John Homire et al. to James F. Robinson
- Document Genre
- Legal/Financial
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863
- Box / Folder
- R4-435 to R4-436
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-029-0593
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32211795
- People
- Shotwell, Alfred Lawrence
- Ballard, Andrew Jackson
- Bacon, Byron
- Young, C. H.
- Fairbank, Calvin
- Coggeshall, Charles
- Junot, Charles
- Taylor, Charles T.
- Needham, Edgar
- Williams, Frederick
- Berry, J. C.
- Robinson, James Fisher
- Harris, James
- Brown, Jefferson
- Bayles, Jesse
- Osborne, John Dunlop
- Simpson, John F.
- Simrall, John Graham
- Homire, John
- Mattingly, John N.
- Fairfax, John P.
- Clement, Joseph
- Wilson, Joseph G.
- Dembitz, Lewis Naphtali
- Bayles, M. C.
- Fields, M. S.
- Rousseau, Richard Hilaire
- North, Romeo Ezekiel
- Atchison, Samuel Ayers, Jr.
- Russell, Samuel
- [Unknown], Tamar
- Crawford, Thomas Howell
- Owen, W. W.
- Hoke, William B.
- Wood, William C.
- Craddock, William J.
- Places
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Dates
- 1852
Citation
John Homire et al. to James F. Robinson, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0593 (November 12, 2026).
To His Excellency James F Robinson
Governor of Kentucky,
The undersigned Citizens of Louisville Respectfully ask your Excellency to Pardon Calvin Fairbanks, who was in the Spring of
They State that from what they have heard of Fairbanks he was a monomaniac on the Subject of Slavery, at the time the offence was Committed,
They believe the time he has been imprisoned a sufficient Punishment for the offence,
Wherefore they most respectfully ask that the ballance of his term be remitted
W. W. Owen
Byron Bacon
C. H. Young
J, P, Fairfax
W. B. Hoke
Lewis N Dembitz
Edgar Needham
Wm, J, Craddock
W. C. Wood
Calvin Fairbans has once heretofore received the Exetv. Clemency of Kenty and upon his release committed again the same Offence for which he now again asks pardon
I do not think it should be granted
J F Robinson