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Joseph Congar Butler (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant, tax assessor, and notary public)

b. 1827-01-03 d. 1893-01-23

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant, tax collector, and notary public. Louisville, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Butler and Abby Congar Butler. Married to Mary Ann Pilling Butler in Greensburg, Indiana, on May 30, 1849. Father of James Gillespie Butler, Mary Louisa Butler, Laura Bell Butler, and Anna Cornelia Butler. Merchant in Floyd County, Indiana, in 1850. Assistant tax collector in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1862. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1862.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany, p. 299A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Harrods Creek, p. 332 A.

Charles Collard Adams, Middletown Upper Houses: A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, from 1650 to 1800, with Genealogical and Biographical Chapters on Early Families and a Full Genealogy of the Ranney Family (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908), 520, 522.

"Excise Taxes." Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), November 10, 1862.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 165.

KYR-0001-031-0056.

Citation

Butler, Joseph Congar. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214943 (November 12, 2026).

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