Benjamin B. Groom

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c1824

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"Benjamin B. Groom" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00011569, (accessed April 25, 2024).

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Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and university curator. Kentucky native. Son of Rachel Groom. Married to Elizabeth C. Thompson Groom in Clark County on November 5, 1846. Father of Harrison T. Groom. Farmer in Clark County in 1850. Farmer in Clark County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in trust for M. Wheeler in Winchester in 1860. Farmer in Clark County in 1863. Member of the board of curators of Kentucky University in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 93A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 902. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 322. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester District 2, p. 347B, p.4 of microfilm. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, 7th Congressional District, Clark County, Kentucky, June and July, 1863, p. 152 of microfilm, (Accessed via ancestry.com on December 23, 2019). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film #001943687, p. 586. KYR-0001-009-0038.

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