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Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00005830 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Married to Merie G. Banks. Found guilty of Grand Larceny in the Jefferson Circuit Court, Kentucky, in 1864.

Relationships Familial: Merie G. Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: John McClure () Military: United States Army Social: John Conrad Baumberger (Swiss Consul, cigar maker) Social: Michael Fitzpatrick (Louisville, Kentucky, hotel keeper and grocer) Social: Charles H. Fink (Jefferson County Lawyer)

KYR-0001-005-0016. KYR-0001-004-0441. KYR-0001-004-0458. John McClure () N00005831 Categories: People

Found guilty of Grand Larceny in the Jefferson Circuit Court, Kentucky, in 1864.

Relationships Social: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Military: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Military: United States Army Social: John Conrad Baumberger (Swiss Consul, cigar maker) Social: Michael Fitzpatrick (Louisville, Kentucky, hotel keeper and grocer) Social: Charles H. Fink (Jefferson County Lawyer)

KYR-0001-005-0016 KYR-0001-004-0441 James Robert Dupuy (Commonwealth's Atty Louisville (7th) district) N002002 1831-08-04 1912-05-17 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Florence Low Dupuy in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 24, 1863. Father of Andrew L. Dupuy. Attended law school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1856 to 1857. Attended law school at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1857. Commonwealth's attorney for the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 9, p. 221B. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1856-57: Second Term (Cambridge, Mass.: John Bartlett, 1857), 51. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819616. Roger M. Grace, “J. R. Dupuy: Most Obscure DA in Los Angeles County’s History,” Perspectives, Los Angeles Metropolitan News-Enterprise, p. 7, November 4, 2006. "James Robert Dupuy (1831-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial 90140026, accessed August, 8, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90140026. James P. Chambers (Jefferson Co, Ky, court clerk and attorney) N002041 1830? 1898 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Chambers. Father of Samuel Chambers and Henry Chambers. Graduate of University of Louisville law school in 1847. Confirmed as a notary public in Jefferson County on February 5, 1861. Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 71. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007129: Jefferson County, Books 9-11, p. 445. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, Session of 1859-’60 (Louisville: Hull & Brother, 1860), 9. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., in the City of Louisville, for 1865-6, eds. Edward, Greenough, and DeVed (Louisville: Edward, Greenough, & DeVed, 1866), 243. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 54. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. KYR-0001-017-0062. Charles H. Fink (Jefferson County Lawyer) N00005832 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky lawyer.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Kentucky, Series M768, Roll 16. Leander Sharp Reed (Jefferson County farmer) N00005833 1840? 1890-09-20 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky farmer. Kentucky native.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 110. Find A Grave, "Leander Sharp Reed (1840-1890)," Memorial #174321439, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=174321439 (accessed May 31,2017). N. H. Moore (Jefferson County KY) N00005834 Categories: People

Witness in the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Banks & John McClure in Jefferson Circuit Court in 1864.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-005-0016 John Conrad Baumberger (Swiss Consul, cigar maker) N00005835 1832? 1908-04-27 Categories: People

