Richard Hilaire Rousseau

Birth Date

1815-02-09

Death Date

1872-09-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of David Rousseau and Katherine Gaines Rousseau. Married to Mary Dozier Rousseau in November 1839. Father of Kate Rousseau and Emma I. Rousseau. Married to Jane Nolan Rousseau in 1845. Father of Samuel Rousseau and Lovell H. Rousseau, Jr. Studied law in Lexington, Kentucky. Attorney in Bloomfield, Indiana, in 1842. Attorney in Louisville in 1849. Partner with Lovell H. Rousseau in Rousseau & Rousseau law firm in Louisville after 1849. Attorney in Louisville in 1860.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 12 (New York: James T. White & Company, 1904), 185.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 82.

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