Corydon Sackett Abell

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1816-11-06

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1903-04-20

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"Corydon Sackett Abell" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003678, (accessed April 28, 2024).

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Mercer County, Kentucky, physician, politician, and court clerk. New York native. Son of Russell Abel and Thankful Hunter Abel. Married to Mary Lock Moore Abell. Father of Mary M. Abell and Thomas Russell Abell. Assistant surgeon in the 3rd United States Dragoons during the U. S. - Mexican War from April 1847 to July 1848. Physician in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Physician in Mercer County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mercer County from 1859 to 1861. Clerk of the Mercer County Court from 1862 to 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, District No. 2, p. 367B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, District No. 2, p. 913.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 6.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 303.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 306.
Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from It's
_The Harrodsburg Herald (Harrodsburg, KY), April 23, 1903.
Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General, Main Series, 1861-1870, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M619, Roll 0003.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 604.
Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1, part 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 150.
Gertrude B. Darwin and Sarah Hall Johnson, _Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR, vol. 031 (Washington, DC: DAR, 1901) 266.
"Dr. Corydon S. Abell (1816-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial #55221621, accessed August 30, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55221621.

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