Joseph Campion

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1815

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1905-03-02

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"Joseph Campion" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020986, (accessed May 8, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, wharf master and mail agent. Native of Ireland. Married to Rose Ann Burn Campion in Floyd County, Indiana, on August 21, 1846. Father of Ann Campion, Anna Campion, John M. Campion, G.F.M. Campion, William S.O.B. Campion, and Mary R. Campion. Wharf master in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Mail agent in Louisville in 1858. Wharf master in Louisville from 1855 to 1864. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Agent for the United States Mail Line Company in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, pp. 229B-230A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 735.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County Ward 3, p. 265B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 563A.
Indiana Marriage Records, 1801-1952, Indiana Archives and Record Administration, Office of the Floyd County Clerk. Floyd County, Indiana, Marriage Records, 1845-1853, Film 004003418.
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), 298.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 50.
"Regular Packet-U.S. Mail Morning Line," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 2, 1862, p. 3.
"Regular Packet-U.S. Mail Morning Line," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), July 15, 1863, p. 3.
"Regular Packet-U.S. Mail Morning Line," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), August 9, 1864, p. 3.
"In Old Age," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 3, 1905, p. 10.
"Joseph Campion (1815-1905)," Find A Grave, Memorial 154800890, accessed October 27, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154800890.

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