Cigar maker in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Dubendorf, Switzerland native. Married to Mary Baumberger. Father of Julia Baumberger, Cora Baumberger, and J. C. Baumberger. Served as Swiss Consul for Kentucky and Tennessee.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Social: John McClure () Social: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 25. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1964, Ancestry, Jefferson County, 1908. “John C. Baumberger Dies at Seventy-Six,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 28, 1908, p. 2. Michael Fitzpatrick (Louisville, Kentucky, hotel keeper and grocer) N00005836 1840 1906-04-06 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, hotel keeper and grocer. Native of Ireland. Married to Eliza Moone Fitzpatrick in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 16, 1858. Father of George W. Fitzpatrick, Dennis T. Fitzpatrick, and Richard Fitzpatrick. Immigrated to the United States on July 12, 1850. Porter in Louisville in 1858. Student in Louisville in 1860. Steward at the United States Hotel in Louisville in 1860. Steward at the United States Hotel in Louisville in 1861. Hotel keeper in Louisville in 1864. Grocer in partnership with Timothy Leahy in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 397. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 152. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p.499B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 144, p. 232A. Twelfth Manuscript Census of the United States (1900), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 97, p. 1. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482708, p. 95. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 10, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 23. New York, U.S. Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1957, Passenger Arrival Lists (1817-1897), NARA Series M237, RG 36, Ship Rockaway, 1850. "Michael Fitzpatrick Dies in Old Age," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 7 Aug 1906, p. 5. "Give Up Hope," Kentucky Irish American, (Louisville, KY), 4 Aug 1906, p. 1. Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 64. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 89. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 300. "Michael Fitzpatrick (1840-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial 113181101, accessed July 11, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113181101 . Delos T. Bligh (Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer and police officer, detective) N00005178 1823-03-19 1890-03-01 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer, soldier, police officer and detective. Delaware County, New York, native. Married to Cassandra "Kate" Davis Bligh. Father of Mary Bligh and Emma Bligh. Married Kate Ovington Bligh in 1859. Father of Anna Bligh, Amy Bligh, and Lois Bligh. Served in the Louisville Legion (U.S.A.) as a private from May 1846 to November 1846. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1847. Bricklayer in Louisville in 1850. Police officer and detective in Louisville from 1856 to 1890.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William K. Thomas (Jefferson County, Kentucky, jailer) Legal: Christian Hafner (Fugitive in Indiana.) Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: David Owen (Carroll County, Kentucky, jailer..) Legal: William Shriver (Jefferson County, Kentucky, student, laborer, corporal, quartermaster sergeant, adjutant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant (U.S.A.))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 321B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 702. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 507A. "His Life Ended," The Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), March 2, 1890, p. 9. Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police: History and Personnel (Louisville, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2005), 11, 76. "Delos Thurman Bligh (1823-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6942591, accessed May,18, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6942591. J. W. Mitchell (Jefferson County) N00005837 Categories: People

Jury foreman in the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Banks & John McClure in Jefferson Circuit Court in 1864.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-005-0016 James Bennett Wilder (druggist, Jefferson Co.) N00005838 1817-07-12 1888-05-16 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky druggist. Maryland native. Married to Emma Wilder. Father of Emma Wilder, and Graham Wilder.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, [State], [County], [City/District], p. 128. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 90. Find A Grave, "James Bennett Wilder (1817-1888)," Memorial #98347793, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98347793&ref=acom (accessed May, 30, 2017). Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Jefferson Circuit Court O001000 1850 Categories: Organizations

Part of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky. Serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, with courthouse at Louisville. Judge(s): Peter B. Muir, George W. Johnston. Commonwealth's Attorney(s): Edwin S. Craig, James R. Dupuy. Clerk(s): James P. Chambers

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough, & Deved, pub., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-01 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky, AGAINST

William Banks & John McClure Jefferson Circuit Court, January Term, A. D. 1864.

The Grand Jurors of the County of Jefferson in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse William Banks & John McClure of the Crime of of Grand Larceny committed in manner and form as follows, to=wit: The said Wm Banks & John McClure in the said County of Jefferson on the 10 day of December A. D. 1863. feloniously took & carried away two Boxes of Tobacco ^containing thirty seven pounds of Tobacco^ worth eighty five cents per pound the property of Charles H. Fink against the peace & dignity of the comth of Kentucky, & the said Jurors further present that in said county on said date said William Banks & John McClure did feloniously, knowingly take receive & appropriate to them selves two boxes of tobacco containing thirty seven pound of tobacco worth eighty five cents per pound the property of Charles H Fink knowing the same to be stolen contrary to the form of the statute in such cases, made and provided against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

J. R. Dupuy Commonwealth's Attorney.

A Copy att James P Chambers clk

Witnesses C. H Fink L. S. Reed N. H. Moore J. C. Baumberger Michil Fitzpatrick D T Bligh

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We of the Jury find thd defendants William Banks & John McClure named in the within Indictment, Guilty & say that they each shall be confined in the Jail & Penitentiary of this commonwealth for the term of three years

J. W. Mitchell foreman

A copy att J P Chambers clk

The Commonwealth of Kentucky. Indictment. vs } Grand Larceny William Banks & John McClure A True Bill.

J B Wilder Foreman.

1864 Jany 19 Recd from Grand Jury & filed. N G Jr & Jury. Verdict guilty 3 years each.

A Copy att J P Chambers c