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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B.<lb/>

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97<lb/>

Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13.</bibl>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32208191'>Joseph Covington (Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32206555'>Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott, District 1, p. 54.</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32206555P0'>Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician. Wayne County, Indiana, native. Son of James Throck Morton and Sarah Miller Morton. Married to Lucinda M. Burbank Morton in Wayne County, Indiana, on May 15, 1845. Father of John M. Morton, Mary E. Morton, Lilias Morton, Walter S. Morton, and Oliver Throck Morton. Attended Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1843. Read law with John S. Newman in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1845. Admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1847. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Circuit judge for the 6th Judicial District of the State of Indiana in 1852. Member of the Republic Party. Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana in 1856. Attorney in Wayne County in 1860. Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana from January 14, 1861, to January 16, 1861. Governor of the State of Indiana from January 16, 1861, to January 24, 1867, following the resignation of Henry S. Lane.
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Political: <rs ref='#S32200812'>Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier)</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32209346'>Government of the United States of America</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32202182'>United States War Department</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211693'>57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203267'>Warren Horr (Clark County, Indiana, sheriff, merchant, capt &amp; maj 4th IN Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197519'>William A. Peelle (Randolph County, Indiana, attorney and secretary of state)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32215331'>Francis "Frank" Smith (Clark County, Indiana, day laborer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199272'>Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214335'>Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203354'>William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201291'>Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214988'>James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32201350'>Charles W. White (Garrard County Kentucky. )</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32205285'>James Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, resident.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32197791'>Green Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32211654'>David C. Hall (Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. )</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32198931'>Adam Stephens (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer. )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205833'>Willis Marion Hughes (Clark County, IN, resident)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211500'>William J. Roberts (Clark County, Indiana, farm laborer. Fugitive from justice.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205542'>William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32215018'>Charles P. Jacobs (Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private sec. to Gov. Oliver P. Morton)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201436'>James Blythe Hynes (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and major (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214669'>Charles Emerson Marsh (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney )</rs><lb/>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32198950'>Andrew Lucas Robinson (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, politician, attorney, and customs surveyor)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32199045'>[Unknown] [Unknown] (Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana, in 1865.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32202684'>Samuel H. McCarty (Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, farmer and fugitive from justice)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32202943'>John Rider (Clark County, Indiana, fugitive from justice.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32208954'>David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32197403'>Melvin Weir (Clark County, Indiana, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32196607'>William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202591'>Indiana State Prison South</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 170B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 21.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 9, p. 592A. <lb/>

William Dudley Foulke, <hi rend='italic'>Life of Oliver P. Morton: Including His Important Speeches</hi>, vol. I (Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899).<lb/>

A. James Fuller, <hi rend='italic'>Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction</hi> (Kent, OH.: Kent State University Press, 2017).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Oliver P. Morton of Indiana: Sketch of His Life and Public Services</hi> (Indianapolis, IN: Journal Company, Printers, 1876).<lb/>

Charles Manning Walker, <hi rend='italic'>Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver P. Morton</hi> (Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Journal, 1878).<lb/>

"Lilias Morton (1850-1852)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78619930, accessed September 7, 2023, <a href='https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78619930.'>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78619930.</a><lb/>

"Mary E Morton (1848-1849)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78620060, accessed September 7, 2023, <a href='https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78620060.'>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78620060.</a></bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266.<lb/>

John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. <lb/>

William Henry Engle, <hi rend='italic'>Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German</hi> (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7.</bibl>
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                  <bibl>“Georgetown,” in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371.<lb/>

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