Luther Thayer Thustin

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1817

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1899

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"Luther Thayer Thustin" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002033, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, businessman and soldier. New York native. Married Sallie M. Thustin. Father of Bettie Thustin, Nellie Thustin, Luther Thustin, and Sallie Thustin. Clerk in Louisville in 1860. Major and paymaster for the United States Army in Louisville, Kentucky, from September 11, 1861 to April 30, 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 87; Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 246; History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties, vol. I (Cleveland: L.A. Williams & Company, 1882), 98; Luther Thayer Thustin Papers, 1849-1887, A/T547, Filson Historical Society.

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