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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0763 MG19-188 to MG19-189

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To His Excellency, Gov. Magoffin:

The undersigned, citizens of Covington and Kenton County, would respectfully represent to your Excellency that in their opinion the case of Joseph Temple, lately convicted in the Kenton Circuit Court for false swearing and sentenced to two years confinement in the Penitentiary, is a proper one for the exercise of executive clemency. Mr. Temple is now more than sixty years old and has lived in this and the adjoining county of Campbell for a great number of years, and has heretofore borne an irreproachable character for honesty and integrity in every community where he has resided -- He has a large, interesting and highly respectable family upon whom this unexpected and terrible blow has fallen with peculiar and crushing force. Mr. Temple has been quite extensively engaged in business and during his long residence among the people of the two counties, has had many transactions with them, in all of which he has sustained his reputation as an honest and upright man.

We respectfully and earnestly request your Excellency to pardon Mr Temple, and as in duty bound we will ever pray &c &c

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G R Buckley R A Athey V T Chambers J P L Woodward G B Dudley A. H. Jameson J R Dodge J. W. Johnson J H Blair Sr E B Lewis Hiram Bond W M Hedilson John M. Ferguson Henry Tanner Obed Meek Q A. Keith } Grand Jurors present time A. H. Herod Jailor C W Hull S. S Newman J. H. Perkins John W. Farrell H Stacey J. W Campbell T. L. Avard C. A. Whitcomb J W Buckerdyke E S. Moore G W Marshall James Robinson J P K C Wash Clevelan Elisha Simmons F. W. Wise Jas. Pryor Jno. M. Casey W. S. Ellis G. W. Williams A. Madeira A H Phelps J M Ranson S H Camben R Simmons O. A. Patton R Patton James B Gray Jno E Hamilton H. Myers } Members of Kenton Bar G. A. Flanagan S. F Roberts S. K. C Wm W Wood D S W. H. D S C A. Withers G. C. Taroin H T Buckner

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Kenton Cir. Ct Issue pardon B. Magoffin IsdMch 16. 1861 Jos. Temple False Swearing 2 yrs. Penty