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Hugh Taylor Brent (Bourbon County, Kentucky, druggist and merchant)

b. 1833-05-16 d. 1914-08-19

Bourbon County, Kentucky, druggist and merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Charles S. Brent and Susan Clarissa Taylor Brent. Married to Caroline Russell Brent in Bourbon County on June 29, 1855. Father of Charles Brent, Susan Brent, Russell Brent, and Taylor Brent. Druggist in Bourbon County in 1850. Merchant in Bourbon County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 246A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 488.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 2.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Covington Ward 5, p. 145A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000216817.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 21534.

"Hugh Taylor Brent (1833-1914)," Find A Grave, Memorial 138928821, accessed May 10, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138928821.

Citation

Brent, Hugh Taylor. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209644 (November 12, 2026).

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