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Benjamin James Adams (Louisville merchant)

b. 1817-11-01 d. 1862-12-12

Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. Indiana native. Married to Caroline Scott Throckmorton Adams on October 29, 1845. Partner in the meatpacking firm of Crutchfield, Cooper & Co. in Louisville in partnership with Edward Crutchfield and John S. Cooper in 1861. Proprietor of the Galt House hotel under the name of Silas F. Miller & Co. in Louisville partnership with Silas F. Miller in 1861. Incorporated the Union Insurance Company of Louisville in 1860. Employed at the meatpacking firm of Watkins, Hunt & Co. in Louisville in 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850) , Populations Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District No. 3. _Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 163. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), xiii, 17, 175. Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865 (Marriages, 1828-1848, Page 114); Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (1860). Find A Grave, "Benjamin James Adams (November 1, 1817 - December 14, 1862)," Memorial #32045797, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32045797&ref=acom (accessed June 27, 2017)

Citation

Adams, Benjamin James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204297 (November 12, 2026).

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