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William E. Hughes (Jefferson County, KY, newspaper editor and public printer)

b. 1820?

Jefferson County, Kentucky, newspaper editor and public printer. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Eliza R. Harney Hughes in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 10, 1846. Father of Edward H. Hughes, Wallace E. Hughes, William B. Hughes, Mary E. Hughes, Martha Hughes, and Thomas P. Hughes. Editor in Louisville in 1850. Editor of the Louisville Democrat with John H. Harney in Louisville in 1860. Installed as public printer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in December 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 181A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 1104.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Arkansas, Desha County, Mississippi Township, p. 504B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 346.

Pennsylvania, U. S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968_, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA, Philadelphia County, File 23061.

Citation

Hughes, William E.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212024 (January 13, 2026).

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