Jacob Schmitt

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1823-02-13

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1880-10-13

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"Jacob Schmitt" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020076, (accessed May 2, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, blacksmith and hardware merchant. Native of Germany. Son of Christian Schmitt and Phillippina Schmitt. Married to Louisa Fildhardt Schmitt in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 31, 1847. Father of Jacob Scmitt, Jr., Charles G. Schmitt, Louisa Schmitt, and Matilda Schmitt. Married to Mary Elizabeth Eberbeck Schmitt in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 31, 1861. Father of George A. Schmitt and Ernest T. Schmitt. Immigrated to the United States in 1842. Blacksmith in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1848. Blacksmith in Louisville in 1850. Hardware merchant in partnership with George Barthel in Louisville from 1854 to 1856. Hardware merchant in Louisville from 1856 through 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 13B.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 118, p. 256A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 156.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film 000482709, p. 76.
New York, U.S. Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1957, Passenger Arrival Lists (1817-1897), NARA Series M237, RG 85, Ship Utica, 5 August 1842.
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862.
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 12, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1864.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, July 1863, p. 463.
"Schmidt, Jacob." Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 73.
John B. Jegli’s Louisville Directory for 1848-1849, (Louisville: John C. Noble, 1848), 267.
Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 154.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 217.
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), 515.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 393.
"Jacob Schmitt (1823-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial 144392669, accessed December 21, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144392669.

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