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HALDEMAN'S
LIBRARY OF THE POLYTECHNIC SOC TY PICTURE OF LOUISVILLE, No. 4157 6.0.10
DIRECTORY
AND
BUSINESS ADVERTISER,
FOR
1844-1845;
CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE TOWN FROM 1778 TO THE PRESENT TIME, AND THE TRADE AND STATISTICS OF THE CITY; CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS; RIVER DISTANCES AND GENERAL DIRECTORY,
LOUISVILLE COMPILED HY N. PEACOPY BOOK
LIBRARY
LOUISVILLE: Printed and Published by W. N. Haldeman, at the Morning Courier Office. 1844.
K. H. R908 459 L888 1.6019
1844-45
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ALL EAST OF JACKSON STREET.
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DIAGRAM SHEWING THE DIVIDING LINES OF THE WARDS OF THE CITY.
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE.
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The original Charter was granted February 13, 1828.
This Charter has continued to be amended from the first year of its existence, down to the year 1840. Its incongruities pruned away; its crudities rejected ; and where it was found to conflict with the interest and prosperity of the city, the convenience and comfort of the citizens, so far amended as to make it no very easy task to give an intelligible synopsis of the present Charter, as the supreme law of the city ; and to give the whole, with the various amendments, occupying thirty-six pages of the Statute Book, would be to most persons who require a Directory, an useless mass. We shall, therefore, condense the subject into as small a compass as practicable, endeavoring to preserve all its main features.
1ST SECTION. Establishes the boundaries of the city, its jurisdiction, &c. The boundaries were, by the original Charter, beginning at the stone bridge over Bear-Grass Creek, near Geiger's Mill, thence on a straight line to the upper corner of Jacob Geiger's land, on the Ohio river, and thence by a straight line down the Ohio river, so as to include Corn Island, and the stone quarry adjacent thereto; and thence by a straight line to the upper boundary of Shippingport, where it binds on the river Ohio; thence with the upper boundary of Shippingport, to the back line thereof, and the same course continued until it intersects the back line of the town of Louisville, when extended westwardly far enough to meet the said line extending out from the river, with the upper boundary of Shippingport .; thence from the said intersection, to the south or back line of the present town of Louisville, and with the said back line to the south fork of Bear-Grass Creek ; thence down the middle thereof, to the beginning, at the centre of the stone bridge afore- said.
SEC. 2. Provides that the fiscal, prudential and municipal concerns of the city, shall be vested in one principal officer, to be called the Mayor ; and one City Council, consisting of ten persons, (since in- creased to sixteen,) to be denominated the Board of Councilmen.
SEC. 3. Directs that the city shall be divided into wards, and each ward entitled to two Councilmen.
SEC. 4-5. Are essentially changed by amendments ; relate to the mode and time of electing officers. Election now held on the first Monday of May. The Mayor for three years, and ineligible for the same office for three years thereafter. Councilmen elected annually, and may be re-elected.
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EIGHTH AMENDMENT .---- Authorizes the city of Louisville to sub- scribe to the stock in the Lexington and Ohio Rail Road Company. February 28, 1835.
NINTH AMENDMENT .---- Abolishes the Mayor's Court.
Police Court established, to be styled the City Court of Louisville. Jurisdiction defined. To be a court of record. Judge to receive a sal- ary of 81.200. The Mayor and Council have the right to employ a Prosecuting Attorney.
The City Court, so far as it is a Police Court, shall always be open, and for the trial of pleas of the Commonwealth, there shall be month- ly terms of said court, to commence on the first Monday in each month. May summon Grand Juries. By this act, the salary of the Mayor was fixed at $2,000. It is now $1,500, by a more recent enactment.
Insurance offices must file, with the Mayor, a certified copy of their charters.
Boundary extended three hundred feet above Geiger's ferry landing. February 28, 1836.
