Person

Ebenezer Bustard (Louisville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

b. 1825?

Louisville, Kentucky, grocery merchant. Native of Ireland. Son of Margaret Bustard. Married to Margaret Lynch Bustard in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 19, 1852. Father of Mary J. Bustard, George Bustard, Margaret Bustard, Catharine Bustard, John Bustard, Robert Bustard, and Mary Bustard. Grocery merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Member of the Board of Directors of the Jefferson Insurance Company from 1853 to 1860. Grocery merchant in Louisville in 1858. Grocery merchant in Louisville in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 253A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 140.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 274B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 38B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 146.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862, p. 1.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 9, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1863, p. 75.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 12, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1864.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 37.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 48, 298.

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), 234, 649.

"Ebenezer Bustard," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), June 28, 1850, p. 4.

"Jefferson Insurance Company," The Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), November 22, 1853, p. 2.

Citation

Bustard, Ebenezer. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204508 (November 12, 2026).

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