John T. Levis

Birth Date

1805-10-04

Death Date

1884-07-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Kenton County, Kentucky, cotton manufacturer and railroad president. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, native. Son of Samuel Lewis and Rebecca Lewis. Married to Harriet Whitehead Lewis. Father of Mark Levis, Sallie Levis, Samuel Levis, and Mary Sophia Levis. Cotton manufacturer in Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1850. President of the Kentucky Central Railroad Company in Kenton County in 1860. Employed Mary Powers and Lena Gross in Kenton County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington/Ward 1, p. 219A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, p. 8.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington/Ward 1, p. 523-4.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 219C.
Pennsylvania, U. S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA, Allegheny County, File 22600.
"John T. Levis (1805-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial 86734745, accessed July 3, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86734745.

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