Person

Theodore Schwartz (Jefferson County, Kentucky, banker and foreign consul)

b. 1818-07-09 d. 1908-08-27

Jefferson County, Kentucky, banker, and foreign consul. Native of Hanover. Married to Henrietta Gunter Schwartz in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 30, 1846. Married to Anna Amelia Beason Trout Schwartz in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on July 26, 1853. Father of Theodore C. Schwartz, George Schwartz, Lina Schwartz, Anna Schwartz, and Emma E. Schwartz. Banker in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Jefferson County in 1860. Banking partner with John Smidt in John Smidt & Company in Louisville in 1861 through 1862. Consul for the German states in Louisville in 1861. Partner with John Smidt in John Smidt & Company, European Bank and Exchange, in Louisville in 1864. Consul for Bavaria, Hanover, and Oldenburg in Louisville in 1864 and 1865. Treasurer of the Ohio and Kentucky Petroleum and Mining Company in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 914.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 231A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Spring Garden, p. 442A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 219, 228, 348.

J.D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory for 1864, (Louisville: L.A. Civill; Publisher, Bookseller, Printer, and Bookbinder, 1864), 53, 223.

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), 635.

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

"Ohio and Kentucky Petroleum and Mining Company," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), February 20, 1865, p. 4.

"Carl Theodore Frederick Schwartz Sr. (1818-1908)," Find A Grave, Memorial 96564998 , accessed May 22, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96564998 .

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Schwartz, Theodore. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204363 (November 12, 2026).

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