Person

Sandford Duncan Jr. (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1818-09-01 d. 1879-12-16

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant. Logan County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary Susan Webb Duncan in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on December 16, 1845. Father of Gideon W. Duncan, Mary Sandford Duncan, and Malcolm Duncan. Merchant in Caldwell County in 1850. Employed Ebenezer Dickey as a merchant's clerk in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Merchant in Jefferson County in 1860. Merchant in partnership with Thomas J. Duncan and Ebenezer Dickey at Sandford Duncan & Co. in Louisville in 1861. Gentleman in Jefferson County in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 281B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 817.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 6th ward of Louisville, p. 354.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, 6th Ward, City of Cincinnati, p. 494A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p 260.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Jefferson County, KY, July 1863, p. 53 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 71.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Kenton County Administration Bonds, 1830-1869; Vol 19-20, 1970-1975, p. 53.

Find A Grave, "Sandford Duncan (1818-1879)," Memorial #110196932, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110196932 (accessed February 28, 2021).

Citation

Duncan Sandford, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212946 (November 12, 2026).

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