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Scott Brown (Franklin County, KY, Adjutant genl of KY, farmer)

b. 1816 d. 1891-12-28

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Farmer in Franklin County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Served as adjutant general of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from May 24, 1859, to October 12, 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 57B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 886, p. 5 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 298.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 495B, p. 4 of microfilm.


Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Bridgeport Precinct, p. 40A.

Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kentucky, Military History of Kentucky, Chronologically Arranged (Frankfort, KY: The State journal, 1939), 169-70.

"GEN. SCOTT BROWN.: Death of a Prominent and Well-Known Citizen at His Home Near Frankfort," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), December 29, 1891, p. 3.

"Gen. Scott Brown Dead," The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, KY), January 2, 1892, p. 4.

Governor's Executive Journal, 12 Sept 1859, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Executive Journal, 1859-1862, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, https://dspace.kdla.ky.gov/jspui/handle/10602/6773.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 91, 97.

KYR-0001-025-0244.

Citation

Brown, Scott. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209565 (November 12, 2026).

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