Jefferson Brown

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1824-04-20

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1878-11-18

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"Jefferson Brown" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00004236, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana, attorney, politician, judge, and notary. Pewee Valley, Kentucky, native. Married Jane "Jennie" McMurtry Brown in Henderson County on April 22, 1856. Father of Stuart Brown. Studied law at Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky. Graduate of the University of Louisville. Member of the Democratic Party. Clerk of the Union County Court in Union County. Judge of the Union County Court in Union County. Representative for Union County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1849. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana, from 1858.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany Ward 2, p. 72.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 591A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 73.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 27.
"Jeff. Brown's Body. How it Laid Mouldering in the Canal Until Dredged Out Yesterday," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), February 4, 1879, p. 4.
"Jeff. Brown's Memory: The Louisville Bar Meets and Drafts Resolutions of Respect for the Deceased Lawyer," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), February 8, 1879, p. 2
Indiana Archives and Records Administration; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Death Certificates, Floyd County, 1923; Roll: 14, File #32221.

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