Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Hardin County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Member of the Episcopal Church. Brick-mason in Mississippi from 1842 to 1844. Studied medicine in Elizabethtown under one of his brothers, Thomas D. Geoghegan. Graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1846. Physician in West Point, Kentucky from 1846 to 1854. Physician in Elizabethtown from 1854 to 1869. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Household owned an additional seven enslaved persons in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Samuel Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and its Surroundings (Elizabethtown, Ky.: The Woman's Club of Elizabethtown, Ky., 1921 ), 129.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 90.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown District 1, p. 9.

Citation

Geoghegan, Denton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212135 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
John L. Helm to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-08-30

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