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F. G. Murphy (Nelson County, Kentucky farmer, mill owner, livestock breeder, and horse raceman.)

b. 1808?

Kentucky farmer, mill owner, livestock breeder, and horse raceman. Lived in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1860. Owned twenty-seven enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the Democratic Party. Participant in a Railroad Convention at Glasgow, Kentucky, in relation to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1850. Partner in the firm Murphy, Blincoe, & Lewis, with C. C. Blincoe and William F. Lewis, until it dissolved in 1854. Owned Mill Creek Mills in 1854. Participated in the Woodlawn Races of 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District No. 1, p. 69; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Greensburg District No. 1, p. 15; "Railroad Convention," Louisville Morning Courier (Louisville, Ky.), June 1, 1850; "Mill Creek Mills," The Lebanon Post (Lebanon, Ky.), August 2, 1854; "Woodlawn Races," Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), May 19, 1860.

Citation

Murphy, F. G.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210475 (November 12, 2026).

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