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March 1-In the senate, the bill to au- thorize the extension and construction of
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the Cincinnati Southern railway within the Commonwealth of Ky. was rejected, by yeas 13, nays 22. In the house, March 4, the bill was laid on the table, by yeas 49, nays 43. March 5, a motion to recon- sider was laid on the table, by 46 to 31. A communication from 23 members of the Tennessee legislature and other prominent citizens of that state, expressing regret at the non-passage of the bill, &c., was re- ferred to the committee on railroads.
March 1-Since Dec. 1, three months, 285,000 bushels corn, worth $205,000, re- ceived at Covington, over the Ky. Central railroad.
March 1 to 10-Debate for 9 days, at Mountsterling, Montgomery co., between Rev. Jacob Ditzler, of the Methodist E. Church South, and Elder L. B. Wilkes, of the Reformed or Christian Church. Propositions : 1. The infant of a believing parent is a proper subject for Christian baptismn ; 2. Baptism is for the remission of sins ; 3. The sprinkling or pouring of water upon a proper subject, by a proper administrator, is Christian baptism. The 1st and 3d are affirmed, and the 2d denied, by the Methodist E. Church South, and vice versa.
March 2-Legislature levies additional tax of 15 cents on each $100, for increas- ing the common school fund-to be col- lected off the property tof white persons only, and expended exclusively for the ed- ucation of white children .. .. Appropri- ates $300 for a library of moral, historical and religious books for the use of the con- victs in the penitentiary. 4-Appro- priates $7,500 for a chapelfor religious serv- ices, and for other improvements, at the Western Lunatic Asylum ...... Increases fees of jailers-for boarding prisoners 75 cents per day, &c .. .. Makes it unlawful for county courts to issue county bonds in aid of works of public improvement, or impose a tax, upon the petition of any number of legal voters. [Must be by rote of the peo- ple] ........ 2-Fixes special license-tax upon foreign express companies, and exempts them from paying for license in counties or towns ......... 10-Establishes the county of Martin, out of parts of Pike, Johnson, Floyd and Lawrence, with county-seat at Warfield .. 11 - Appropriates $10,000 for improvements at the Blind Asylum, and increases the annual appropriation for its support to $10,000 (from $6,000) ......... 10-Establishes an insurance bureau, and, 12th, enacts general laws under which either life, or fire and marine, insurance companies may be incorporated. ....... 12- Regulates the inspection and selling of tobacco in Louisville ......... 15 - Railroad engineers to be fined and imprisoned for willfully killing or crippling stock.
General law of incorporation adopted. 17- A merchantable barrel of potatoes fixed at 150 pounds, net ... .. 17-What property, when a person dies intestate, shall be set apart for widows and orphans. ..... ... Unlawful to submit to a vote of the people more than one proposition for tax-
ation at once. 18- The weight per bushel of unscreened stone-coal shall be four pounds more than if screened, and fine of $5 to $20 to sell it otherwise ...... Fine of $25 to $200 for selling milk diluted with water, or adulterated, or "skimmed," with intent to defraud; or from cows fed upon " still or brewers' slops" or "grains." .. 19 - Because over $225,000 have been expended since 185S in enlarging the shops and increasing the machinery in the penitentiary, and because the number of hands towork have been more than doubled, therefore the state reduces the rent or lease- rate from $12,000 per year to $S,000, after the present contract shall expire ......... Un- lawful to bring Texas cattle, at any time, into Bourbon, Boyle, Clark. Fleming, Frank- lin, Garrard, Lincoln, Mason, or Mont- gomery countics ; or into any other counties except during the months of November, December, January, and February-under penalty of fine of $100 to $5,000; during those four months only, they may be driven through or over the public highways of the counties named, en route to other coun- ties .. .Sale, storage, and inspection of coal oil regulated; and sale of naptha or any mixture of it, for illuminating pur- poses, prohibited under heavy penalty ...... All persons passing over turnpike roads to and from church on Sunday, and in attend- ing funerals, exempt from paying tolls ..... Unlawful to sell or give liquors to negroes on Sabbath day; fine of $20 to $60 for each offense .. ...... .. Salaries of superintend- ent of each lunatic asylum fixed at $2,000, of 1st assistant physician $1,250, of 2d and 3d assistant physician $1,000 .. $2 premium out of the state treasury for each wolf-scalp with the ears thereon, $1:25 for each wildcat, and $1:50 for each red fox .. ... Special acts of incorporation will not be passed for any company which can be incorporated under the general incor- poration law .. ... Resolutions in regard to the death of Wmn. A. Dudley, late a state senator ......... Common school law re- vised and reduced into one.
