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Joseph Lewis Danforth (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant, insurance agent, and notary public)

b. 1821-01-21 d. 1887-10-29

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant, insurance agent, and notary public. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph and Lucy Shaw Danforth. Married to Frances Antoinette Elizabeth Ward Danforth on May 12, 1845, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Father of Florence Ward Danforth, John Henshaw Danforth, Josephine Lewis Danforth, Antoinette Danforth, George Lewis Danforth, Sallie Ward Danforth, William Herbert Danforth, and Francis Carruth Danforth. Graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts in 1839. Merchant in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Insurance agent in Louisville in 1860. Employed Carol Schepper, Kate Webb, and Ann Lawler as servants in Louisville in 1860. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, pp. 253A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 114.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 151B.

John Joseph May, Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth, of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth, of Newbury, mass. (1640-1721) and their Descendants, (Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1902), pp. 411, 415-417.

Almira Larkin White, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster Massachusetts, 1638-1900, vol. 2 (Haverhill, Mass.: Chase Brothers Printers, 1900), 311.

"Death of Mr. J.L. Danforth," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 30, 1887, p. 13.

"Joseph Lewis Danforth (1821-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 95145315, accessed October 12, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95145315.

KYR-0001-017-0265.

Citation

Danforth, Joseph Lewis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213682 (November 12, 2026).

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