Benjamin Franklin Crofoot

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c1827

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1878-04-07

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"Benjamin Franklin Crofoot" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020687, (accessed March 15, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, drayman and deputy marshal. New York native. Son of Roswell Crofoot and Nancy Crofoot. Married to Laura Ann Thompson Crofoot in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 2, 1854. Father of Anna Crofoot, Emma Crofoot, and Lou Crofoot. Farmer in Lawrence County, Indiana, in 1850. Dray overseer in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1858. Drayman in Louisville in 1860. Deputy marshal in Louisville in 1861. Drayman in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Lawrence County, Marion, p. 341A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 558.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482708.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths.
Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 200.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 65.
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), 261.

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