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Joseph B. Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, tavern and billiard saloon keeper)

b. 1818 d. 1875-09-19

Louisville, Kentucky, tavernkeeper. New York native. Married to Margaret C. E. Porter Harper in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 1, 1843. Father of Frederick L. Harper, Mary E. Harper, James Harper, Emily L. Harper, Antoinette Harper, and Octavia T. Harper. Tavern keeper in Louisville in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Tavernkeeper in Louisville in 1860. Employed one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Tavernkeeper for the Louisville Hotel in Louisville in 1861. Keeper of the St. Charles Billiard Saloon in Louisville in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 301A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 255.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 278A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 81B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817885.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 113.

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), 339.

"Joseph B. Harper (1818-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial 25435620 , accessed June 29, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25435620 .

Citation

Harper, Joseph B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209756 (November 12, 2026).

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