Person

Frank Bligh (Louisville, Kentucky, tavernkeeper and bookkeeper)

b. 1833?

Louisville, Kentucky, tavern keeper and bookkeeper. New York native. Married to Virginia Way Bligh in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 25, 1860. Tavern keeper at the Exchange Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Bookkeeper in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 78B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482708.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 85.

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), 213.

Citation

Bligh, Frank. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200422 (November 12, 2026).

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