Henry Wolford

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1810-05-04

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1889-12-27

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"Henry Wolford" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00017393, (accessed March 18, 2025).

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Jefferson County, Kentucky, city clerk and city treasurer. Pennsylvania native. Son of Henry Wolford and Mary Frick Wolford. Married to Sarah Ann Tull Wolford in Orange County, Indiana, on June 16, 1832. Father of Thomas John Wolford, William Wolford, Alice Wolford, Rosalie Wolford Sargent, George Wolford, Adelaide "Addie" Wolford Shaw, Henry Wolford, and Harry D. Wolford. City clerk in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Louisville city treasurer in Jefferson County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 96A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 748.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, First Ward, p. 282.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 141A.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 385D.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #1864.
"The Faithful Official Buried," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), December 30, 1889, p. 8.
"Mr. Henry Wolford," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), December 28, 1889, p. 1.

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