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Christopher Baker Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, hat merchant)

b. 1828? d. 1898-03-05

Louisville, Kentucky, hat merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Anna E. Bottorff Smith in Clark County, Indiana, on May 10, 1856. Father of Charles Smith and William Smith. Hat merchant in partnership with Thomas W. Pollard and James W. Prather in Pollard, Prather, & Smith, in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1852 to 1855. Hat merchant in partnership with James W. Prather and Donald McNaughtan in Prather, Smith, & Company in Louisville in 1856. Hat merchant in partnership with James W. Prather in Prather & Smith from 1857 through 1865. Hired two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 354.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 281A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 9, p. 245A.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 23.

Indiana Marriage Records, 1801-1952, Indiana Archives and Record Administration, Office of the Clark County Clerk. Clark County, Indiana, Marriage Records, volume G-I, 1855- 1857, p. 140.

"County Merchants", The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), September 2, 1852, p. 4.

"County Merchants", The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), January 25, 1853, p. 4.

Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), November 7, 1854, p. 4.

"Christmas," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), January 16, 1855, p. 4.

"Copartnership,” The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), July 2, 1856, p. 2.

The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), September 27, 1856, p. 1.

"Business and Travelling Hats,” The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), December 5, 1857, p. 1.

The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), January 19, 1858, p. 1.

"To Country and City Merchants, The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), March 17, 1858, p. 1.

"Dress Hats" Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), November 4, 1858, p. 2.

"Dress Hats," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), May 30, 1859, p. 1.

"Hat and Cap Manufacturers," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), June 18, 1860, p. 1.

The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), June 16, 1852, p. 2.

The Louisville Daily Journal , (Louisville, KY), February 6, 1853, p. 1.

_Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 162.

"Old Hatter Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 6, 1898, p. 4.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 197, 228.

J.D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory for 1864, (Louisville: L.A. Civill, 1864), 208.

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), 482.

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Smith, Christopher Baker. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204872 (November 12, 2026).

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