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Leonard Edelen (Marion County, Kentucky, hatter and merchant)

b. 1800-06 d. 1865-04-16

Marion County, Kentucky, hatter and merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Susan Bruce Edelen. Father of Mary C. Edelen, James H. Edelen, Lucinda Edelen, Leonard Edelen, Robert Hagin Edelen, and George T. Edelen. Engaged in manufacturing in 1840. Owned three enslaved persons in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1840. Hatter in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed Thomas H. Brown as a hatter in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Merchant in Marion County in 1860. Employed his sons, Leonard Edelen and Robert Hagin Edelen, as clerks in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 306.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 340A

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 611.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 736

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 499A.

Find A Grave, "Leonard Edelen (1800-1865)," Memorial #77465012, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77465012 (accessed October 18, 2019).

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7017551, Marion County Deaths, File #15053.

Citation

Edelen, Leonard. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211073 (November 12, 2026).

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