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Willis Levi, Jr. (Louisville, KY, steamboat engineer)

b. 1836-09-21 d. 1909-12-21

Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat engineer. Kentucky native. Son of Willis Levi. Married to Anna Stutsman Levi in Louisville on August 16, 1860. Father of Blanche Levi and Lillie Ernestine Levi. Student in Louisville in 1850. Family owned three enslaved persons in 1850. Steamboat engineer in Louisville in 1860. Family owned one enslaved person in 1860. Employed Caroline Dement as cook and domestic servant from September 1862 to February 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 437B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 4 of microfilm.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 664.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 61.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 11th Ward, p. 529A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819613, p. 412.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017502: All Counties, Jefferson County Deaths File #17136, p. 642.
Find A Grave, "Willis Levi, Jr (1836-1909)," Memorial #10423495, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104234952, (accessed August, 7, 2017).
KYR-0001-004-0131.

Citation

Levi, Willis, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212343 (November 12, 2026).

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