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====== 1837 ======
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===== Events =====
==== Boone County ====
  * Boone County election [[precincts]] are established.
  * The charter of the Burlington Turnpike Company is amended to require the [[roads|road]] to be located so as to pass through [[Union]].
  * The boundary between [[boone county|Boone]] and Gallatin counties is redefined.

==== Kentucky ====
  * Exercising its tie-breaking perogative for the first and only time, the U.S. Senate elects Kentucky soldier and politician Richard Mentor Johnson to serve as Vice-President under Martin Van Buren.

==== U.S. & World ====
  * English [[banks]] stop issuing credit to Americans, and the price of cotton drops.  Both events lead to the Panic of 1837 and its subsequent bank failures and rise in unemployment.
  * General Zachary Taylor tricks the Seminole leader Osceola into coming out of the Florida Everglades.  Osceola is arrested and sent to prison.  
  * Alfred Lewis Vail, assistant to Samuel Morse, devises the Morse code of dots and dashes to represent letters, which Morse uses on his new telegraph.

===== More Information =====
  * Boone County Tax Lists, 1837: ([[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/30967/0|A]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/33265/0|B-C]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/33232/0|C]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/31433/0|D-F]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/31384/0|F-G]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/33142/0|G-J]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/31202/0|K-L]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/31774/0|M]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/30403/0|N-O]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/30957/0|P-Q]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/31731/0|R]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/31512/0|T-V]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/31437/0|W-Z]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/23737/0|Clerk certificate]]).