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Richard Samuel Edelin (Marion County, Kentucky, student, farmer, distiller, politician, and butcher)

b. 1836 d. 1922

Marion County, Kentucky, student, farmer, distiller, politician, and butcher. Kentucky native. Son of Christopher Edelen and Ann C. Edelen. Married to Mary Ellen Lancaster in Marion County, Kentucky, on December 22, 1859. Father of Alice Edelen and Christopher Edelen. Student in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Farmer in Washington County in 1860. Farmer in Washington County in 1863. Distiller in Marion County in 1864. President of the Lebanon Board of Trustees in Marion County in 1864. Butcher in Washington County in 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 359B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 635.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, District 2, p. 18.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Lower Town, p. 194A.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Lower Town, District 167, p. 270B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994033, Daviess County Marriages, p. 75.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Washington County, KY, 1863, p. 149.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 12, Marion County, Kentucky, 1864.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 12, Marion County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 4.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 7, Washington County, Kentucky, 1865, p. 43.

"Richard Samuel Edelen (1836-1922)," Find A Grave, Memorial 92077430, accessed January 25, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92077430.

Citation

Edelin, Richard Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280754 (November 12, 2026).

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