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Michael Billing (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker and grocer)

b. 1821? d. 1881-12-20

Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker and grocer. Native of Germany. Married to Catherine Billing. Father of Michael Billing, Jr., Catherine Billing, George Billing, Mena Billing, Louis Billing, Susan Billing, William Billing, and Lorena Billing. Shoemaker in Louisville in 1860. Operated a grocery in partnership with George Driesbach in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 6th Ward, stamped p. 279.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 1st Ward, p. 185.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 10th Ward, p. 98.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007127, Louisville Deaths, p. 190.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 34.

Citation

Billing, Michael. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214491 (November 12, 2026).

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