Bank of Kentucky records, 1790-1924.

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Bank of Kentucky records, 1790-1924.

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Folder one contains documents of the Bank of Kentucky including a Statement of Condition from 1857; checks and receipts dating from 1805 to the 1850s; and Certificates of Bank Stock Shares from the 1820s. Folder two contains correspondence concerning the state of the bank.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7251606

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Knight, Virgil M.

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 The bank's charter was repealed in 1822 by a hard-money legislature af...

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Powell, L. W. 1812-1867.

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