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Thomas S. Porter (Grant County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and postmaster.)

b. 1828?

Grant County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and postmaster. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Merrill Porter. School teacher in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1850. Common school teacher in Grant County in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Grant County in 1860. School teacher in Grant County in 1863. Postmaster for Williamstown in Grant County from October 20, 1864, to August 5, 1885.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 185B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 902.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 48A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 601A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Grant County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 226.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 29730.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Grant County, Kentucky, vol. 45, p. 170.

Citation

Porter, Thomas S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209492 (November 12, 2026).

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