Joshua Bethel Bowles

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1795-02-23

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1873-07-04

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"Joshua Bethel Bowles" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00015416, (accessed May 4, 2024).

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Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer and president of the Bank of Louisville. Virginia native. Married to Mary D. Winchester Bowles in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on July 3, 1821. Father of Mary E. Bowles Barbour. Married to Grace Shreve Bowles. Father of Margaretta Bowles, James W. Bowles, John B. Bowles, and Mary E. Bowles. Farmer in Jefferson County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. President of the Bank of Louisville in Jefferson County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Employed one enslaved person owned by Josephine Taylor in Louisville in 1860. President of the Bank of Louisville in Jefferson County in 1861. President of the Bank of Louisville in Jefferson County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 181A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 884-85.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 1062.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 248B.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 219.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000817864.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000817879.
"Maj Joshua Bethel Bowles (1795-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial #45600718, accessed August 19, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45600718.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 38.

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