Francis Landon Cleveland

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1823

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1881-08-16

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"Francis Landon Cleveland" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000517, (accessed January 1, 2025).

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Augusta, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and politician. Ohio native. Married to Elizabeth Sarah McKibben Cleveland in Bracken County in April 1849. Married to Laura Cleveland. Father of James H. Cleveland. Teacher in 1850. Attorney in Augusta in 1860. Attorney in Bracken County in 1863. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 452B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 119;
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 267A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bracken County Marriages, Film #000344098, p. 88, and Film #000344098, p. 13.
U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865). NARA RG110, Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Bracken County, KY, June/July 1863, p. 67, (Accessed via ancestry.com).
Find A Grave, "Francis Landon Cleveland (1823-1881)," Memorial #78908974, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78908974 (accessed March 8, 2017);
Interior Journal, (Stanford, Kentucky), August 26, 1881, p. 2;
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 93.

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