Elijah Brewer

Birth Date

1814-06-11

Death Date

1989-03-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, wagonmaker and coal merchant. Mercer County, Kentucky, native. Married to Frances "Fannie" Lee Brewer in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 6, 1859. Father of Fannie Brewer, John Brewer, James Brewer, Annie Brewer, and Paulina Brewer. Wagonmaker in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Coal merchant in Louisville in 1858. Coal merchant in Louisville in 1860. Employed Elizabeth Barger and Barbara Hazely as servants in Louisville in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Coal merchant in Louisville in 1861. Coal merchant in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 410A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 687.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 289A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 10, p. 354A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482708.
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), 223.
Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 33.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 41.
"Elijah Brewer Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 13, 1898, p. 3.
"Elijah Brewer (1814-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial 145194024, accessed September 1, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145194024.

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