Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, jailer and saddler. Kentucky native. Jailer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1844. Jailer in Hopkins County in 1847. Saddler in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 240.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221A.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at December Session, 1843(Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, 1844), 194.

Taliaferro P. Shaffner, ed., The Kentucky State Register, for the year 1847 (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 103.

Citation

Browning, Joel D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211745 (November 12, 2026).

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Petition
James W. Wilkins et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-02-28
Petition
S. B. Nisbet et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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