John M. Ferguson stock certificate, 1856.

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John M. Ferguson stock certificate, 1856.

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Stock certificate for 15 shares in the Bank of Kentucky, owned by John M. Ferguson, and signed by Virgil M. Knight, president of the bank.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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Ferguson, John M., active 1856

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Knight, Virgil M.

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 The bank's charter was repealed in 1822 by a hard-money legislature af...