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William Norvell (Carlisle, Kentucky, KY Rep, judge and attorney)

b. 1803? d. 1875-09-05

Carlisle, Kentucky, politician, judge and attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Emily G. Summers Norvell in Nicholas County, Kentucky, on March 15, 1836. Father of Lucy S. Norvell, Joseph Norvell, John Norvell, Jenny P. Norvell, Alice R. Norvell, and Mattie E. Norvell. Attorney in Nicholas County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Nicholas County in 1850. Represented Nicholas County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1833. Represented Nicholas County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1835. Attorney in Carlisle in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860. Judge in Nicholas County from 1860 to 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas, District 2, p. 391A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas, District 2, p. 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 278.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas, Carlisle, p.137A.

The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J.M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 778.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252402, p. 149.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 651.

"William Norvell (1803-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial #71831491, accessed March 19, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71831491.

Citation

Norvell, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210044 (November 12, 2026).

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