{"id":422,"date":"2025-05-10T04:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T04:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=422"},"modified":"2025-05-10T04:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T04:06:34","slug":"john-h-withers-ex-president-of-defunct-bank-sought-by-posse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/05\/10\/john-h-withers-ex-president-of-defunct-bank-sought-by-posse\/","title":{"rendered":"John H. Withers, Ex-President of Defunct Bank, Sought by Posse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Originally posted 31 MAR 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omaha (NE) World Herald, November 17, 1897, p. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEFUNCT BANKER GUARDED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English, Indiana, Nov. 16-John H. Withers, president of the defunct English bank, has been located at Corydon, Indiana, twenty-five miles from this city. Sheriff W. Q. Ballard left this morning with a posse of 100 men to accompany the ex-bank president to this city and to guard him from an outbreak. Cashier R. H. Willett&#8217;s friends in this state and Kentucky have made up a fund amounting to many thousands of dollars to cover any shortage or irregularities that may be found in his accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br>Special thanks to Randi Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted 31 MAR 2012) Omaha (NE) World Herald, November 17, 1897, p. 6. DEFUNCT BANKER GUARDED English, Indiana, Nov. 16-John H. Withers, president of the defunct English bank, has been located at Corydon, Indiana, twenty-five miles from this city. Sheriff W. Q. Ballard left this morning with a posse of 100 men to accompany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}