Thomas Palmer Satterwhite

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1835-07-21

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1917-06-03

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"Thomas Palmer Satterwhite" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00012531, (accessed July 25, 2025).

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Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas P. Satterwhite and Mary Cabell Breckinridge Satterwhite. Married to Maria Preston Pope Rogers Satterwhite in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 14, 1858. Father of Lilly R. Satterwhite and Thomas P. Satterwhite Jr. Graduate of the University of Louisville Medical College in 1857. Student in Fayette County in 1850. Physician in Louisville from 1857 to 1917. Employed Margaret Smith as a domestic servant in Louisville in 1860. Employed one enslaved person owned by William Ronalds in Louisville in 1860. Demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Louisville Medical College in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 225A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 138.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 274A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 546A.
Find A Grave, "Dr. Thomas Palmer Satterwhite (July 21, 1835-June 3, 1917)," Memorial #6589268, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6589268 (accessed May 2, 2020).
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482708 , p. 58.
"Death Claims Noted Doctor," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), June 4, 1917, p. 1-2.
"University of Louisville Medical Department" The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 13, 1864, p. 2.
Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kentucky, A centennial history of the University of Louisville, (Louisville, Kentucky: The University of Louisville, 1939), p. 67.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016196, Jefferson County Deaths, File #17290.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 721-722.

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