Robert P. Letcher

ID: 909
This file appears in: County Named, 1842
Robert P. Letcher

Letcher County's namesake, Governor Robert P. Letcher. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: County Named, 1842

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #809 in Letcher County notes the namesake of the county, Governor Robert Perkins Letcher. Letcher was born in Goochland County, Virginia, in 1788. His family moved to Garrard County, Kentucky, about twelve years later. As a…