William Kaye

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1813-02-13

Death Date

1890-11-19

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White

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"William Kaye" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00008422, (accessed January 3, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, foundry owner and mayor. Native of Yorkshire, England. Son of Joshua Kaye and Hannah Kaye. Married to Mary Patterson Kaye in 1836. Father of Mary A. Kaye, Edward H. Kaye, Emma W. Kaye, Samuel J. Kaye, and Willie Kaye. Resident in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1819. Machinist in Pittsburgh in 1827. Established Patterson & Kaye in partnership with [Unknown] Patterson in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1836. Established Kaye & Co. Brass Founders and Machinists in Louisville in 1841. Bell foundry owner in Louisville in 1860. Employed Delia Claherty and Hannah Purcell as domestic servants in Louisville in 1860. Member of the Louisville City Council in 1862. Mayor of Louisville from April 4, 1863, to April 14, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 207A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 4, p. 90.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 6, p. 603A.
"William Kaye" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 457.

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