TENTH AMENDMENT ....- Boundary line of the city of Louisville shall begin at the North-West corner of the former town of Portland, and run- ning thence with its line to the South-West corner of said town, thence to the South-West corner of the city on the Shippingport and Salt-river road ; thence with the city line, to low water mark, on the South fork of Bear-Grass, thence to the North-West corner of James Southard's land, common to him and Petitt, on the Bardstown turnpike road; thence with Southard's and Petitt's line, to the middle fork of Bear-grass to low water mark ; thence to a point, formerly Jacob Geiger's upper cor- ner, on the Ohio river ; thence north across the river to low water mark ; thence with the river, at low water mark, to a point due North from the beginning, and thence across the river to the beginning.
SEC. 1. Authorises the Mayor and Council to enforce the collection of fines for forestalling, &c.
ELEVENTH AMENDMENT .- SEC. 2. Authorizes the city to hold title to all public property in that part of the city of Louisville formerly Port- land as laid off, and formerly vested in the Trustees of Portland, and the city of Louisville, by its corporate name, may sue for and recover any such property for the use of the ceste que trust, or for the public trust, to which the same was intended or devoted by the proprietor.
SEC. 3. May rate stores, in which groceries are sold by the retail, and require tax in advance.
SEC. 4. Relates to ordaining all necessary laws regulating steam boats and all other vessels coming to, or landing within the limits of the city
SEC. 5. Relates to Maysville and other cities named in acts in connexion with Louisville.
SEC. 6. Makes it obligatory on all persons running hacks, drays, wagons, &c., to take out license.
SEC. 7. Relates to the change in the style of the Marine Hospital
corporation, and directing that the Mayor and Council shall elect Trus- tees for said Hospital.
SEC. S. That so much of the acts of the Legislature of Virginia and this State as relate to the town of Louisville and conflicts with the Charter, shall be, and are repealed.
SEC. 9. That all laws vesting real or personal estate, or power in the Mayor and Council, shall be construed to vest the same in the city of Louisville.
SEC. 10. That all copies of records, certified by the Clerk, shall be deemed as good as the original for evidence in court. Clerk author- ized to charge a fee for certified copies.
SEC. 11. Relates to false entries by the Mayor or Clerk.
SEC. 12. That in the month of May, there shall be two Collectors elected, to hold office one year.
SEC. 13. Collectors qualifications:
SEC. 14. Collectors shall, within fifteen days after their election, give bond in the penalty of sixty thousand dollars.
SEC. 15. Relates to the faithful performance of their duty:
SEC. 16. Directs the amounts to be paid weekly by the collectors: SEC's. 17 to 28, inclusive, relate to the duties of the collectors.
SEC. 29. That no ground or lot or lots, or house on leased ground, shall be levied upon or sold by said collectors, for taxes, whenever per- sonal property can be found belonging to the persons owing the tax bills, within said city:
SEC. 30. When a non-resident fails to pay his or her tax, and it becomes necessary for the collector to levy on a lot or lots, the collec- tor shall notify the non-resident, if at the time in Jefferson county or city of Louisville:
SEC. 31. All personal property leviedon by collectors, shall be ad- vertised ten days-real estate belonging to non-residents, six weeks, and owned by persons residing in the city, twenty days.
SEC. 32-33, regulates the fees of collectors for levies.
SEC. 34. Directs the Treasurer to attend these sales, and to bid in the property for the city, if no other person will bid.
SEC. 35-36. Relate to the issue of certificates to the purchasers of real estate by the collector.
SEC. 37. Collectors to make returns of all tax sales within ten days.
SEC. 38. Negroes may be levied on, if their owner have no other personal estate, before a levy is or can be made upon real estate.
SEC. 39, Relates to cases where persons, liable, have not been taxed ; makes it the duty of the collector to report the same.
SEC. 40. Relates to the non-payment of the taxes collected, (by the collectors,) on refusing to make a full return, by the tenth of March, the Mayor and Council may order proceedings in the Jefferson Circuit Court.
