William Emmet Garvin

Birth Date

1826-08-03

Death Date

1874-06-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, businessman. Kentucky native. Son of William Garvin and Sarah Veech Garvin. Clerk in Louisville in 1850. City Councilman in Louisville from 1852 to 1854. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Enlisted in Morehead's Regiment of Partisan Rangers (C. S. A.) in Memphis on May 24, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District No. 3 City of Louisville, p. 256; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 6th Ward City of Louisville, p. 120; J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial history of Louisville: From its First Settlement to the Year 1896, vol. 1 (Chicago and new York: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 647-48; Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0071; Find A Grave, "William Emmet Garvin (1826 - 1874)," Memorial #99895248, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99895248 (accessed September 13, 2017).

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