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Harvey Myers (Kenton Co, KY, attorney & state rep)

b. 1828-02-10 d. 1874-03-28

Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. New York native. Son of Aaron Myers and Aurelia Bridgman Myers. Married to Susan Clark Withers Myers in Kenton County in 1858. Father of Harvey Myers and Judith Myers. Teacher in Trimble County in 1852. Attorney in Kenton County in 1860. Republican member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1865, until his resignation on December 23, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 1, p. 505.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 1, p. 347B.

Paul A. Tenkotte, "Harvey Myers. Sr." in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 642.

Find A Grave, "Harvey Myers (1828-1874)," Memorial #7092902, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7092902 (accessed September 18, 2019).

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 421.

Citation

Myers, Harvey. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210094 (January 18, 2026).

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