Samuel Griffith

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c1800

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1877-12-27

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"Samuel Griffith" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020194, (accessed March 15, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, dentist. Maryland native. Married to Emily B. Moffat Griffith. Father of Ellen C. Griffith, Emma G. Griffith, and Samuel C. Griffith. Dentist in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Dentist in Louisville in 1858. Dentist in Louisville in 1860. Hired one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Household owned an additional enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Dentist in Louisville in 1861. Dentist in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 248B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, pp. 155-6.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 275A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 642B.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 7000.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 75.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 105.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 328.
"Samuel G. Griffith (1800-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 147059420, accessed June 5, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147059420 .

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