Campbell County Items from Collins' History of Kentucky

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October, 1779	“Col. David Rogers with Capt. Robt. T. Benham, and 70 men are sent from Pittsburgh to New Orleans for clothing and military supplies for the western posts. They reach, with two laden keel-boats, the sand bar on the Kentucky shore, about 5 ½ miles above the mouth of the Licking, when they are attacked by about 200 Indians, who slaughter them all but about 20, who escape to Harrodsburg.”
November, 1782	“Gen. Geo. Rogers Clark, with 1500 men - one division under Col. John Floyd, which rendezvoused at the Falls, and another under Col. Benj. Logan, at Bryan's station uniting at the mouth of the Licking - marches rapidly up the Miami river ,130 miles, destroys, Nov. 10th, the principal Shawnee town, Loramie's store, and other towns - the property and provision burned being very valuable, and surpassing all idea of Indian stores. No large body of Indians thenceforth invade Kentucky.”
January 26, 1818	“Forty-six independent banks chartered, and with capital as follows: . . .$200,000 at . . . Newport.”
Feb. 10, 1820	“Independent bank charters repealed.”
January 27, 1830	“Company chartered to erect a bridge across the Licking river, between Newport and Covington.”
November 20, 1834	“A shock of earthquake in northern Kentucky at 1:40 p. m., lasting 30 or 40 seconds; houses shaken, plaster cracked, two sounds like distant thunder.”
October, 1844	“A manufacturer of silk established at Newport, by Wm. B. Jackson and Brother; handkerchiefs and other goods of smooth and excellent texture; cocoons raised, and silk spun and woven in Kentucky.”
March 10, 1847	“Four companies of the 16th regiment of infantry (regulars) raised in Ky., to be under Col. John W. Tibbatts, of Newport, Ky.” [for the Mexican-American War - Wikipedia]
September 27, 1852	“Stampede of slaves across the Ohio river, 32 from Mason and Bracken, 9 from Campbell, and 14 from Boone counties.”
May, 1853	“The will of the late Gen. James Taylor, [Wikipedia] of Newport, Ky., recorded in 26 counties in Ohio, because he owned real estate in all of them. The will covers 12 1/2 pages royal 8vo., closely written, and relates to property valued at $4,000,000.”
January 21, 1854	“At the New York Crystal Palace [(Wikipedia)] exhibition of the industry of all nations, the highest premiums were awarded for the following articles from Ky.: 1. silver medal to the Newport silk manufacturing company, for perfection and general excellence of silk from cocoon of Ky., growth; [other winners from downstate].
January 30, 1854	“Great excitement and indignation at Newport because of Judge Alvin Duvall's decision, denying the right claimed by the Newport and Cincinnati packet company to run their steamboat, Commodore, as a ferry boat between those cities, under a U. S. coasting license, and in violation of the ferry right of James Taylor and others; an injunction granted to restrain same.”
April 26, 1861	“President Lincoln, in a conversation in Washington city with Hon. Garret Davis, of Paris, Ky., states distinctly that he would make no military movement upon any state or section that did not offer armed resistance to the authorities of the United States, or the execution of the laws of Congress; that he contemplated no military operations that would require him to march troops into or across Kentucky, and therefore he should not attempt it; that if Kentucky, or her people, should seize upon the U. S. post at Newport, it would be his duty, and he might attempt, to retake it.”
July 23, 1862	“Several 'secesh' houses in Newport searched, and the following rebel music found and seized: John Morgan's Schottische, Jeff. Davis March, Beauregard's March, Bonnie Blue Flag, Southern Marseillaise," and Maryland My Maryland.”