March 7-Jos. M. Alexander unani- mously elected speaker pro tem. of the senate.
March 11-By 57 to 15, the house passed a bill to establish the court of common pleas for Fayette co., but subsequently withdrew the bill from the senate and took no further action.
March 11-Gov. Stevenson vetoes a pri- vate bill for the benefit of the county judges of Webster and Mason counties- exempting them from the operation of the general law of Feb. 11, 1867, which pro- hibits county judges from bringing suits to settle the estates of deceased persons. The veto was sustained in the senate, and the bill rejected, by 17 to 4.
March 16-A bill in the senate to ap- point three commissioners to revise the statute laws of Ky. was defeated: yeas 16 (20 were required ), nays 13.
March 17-The senate, by 27 to 3, passes an act to appropriate $25,000 " to complete
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the public building now in the course of | avowed that Senator McCreery's denial erection on the east side of the Capitol in the city of Frankfort." It was not acted on in the house.
Mareh -John Sherman, of Ohio, in- troduces into the U. S. senate a bill in- corporating the Cincinnati Southern rail- road -almost the same as that recently rejected by the Kentucky legislature. It was not successful in the senate, but passed the house by a large majority.
March 18-Death, at St. Anthony, Min- nesota, aged 67, of Rev. Asa Drury, D.D., an eminent Baptist clergyman, teacher, and professor. For a number of years he was professor of ecclesiastical history and Greek literature in the Baptist Theological Institute at Covington, Ky., and for some 10 years after, principal of the High School and superintendent of the publie schools of Covington. He had been a professor in Cincinnati College, in Denison University at Granville, Ohio, and in Waterville Col- lege, Maine.
March 21-The following resolution passes both houses of the legislature unan- imously, and is approved by the governor :
Resolved, by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky :
That we have heard with deep regret of the death of Judge Lewis Collins, of Mays- ville, Ky., which has occurred since the meeting of this General Assembly. He was a native Kentuckian of great purity of character and enlarged public spirit ; associated for a half century with the press of the state, which he adorned with his pa- triotisin, his elevated morals, and his en- lightened judgment. He was the author of a HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, evidencing extended research, and which embodies in a permanent form the history of each county in the state, and the lives of its distinguished citizens, and is an invaluable contribution to the literature and historical knowledge of the state. His name being thus perpetually identified with that of his native state, this General Assembly, from a sense of duty and regard for his mem- ory, expresses this testimonial of its ap- preciation of his irreproachable character and valued services.
March 21-Gov. Stevenson has vetoed six bills passed by the legislature, and the vetoes have been sustained.
March 28-Death, suddenly, from apo- plexy, at San Francisco, of Maj. Gen. Geo. HI. Thomas, U.S.A., commandant in 1865- 66 of the military department which in- cluded Ky.
March 28 and April 1-Singular and unpleasant triangular controversy between U. S. senator Thos. C. McCreery, Gov. John W. Stevenson, and congressman Thos. L. Jones, in reference to reports, 1. That the first named had " recommended Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge for office," which MeC. promptly and indignantly de- nied ; 2. That Gov. Stevenson " was giving currency to said report," which S. ac- knowledged having done several times un- til be learned its falsity, when he " frankly
should be received as proof that the rumor was untrue ;" 3. That Col. Jones said he had " seen a recommendation of Gen. Bur- bridge to President Johnson for office, with the names of Messrs. McCreery, Beck and Golladay signed to it"-which Col. J., in bitter and violent language, denied saying. Congressman James B. Beck, in a letter, denied that he withdrew the papers in the Burbridge ease from the department at Washington. Gen. Burbridge's brother withdrew the papers, and gave his receipt for them.
March 30-The 15th Amendment to the U. S. constitution officially proclaimed by the president and secretary of state.
