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Alexander Davis Hawley (Hancock County master carpenter)

b. 1818?

Hancock County, Kentucky, master carpenter. Ohio native. Married to N. Hawley. A founding member of the Western Coal Company in 1843. Master carpenter in Hancock County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

"An Act to incorporate the 'Western Coal Company'," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at December Session, 1842 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1843), 236.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 118.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 10.

Citation

Hawley, Alexander Davis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209939 (November 12, 2026).

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