Person

Samuel Daviess Delany (Union Co. farmer, attorney, State Senator)

b. 1816?

Union County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah V. Delany. Father of C. W. Delany, Bettie E. Delany, S. H. Delany, James Delany, and Sally Delany. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Union County in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in 1860. Farmer in Union County in 1860. Attorney in Union County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 2.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Uniontown p. 22.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 736.

Citation

Delany, Samuel Daviess. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210870 (November 12, 2026).

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