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Luther Wilson (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, fireman on railroad)

b. 1805-07-06 d. 1881-03-27

Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and boarding house keeper. Maryland native. Married to Eliza F. Wilson. Father of George W. Wilson, John H. Wilson, Luther Wilson Jr., William Wilson, Benjamin F. Wilson, Mary E. Wilson, Charles H. Wilson, and K. J. Wilson. Plasterer in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Boarding house keeper 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 Ward 8, p. 445A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 504.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 140A.

"Luther Wilson (1805-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 241222986, accessed July 11, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/241222986.

Citation

Wilson, Luther. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204489 (November 12, 2026).

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