SEC. 41. Mayor and Council may extend the time for paying over, and release sureties.
SEC. 42. No person shall be eligible to the office of collector,
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who has not obtained his quietus from the Mayor and Council for previous collection.
SEC. 43. Collectors forbidden to buy, trade or barter for claims on the city treasury.
SEC. 44. Revives an act approved December 17, 1825. SEC. 45. Authorizes the Mayor and Council to levy and collect a tax for Gas.
February 17, 1840.
By a law passed in 1842-3, the City Council is authorized to levy a tax, not exceeding 20 per cent., ad valorem, on slaves and real estate, for the support of Public Schools; and 10 per cent., ad valorem on slaves and real estate, for the support of the poor of the city; and that under no circumstances shall the Public School System be abandoned.
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF ANNUAL MORTALITY.
In Louisville the deaths are one to 50, of the resident population, as Cincinnati
New York do. do. 37,
cial sources.
Philadelphia do. do. 36,
Naples do. do. 28,
Paris
do. do. 33,
London
do.
do. 39,
Glasgow do. do. 44.
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CITY OFFICERS.
Y Frederick A. Kaye, Mayor.
Henry Wolford, Clerk. Frederick Turner, Marshall. William A. Ronald, Deputy Marshal. Nathaniel Wolf, City Attorney. Reuben Dawson, Wharf Master. Fortunatus Cosby, Jr., Agent of Schools. Wm. Anderson, Market Master of Eastern District, P. Stevens, Western do. do. do.
William Colgan, Keeper of Marine Hospital. William Porter, Keeper of Work House.
John Jeffrey, City Architect.
John Barbee, Collector Western District.
Gabriel S. Jones, do, Eastern do. H. S. Julian, City Treasurer.
CITY COUNCIL.
First Ward. Emanuel Seaboldt and H. M. Weatherford,
Second Ward.
Curran Pope and William Penny.
Third Ward. Pierce Butler and Charles M. Strader.
Fourth Ward.
John I. Jacob and John P. Bull.
Fifth Ward. L. L. Shreve and C. J. Clark. Sixth Ward. Wm. W. Fry and John M. Delph. Seventh Ward. John Hulme and Joseph Dunn. Eighth Ward. Edgar Needham and John Harrington.
The Mayor is elected by the people, and holds his office for three years, and is ineligible for three years. The other officers of the city are elected by the Mayor and Council and hold office one year.
CITY POLICE.
Frederick Turner, City Marshal, is ex-officio chief officer of Police. George L. Robards, Captain of the Watch.
Jefferson Street Cemetery-Wm, Perkins, Sexton.
do.
do. 35,
S ascertained from offi-
Boston do. do. 38,
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CITY BANKS.
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BANK OF KENTUCKY, North side of Main, near Third .- Capital $5,000,000.
Virgil McKnight, President.
George C. Gwathmey, Cashier.
S. H. Bullen, Teller.
Jas. Y. Love, Discount Clerk.
P. R. Thompson, Book-Keeper. Alfred Gwathmey, Note Clerk.
J. T. Sanders, do.
DIRECTORS FOR 1844.
D. S. Benedict,
D. L. Beatty,
James Guthrie,
J. I. Jacob,
Thomas Smith,
L. L. Shreve.
Discount days, Tuesdays and Fridays. Offering days, Mondays and Thursdays,
BRANCH OF NORTHERN BANK OF KENTUCKY, South side Main, near Sixth .- Capital $600,000.
Chapman Coleman, President. William Richardson, Cashier.
John Milton, Teller. F. X. White, Book-Keeper. Reuben Wingate, Discount Clerk. DIRECTORS FOR 1844.
Chapman Coleman,
Wm. B. Clifton,
John P. Morton,
E. G. McGinniss,
Thos. S. Forman,
James Pirtle.
Discount days, Mondays and Thursdays. Offering days, Saturdays and Wednesdays. Bill Committee meets 12 o'clock daily.