August 14, 1864	[Kentucky Governor Magoffin receives a letter from 15 Grant Co. in] Camp Chase, Ohio, August 6, 1962, Prison #2,“from 93 citizens who had been arrested between May 23 and August 4, setting forth “that while in peaceful pursuit of their legitimate business at home, without warrant or law, they had been arrested by force that overpowered them, placed in confinement; that they were denied a trial by any tribunal known to the laws of our common country, but were compelled to remain there in prison, away from their homes, wives, children, relations, and friends, who were not permitted to see them.” They prayed the legislature “to take speedy action in their behalf, and that they might have a trial before their peers in their own state.” [The signers from Campbell County were:] Robert Maddox, Hubbard D. Helm, Peter G. Arthur, G. S. Skilbeck, Rev. Thos. J. Fisher, John F. Jackson, A. D. Daniel, Jesse Yelton, S. B. Arnold, Jas. S. Digby, L. W. Woods, Jas. McKibbon, A. D. Furnish, Geo. F. Trusdell, Andrew C. Spahr, Jos. Spahr, Jas. W. Shanks, Wm. Wiscer, Lewis Stearns, Geo. D. Allen, Sol. McDade, Francis M. Royce, Pat. Walsh, John Lightfoot, Geo. W. Lightfoot, John Kiser, and A. J. Galbraith.”
June 22, 1863	“John T. Dial and E. M. Grindle, of Campbell co., tried by court martial at Cincinnati, on a charge of aiding and abetting the enemy, and sentenced to be shot.”
June 22, 1863	James R. Hallam, of Newport, brings suit in Covington against Edmund W. Hawkins, Nathaniel B. Shaler, Wm. H. Lape, Wm. M. Thompson, Wm. H. Smith, Frank Clark, and Henry C. Gassaway, for false imprisonment in Camp Chase [Wikipedia], Ohio, for four months - charging them with conspiracy in causing his arrest and confinement and claiming $30,000 damages. Hubbard D. Helm, Robert Maddox, Peter McArthur, Patrick Walsh, and10 others bring separate suits, in the Campbell circuit court, at Newport, against various parties, for the same general cause - each claiming $30,000 damages. A few days after, H. B. Wellman, the attorney who brought most of the foregoing suits, was arrested by order of Gen. Burnside, and lodged in military prison, on Columbia st., Cincinnati. Notwithstanding this, ex-judge Samuel M. Moore brought four suits against the defendants first named, in favor of Thos. L. Jones, Wilson Kiser, John Kiser, and Jesse Yelton.”
November 5, 1864
March 6, 1865	“Mason, Boone, Nicholas, Campbell, Greenup, Gallatin, Bracken, Grant, Kenton, Butler, Carroll, Livingston, Lyon, Caldwell, Fleming, Oldham and Jefferson counties, and the city of Louisville, each authorized by special legislation to raise a bounty fund to aid enlistments and provide substitutes.”
April 20, 1865	“Among the Confederate soldiers returning home, and duly registering their names according to the order of [Union] Gen. Palmer guaranteeing their protection, is Capt. Mat. Carey, of Newport, Campbell co. Some violent ‘stay-at-home-patriots’ peremptorily [sic] order him to leave the city, which he did. Provost marshal W. H. Bennett ‘calls upon all good citizens to aid him in preserving the public peace, and in protecting from injury all those who have Gen. Palmer's pledge for their protection and security; they shall be protected by all means available at his disposal.’ Others, in other places, are treated like Capt. Carey.”
September 20, 1866	“An immense crowd, estimated at over 10,000 people, present at the hanging, at Newport, Campbell co., of Allen P. Eggleston alias Walter B. Watson, for the murder of Capt. Almon P. Mentor, leader of the celebrated ‘Menter's Band’ of musicians.”
March 1, 1877	“In Campbell co., a ‘lawful fence,’ if of rails brick, stone, plank or picketing, must be strong and sound, and 4 feet high; or it may be a ditch 3 feet deep and 3 feet broad, with a hedge 2 feet high, or if said other material then 2 1/2 feet high on the margin of the ditch - the hedge or fence so close that cattle or other stock cannot creep through.” - from Ky. Legislature authorizations

from The History of Kentucky, by the Late Lewis Collins, Judge of the Mason County Court, Revised, Enlarged Four-Fold, and Brought Down to the Year 1874 by His Son, Richard H. Collins, A.M., LL.B.