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Romeo Ezekiel North (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper correspondent & editor)

b. 1830-03-27 d. 1880-05-22

Louisville, Kentucky, journalist. Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, native. Son of Olivia North. Graduated from Yale College in 1849. Newspaper correspondent in Louisville in 1860. Member of the editorial staff of the Louisville Courier. Special correspondent for the New York Times. Member of the Jefferson County delegation to the Unconditional Union State Convention in Kentucky in 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 46.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 94.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 65.

Franklin B. Dexter, Addresses of the Living Graduates of Yale College: June, 1872, p. 38.

Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1880 (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor, 1880), 404.

Record of the Graduated Members of the Class of 1849, of Yale College (New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson, 1884), 30.

"Unconditional Union State Convention," The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Ky.), May 27, 1864, p. 2.

Citation

North, Romeo Ezekiel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213789 (November 12, 2026).

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