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Albert A. Curtis, Sr. (Irvine, Kentucky, merchant and politician)

b. 1817-10-08 d. 1886-01-01

Irvine, Kentucky, merchant and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Manerva M. Curtis. Father of Ann E. Curtis, William Curtis, David Curtis, Mary Curtis, Albert A. Curtis, Jr., Edward B. Curtis, Thomas Curtis, and Bettie Curtis. Merchant in Estill County from 1850 to 1863. Owned one enslaved person in Estill County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Estill County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Estill County from 1861 to 1865. Served in 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) as assistant quartermaster c1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County, p. 60.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County, Irvine, p. 162.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County, Irvine, p. 7.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County, Irvine, p. 45.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 167. _

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), Estill County, KY, July 1863, p. 27 (Accessed via ancestry.com).

Find A Grave, "Albert A Curtis, Sr. (1817-1886)," Memorial #20003420, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20003420/albert-a-curtis (accessed April 23, 2017).

" Daily Commonwealth, 1863-12-10," Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program, https://kentuckynewspapers.org/catalog/xt70rx93b03f-z?q=A+A (accessed June 4, 2019).

KYR-0002-222-0030.

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Curtis, Albert A., Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213979 (November 12, 2026).

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