Lucian B. Wright, Affidavit
1864-05-21
- Date of Creation
- May 21, 1864
- Place of Creation
- Cook County, Illinois
- Document Genre
- Legal/Financial
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
- Box / Folder
- BR10-290
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-0837
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32203724
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Citation
Lucian B. Wright, Affidavit, 1864-05-21, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0837 (November 14, 2026).
State of Illinois
Cook County SS:
Lucian B. Wrigt of said county being duly sworn saith that he is a Painter by trade & that he has been acquainted for some ten years past with Silas L. Greenman at the City of Chicago in said county and that the said Greenman was in the employ of said G Deponent for two years & upwards.
And Deponent further saith that during all the time that he has Known said Greenman he has sustained a most excellent character. that he has always been sober industrious & honest, always attentive to business and without exception exemplary in his deportment & habits,. and this Deponent further saith Sworn before me this 21st that the said Silas L. Greenman has wholly maintained his mother who is entirely dependant upon him for her support & that while he was in the employ of the Deponent, his wages were by this Deponent paid over to his (said Greenmans) mother) who is a woman in very feeble health & unable to support herself, or engage in any laborious occupation —
L. B. Wright
Sworn before me this
O. R. W. Lull
Notary
Public
{Revenue Stamp}
1864
O R W L
N P
{Seal}