Governor's correspondence, 1824-1828.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Kentucky State Penitentiary (Frankfort, Ky.)

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Legislation establishing a penal system in Kentucky was passed in 1798, and by 1800, the first prison west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Kentucky State Penitentiary, was completed on a one-acre tract of land in Frankfort. As early 1825, the penitentiary and the labor of its inmates were leased to private individuals in return for a percentage of the profits from prison labor, a practice that was not abolished until 1880. Convict labor, however, continued to be contracted out until...

Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842

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Joseph Desha, soldier and politician, and his son, John R. Desha, physician. From the description of Joseph Desha and John R. Desha papers, 1773-1871 (bulk 1800-1855). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82042256 Governor of Kentucky, 1824-1828. From the description of Joseph Desha : miscellaneous papers, 1814-1824. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49217464 Biographical Note ...

Kentucky. Governor (1824-1828 : Desha)

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Joseph Desha was elected as Kentucky's ninth governor in 1824, the first governor who was not a veteran of the American Revolution. Desha was a Jeffersonian Republican who also ran as a debt relief candidate. Born in 1768, he moved to Kentucky with his family when he was thirteen and remained for three years before moving to Nashville, Tennessee. In 1792, he returned to Kentucky, and served in the Indian wars in 1794. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in...

Kentucky. General Assembly. House.

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Holley, Horace, 1781-1827

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Bank of Kentucky

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The Bank of Kentucky was chartered in 1806 by the state legislature as part of a compromise that ended the controversy over private banking. It was modeled on the Bank of the United States and was governed by a president and a twelve-member board of directors. Robert Alexander of Versailles was elected president in 1807 and served for fourteen years during which the bank was sound, profitable, and conservatively administered. The bank's charter was repealed in 1822 by a hard-money legislature af...

Transylvania University

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Historical note: The principal responsibility of the Dean of Students at Transylvania University has been the coordination of offices and programs directly related to non-academic activities of students and student organizations. From the description of Dean of students records, 1930-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191917646 Historical note: Administration of student admissions and the recording of scholastic records has at various times been the responsibility of the T...