Joseph A. Piner to Beriah Magoffin
1861-03-15
- Date of Creation
- March 15, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Newport, Campbell 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
- MG19-192
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0765
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209173
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- Dates
- 1861-03-15
Citation
Joseph A. Piner to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-15, 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-0001-020-0765 (November 13, 2026).
BANKING HOUSE OF JOSEPH A. PINER,
Newport, Ky.,
Gov Magoffin Esq., Cash.,
Dear Sir:
I have been intimately acquainted with Joseph Temple for near twenty years has done a great deal of business with me I have always found him Honest and Honorable he is a vry old man now in his dotake his mind is very much impaired from what it was when I first knew ^him^ he has a Large and respectable Family it is the general desire of all who know him that he should be pardoned
J A Piner