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James Sayre (Louisville, Kentucky, machine molder)

b. 1826 d. 1897

Louisville, Kentucky, machine molder and foundry proprietor. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Ann Lowry Sayre in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on July 1, 1849. Father of Elizabeth Sayre, Edward Sayre, and Harriet Sayre. Molder in Louisville in 1850. Machine molder in Louisville in 1860. Molder in Louisville in 1861. Proprietor of the Star Foundry with W.E. Craig and George Meadows in James Sayre & Company in Louisville in 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 370B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 690.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 141, p. 187B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000818491.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 214.

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), 511.

"James Sayre," Find A Grave, Memorial 208250612, accessed January 24, 2024, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208250612.

Citation

Sayre, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207390 (November 12, 2026).

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