in 1848. Attorney in Green County in 1850. Household owned thirty-two enslaved persons in Green County in 1850. Served as the Commonwealth's Attorney for the 5th Kentucky Judicial District from 1858 to 1861. Attorney in Marion County in 1860. Member of the Democratic Party.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 125A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 215.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 738.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1858), xxiv.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 17573.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819605.

The National Almanac and Annual Record for the Year 1863 (Philadephia: George W. Childs, 1863), 460.

Charles Kerr, ed., _History of Kentucky (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1922), 191.

"Judge Andrew "Andy" Barnett (1827-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial 58907114, accessed February 24, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58907114.

Citation

Barnett, Andrew. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209103 (November 12, 2026).

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