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Louis Helmke (Louisville, Kentucky, clothing merchant)

b. 1822?

Louisville, Kentucky, clothing merchant. Native of Hanover. Married to Maria E. Irr Helmke in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on April 9, 1858. Father of Annie Helmke and Eliza Helmke. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Employed Ann Mayer and Mary Mayer as servants in Louisville in 1860. Clothing merchant in partnership with Julius Von Bories and Herman Beckurts in J. Von Bories & Company in Louisville in 1861. Merchant in Louisville in 1863. Clothing merchant in partnership with Julius Von Bories and Herman Beckurts in J. Von Bories & Company in Louisville in 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 529.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 10, p. 356B.

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. 112.

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), 117, 252.

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), 347, 578.

Citation

Helmke, Louis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200831 (November 12, 2026).

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