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Bank of Kentucky, 1848, I/U Stock Certificate

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Bank of Kentucky, 1848, I/U Stock Certificate
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Louisville, Kentucky, 1848. 13 Shares Capital Stock I/U Certificate, Black with simple black border, Multiple vignettes at top and bottom of certificate, VF-XF condition. Signed by Virgil McKnight as President. McKnight was president of the bank of 35 years. McKnight received some notoriety in 1828 for his efforts to recover a runaway mulatto slave that belonged to him name Ruthe. She apparently made her way on a ferry across the Ohio River and then boarded as a passenger at Jeffersonville, Indiana, on the Wheeling-based steamer, Versailles. McKnight hired an attorney to force the Versailles back from Wheeling for impoundment and after many months of haggling in court, the owners of the Versailles paid McKnight $400 ‹ the value of Ruthe.