Person

Frederick W. Merz (Louisville, Kentucky, iron manufacturer)

b. 1830? d. 1883-12-08

Louisville, Kentucky, iron manufacturer. native of Baden, Germany. Married to Wilhelmina Sannemann Merz in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 16, 1856. Iron manufacturer in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1860 to 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 67.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 613.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 384.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819605.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1863.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 12, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 12.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 171.

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), 438.

"Frederick William Merz (1830-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial 54097912, accessed December 8, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54097912.

Citation

Merz, Frederick W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211836 (November 12, 2026).

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