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Wesley Adams (Louisville, Kentucky, tavern keeper and liquor inspector)

b. 1814? d. 1868-12-04

Louisville, Kentucky, tavern keeper and liquor inspector. Indiana native. Married to Mary Jane Brown Adams in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 7, 1845. Father of Charles K. Adams, John M. Adams, Samuel N. Adams, Robert N. Adams, Elizabeth Adams, and Frank Adams. Grocer in Louisville in 1850. Tavern keeper in Louisville from 1855 to 1861. Liquor inspector in Louisville from 1861 through 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 170B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 84.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 11, p. 508A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths.

"Robert Norman Adams," Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 4098.


"Mr. Frank G. Adams," Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 9068.


Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 18.

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), 186.

"Board of Aldermen," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), May 2, 1855, p. 5.

Citation

Adams, Wesley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209812 (November 12, 2026).

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