John T. G. Galt

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1830-09-18

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1892-11-15

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"John T. G. Galt" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020405, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and bookkeeper. Kentucky native. Son of Norbone A. Galt and Elizabeth M. Gray Galt. Married to Martha E. Creel Galt in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1856. Clerk in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Bank clerk in Jefferson County in 1860. Employed Patrick McGuire as a gardener in Jefferson County in 1860. Bookkeeper for Quigley, Lyons, & Company in Louisville in 1861. Bookkeeper for Hunt, Morton, & Quigley in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 180B-181A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 1063.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Gillman's, p. 302A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817866.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 312.
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), 96.
"John Thompson G. Galt (1830-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial 150712413 , accessed July 6, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150712413 .

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