Person

Hite B. Henry (Louisville, Kentucky, auctioneer and merchant. )

b. 1840? d. 1907-11-15

Louisville, Kentucky, auctioneer and merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel G. Henry and Mary Henry. Married to Ella Smith Henry in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 5, 1863. Father of Mary L. Henry, and Ellen F. Henry. Attended school in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Clerk for the S. G. Henry & Company auction house in Louisville from 1858 to 1860. Household hired three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Auctioneer and commission merchant in partnership with Samuel G. Henry in S.G. Henry & Company 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. 186B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 124.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 272B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 12, p. 578B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482709.

"Notice," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), 1 Aug 1861, p. 2.

"By S.G. Henry & Company," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), June 23, 1862, p. 3.

"By S.G. Henry & Company," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), January 12, 1864, p. 3.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 83.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 118.

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), 349.

"Deaths," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), November 17, 1907, p. 4.

Citation

Henry, Hite B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211341 (November 12, 2026).

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