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Thomas J. Duncan (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1826-01-12 d. 1900-07-09

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Nannie W. Webb Duncan in Princeton, Kentucky, on May 23, 1854. Father of George W. Duncan and Mary E. Duncan. Merchant in Caldwell County in 1850. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Merchant in partnership with Sandford Duncan Jr. and Ebenezer Dickey at Sandford Duncan & Co. in Louisville in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 45.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 266A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000546372, p 164.

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

Find A Grave, "Thomas Jefferson Duncan (1826r-1900)," Memorial #43503296, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43503296 (accessed February 28, 2021).

Citation

Duncan, Thomas J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214386 (November 12, 2026).

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