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Leon Kahn (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker, merchant, and auctioneer)

b. 1832-07-23 d. 1912-02-08

Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker, merchant, and auctioneer. Native of France. Son of Emanuel Kahn. Married to Sarah Grauman Kahn in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 2, 1860. Father of David Kahn, Esther Kahn, and Emanuel Kahn. Boot and shoemaker in Louisville in 1858. Auctioneer and commercial merchant in partnership with Isadore Grauman in L. Kahn & Company in Louisville from 1860 to 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis, District 1, p. 19B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482709.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 4302.


The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), March 27, 1860, p. 3.

"Special and Large Auction Sale," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), January 22, 1863, p. 3.

"Pneumonia Fatal to Aged Retired Merchant," The Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), February 9, 1912, p. 4.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 95.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 135.

"Leon Kahn (1832-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial 67366548 , accessed July 7, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67366548.

Citation

Kahn, Leon. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198395 (November 12, 2026).

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