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Elias Hubbard Smith (Grant County, Kentucky, clerk, attorney, and politician.)

b. 1872-12-01

Grant County, Kentucky, clerk, attorney, and politician. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of Elias Smith and Elizabeth Milzener Smith. Married to Sallie C. O’Hara Smith in Grant County, Kentucky, on July 11, 1850. Father of Helen M. Smith, Lucy R. Smith, Kate Smith, and James W. Smith. Clerk in Grant County in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Grant County in 1850. Clerk in the office of the Grant County Court and Grant Circuit Court from 1847 to 1852. Household owned two enslaved persons in Grant County in 1850. Deputy clerk of the Kenton Circuit Court from 1852 to 1853. Attorney in Grant County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Grant County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Grant County from 1863 to 1865.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 360B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 114.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 990.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 41A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 601A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film 001490815.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Grant County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 229.

Robert H. Elliston, The History of Grant County, State of Kentucky: As Compiled by Robert H. Elliston and Read by Him on the Fourth Day of July, 1876 (Williamstown, KY: Sentinel Office, 1876), 21.

W.H. Perrin, J.H. Battle, and G.C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, vol. 7 (Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey and Company, 1887), 886-7.

Citation

Smith, Elias Hubbard. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211184 (November 12, 2026).

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