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Hugh Preissler (Louisville, Kentucky, druggist)

b. 1807-02-14 d. 1878-03-20

Louisville, Kentucky, druggist. Native of Prussia. Married to Martha White Preissler in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 19, 1846. Father of Henry Preissler, Theodore Preissler, John Preissler, and Julius Preissler. Graduate of the University of Breslau in Warsaw, Poland, in 1831. Immigrated to the United States on October 2, 1834. Druggist in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Druggist in Louisville in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Druggist in Louisville in 1861. Druggist in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 266B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 177.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 275B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 21B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000818482.

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

New York, U.S. Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1957, Passenger Arrival Lists (1817-1897), NARA Series M237, RG 85.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 198.

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), 483.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 483-4.

Citation

Preissler, Hugh. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212684 (November 12, 2026).

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