F. S. J. Ronald

Birth Date

1812

Death Date

1893-10-31

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, tobacco merchant and postmaster. Virginia native. Deputy Sheriff of Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1847. Owned Louisville Tobacco and Cotton Warehouse Co. Incorporated 1854. Postmaster in Louisville from 1856 to 1861. Partner in the tobacco firm of Ronald & Brent in 1860 and 1861 in partnership with John W. Brent.

"Kentucky Deaths and Burials, 1843-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWTP-TXM, F. S. J. Ronald; p 120 ln 84450; FHL microfilm 2,022,071; Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed. Volume 1 (Frankfort: A.G. Hodges and Company, 1849); Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Sixth Ward, p. 2. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 209. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 (National Archives Microfilm Publication, M841, Roll 46: Kentucky, Grayson - Knott Counties), Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, National Archives, Washington D.C., p. 102.

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