Governor's correspondence, 1859-1862.

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Governor's correspondence, 1859-1862.

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These letters of Governor Beriah Magoffin document the administrative activities of the chief executive. Included are copies of letters found on a train in the North, addressed to John Brown at Harper's Ferry, which detail the plans for a slave insurrection in Tennessee; a claim to have discovered the scientific law causing idiocy, insanity, and other maladies, with a plea for statutory regulation to prevent marriages between physiologically incompatible people; responses from around the United States to an offering of a one thousand dollar reward for a cure for hog cholera; communications between Governor Magoffin and other governors and correspondents at the outbreak of the Civil War; and petitions asking the governor to forbid a possible expedition by Southern forces through Kentucky into Illinois.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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Kentucky. Governor (1859-1862 : Magoffin)

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Beriah Magoffin, a Democrat, served as governor of Kentucky from 1859 to 1862, during the period of the secession crisis and the first years of the Civil War. He resigned after three years in office when, as a result of the hostile political climate, his power and effectiveness as governor were considerably diminished. Born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in 1815, Magoffin received a degree from Centre College and graduated from the law school at Transylvania University in 1838...

Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Magoffin, Beriah, 1815-1885

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Governor of Kentucky, public official of Kentucky and Mississippi, and lawyer. From the description of Letters of Beriah Magoffin, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454225 ...