April 2-Primary election in Harrison co., and some other counties, to select Dem- ocratic candidates for county officers.
April 14-Continuation of the "Bur- bridge Imbroglio." Long reply of senator Thos. C. McCreery to Gov. Stevenson's short note of April 1, in reference to the reported recommendation by him of Gen. Burbridge for U. S. internal revenue com- missioner. April 30-Gov. Stevenson, in an address " To the People of Kentucky," replies at length to the letter of senator McCreery-giving letters from Stephen F. J. Trabue and Lewis Castleman, and the correspondence between Gov. S. and Col. Thos. L. Jones. Pay 5-Blanton Duncan, in a letter, says that he-at the suggestion of gentlemen who, in return for kindness shown them by Gen. Burbridge, proposed to assist him in securing a vacant position in the army-asked representatives Beck, Jones, Trimble, and Knott, if they would unite in recommending Burbridge to the President for such appointment ; but each unequivocally declined. May 5-Short letter from Col. Thos. L. Jones, promising another. May 12-Senator McCreery, in a long communication to the Louisville Courier-Journal, replies to Gov. Steven- son, and adds the " Dead Duek" letter. May 16-Col. Thomas Laurens Jones ad- dresses "To the People of Kentucky" a very long reply to Gov. Stevenson, de- nouncing him in violent language. June 15-Very short response of Gov. Steven- son to Col. Jones' article ; he closes by saying : "A duel I will not fight. For more than 30 years I have been a professor of the Christian religion. I am now chief magistrate of the state. Nothing can in- duce me to stab Christianity or trample upon the majesty of the publie laws which I am sworn to uphold." July 5-Col. Jones again replies, in a tolerably long and severe article. July 15-Short card from Col. James Q. Chenoweth, who pub- lishes the whole of his letter to Col. Jones- to prevent a misconception of his position, and of his relations to the controversy, arising from Col. Jones' publication of only a part of the same letter. July 19-Col. Thos. L. Jones publishes a short letter in explanation - drawn out by Col. Cheno- weth's.
April 14-In Clark co., the proposition
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to subscribe $250,000 to the Lexington and Big Sandy railroad defeated by 814 ma- jority, in 1,938 votes cast; and, April 23, a proposition to subscribe to the railroad from Paris through Winchester to Rich- mond defeated by 283 majority, out of 1,547 votes.
April 15-Steam tow-boat Raven ex- plodes near Newport ; 3 men killed, and a number wounded.
April 23-The Paris True Kentuckian states that "Gen. Burbridge exerted him- self more than any other Radical at Wash- ing city to have the disabilities of several prominent Kentuckians removed."
April 25-Travelers who left New York city by railroad at 9 P.M., Saturday, reached Paris, Bourbon co., at 11:40 A. M., on Mon- day-3833 hours. Travelers who left New Orleans on Saturday evening reached Lou- isville on Monday morning.
April 25-Gen. Jos. H. Lewis, Democrat, elected to congress in the Bowlinggreen district, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Jacob S. Golladay : his majority 4,558 over J. H. Lowry.
April 25-Wm. H. Herndon, of Spring- field, Illinois, a law partner of Abraham Lincoln before his election as president, asserts in the columns of the Index, a Ra- tionalist paper published at Toledo, Ohio, that Mr. Lincoln once wrote a book-the MS. of which was lost before publica- tion - in which he "attacked the whole grounds of Christianity."
April 26-Dr. W. S. Chipley, late super- intendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum for many years, purchases the beautiful country-seat called " Duncania," 3 miles north-east of Lexington, to found there an "institute for the cure of mental and nervous diseases."
April 28 - While three sons of J. M. Bullock and a Mr. Blank were planting corn in a field, rear Rockcastle river, in Laurel co., they were attacked by 5 men, Wm. Shelton, Pleasant Parker, Daniel Parker, Willis Parker, and Alex. Parker, jr., who killed Peter H. Bullock and se- verely wounded his brother. May 13-A mob of about 70 masked men took the Parkers and Shelton, at 11 p. M. from the jail at London, and hung four to one tree, Alex. Parker escaping. On March 2 pre- viously, J. M. Bullock, the father, had been fired on from the brush, and badly wounded, in an attempt to assassinate him.
