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Joseph DeWitt Duncan (Jefferson County, Kentucky, lawyer)

b. 1842-07-17 d. 1878-02-15

Jefferson County, Kentucky, lawyer. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas H. Duncan and Lucretia Duncan. Married to Eliza S. English Duncan in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 5, 1865. Attended school in Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Hardin County in 1850. Resident in Hardin County in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1860. Attended Centre College in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1862. Lawyer in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Northern District, p. 312A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 282.


Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 20.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 2, p. 96A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819621, p. 188 of 345 of microfilm.

Thirty-Eighth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, for the Year 1862, (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges, Printer, 1862), 9.

"Joseph DeWitt Duncan (1842-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 93109617, accessed January 31, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93109617.

KYR-0001-004-3115.

Citation

Duncan, Joseph DeWitt. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280775 (November 12, 2026).

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