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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-019-0127 MG5-216

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Anson Stager (Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent) N00007342 1825 1885-03-26 Categories: People

Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent. Ontario County, New York, native. Married to Rebecca Sprague Stager on November 14, 1847. Father of Emma L. Stager, Anna Stager, Charles Stager, and Ellen S. Stager. Printer in Rochester, New York, in 1841 under telegraph pioneer Henry O'Reilly. Telegraph operator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1846. Telegraph clerk in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850. Telegraph superintendent for the New York and Mississippi Valley Company in Cincinnati in 1852. Telegraph Superintendent of Western Union Telegraph Company in Cleveland in 1860. Organized the U.S. military telegraph lines under General George B. McClellan. Commissioned a captain and assistant quartermaster from November 1861. Appointed chief of the United States Military Telegraph by the Secretary of War. Promoted to colonel and aide-de-camp during the war. Breveted brigadier general and mustered out in September 1865.

Relationships Economic: Western Union Telegraph Company Economic: Norvin Green (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer and Louisville, Kentucky, telegraph executive.) Economic: Isaac Russell Elwood (Rochester, New York, attorney and telegraph treasurer and secretary) Familial: Western Union Telegraph Company

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, 10th Ward, p. 121B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, 2nd Ward, p. 301. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 3rd Ward, p. 331. "Gen. Anson Stager Dying: The Busy Career of the Prominent Western Electrician," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), March 23, 1885, p. 1. "Gen. Stager's Funeral," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), March 29, 1885, p. 9. A. T. Andreas, History of Chicago: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, vol.2 (Chicago: The A. T. Andreas Company, 1885), 126. Find A Grave, "Anson Stager (1825-1885)," Memorial #68017391, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68017391/anson-stager (accessed March 6, 2018). Isaac Russell Elwood (Rochester, New York, attorney and telegraph treasurer and secretary) N00007357 1804? 1863-02-27 Categories: People

Rochester, Monroe County, New York, attorney and telegraph officer. Otsego County, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth H. Gold Elwood on June 14, 1849. Father of Frank W. Elwood, Agnes R. Elwood, and Elizabeth H. Elwood. Resident of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in 1850. Attorney in Rochester in 1860. Secretary of the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. Treasurer and Secretary of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1861.

Relationships Economic: Anson Stager (Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent) Economic: Western Union Telegraph Company

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 5th Ward, p. 188A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 5th Ward, p. 11. "The Death of Isaac R. Elwood, Esq.," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), March 2, 1863, p. 2. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 53, John Reynolds Totten, ed. (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922), 7-8. "Isaac Russell Elwood (1800-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6761628, accessed April 11, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6761628. John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) N00000823 1787-09-10 1863-07-26 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah O. Lee Crittenden. Father of George Bib Crittenden, Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman, Cornelia A. Crittenden Young, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Sarah Lee Crittenden Watson, and Robert Henry Crittenden. Married to Maria Knox Innes Crittenden. Father of John J. Crittenden III and Eugene Wilkinson Crittenden. Married to Elizabeth Moss Crittenden. Attended Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky. Attended Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. Graduated from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1806. Admitted to the bar in 1807. Practiced law in Woodford County, Kentucky; Russellville, Kentucky; and Frankfort, Kentucky. Attorney for the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1810. Served as a major to General Samuel Hopkins and as an aide-de-camp to Governor Isaac Shelby during the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1811 to 1817, 1825, and from 1829 to 1832. Member of the United States Senate from 1817 to 1819, 1835 to 1848, and 1855 to 1861. United States district attorney from 1827 to 1829. Attorney general of the United States from March to September 1841 and from 1850 to 1853. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Employed Thomas Lee as a laborer in Franklin County in 1850. Owned forty-two enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Unionist member of the United States House of Representative from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. Died in Frankfort, Kentucky on July 26, 1863.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 36B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No 1., p. 862-3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort Dist. No 1, p. 83. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No 1, p. 490A. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 118-119. “Crittenden, John J,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 240 “Crittenden, John Jordan,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 19, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000912. "John Jordan Crittenden, Jr, (1787-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial #23284, accessed December 19, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23284. Robert Anderson (Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Army soldier.) N00008358 1805-06-14 1871-10-27 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Army soldier. Jefferson County, Kentucky native. Son of Richard Clough Anderson and Sarah Marshall Anderson. Married to Eliza Bayard Clinch Anderson in 1845. Father of Robert Anderson, Eba Anderson, Maria Anderson, and Sophie Anderson. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1825. Entered service as a second lieutenant of artillery. Veteran of the Black Hawk War in 1832. Veteran of the Second Seminole War. Veteran of the Mexican-American War in 1847. Breveted major in the U.S. Army in September 1847. Commander of the island forts, including Fort Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina, from December 1860 to April 1861. Surrendered Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861. Commissioned a brigadier general in the U.S. Army. Commander of the Department of Kentucky from May 1861 to October 1861. Retired from the U.S. Army in October 1863. Breveted major general in February 1865.

