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Jacob B. Ehrich (Louisville, Ky, Police Dept; "always wore a silk hat")

b. 1824? d. 1897-02-24

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, police department clerk and chief of police. Kentucky native. Assistant chief of police in 1856 and 1862. Chief of police in Louisville in 1858. Clerk in the Louisville Police Department from 1860 to 1864.

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White

Bibliography

���Died in St. Louis: Tribute to Jacob B. Ehrich, an Old Time Citizen of Louisville,��� The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 18, 1897, p. A8.

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 81.

Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police: History and Personnel (Louisville, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2005), 35.

KYR-0001-021-0013.

KYR-0001-021-0041.

KYR-0001-005-0001.

KYR-0001-005-0041.

Citation

Ehrich, Jacob B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206685 (November 12, 2026).

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