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Thomas J. Gorin (Barren County, Kentucky, merchant and banker)

b. 1808 d. 1883

Barren County, Kentucky, banker. Kentucky native. Married to Mary A. Gorin. Father of Mary E. Gorin, James E. Gorin, Laura Gorin, Emma Gorin, Ellen Gorin and Florence Gorin. Merchant in Glasgow, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed James Bryan in Glasgow in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Glasgow in 1850. Banker in Glasgow in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved individuals in Barren County in 1860. Clerical member of the Joint Board of Conference Stewards at the Louisville Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, convening in Barren County in September 1863.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 402A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 195.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 1065.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 73A.

Find A Grave, "Thomas J. Gorin (1808-1883)," Memorial #111825806, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111825806 (accessed April 27, 2020).

"Louisville Conference of the M.E. Church, South," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 7, 1863, p. 1.

Citation

Gorin, Thomas J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211661 (November 12, 2026).

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