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William Crutcher Ireland (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

b. 1823-11-28 d. 1894

Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Mason County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel D. Ireland and Sarah Crutcher Ireland. Married to Pamelia D. Robb Ireland in 1848. Father of Virginia L. Ireland, Sallie D. Ireland, and W. C. Ireland. Attended school in Mason County, Kentucky, and Lewis County, Kentucky. Studied law in Clarksburg from 1845 to 1848. Admitted to the bar in Lewis County in 1848. Attorney in Greenup County in 1852. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Greenup County from 1859 to 1863. Assistant clerk for the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 1, p. 240B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, East Little Sandy, p. 836.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Ashland, p. 83A.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Co., 1878), p. 500-503.

"Judge William Crutcher Ireland (1823-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial #74205273, accessed June 15, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74205273.

Citation

Ireland, William Crutcher. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211515 (November 12, 2026).

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