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Samuel J Kookogey
Birth: 4-15-1828
Death: 1889
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Mentioned in 18460529WHS_AHS
WHS writes: "On the way homeward after my long journey in the South West I find...Mr S.J. Kookogey a young gentleman going to West Point...He says he has no acquaintance there, and fears that he may need advice and information."
According to Bleeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (Michael E. Woods), "Samuel J. Kookogey, a twenty-eight-year-old Democrat from a prosperous family of Georgia cotton planters. An eager expansionist who wanted to annex the slaveholding Spanish colony of Cuba to the U.S., Kookogey disliked violence but was determined to establish slavery in Kansas (pg. 84).
Additionally, according to School Catalogs, Kookogey was admitted to West Point in 1846. In 1849, he still resided in West Point, NY.
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Mentioned in 18460529WHS_AHS
WHS writes: "On the way homeward after my long journey in the South West I find...Mr S.J. Kookogey a young gentleman going to West Point...He says he has no acquaintance there, and fears that he may need advice and information."
According to Bleeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (Michael E. Woods), "Samuel J. Kookogey, a twenty-eight-year-old Democrat from a prosperous family of Georgia cotton planters. An eager expansionist who wanted to annex the slaveholding Spanish colony of Cuba to the U.S., Kookogey disliked violence but was determined to establish slavery in Kansas (pg. 84).
Additionally, according to School Catalogs, Kookogey was admitted to West Point in 1846. In 1849, he still resided in West Point, NY.