April 29-Geo. M. Bedford, of Bourbon co., sells to Wm. Tarleton, of Oldham co., the 2d Duke of Goodness, a two-year-old short-horn bull, weighing 1,900 pounds, for $3,000-the highest price ever paid for a Kentucky-bred bull of any age, and the heaviest of his age in the state.
May 2-Death, at Lexington, aged 60, of D. Carmichael Wickliffe, from 1838 to 1865 editor and proprietor of the Lexing- ton Observer and Reporter. In 1862-63, during the administration of Gov. Jas. F. Robinson, he was secretary of state. This did not save him from the persecutions which swept over the state, and involved
many of the best men, during the last year of the war; he was one of the original Union men who had to flee the state to avoid arrest and imprisonment, and closed his editorial career as a Democrat.
May 7-Primary election in Bourbon, Scott, and other counties, for the selection of Democratic candidates for county offi- cers.
May 20-At the Lexington races, Bu- ford's Enquirer won the two-mile race in 3:3534-the first mile having been made by Lyttleton in 1:431%, the best time made by the celebrated Herzog.
May 20-Hot weather ; thermometer 90º to 103º in northern Ky.
May and Shy, brothers, hung by a mob, for killing W. R. Proctor and , at Glasgow Junction, Barren co.
June 8-Destructive hailstorm in Bour- bon co., 3 miles south of Paris.
June 10-Celebration by about 6,000 negroes, at Paris, of the adoption of the 15th Amendment; speeches by John A. Prall, R. S. Henderson, and Gen. John T. Croxton, whites, and Rev. Mr. Straus, colored.
June 18-Anniversary of the declaration of war against Great Britain, in 1812. 5th annual meeting at Paris, of soldiers of that war; 39 prosent. June 22 - Adjourned meeting at Paris ; 85 present. Many of these formed an excursion to Perrysburg and Maumee City, Ohio, and, June 24, re- visit Fort Meigs and other battle-grounds.
June 18 to 22-Steamer Natchez, Capt. Thos. P. Leathers, (a native of Kenton co., Ky.) makes the quickest run ever made from New Orleans to Cairo and St. Louis. Her time was as follows [Compare it with the time of the J. M. White in 1844, and A. L. Shotwell and Eclipse each in 1853, on page 67 ante] :
Days. H. Min.
To Baton Rouge 8
52
" Bayou Sara.
11 02
Natchez, 277 miles 17
51
" Vicksburg, 401 miles. ...
26
...
" Napoleon 1 18
15
" Helena. 2 2
35
" Memphis, 818 miles. 2
9
40
" Hickman 3
1 43
" Cairo, 1,077 miles. 3
4 34
" St. Louis, 1,278 miles 3 21 58
June 25-Death, at Cynthiana, aged 48, of Isaac T. Martin, state senator from Har- rison, Bourbon, and Robertson counties. At the August election, 1865, at Cynthiana, the polls by order of Gen. Palmer were guarded by negro soldiers, whose captain told Martin he would arrest him if he voted. Martin defied him and voted ; his spirit animated the Democrats, who voted and carried the county. Martin was marched off under a negro guard, and sent to Barracks No. 1, Louisville-where he bore with firmness and courage the hard- ships of prison life, refusing to pay the bribe asked for his release.
June -Population of the state, by U. S. census, 1,321,011 ; whites 1,098,692, blacks
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222,210 ; of the whites, 63,398 were foreign born; increase of total population in 10 years, 1413 per cent .; decrease of black population, nearly 6 per cent.
June 30 to July 4-Great steamboat race from New Orleans to St. Louis, between the Robert E. Lee, Capt. John W. Cannon, and the Natchez, Capt. Thos. P. Leathers. Time as follows :
From N. Orleans to D. H. M.
D. H. M.
Donaldsonville, 78 m. 4 50 7 512 7 12
Plaquemine ..
Baton Rouge, 130 m.
8 25 8 31
Bayou Sara, 165 m ...
10 26 10 38
Red River
12 56 13 ...
Natchez, 277 m.
17 11 17 4
Rodney 20 4512
Grand Gulf, 340 m
22 4
Vicksburg, 401 m
1 ... 36 1 56
Lake Providence
1 5 47
Napoleon
1 16 2012
White River.
