Stephen Cromwell Adair

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1831-07-18

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1927-02-28

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"Stephen Cromwell Adair" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019101, (accessed May 18, 2024).

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Union County, Kentucky, attorney. Mercer County, Kentucky, native. Son of William P. Adair and Elizabeth Cromwell Adair. Married to Catharine Cromwell Adair in Union County on November 13, 1860. Student in Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Graduated from Hanover College in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1854. Attorney in Union County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Union County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 280B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 527.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 416A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield Precinct, p. 345A.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 4820.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film 000562172.
James Barnett Adair, Adair History and Genealogy (Los Angeles, CA: James Barnettt Adair, 1924), pp. 137-138.
Charles Kerr, William Elsey Connelley, and E.M. Coulter, History of Kentucky, vol. IV (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1922), pp. 70-71.

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