John W. Ritter

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c1805

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"John W. Ritter" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00001152, (accessed February 5, 2025).

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Glasgow, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Amanda M. McAchran Ritter in Shelby County, Kentucky, on May 16, 1839. Father of Sarah T. Ritter, Jane Ritter, Josephine Ritter, John Ritter, Julia Ritter, and Horace "Bill" Ritter. Attorney in Barren County in 1847. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in Barren County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860. Judge of the Equity and Criminal Court of the 4th Judicial District in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 492B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren, District 1, p. 821.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren, District 1.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259274, p. 746.
The Kentucky State Register for the year 1847 (Louisville, Kentucky: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 46.
KYR-0001-031-0010.

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