1 16 58
Helena, 728 m
1 23 26 2 ...
34
Memphis, 818 m
2 6
9 2 7
6
New Madrid.
2 19 50
Hickman 2 22 25
Columbus
2 23 21
Cairo, 1,077 m. 3 1 ... 3 2 8
St. Louis, 1,278 m .... 3 18 14 4 ... 51
The fast runs from New Orleans to Cairo have been as follows :
D. H. M.
1844-J. M. White. 3 6 44
May 19, 1853-Eclipse 3 4 4
May 17, 1853-A .. L. Shotwell. 3 3 57
May, 1852-Reindeer 3 12 45
8 2S 1868-Dexter 3
1868-Robert E. Lee. 3 8 10
June, 1870-Natchez 3
4 34
July, " -Robert E. Lee 3 1
...
« -Natchez. 3 2 8
The following have been the quickest . trips from New Orleans to Natchez, 277 miles, and to Vicksburg, 401 miles :
To Natchez. To Vicksburg.
H. M. D. H. M.
1844-J. M. White. 20 40 1 5 55
1853-Eclipse 19 46
1 4 10
A. L. Shotwell ... 19 48 1 4 11
1855-Princess .. 17 30
1870, June-Natchez ... 17 51 1 2
...
" July-Natchez ... 17 04 1
.. 56
" Rob't, E. Lee 17 11 1 ...
36
1844-Sultana 19 45
Atlantic. 18 42
1860-Gen. Quitman. 18 53 1 4 32 The quickest trips from Memphis to Cairo, 259 miles :
Hours. Min.
1865-Steamer Mollie Able. 19 25 1866- City of Alton. 17 50 1868 Robert E. Lee .. 16 31
The time from New Orleans to. Louis- ville, 1,444 miles, improved steadily from 1817 to 1853, but not since :
YEAR.
D. H. M.
1817-Enterprise 25 40 Washington 25 ... ...
1819-Shelby 20
4 20
1828-Paragon. 18 10 ...
1834-Tecumseh 8 4 ...
YEAR.
D. H. M.
1837-Tuscarora
7 16
...
Sultana 15 6 ...
Express. 6
17 ...
1840-Gen. Brown 6
1842-Ed. Shippen. ...
1843-Belle of the West .. 5 14
..
1844-Duke of Orleans .... 5 23 ...
1849-Sultana 5 12 ...
5
S
...
...
1853-Reindeer 4
19 45
-Eclipse 4 9 40
" -A. L. Shotwell. 4
9 29
« -Eclipse 4 9 30
1868-Dexter 4
22 40
July 4-Drawing of the Henderson land scheme. Capital prize of 525 acres of land, valued at $150,000, and $10,000 in cash, drawn by R. J. Mclaughlin, Bra- shear City, La.
July 14-U. S. senate passes a bill grant- ing Mrs. Abraham Lincoln a pension of $3,000 a year. 13th-Senate passed a bill appropriating to Ky. University $50,000 to reimburse the loss of the old Transylvania medical hall at Lexington, and other dam- ages by Federal soldiers.
July 18-S. W. Birch, of Scott co., sells to Eastern parties his Abdallah mare for $10,000.
July 24-Lady Franklin, widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer, visits Covington. Her visit specially was to Capt. C. F. Hall, of Cincinnati, the most recent Arctic explorer, and who has been more successful than any other in develop- ing the fate of her husband.
July 27-Chas. E. Calvert, of Louisville, and Miss Lena Orenduff, of Breckinridge co., were married, to-day, in the Mammoth Cave, in Edmonson co. The place of cere- mony was the " gothic chapel," or "bridal chamber." The bridal party, 4 couples, proceeded on the " long route," and walked 18 miles underground, before returning to the hotel.
July 28-The chestnut mare Purity, for- merly Lucy, sold in Boston for $25,000; she was bred by L. A. Loder, of Peters- burg, Boone co., Ky., and trained by R. S. Strader, of Bullittsville, Boone co .; her first trial of speed was 3:17, her last 2:25 against a high wind.
