Abraham P. Gorsuch

Birth Date

c1797

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, steamboat engineer and printer. Maryland native. Married to Eleanor Gorsuch. Father of James G. Gorsuch and Elizabeth Gorsuch. Worked in water navigation in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1840. Steamboat engineer in Jefferson County in 1850. Steamboat engineer in Jefferson County in 1860. Printer with James G. Gorsuch as Gorsuch & Co. in Louisville in 1861.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 7.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 226A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 585.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville, Ky: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 102.

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