Joseph Lewis Danforth

Birth Date

1821-01-21

Death Date

1887-10-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant, insurance agent, and notary public. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph and Lucy Shaw Danforth. Married to Frances Antoinette Elizabeth Ward Danforth on May 12, 1845, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Father of Florence Ward Danforth, John Henshaw Danforth, Josephine Lewis Danforth, Antoinette Danforth, George Lewis Danforth, Sallie Ward Danforth, William Herbert Danforth, and Francis Carruth Danforth. Graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts in 1839. Merchant in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Insurance agent in Louisville in 1860. Employed Carol Schepper, Kate Webb, and Ann Lawler as servants in Louisville in 1860. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, pp. 253A-B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 114.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 151B.
John Joseph May, Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth, of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth, of Newbury, mass. (1640-1721) and their Descendants, (Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1902), pp. 411, 415-417.
Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster Massachusetts, 1638-1900, vol. 2 (Haverhill, Mass.: Chase Brothers Printers, 1900), 311.
"Death of Mr. J.L. Danforth," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 30, 1887, p. 13.
"Joseph Lewis Danforth (1821-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 95145315, accessed October 12, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95145315.
KYR-0001-017-0265.

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