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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0089 MG3-454

William Proctor Mellen (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent) N00002563 1814 1873 Categories: People

Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent. Massachusetts native. Father of William S. Mellen. Married to Isabella Mellen. Father of Malcom Mellen and Isabel Mellen. Married to Ellen S. Mellen. Father of Ellen S. Mellen and Charlotte Mellen. Attorney in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Coal manufacturer in Lawrence County in 1860. Appointed commissioner of deeds for Kentucky in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861. Port authority in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Treasury agent in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1864.

Relationships Political: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Timothy Danielson Lincoln (Covington, Ky) Political: Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) Social: [Unknown] Simmons (Louisville Resident) Social: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Social: Scott Brown (Franklin County, KY, Adjutant genl of KY, farmer) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, My District, p. 471A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 589. F. & J. Rivers & George A. Bailey, The Congressional Globe and Appendix, Third Session Forty-First Congress: In Three Parts pt. 2 (Washington DC: Office of the Congressional Globe, 1871), 1026. Find A Grave, "William Proctor Mellen (1814-1873)," Memorial #78996603, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78996603 (accessed September 25, 2018). KYR-0001-017-0088. Cincinnati, Ohio P00001208 Categories: Places

Seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1031, -84.512 "Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17. Note English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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