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George Swope (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, agent)

b. 1789?

Louisville, Kentucky, agent. Maryland native. Father of R. D. Swope. Married to Matilda Maddox Swope in Spencer County, Kentucky, on October 28, 1824. Father of Amanda Swope, Eliza J. Swope, Amanda Swope, and Julia Ann Swope. Resident in Louisville in 1850. Agent in Louisville in 1860. Stock jobber in Louisville in 1861.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 202.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 504.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 63A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Spencer County Marriages, 1824-1926, Film 000482500, p. 369.

Henry Tanner, ed., The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 242.

Find A Grave, "George Swope (1789-1876)," Memorial 150311976, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150311976 (accessed June 8, 2020).

Citation

Swope, George. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214686 (November 12, 2026).

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