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Robert A. Spalding (Union Co merchant)

b. 1822 d. 1895

Union County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Ellen M. Spalding. Father of Mary A. Spalding, Annie Spalding, Jane P. Spalding, Ellen Spalding, and Susan C. Spalding. Farmer in Union County in 1850 and 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 514. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 1-2. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 19. Find A Grave, “Robert Abell Spalding (1822-1895),” Memorial #94781007, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94781007 (accessed July 22, 2017).

Citation

Spalding, Robert A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209166 (November 12, 2026).

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