Julius H. von Borries

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1816-04-28

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1881-05-01

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"Julius H. von Borries" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020059, (accessed January 13, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, cloth merchant and foreign consul. Native of Prussia. Son of Frederic von Borries. Married to Amelia Theodore Mary Bock von Borries in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 4, 1847. Father of Francis von Borries, Emma von Borries, Adolphe von Borries, William von Borries, Julia von Borries, and Helen von Borries. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Partner with Isaac Etlinger in Etlinger & Borries in Louisville from 1851 to 1854. Partner with Herman Beckurts and Louis Helmke in J. Von Borries & Co cloth merchants from 1854 through 1865. Member of the Board of Directors for the Louisville Maine and Fire Insurance Company in Louisville in 1858. Member of the Board of Directors for the Louisville Maine and Fire Insurance Company in Louisville in 1859. Consul for Prussia in Louisville in 1861. Vice president of the Ohio and Kentucky Petroleum and Mining Company in Louisville in 1865.

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Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 178.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Two Mile House, p. 476A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000818485.
Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9; Embracing Valuable Historical and Statistical Information, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 301.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 252, 348.
J.D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory for 1864, (Louisville: L.A. Civill; Publisher, Bookseller, Printer, and Bookbinder, 1864), 232.
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), 578.
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"Removal," Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), 7 Feb 1853.
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"Johnston & McDowell," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), 3 Sept 1857, p. 3.
"Louisville Marine and Fire Insurance Co." The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), March 10, 1858, p. 3.
"Louisville Marine and Fire Insurance Co." The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), March 16, 1859, p. 3.
"City Directory," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), May 24, 1860, p. 4.
"Ohio and Kentucky Petroleum and Mining Company," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), February 18, 1865, p. 2.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 562.
"Julius Heinrich Von Borries (1816-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 102288173 , accessed May 18, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102288173 .

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