Richard Jouett Menefee

Birth Date

1837

Death Date

1893

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and businessman. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Hickman Menefee and Sarah B. Jouett Menefee. Bookkeeper in Louisville in 1861. Partner with John B. McFeran, S. H. Shallcross, and W. P. Clancy in McFerran and Menefee in Louisville.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 354. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, April 16, 1894 (Louisville, KY: Guide Printing & Publishing Co, 1895), 15. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 171. Young Ewing Allison, The City of Louisville and a Glimpse of Kentucky (Louisville: Committee on Industrial and Commercial Improvement of the Louisville Board of Trade, 1887), 129.

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