Person

Thomas P. Hughes (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and merchant)

b. 1823 d. 1874

Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and merchant. Pennsylvania native. Married to Julia H. Hughes. Father of Henry Hughes, Mary "Maggie" Hughes, and Julia Hughes. Clerk in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Employed Margaret May and M. Mance as servants in Louisville in 1860. Merchant in partnership with William Garvin, John Bell, Samuel Gwyn, Robert Russell, William W. Hinkle, and James Parkhill, in Garvin, Bell & Company in Louisville in 1861.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 299A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 854.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 331.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Lower Merion, p. 501A.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 97, 127.

"Thomas P Hughes (1823-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial 38498949, accessed July 31, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38498949.

Citation

Hughes, Thomas P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213436 (November 12, 2026).

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