Calvin Fairbank

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Calvin Fairbank

Calvin Fairbank, pictured here, with the assistance of Delia Webster helped slave Lewis Hayden and his family escape from Lexington, Kentucky, in 1844. Fairbank served five years in the Kentucky State Penitentiary before being pardoned by Gov. John J. Crittenden in 1849. Arrested again in 1851 in Louisville for fugitive assistance, he remained in prison until 1864. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #68 in Maysville commemorates the founding of that Mason County city. Originally called Limestone and located on the Ohio River, Maysville, like Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains, was a natural avenue for the earliest…