Petition

W. J. Bynus et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862
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MG4-562
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-017-0531
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32207800

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W. J. Bynus et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-017-0531 (November 13, 2026).

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To his excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky —

The undersigned citizens of Russellville District Logan County Kentucky respectfully recommend that you appoint Drury W. Poor Esqr. as a Justice of the peace for this district to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Alexr. Hull

W J Bynus
E. S.. Stevenson
P N Bradley
R C Bowling
H A Limbaugh
E Stevenson
J R Payne
Henry F. Cornelius
G. W. Norton
B. Alderson
Wm G Wilson
John P. Green

T. A. Frazer
M. McCarty
R T Higgins
J, H, Fuqua
J H Bowden
M R Morton
J. M Perry
James McCallents
N, Long
J. W. Ryan
Henry Walker
Peter E Walker
W T Courts
P. S. Roberts
F. H. Inman
Jas. J. Price
D A Kemp

If it suits the Govenor to make the appointment in accordance with the above petition he will please direct the commission to J. C. Wilkins at Bowlinggreen Ky, as there is no mail running to this point —

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Issue Commission.
BM

Logan co.
J P.
Rich T. Higgins
appointed