Patrick Upshire Major

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1822

Death Date

c1903

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White

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"Patrick Upshire Major" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00007369, (accessed July 17, 2025).

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Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth attorney. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel I. M. Major and Martha H. Bohannan Major. Educated at B B. Sayre's academy in Frankfort. Graduated from Union College of Schenectady, New York, in 1842. Read law under T. B. Monroe and Charles S. Morehead. Admitted to the bar in 1844. Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1850. Elected county attorney under a Democratic ticket in 1852. Elected commonwealth attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit in 1856. Attorney in Frankfort in 1860. Member of Masonic order. Member of the Odd Fellows Society.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis Ward 3, p. 381B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 72A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 241. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 137B. Find A Grave, “Judge Patrick Upshire Major (1822-1903), Memorial #69442556, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69442556 (Accessed January 28, 2017). H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 122-23.

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