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JIM/The bridge and the cupola: a followup Advocate of the cupola won election to Kentucky House, sayeth ultimate authority, Mike Watson, within "History of Adair County, Volume I." By Jim In response to an email inquiring about the outcome of the bridge-and-cupola election, I did a bit of research and it appears Mr. Dohoney's honey-tongued promises of a cupola carried the day. I've been unable to pinpoint the year in which this election took place, but Mike Watson's "History of Adair County," Vol 1, indicates Mr. Dohoney (who easily could have paid both for bridge and cupola out of his petty cash fund) served in the Kentucky House on three separate occasions in the 1830s and 1840s, while Mr. Stewart's name appeared nowhere among the elected of the land. Apparently, the folks of Columbia and Adair County preferred a cupola at which to gaze instead of a bridge to cross to get there to do the gazing. (Reminds me of the old story about the guy spending his last two bucks to buy a billfold. Shades of Della, Jim, and the Magi!) (Mr. John Stewart was the father of quick-witted, acerbic-tongued Columbia attorney William Stewart, who passed in 1904.) A barbed comment about barbed wire from Judge H.C. Baker This story was posted on 2011-09-03 04:26:32
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