Relationships Familial: Larz Anderson (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio attorney) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: John Mason Brown (Frankfort, Ky, attorney & major 10th KY Cav USA, asst inspector genl, colonel of 45th Mtd Inf USA) Military: Larz Anderson (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio attorney) Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Military: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor)

"Obituary: Major-Gen. Robert Anderson," New York Times (New York, N.Y.), October 28, 1871. George H. Yater, "Robert Anderson" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 21. Find A Grave, "Robert Anderson (1805-1871)," Memorial #2299, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2299/robert-anderson (accessed [January 12, 2018). Larz Anderson (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio attorney) N00007000 1803 1878 Categories: People

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio attorney. Married to Catherine Longworth Anderson. Father of Nicholas Longworth Anderson, William Pope Anderson, Edward Lowell Anderson, Frederick Pope Anderson, Larz Anderson, Joseph L. Anderson, Charles Anderson. Graduate of Harvard University in 1822. Resident of Cincinnati in 1850. Attorney in Cincinnati in 1860.

Relationships Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Military: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor)

Richard F. Miller, ed., States at War: A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War, Vol. 5 (Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2015), 350. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 1, p. 37A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, 1st Ward Cincinnati, p. 52. Cleveland, Ohio P00007358 Categories: Places

Seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Located on Lake Erie. Located at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.

41.4993, -81.6944 "Cleveland" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Cleveland-Ohio) (accessed March 6, 2018). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Cleveland, Ohio," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 17, 2020). Rochester, New York P00007359 Categories: Places

City in Monroe County, New York. Located at the mouth of the Genesee River. Located on Lake Ontario.

43.161, -77.6109 "Kenton County" in The Encyclopedia of New York State, Peter R. Eisenstadt, ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 1316-18. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Rochester, New York," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 17, 2020). 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. Cincinnati, Ohio P00001208 Categories: Places

Seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1031, -84.512 "Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17. Cresson, Pennsylvania P00007135 Categories: Places

Located in Cambria County.

40.45979, -78.59168 "Cresson, Pennslvania," City-Data, http://www.city-data.com/city/Cresson-Pennsylvania.html. Western Union Telegraph Company O00007356 1856 Categories: Organizations

Founded in 1856, following the consolidation of various regional telegraph companies operated by the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Company and the acquisition of Samuel Morse's telegraph patent. Created the first transcontinental telegraph service in the nation. Founder: Ezra Cornell.

Relationships Economic: Anson Stager (Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent) Economic: Isaac Russell Elwood (Rochester, New York, attorney and telegraph treasurer and secretary) Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: South-western Telegraph Company Economic: Benjamin James Adams (Louisville merchant) Economic: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Economic: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Economic: George Brinton McClellan (New York army general (U.S.A.)) Economic: John Milton Johnson, Sr. (Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and surgeon (CSA)) Economic: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Economic: Larz Anderson (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio attorney) Economic: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge)

Robert MacDougall, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 1861-08-23 Telegram English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

No. 1.] TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY FOR TRANSMISSION.

The public are notified that, in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received, to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message; and while this Company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding five hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination. All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

A. STAGER, Gen. Sup't, Cleveland, Ohio. I. R. ELWOOD, Sec'y, Rochester, N. Y.

Frankfort 23rd Aug, 18601. To Hon. J J Crittenden et alBy Telegraph, from Cincinnati 23 18601.

Genl Anderson is not here. I do not know where he is -- Perhaps Still at Cresson

Larz Anderson

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