Jacob Corbett

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c1802

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"Jacob Corbett" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00001313, (accessed July 22, 2025).

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Ballard County, Kentucky, circuit and county court clerk. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Sumner Corbett. Father of Thomas Corbett, Mary Corbett, Francis Corbett, William Letcher Corbett, and Josephine Corbett. Relocated to Hickman County, Kentucky. Clerk of the Ballard Circuit Court from 1842 to 1861. Clerk of the Ballard County Court from 1842 to 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Blandville, p. 7. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Corporation of Blandville, p. 1. Memorial Records of Western Kentucky: Illustrated, vol. 1 (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), 121. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. KYR-0001-020-1457.

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