John B. Wilgus

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1824-03-22

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1889-01-20

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"John B. Wilgus" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000288, (accessed March 18, 2025).

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Lexington, Kentucky, merchant, banker, and businessman. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy T. Cox Wilgus in 1847. Clerk in the businesses of John J. Dudley and John Carty. Owned four enslaved persons in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Partnered with B. G. Bruce in business from [unknown date] to 1856. Organized the People’s Gas Company of Lexington in 1846. Owned and operated as principal of the John B. Wilgus & Company from 1856 to 1866. Vice president of the Lexington City National Bank from 1865 to 1870.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No 1. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Ward No 2 City of Lexington, p. 124-125. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 53.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 728-729. “John B. Wilgus, a prominent Breeder of Thoroughbreds and Trotters, Dies Near Lexington,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 20, 1889. KYR-0002-022-0001.

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