Person

Alexander McBride (Louisville, Kentucky, hardware merchant)

b. 1811-11-01 d. 1874-07-18

Louisville, Kentucky, hardware merchant. Pennsylvania native. Married to Eliza Ann Ramsdale McBride in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on November 26, 1840. Father of Amelia McBride, William H. McBride, Emma McBride, Frank McBride, Theodore McBride, and Charles E. McBride. Hardware merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Hardware merchant in Louisville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 20B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, X County, Louisville, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 573.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 351A.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862, p. 8.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 9, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1863, p. 589.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 12, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1864.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482706, p. 143.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 112.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 64, 157.

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), 416.

"Hardware," The Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), March 26, 1851, p. 4.

"A. McBride," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), February 26, 1857, p. 4.

"Alexander McBride (1811-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial 54082785 , accessed May 30, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54082785 .

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McBride, Alexander. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203341 (November 12, 2026).

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