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John Keagan (Louisville, Kentucky, street paver and contractor)

b. 1805? d. 1874-05-18

Louisville, Kentucky, street paver and contractor. Native of Ireland. Married to Ann Keagan. Father of Julia Keagan, Mathew Keagan, Mary Keagan, Elizabeth Keagan. Street paver in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owner of one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Resident in Louisville in 1860. Contractor in Louisville in 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, 418 County, 8th Ward of Louisville, p. 418B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 8th Ward of Louisville, p. 806.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 303.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Film 7007126, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 37.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 136.

Citation

Keagan, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209629 (November 12, 2026).

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