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Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA))

b. 1826-06-20 d. 1900-10-12

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Shelbyville, Kentucky, native. Married to Miriam E. Carter Tevis in Woodford County, Kentucky, on November 20, 1851. Father of Carter Tevis and Samuel Tevis. Studied law at the University of Louisville. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1855 to 1857. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1859 to 1863. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment as colonel from September 10, 1862, to November 17, 1862. United States district attorney in Louisville from 1863 to 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 2, p. 460A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 5th Ward, p. 138.

J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville from its First Settlement to the Year 1896, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 135.

"Joshua Tevis," Louisville Courier-Journal, October 14, 1900, p. A4.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, 1789-1872, Film #000252320, p. 206.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 709.

Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014), 190.

Citation

Tevis, Joshua. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211671 (November 12, 2026).

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