Person

Emanuel Bamberger (Louisville, Kentucky, dry goods merchant)

b. 1812? d. 1869-09

Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. Native of Germany. Married to Clara Kling Bamberger. Father of Jacob Bamberger, Francis Bamberger, Levi Bamberger, Sophia Bamberger, Julius Bamberger, Isaac Bamberger, Simon Bamberger, Socrata Bamberger, and Abraham Bamberger. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Dry goods wholesale merchant in E. Bamberger & Company in Louisville in 1858. Dry goods wholesale merchant in partnership with William H. Moore and Nathan Bloom in E. Bamberger & Company in Louisville in 1861 to 1862. Wholesale dry goods merchant in partnership with Nathan Bloom in E. Bamberger & Company in Louisville from 1862 to 1865. Resident of New York City, New York, in 1863. Dry goods wholesale merchant in partnership with Levi Bamberger and Nathan Bloom in Bamberger, Bloom, & Company in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 241B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 830.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 257.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, New York, County, New York, p. 1221A.

"Dissolution," The Louisville Daily Journal,(Louisville, KY), November 4, 1862, p. 2.

"Notices of the Day," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), July 14, 1863, p. 3.

"Copartnership," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), January 10, 1865, p. 2.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 23.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 26.

J.D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory for 1864, (Louisville: L.A. Civill, 1864), 105.

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), 198.

Citation

Bamberger, Emanuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204041 (November 12, 2026).

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