BANK OF LOUISVILLE, South side of Main, near Fourth .-- Capital $2,000,000. J. B. Bowles, President. Alfred Thruston, Cashier. Geo, W. Clarke, J. C. Talbot and Jas. S. Prather, Clerks. DIRECTORS FOR 1844. Thomas Anderson, Thomas T. Shreve, Thomas Snead, James McCrum, Michael Cody, M. Ferguson. Discount days, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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LOUISVILLE GAS COMPANY BANK, South side Main, near 4th Street .--- Capital $1,200,000. L. L. Shreve, President. E. J. F. Dyer, Clerk. DIRECTORS.
William Garvin, Hamilton Smith,
John I. Jacob, William Miller,
James Marshall,
S. K. Richardson,
J. C. Wenzell: John Jeffrey, Engineer Gas Works. Thomas Williams, Inspector do.
MECHANICS' SAVINGS INSTITUTE,
North side of Market, near 4th Street .---- Capital $100,000. Samuel Gwathmey, President, Henry S. Julian, Treasurer. H. L. Pope, Secretary. DIRECTORS FOR 1844.
John M. Stokes, Nathaniel Hardy,
J. W. Kalfus,
John Irving,
Coleman Daniel,
John P. Young,
Robert Tyler,
William McCrum,
Samuel K. Richardson. Discount day, each Thursday.
LOUISVILLE SAVINGS INSTITUTE,
West side of 5th near Main Street. Capital, $100,000. G. W. Meriwether, President. J. H. Rhorer, Clerk, DIRECTORS FOR 1844.
S. S. Goodwin, James W. Henning,
James Marshall, John Hulme, Hugh Ferguson, Levi Tyler, Edward D. Hobbs, John C. Wenzell.
Discount day, each Wednesday.
UNITED STATES' PENSION AGENCY, At Louisville Savings Institute, West side 5th, near Main Street: George W. Meriwether, Agent. Payments made 4th of March and 4th September in each year. B 1.
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
KENTUCKY AND LOUISVILLE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Capital, $100,000. James Marshall, President. James C. Blair, Secretary. DIRECTORS.
Samuel Schwing, Nathaniel Hardy,
Elisha Applegate, Minor W. Redd,
Thomas Coleman,
William H. Stokes,
Willis Stewart, Abraham Blankenbaker.
OFFICE, South side of MAIN, between FIFTH and SIXTH streets,
FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, $100,000. H. T. Curd, President. Peter B. Atwood, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
W. R. Carter,
James S- Morris,
Robert J. Ward,
Samuel Russell,
Fred. A. Kaye, Jacob Keller, Edward A. Gardner,
Thomas S. Forman.
OFFICE, N. W. corner of FOURTH and MAIN streets.
PORTLAND DRY DOCK AND INSURANCE COMPANY. · Capital, $100,000. James Marshall, President. Simeon S. Goodwin, Secretary. John Hulme, Superintendent of the Dock. DIRECTORS. William H. Bacon, John C. Wenzell. OFFICE, North side MAIN, between FIFTH and BULLITT.
FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, $100,000. J. B. Bowles, President. D. S. Chambers, Secretary. DIRECTORS.
Andrew Buchanan, William B. Clifton,
Chapman Coleman, William Garvin, John S. Chenoweth, William Gay, James Trabue, George J. Rowland.
OFFICE, South side MAIN, between THIRD and FOURTH.
FOREIGN INSURANCE OFFICES.
FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF PHILA- DELPHIA. Capital, $400,000. MUTUAL INSURANCE OF NEW YORK. WILLIAM S. VERNON, Agent, Office, South side Main, between Fourth and Fifth.
LEXINGTON FIRE, LIFE, AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, $300,000. AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, $500,000.
JOHN MUIR, Agent.
Office, North side Main, between Third and Wall.
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, $100,000. COLUMBUS INSURANCE COMPANY, OHIO. Capital, $140,000, paid in. SAMUEL GWATHMEY, Agent. Office, West side Fourth, between Main and Market.
