Oliver H. Dewey

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c1795

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White

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"Oliver H. Dewey" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002846, (accessed April 7, 2025).

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Fleming County, Kentucky, shoemaker and justice of the peace. Connecticut native. Married to Mary Dewey. Postmaster in Elizaville, Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Justice of the peace in Fleming County in c1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, District 1, p. 46. Lutie Allen Vansant Crutcher, “History of Elizaville,” Fleming Gazette (Ky.), February 7, 1952. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, vol. 12, p. 304 (accessed via Ancestry.com). KYR-0001-004-1305. KYR-0001-004-1306.

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