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Martin Breen (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer)

b. 1819?

Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer and flour dealer. Native of Ireland. Married to Mary Catharine Griffin Breen in Jefferson County on February 1, 1845. Father of Benjamin P. Breen, Mary F. Breen, M. Breen, Martin C. Breen, John H. Breen, and Francis “Frank” Breen. Grocer in Louisville in 1860. Employed M. Fix and M. Doyle as clerks in 1860. Signed a petition as a flour dealer in May 1861 to appoint W. G. Timberlake as flour inspector.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 322.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 84B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000817889, p. 50 of microfilm.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007128, Louisville Deaths, Books 7-8, 1887-1894, p. 146 of microfilm.

Henry Tanner, ed., The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-60 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1859), 37, 280.

KYR-0001-017-0163.

Citation

Breen, Martin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212050 (November 12, 2026).

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