John Quincy Adams King papers, 1847-1874.

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John Quincy Adams King papers, 1847-1874.

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The collection includes miscellaneous business papers, which belonged to King. There is also a certificate issued and signed by Governor Preston H. Leslie in 1874 naming King as a delegate to a national convention to be held in Louisville to consider moving the national capital from Washington, D.C. to a new location in the valley of the Mississippi River. Another subgroup contains papers regarding the estate of William Cottrell, in which King was apparently involved as an attorney. An indenture between Thomas Mitchell and Rachel Stannard of Fulton County, Kentucky for land in that county is also present. This document, also, presumably is connected to King's law practice.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Cottrell, William

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King, John Quincy Adams, 1828-1880.

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John Quincy Adams King was born in Burksville (or Burkesville), Kentucky May 28, 1828. King was an attorney who won election to both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly while living in Paducah. He served as Speaker of the state House of Representatives in the 1850s. He therefore became acting lieutenant governor in 1858 when James G. Hardy, the incumbent under Governor Charles Morehead, died. King married Leann Sophia King (1833-1910). He died at his home in Denver, Colorado, in 1880. ...