Records, 1790-1924.

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Records, 1790-1924.

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This collection contains miscellaneous papers and documents relating to the Bank of Kentucky. Included are cancelled checks drawn on the bank (1805-1850s); post notes (1813-1814); and shares of bank stock (1820s). The group has some miscellaneous correspondence such as letters to and from Governors Lazarus W. Powell and Charles Morehead concerning bank business.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6961777

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Morehead, Charles, 1802-1868.

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Bank of Kentucky. Louisville Branch Bank.

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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 The bank's charter was repealed in 1822 by a hard-money legislature af...

Bank of Kentucky. Lexington Branch Bank.

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Powell, L. W. 1812-1867.

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Bank of Kentucky. Glasgow Branch Bank.

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