Person

William Steel (Louisville, Kentucky, tavernkeeper)

b. 1836?

Louisville, Kentucky, tavernkeeper. Indiana native. Son of Hiram Steel and Mariah Steel. Married to Laura O'Neil Steel in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 1, 1860. Attended school in Hamilton County, Indiana, in 1850. Tavernkeeper in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Tavernkeeper in Louisville in 1861.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Hamilton County, Noblesville, pp. 104A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 32.

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

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 235.

Citation

Steel, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203349 (November 12, 2026).

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