NEW ALBANY INSURANCE COMPANY. JAMES E. TYLER, Agent, Office, North side Main, near Third.
HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. ED. A. GARDNER, Agent. Office, corner of Second and Main.
PROTECTION INSURANCE CO., HARTFORD, CONN. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY. C. C. P. CROSBY, Agent,
South side Main, near First.
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THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
No city in the Union, of the same population, can boast a more prompt, energetic and efficient body than that composing the fire depart- ment of Louisville. The gentlemen associated are from among the most respectable of our citizens, engaged in various pursuits-mechan- ic, mercantile and professional.
The department numbers about two hundred and fifty efficient mem- bers ; and so thoroughly disciplined is this comparatively small force, that it will accomplish as much, or more, we verily believe, on an emergency, as three times their number, constituted as some fire depart- ments are, with reference to numbers, without skill, and having regard, more to prowess in a fight, than to efficiency in subduing the element with which, alone, they should have any contention.
No party or sectarian lines are drawn in the admission of new, or among the old members; and no scrutiny instituted beyond the very proper one as to the efficiency and moral standing of the applicant.
Each company is governed by its own officers, and acts independent- ly of the others, and is responsible for its acts and operations to no au- thority apart from its own organization.
There is no Chief Director-no Board of Control-and yet, it is quite apparent that the system works far more harmoniously, and with equal energy, we hazard nothing in saying, as the fire departments of ei- ther New York, Philadelphia or Boston-all of which we have often seen, not only in their holiday parades, but, also, in seasons of calam- ity.
In the "run," at the "play," or "cistern," it may sometimes happen, in a struggle to be first at the scene of action, that a collision ensues ; but it seldom or never, engenders strife.
We have seen that systems guarded by its full appointments of Boards, Marshals, Engineers-in-Chief, and assistants, have been inadequate to the task of holding in subjection the licentious and vicious, when there was not a counterbalance of moral power to be brought to the aid of these dignitaries.
The only sure remedy against these broils and outbreaks must be sought in the path pursued by our fire department, and those only admitted to membership, whose recommendations bear the countersign of vir- tue, probity and public esteem.
Let all your selections of associates be confined to this rule, and you secure to your city an institution of vast utility, and seated deep in its
affections-as affording to your fellow-citizens protection against an el- ement more dreaded than the flood or the whirlwind.
The fire department is composed of six companies, which are arrang- ed in the following order, viz:
No. I. MECHANIC .- Engine house on First, between Main and Market. Philadelphia Engine, 1st size.
Officers of the Mechanic Fire Company, No. I. James S. Lithgow, President.
John B. Hinkle, Vice-President.
Simmons Watkins, Secretary.
John B. Hinkle, Treasurer. Charles J. C. Johnson, Assistant Secretary.
Simmons Watkins, Chief Director. George W. Dunlap, Assistant Chief Director ..
Joseph Macright,
J. Florence Duvall,
Engine Directors.
Anthony Russell, Absalom Y. Johnson, Jacob Gettier, Francis McCorkill, William Stokes,
Pipe Directors.
Line Directors.
George W. Dunlap,
John B. Hinkle,
Thomas M. Duffy,
Board of Trustees.
No. II. UNION .- Engine house on Sixth, between Main and Mar- ket. Philadelphia Engine, 1st class.
[The Union is composed of the old Merchants' and Hose, and those companies the two oldest, but which having been united, their charter is subsequent to that of the Mechanic.]
Officers of the Union Fire Company, No. II. Thomas Anderson, President.
L. B. White, Secretary. R. Ferguson, Treasurer.
F. W. Prescott, Chief Director. John McMain, Assistant Chief Director.
Joseph Dunn, Hydraulic Director.
John F. Smith, Ass't. do. do. James Prentice, Pipe Director. William White, Ass't. do do.
Felix McCarty, Engine Director.
