John A. Lishy

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c1830

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"John A. Lishy" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020417, (accessed March 17, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Belle Parsons Lishy in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 5, 1858. Father of Horace Lishy and Florence Lishy. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Dry goods merchant for Wheat, Baker, & Company in Louisville in 1861. Shoe merchant in partnership with R. L. White and John Cochrane in Lishy, White, & Company in Louisville in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 134.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 275A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 136B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 005553515.
"Mrs. Florence Belle Taylor," Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 25659.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 153.
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), 408.

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