Alfred Lawrence Shotwell

Birth Date

1809-06-16

Death Date

1893-05-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant. Mason County, Kentucky, native. Married to Gabriella Shotwell. Father of Stephen Breckinridge Shotwell, W. Preston Shotwell, Betty T. Shotwell, Alfred Ann Shotwell, Fanny T. Shotwell, and John Shotwell. Merchant in Louisville in 1850. Owner of an enslaved person, Tamar [Unknown], in Louisville, Kentucky, until 1851. Commission merchant in Louisville in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons and employed one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 3, p. 255B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 5th Ward, p. .
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 5th Ward, p. 135.
"Alfred Lawrence Shotwell (1809-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial #96567038, accessed December 1, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96567038.
J. Blaine Hudson, Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co, 2011), 134-35.
Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He “Fought the Good Fight” to Prepare “The Way”; Edited from His Manuscript (Chicago, IL: R. R. McCabe & Co., 1890), 85-92.

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