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Bennett Burnam (Warren County, Kentucky, surveyor and soldier.)

b. 1834-11-05 d. 1861-10-16

Warren County, Kentucky, surveyor and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Burnam and America Burnam. Attended school in Warren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Attended Georgetown College in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, in 1853. Surveyor in Warren County in 1860. Household owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 22A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 469.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 591.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 448B.

"Bennett Burnham (Birth year-Death year)," Find A Grave, Memorial 9023924, accessed November 9, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9023924.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1852-53Louisville: Hull and Brothers, 1853.

Citation

Burnam, Bennett. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281292 (November 12, 2026).

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