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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0045 BR8-69 to BR8-70

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. James H. Cornell (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and social house owner) N00005735 1842? 1884? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and social house owner. Kentucky native. Son of Janette Cornell Roberts. Step-son of William S. Roberts. Married to Evaline D. Powell Cornell in Jefferson County on April 7, 1863. Father of Tilly Cornell and Parker Cornell. Student in Louisville in 1850. River clerk in Louisville in 1860. Owner of Hudson Hall club, a bar and coffee house, in Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Social: John H. Howe (Louisville, KY, painter) Social: William Green Holden (Captain, 23rd KY Infantry and Kenton Co, KY, engineer) Social: W. W. Durand (Louisville, KY, editor) Social: Taylor P. Smith (Louisville butcher) Social: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Social: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Social: George Dennison Prentice (Louisville Journal editor) Social: John Dunlop Osborne (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and owner) Social: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville District 3, p. 244B Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 5, p. 141. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 9, p. 218A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film # 000819616. Edwards' Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, for 1865-6 (Louisville, KY: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, Publishers, 1865), 256. Daily Courier, February 1, 1859, p. 1, (accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers on July 25, 20). Find A Grave, "James H. Cornell (1842-1884)," Memorial #156623595, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156623595(accessed October 22, 2019). James S. Wallace (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and theatre manager) N00000260 1805 1865-02 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and theatre manager. New York native. Married to Eliza Wallace in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1840. Father of Charlotte Wallace, Cath Wallace, James Wallace, Nina Wallace, and Henry Wallace. Producer and manager for several stage dramas, in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York, New York, including "Westward, Ho!" and "Spy at Washington," in the 1830s. Newspaper editor at the Philadelphia Gazette and the Philadelphia North American in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Editor at the Pennsylvania Miner's Journal in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1838. Editor at the Harrisburg Telegraph in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1840. Editor at the Philadelphia Forum in Philadelphia in 1842. Agent for the Associated Press. Manager of the Louisville Theater in Louisville in 1858. Assistant Editor at the Louisville Journal from 1860 to 1865. Died in Louisville in February 1865.

Relationships Social: James H. Cornell (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and social house owner)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward No. 3, p. 122. “A National Loss,” The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, Ky.), February 20, 1865, p. 2. "The Late James S. Wallace," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, Ky.), February 28, 1865, p. 1. James Rees, The Dramatic Authors of America (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & Co, 1845), 139. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Louisville Journal O001002 1830 1868 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper. Owners(s): A. J. Buxton and George W. Weissinger. Editor(s): George D. Prentice.

Betty Carolyn Congleton, "Louisville Journal" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 582-83. Hudson Hall O00010901 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, coffee house. In operation before 1859. Partners: James H. Cornell and [Unknown] Rogers.

Relationships Economic: James H. Cornell (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and social house owner)

Louisville Courier Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, February 1, 1859, p. 1. KYR-0001-004-0045. Louisville Club O00005736 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, social house.

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Journal office Louisville Sept 15. 1863 Hon Thomas E Bramlette Governer Dear Sir

I do not sign the peition for the pardon and remission of the fine of Mr James H Cornell, because it is not strong enough to present the case properly to you. I have know Mr Cornell from his boyhood; he is but a youth yet and has just entered into busines and zealously working to and in the support of a widowed mother. He is a good and exemplary young man The upper room of his coffee House was occupied by some gentleman as a private club room, and it was there gambling was carried on. He was aware of it but did not think it was improper for a club to do it as it is know the Louisville Club indulge largely in that direction. When informed against he was surprised that he had rendered himself ameanable to the law,

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and confessed the facts and thus saved the state the expense of a trial The fine of $200 and costs will, if paid by him put him and his family to great distress. I have never but once before asked the remission of a fine but I assure you my dear Sir, in this case you may exercise, "the sweetest hihest gift of power" and in so doing, you will confer a particular favor upon

Yours most cordially James S. Wallace