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William Voorhies (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer and banker)

b. 1800-11-19 d. 1893-04-12

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and banker. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Howard Hart Voorhies in Mercer County, Kentucky, on September 8, 1835. Father of George H. Voorhies, Charles H. Voorhies, William Voorhies, Jr., Peter Gordon Voorhies, and John H. P. Voorhies. Graduate of Transylvania University in Fayette County in 1819. Attorney in Louisiana from c1822 to 1836. Farmer in Woodford County in 1850. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1850. Retired farmer in Fayette County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Fayette County from 1862 to 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 457A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 675, 677.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 429.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 453B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Ward 3 p. 456B.

"At An Advanced Age," Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), April 13. 1893.

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Dec. 12, 1862.

John Mason Brown, Memoranda of the Preston Family (Frankfort: S.I.M Major, State Printer, 1870), 42-43.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #004705536.

KYR-0001-031-0075.

KYR-0001-031-0119.

Citation

Voorhies, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211434 (November 12, 2026).

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