James G. Gorsuch

Birth Date

c1830

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, printer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Abraham P. Gorsuch and Eleanor Gorsuch. Married to Eveline Alexander Gorsuch in Jefferson County on July 14, 1852. Father of Ida Gorsuch, Eva Gorsuch, and Abe Gorsuch. Steam boat clerk in Jefferson County in 1850. Printer in Jefferson County in 1860. Printer with Abraham P. Gorsuch as Gorsuch & Co. in Jefferson County in 1861. Served in Morehead’s Regiment of Partisan Rangers (C.S.A.) from May 24, 1862, to May 24, 1865.

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.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994041, Jefferson County Deaths, March 20, 1854, p. 21.
_Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Film 000819595, Jefferson County, July 13, 1852.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville, Ky: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 102.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0071.

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