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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0064 MG3-421 to MG3-422

Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado A. H. Mayer (Denver, Kansas, lumberman and commissioner) N00002429 1828? Categories: People

Denver, Kansas, lumberman and commissioner. Virginia native. Lumberman in Denver in 1860. Appointed commissioner for Kentucky in Denver, Kansas, on February 6, 1861.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Kansas Territory

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kansas, Arapahoe County, Denver, p. 378. Denver, Colorado Territory P00009425 Categories: Places

Seat of Arapahoe County. Provisional capital of the Jefferson Territory from October 24, 1869, to February 28, 1861. Located at the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek.

39.7392, -104.9903 John L. Dietz, Gregory Lewis Mcnamee, M. John Loeffler, "Colorado" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Colorado-state). Michael D. Troyer, "Colorado Territory", Colorado Encyclopedia, accessed May 4, 2021, https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/colorado-territory. Thomas J. Noel, "Denver," Colorado Encyclopedia, https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/denver Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Kansas P00005654 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Territory from 1854 to January 29, 1861. Capital at Lecompton (1855-January 29, 1861) and Topeka (January 29, 1861-present). Located on the Missouri River and the Arkansas River.

39.0483, -95.678 Gregory Lewis McNamee and Charles G. Pearson, "Kansas," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Kansas. "Topeka, Kansas," Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict,1855-1865, The Kansas City Public Library, accessed October 4, 2021, https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/map/topeka-kansas. "Topeka, Kansas," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Kansas Territory O00009424 1854-05-30 1861-01-29 Categories: Organizations

Territory of the United States. Established by the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854. The eastern region of the territory became the state of Kansas on January 29, 1861. The western region formed the Colorado Territory and later, the state of Colorado.

"Kansas Territory," Kansapedia, Kansas Historical Society, https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-territory/14701 (accessed October 1, 2018). Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado 1861-01-15 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Denver K T January 15th 1861 To his Excellency Govr Macgoffin Frankfort. Ky-- Dear Sir

I am desirous of being appointed a Commissioner for Your state for this City Territory --

Should it be necessary to furnish security Recommendations I shall be pleased to do so --

Awaiting Yr Answer I am Respectfully Your Obt Servt A. H. Mayer

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Kansas

Comr of Deeds A H Mayer IssdFeby 6. 1861

Issue commission B. M