July 30-Col. Thos. Dickens assassin- ated near Memphis, Tenn .- a continuation of a bloody feud between the families and members of the former wealthy cotton and slave-trading firm of Bolton, Dickens & Co., which originated in the enormous expenses (said to be over $100,000) of the " MeMillin trial ;" or the trial of Isaac L. Bolton for killing James McMillin, of Maysville, Ky., at the slave-pen in Memphis, in May, 1857. His trial took place after he had laid in prison for a year, at Covington, Tipton co., Tenn .; he was acquitted by a jury every one of whom, it is claimed and believed, was bribed. Col. Dickens's was the 6th death by murder or violence since McMillin's; he was the only survivor of the original parties or partners.
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Aug. 1-Election for county judges and other officers. In the 1st district, Wm. Lindsay elected judge of the court of ap- peals.
Aug. 1-The assessor's books show the following large landholders in Bourbon co., where the selling price of land is $100 to $150 per acre : Samuel Clay 3,928 (besides several hundred in Clark co., and 1,200 in Nicholas co.,) Henry T. Duncan (of Lex- ington) 2,250, Wm. Buckner 1,417, Brutus J. Clay 1,276, Henry C. Buckner 1,215, J.W. Ferguson 1,176, Jere. Duncan 1,100, Isaac B. Sandusky 1,080.
Aug. 2-Death, at St. Louis, aged 67, of Jas. Harrison, of the firm of Harrison, Chouteau & Valle, owners of the great Iron Mountain. Mr. H. was a native of Bour- bon co., Ky., and resided there until grown.
Aug. 5-Death, at Cincinnati, of apo- plexy, of Nicholas Headington, a native of Lexington, Ky., and resident there for many years. At Cincinnati, he had been judge of the common pleas court, and was recently tendered the U. S. district judge- ship there. He was buried at Lexington.
Aug. 9-Kentucky State Teachers' As- sociation in annual session at Russellville.
Aug. 14-Death, at Lexington, of Wm. C. Goodloe; born in Madison co., Oct. 7, 1805 ; graduated at Transylvania Univer- sity in 1824; studied law ; was appointed commonwealth's attorney by Gov. Met- calfe, between 1828 and 1832; was ap- pointed circuit judge by Gov. Owsley, in 1846 ; under the new constitution, was elec- ted circuit judge in 1850, and re-elected in 1856 and in 1862; when his term expired in 1868 he had held that office for 22 years consecutively ; from 1868 to 1872, he prac- ticed law and was one of the law professors in Ky. University. Several of his acts on the bench-the expulsion from the bar of Madison co. of Squire Turner (who was reinstated by the court of appeals)," the indignant dismissal of some indictments against his own brother and other political and personal friends without trial, for which he narrowly escaped impeachment by the legislature t-and, when off the bench, his advisory conduct during the Burbridge reign of terror in 1864-65, # will be insep- arably linked with his memory, and cast a shadow on the name which his marked abilities and great firmness and energy otherwise made for him. He was, during the civil war, not only decided and uncom- promising, as a Union man, but regarded as violent.
Aug. 15-Proclamation of Gov. Steven- son, deprecating and discountenancing all forms of lawlessness, and appealing to the officers of the law to rigidly execute the law, and to the people to uphold them in it ; also, offering $250 reward for the arrest and conviction of each of the parties guilty of burning certain stacks of hay and grain, and farm buildings, in Woodford and
Franklin counties ; and $500 for the ar- rest and conviction of each of the per- sons guilty, on the night of Aug. 10th, of killing two negroes, Wm. Turpin and Thos. Harper, near Versailles. " Mob violence is no remedy for either public or private wrong."
Aug. 25-A negro, Frank Timberlake, in Fleming co., hung for a rape on a young lady.
Sept. 3-J. Birney Marshall, a well known journalist, in Kentucky and other states, brother of Gen. Humphrey Mar- shall, instantly killed at Memphis, by fall- ing from a window, at night. It was sup- posed that while sitting in the window, to cool off after undressing, preparatory to retiring, he was overcome with sleep.
Sept. - Death, at Lexington, aged 77, of David A. Sayre, a successful merchant and banker, and a philanthropist. He ex- pended $100,000 upon the Sayre Institute, and gave to other benevolent objects, dur- ing his lifetime, probably more than $200,- 000 more. He was a native of New Jersey, but settled at Lexington when a young man.
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