Person

Alfred Franklin Gowdy (Taylor County, Kentucky, merchant and state representative)

b. 1815-03-07 d. 1876-08-04

Taylor County, Kentucky, merchant and politician. Marion County, Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Gowdy and Nancy Burnet Gowdy. Married to Maria Smith Gowdy in Green County, Kentucky, on May 31, 1842. Father of Alice M. Gowdy. Married to Sarah Lois Hotchkiss Gowdy in Green County, Kentucky, on July 20, 1846. Father of Alfred Benoni Gowdy, David W. Gowdy, John Edwin Gowdy, Emma Jane Gowdy, James T. Gowdy, and George H. Gowdy. Merchant in Taylor County in 1850. Employed J. H. Sanders as a clerk in Taylor County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Taylor County in 1850. Special judge of the Circuit Court in Taylor County in 1858. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Taylor County from 1859 to 1861. Merchant in Taylor County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Taylor County in 1860. Merchant in partnership with John M. Turner and D.M. Mourning in Turner, Mourning, & Company in Taylor County from 1862 to 1863. Tobacco merchant in partnership with John M. Turner in Taylor County from 1863 to 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 193A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 78.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 625.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, p. 334, p. 1 of microfilm.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 229B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Green County Marriages, Film 007721467, p. 2.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Green County Marriages, Film 007721401.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 181.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 5, Taylor County, Kentucky, 1862.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 5, Taylor County, Kentucky, 1863.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 6, Taylor County, Kentucky, 1864.

"Change of Venue," Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), 14 June 1858, p. 2.

Mahlon M. Gowdy, A Family History Comprising the Surnames of Gade-Gadie-Gaudie... And the Variant Forms, ed. G. T. Ridlon, Sr., (Lewiston, ME: Journal Press, 1919), 566.

"Alfred Franklin Gowdy (1815-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 63720417, accessed October 20, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63720417.

Citation

Gowdy, Alfred Franklin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210234 (November 12, 2026).

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