John B. Bruner : papers, 1848-1876.

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John B. Bruner : papers, 1848-1876.

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Papers contain letters to Bruner relative to his legislative work in the House and later in the Senate and concerning the law practice of the firm Allen and Bruner; letters about his activities as a member of the Whig and American parties in state and national elections; applications for public office; education in Kentucky; support of the Union during the Civil War; recruiting of troops and movements for defense of the state; convention of the National Conservative Union Committee at Cincinnati, 3 December 1864; petitions for charters of railroads from Louisville to Cincinnati, 1866; routes of railroads through Kentucky; raising funds for the Central Committee of Union Democracy in 1867; receipts to Bruner and the firm of Allen and Bruner, 1856-1876; legal papers including cases before the Breckinridge Circuit Court, 1851-1871. Also includes papers on education; election returns, 1854-1873; military passes, 1861-1865; papers of the Hardinsburg and Cloveport Turnpike Road Co., 1860-1861; land papers, 1848, 1868; printed matter concerning U.S. politics; program of the Grand Musical and Dramatic Soiree; social invitations from governors of Kentucky; and newspaper clippings and a scrapbook of clippings on the presidential campaign of 1860. Bruner's correspondents include D. Hoover, Ben Edwards Grey, James Harlan, James Speed, George D. Prentice, Henry D. McHenry, Thomas M. Hunt, Samuel Haycraft, Ben Hardin Helm, General Jeremiah T. Boyle, Garrett, Davis, and Thomas B. Fairleigh.

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