Person

John Cawein (Louisville restaurant owner and merchant)

b. 1826?

Louisville, Kentucky, restaurant owner and merchant. Native of Germany. Owned Walker’s Restaurant and Exchange with John Kohlepp and Charles K. Guefner from 1856 to 1866.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 85. “Walker’s Exchange,” The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), October 3, 1856, p. 2. “There’s a Buck in the Lick,” The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), October 10, 1856, p. 4. “Walker’s Exchange,” The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), January 9, 1860, p. 4. “Walker’s Exchange,” The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), January 4, 1861, p. 3. “Dissolution,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky), May 1, 1866, p. 2.

Citation

Cawein, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207801 (November 12, 2026).

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