Case file, 1865-1868.

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Case file, 1865-1868.

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Group of letters pertaining to a campaign to secure a pardon for a murderer at Dannemora Prison, New York. Jeremiah Clifford was an ex-p.o.w. of the Civil War who was charged with the death of a fellow soldier. Clifford's friends contended that the incident was an accident that resulted from a drunken rage, hot cold-blooded murder. The petition was addressed to Governor Reuben Fenton.

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Clinton Correctional Facility.

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Clinton Correctional Facility is a receiving prison, admitting inmates on direct commitment from the courts as well as by transfer from other institutions. The direct court commitments are received from the Third and Fourth Judicial Districts embracing 18 counties. Clinton is a maximum security walled institution for male prisoners convicted of felonies. Clinton prison had its origins with the passage of Chapter 245 of the Laws of 1844 providing for the establishment of ...

Clifford, Jeremiah, fl. 1865-1868.

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Fenton, Reuben E. (Reuben Eaton), 1819-1885

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Born in the Town of Carroll, Chautauqua County, New York on 4 July 1819, and was educated in a rural school. At the age of twenty he moved to Jamestown, where he entered the lumber business and soon became a prosperous merchant. He also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841. Elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1852, he vigorously opposed the extention of Slavery, and soon afterward joined the Republican Party and was elected to Congress of that party, representing the Chautauqua Distr...