Person

Daniel Harper (Bath County, Ky, farmer and sheriff)

b. 1826 d. 1912

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah "Sallie" Gudgell Harper in Bath County in 1846. Father of James Harper, Walter Harper, Morton Harper, Charles Harper, and Mary Harper. Farmer in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Bath County in 1860. Sheriff in Bath County in 1863. Sheriff in Bath County in 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 109B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 11.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 4.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville Precinct, p. 49B-50A.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 41.

Legislative Document, No. 15: Testimony take in the contested election case of B. D. Lacy against Lander Barber, and ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives, December 20, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: State Printing Office, George D. Prentice, 1865), p. 3.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film #000273005, p.367.

Find A Grave, "Daniel Harper (1826-1912)," Memorial #69743119, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69743119 (accessed September 20, 2018).

Citation

Harper, Daniel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212650 (November 12, 2026).

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