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Elizabeth Benoit (New Orleans, Louisiana, museum owner & fugitive )

New Orleans, Louisiana, museum owner. Married to A. Benoit. Owned a curiosity museum in New Orleans. Employed Rebecca Langley ("The Texas Dwarf") and "The Big Indian" as performers in her museum in 1860. Reported as a fugitive from New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1860. Her husband, A. Benoit, was listed in the New Orleans Directory in 1861.

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Sex
Female
Race
White

Bibliography

"Another Fight About the Texas Dwarf Lady," The New Orleans Crescent (New Orleans, La.), Mar. 27, 1860, p. 2.

Charles Gardner, Gardner’s New Orleans Directory for 1861 (New Orleans, La.), 56.

"Recorder Summers' Court," The New Orleans Crescent (New Orleans, La.), Mar. 30, 1860, p. 1.

"The Show People Again," The New Orleans Crescent (New Orleans, La.), Mar. 23, 1860, p. 1.

KYR-0001-021-0001.

KYR-0001-021-0002.

KYR-0001-021-0003.

Citation

Benoit, Elizabeth. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197713 (November 12, 2026).

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