Person

Joseph H. Stackhouse (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper collector and printer)

b. 1831?

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper collector and printer. Pennsylvania native. Married to Mattie E. Lynn Stackhouse in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 18, 1855. Father of Willie Lynn Stackhouse, George E. Stackhouse, and Florence Stackhouse. Resident of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Collector for the Daily Courier in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1853 to 1855. Clerk in Louisville in 1860. Hired one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Collector for the Louisville Daily Courier in Louisville in 1861. Publisher of the Morning Press in Louisville in 1863. Printer in partnership with Henry V. Escott in Escott, Stackhouse, & Company in Louisville in 1863 through 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Delaware County, Upper Darby, p. 267B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 81.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 267.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, District 226, p. 139D.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages.

"City Collections," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), October 5, 1853, p. 3.

Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), April 24, 1855, p. 4.

"Died," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), March 7, 1859, p. 1.

"Notice," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), October 22, 1861, p. 2.

"A New Daily Paper," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), November 30, 1863, p. 2.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 234.

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), 291, 545.

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Stackhouse, Joseph H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212528 (November 12, 2026).

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