Person

Henry E. Lewis (Louisville, Kentucky, chinaware merchant)

b. 1820? d. 1870-02-27

Louisville, Kentucky, chinaware merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Edmund H. Lewis. Married to Margaret Eleanor Clarke Lewis in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 1, 1843. Father of Eliza Lewis. Chinaware merchant in H.E. Lewis & Company in Louisville in 1858. Chinaware merchant in partnership with William A. Owens in H. E. Lewis & Company in Louisville in 1860. Chinaware merchant in partnership with William A. Owens and Edmund H. Lewis in H. E. Lewis & Company in Louisville from 1861 to 1864.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 139.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 274B.

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 994042, Jefferson County Deaths.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 108.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 151.

"Notice," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), January 4, 1860, p. 2.

"Dissolution of Copartnership," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), February 29, 1864, p. 2.

Citation

Lewis, Henry E.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210627 (November 12, 2026).

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