C. H. Moaar to Beriah Magoffin
1861-07-17
- Date of Creation
- July 17, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
- Box / Folder
- MG18-132 to MG18-133
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0407
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208815
Citation
C. H. Moaar to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-07-17, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 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-0001-020-0407 (February 6, 2026).
Covington
To His Excellency B, Magoffin
Governor of Ky,
Dear Sir,
At the request of Mrs, Clark hismother I write you this, to state that I have known her as a resident of this City and Cinti for several years,
She has as I understand been a hard working woman and labored to support her fatherless children and raise them from mere infants.
One of her Sons, D, W, Clark is I understand now confined in the Penitentiary of Ky, for some offence agst. her Laws committed by him,
I have good reason to beleive that the young man wanting the more potent restraints of a father fell into bad company and finally if he committed the offence, it was done
under the influence of his unfortunate association with those, who, mature in crime, led him, a mere boy, from the path of honesty and virtue, to the commission of the crime charged.
I may suggest that if Executive Clemency should be exercised towards him there would be more hope of a reform than at the expiration of his term in the Penitentiary,
Yours truly
C, H, Mooar