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Melvin T. Lowry (Jessamine County, Kentucky, county and circuit court clerk)

b. 1824 d. 1887

Jessamine County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Ella E. Daniel Lowry in Jessamine County, Kentucky, on May 1, 1856. Father of Willie D. Lowry, Hiter Lowry, Curd Lowry, and Lulie H. Lowry. Clerk of Jessamine County Court and Jessamine Circuit Court in Jessamine County from 1849 to 1861. Co-owned, with two other persons, twenty-one enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 145.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 313B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, Nicholasville, Enumeration District 108, p. 3B.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08.

Bennett Henderson Young, A History of Jessamine County, Kentucky: From Its Earliest Settlement to 1898 (Louisville: Courier Journal, 1898), 277.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994042, Jessamine County Marriages.

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Lowry, Melvin T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211954 (November 12, 2026).

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