John D. Taggart

Birth Date

1822-07-11

Death Date

1898-06-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, pork packer. Native of Ireland. Married to Mary Ann Russell in Nelson County, Kentucky, on April 5, 1852. Father of James H. Taggart, Anna Taggart, Sallie Taggart, Mary Ella Taggart, and John D. Taggart Jr. Co-owner of pork-packing company A. S. White & Co. in partnership with Andrew S White, James S. White, Samuel P. Weiseger in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 545A. Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Film # 000481488, Nelson County, April 5, 1852 (accessed via ancestry.com). Kentucky, Birth Records, 1847-1911, Jefferson County, March 6, 1857, (accessed via ancestry.com). Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 245, 227.

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