Robert Mallory

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1815-11-15

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1885-08-11

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"Robert Mallory" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000817, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Oldham County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and politician. Virginia native. Married to Matlida Mallory. Father of Elizabeth Mallory, Robert Mallory, Jr., Matilda Mallory, and Fannie Mallory. Attended the University of Virginia. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1837. Attorney in New Castle, Kentucky. Farmer in Oldham County in 1850. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Farmer in Oldham County in 1860. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the Fifth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 137B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 349.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 862.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 166B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Ballardsville Precinct, p. 11A.
“Mallory, Robert,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 13, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000082.
Oldham County Historical Society, History & Families Oldham County, Kentucky: The First Century, 1824-1924 (Turner Publishing Company, 1996), 279-280.
"Robert Mallory (1815-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15483762, accessed December 13, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15483762.

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