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Birch Musselman (Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer and Prov Govt financial agent)

b. 1813-10-21 d. 1887-02-17

Jefferson County, Kentucky, tobacconist, farmer and provisional government financial agent. Pennsylvania native. Married to Mary Ann Seedy Musselman in Jefferson County on December 22, 1842. Stepfather of Samuel Hammond and Josephine Hammond. Married to Sarah V. Cochran Musselman in Jefferson County on December 28, 1854. Father of David Musselman, William Musselman, and Henry Musselman. Tobacconist in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Household owned an additional four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Farmer in Jefferson County in 1860. Employed Thomas Esterly and George Greathouse in Jefferson County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 376B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 874.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 1050.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 247A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000817884, p. 173.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jeffferson County Marriages, Film #000482708, p. 359.

Find A Grave, "Birch Mussleman (1813-1887)," Memorial #77367040, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77367040 (accessed April 7, 2020).

Matthew C. Hulbert, “Grabbing Guns and Breaking Banks: The Short, Ambitious “Reign” of Kentucky’s Provisional Confederate Government,” Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition blog, March 9, 2016, http://civilwargovernors.org/grabbing-guns-and-breaking-banks-the-short-ambitious-reign-of-kentuckys-provisional-confederate-government (accessed January 25, 2020).

KYR-0004-033-0030.

Citation

Musselman, Birch. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212619 (November 12, 2026).

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