William Granger, Ass't. do. do.
Elias Levi, Jr,. Hose Director. W. A. Smith, Ass't. do. do.
No. III. RELIEF .- Engine house on Market, between 7th and 8th. Philadelphia engine, 2nd size. Officers of the Relief Fire Company, No. III. Joseph Collingridge, President. Willian Allen, Secretary.
R. A. Small, Vice-President. L. McDougal, Treasurer.
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No. IV. HOPE .- Engine house on First, between Walnut An.
Chesnut. New York engine.
Officers of the Hope Fire Company, No. IV.
J. E. W. Blanks, President, R. M. Robards, Foreman.
W. Rousseau, Secretary. R. C. Mathews, Ass't. do.
No. V. KENTUCKY .- Engine House on Preston, between Main and Market. New York engine.
Officers of the Kentucky Fire Company, No. V. E. V. Bunn, President. J. R. Esterle, Secretary.
Mathew Heman, Treasurer. Joseph Breeden, Foreman.
Joseph Wolf, 1st
Parke Curle, 2d Assistant do. Sixty regular active members.
No. VII. WASHINGTON .- Engine house on Jefferson, between 3d and 4th. New York engine.
Officers of the Washington Fire Company, No. VII.
John B. Ropkey, Foreman, John M. Stephens, Treasurer.
L. S. Mosby, 1st ass't. do. William Essex, Secretary.
W. H. Silliman, 2d do. do.
THE FUNDS .- The city appropriates to each of the companies hav. ing Philadelphia engines, $112 quarterly; and to those companies with New York engines, $100 quarterly, toward defraying the expense of keeping the engines in order.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION OF LOUISVILLE,
Was incorporated by the Legislature, at the session, 1840-1.
Under this act, a Board of Trustees was organized. At the first stated meeting of each Company, in April, three Trustees to represent the Company, are elected; and on the first Saturday in April, the Trus- tees, so elected, assemble and organize.
The principal duties of the Board, relate to acts of a beneficiary char- acter.
The authorities of the city, some two or three years previous to the act of incorporation, most liberally appropriated $5000, to constitute a permanent fund, whenever the department should have so organized as to secure a faithful administration of the trust thus confided to it; the interest accruing to be paid quarterly.
The object of the fund, is to give assistance to disabled firemen, and their families.
The duties of the Board, are, to see that the disbursements are rightly
applied, attend to investment of any surplus funds over the expenditure, and generally the fiscal concerns of the association.
For this purpose, three Standing Committees are annually appointed. All the Companies in the city, six in number, are now fully represented in the Board.
The Committees are-1st, the Committee of Ways and Means ; 2d, the Committee of Investment; 3d, the Committee of Investigation and Relief. The Committees consist of six members-one from each Fire Company ..
There is also a Committee, consisting of three members, called the Committee on Fires, whose duty it is to make a record, and report to the Board the number and situation of fires and false alarms.
From the contributions of life members, the subscriptions of members, as well as by addition in various methods, and by the liberality of the citizens of Louisville, the different Boards, since the organization of the association, have, not only been enabled to disburse money so as to re- lieve effectually the various cases brought under their notice ; but also to increase to $6,200 the permanent fund of the association.
The officers of the Board consist of a President, two Vice Presi- dents, a Secretary and Treasurer.
The organization of the Board_ for the current year, ending in April, 1845, is as follows :
Thomas L. Caldwell, President, G. W. Dunlap, 1st Vice President, J. V. Bunn, 2d do., R. A. Small, Secretary, Daniel Raymond, Treasurer.
Com. Ways and Means. Com. of Investment. Com. of Investigation and Relief.
Geo. W, Dunlap, 1 J. B. Hinkle, 1 Thomas M. Duffy, 1
John McMain, 2 Daniel Raymond,2 Thomas L. Caldwell, 2
D. G. Vansant, 3 R. A. Small, 3 Joseph Collingridge, 3
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