Preston L. Bland

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1839-04-29

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1901-04-04

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"Preston L. Bland" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020337, (accessed May 18, 2025).

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Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer. Kentucky native. Son of John B. Bland and Ann Bland. Married to Maria Jane Chenowith Bland in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 24, 1863. Resident of Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Attended Hanover College in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1855. Resident of Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Grocer in Louisville in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 304B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 830.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 225B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Jeffersontown, p. 356A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, July1863, p. 33.
Twenty-Third Annual Circular, of Hanover College, Comprising the Catalogue, Course of Study, &c. (Madison: Courier Steam Printing Est., 1855), 10.
"Preston L. Bland (1839-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 89754528 , accessed June 27, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89754528 .

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