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Andrew Jackson Gorham (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. )

b. 1832-12-17 d. 1914-05-09

Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of George Gorham and Nancy Graves Gorham. Married to Sarah E. Wallace Gorham in Fayette County, Kentucky, in February 1860. Father of John Breckenridge Gorham. Farmer in Fayette County in 1850. Farmer in Fayette County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Fayette County in 1860. Household owned seventeen other enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 155A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 332.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 440A.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #12015.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Fayette County Marriages, Film #007897103, p. 819.

"Mr. A.J. Gorham Dies After Long Illness," The Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY), May 10, 1914, p. 1.

Citation

Gorham, Andrew Jackson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214562 (November 12, 2026).

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