Theodore Kohlhass, Sr.

Birth Date

1814-09-09

Death Date

1863-12-10

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Clark County, Kentucky, accountant and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Henry Kohlhass and Prudence Kohlhass. Married to Arabella Keith Kohlhass in Clark County, Kentucky, on April 2, 1839. Father of Henry W. Kohlhass, McElroy Kohlhass, Julia Kohlhass, and Theodore Kohlhass, Jr. Grocer in Clark County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in 1850. Assistant clerk of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1839 to 1847. Prinicpal clerk of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1847 to 1852. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County from 1853 to 1857. Accountant in Clark County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 47.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester District 2, p. 80.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester District 2, p. 347B.
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 16, Clark County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 250.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, 1793-1911, Film 001943687.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), p. 130.
"Theodore Kohlhass, Sr. (1814-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial 101125475, accessed August 16, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101125475.
KYR-0001-007-0263.

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