Erasmus Boyle Owsley

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1811-02-05

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1882-09-11

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"Erasmus Boyle Owsley" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00015420, (accessed May 9, 2025).

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Jefferson County, Kentucky, representative, merchant, and pork packer. Garrard County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Owsley and Elizabeth Mary Gill Owsley. Married to Caroline E. Talbott Owsley in 1831. Father of S.C. Owsley and P. T. Owsley. Married to Catherine Elizabeth Bodley Owsley on May 24, 1842. Father of E.S. Owsley, Amelia Owsley, Annabel Owsley, and William Owsley. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1830. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mercer County from 1841 to 1842. Merchant in Jefferson County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Pork packer in Louisville in 1861. Partners with J. Boyle Gill and Clifton Rhodes in Owsley & Company in Louisville in 1861. Pork packer in Louisville in 1865. Partner with Thomas P. White in Owsley & Company in Louisville in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 348.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 281 A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 87 A.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 132, p. 549 C.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #7007127, Jefferson County Births/Deaths, p. 283.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #16321.
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Transylvania University, 1859-60, (Lexington, KY: J.G. Norwood, 1830), 13.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 190.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1865 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1865), 470.
Kentucky. General Assembly. House of Representatives., "Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, December 31, 1841 - March 3, 1842" (1842). Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 41. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kystatejournals/41.
“A Sudden Death,”The Courier-Journal(Louisville, Ky.), Sept. 11, 1882.
_The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 637-638.

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