Joseph Rabbeth

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1806-09-03

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1868

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"Joseph Rabbeth" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020178, (accessed May 18, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, grocer, telegraph operator, and clerk. Native of England. Married to Ann Golder Rabbeth in Kent, England, on June 23, 1830. Father of Margaret Rabbeth, Charlotte Rabbeth, Mathias Rabbeth, John T. Rabbeth, Sidney A. Rabbeth, and Joseph Rabbeth. Immigrated to the United States from England through New York on August 26, 1833. Grocer in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Telegraph operator in Louisville in 1860. Telegraph operator in Louisville in 1861. Clerk of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, pp. 175A-B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 377.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 199.
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), 486.
Bishop's Transcripts for St. Mary the Virgin, 1813-1911. Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Dover, Kent, England. Marriage Certificate No. 1385, p. 462.
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897, Series M237, Records of Customhouses, 1762-1982. NARA RG 36.
William Henry Perry, ed., County of Christian, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Chicago: F.A. Battey Publishing Company, 1884), 398.

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