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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-0001-004-0076 BR8-109 to BR8-110

Frankfort, Franklin 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. Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) N00006605 1809 1901 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Caroline Sherrill. Father of Mary Sherrill, Benjamin Sherrill, Samuel Sherrill, Emeline Sherrill. Merchant in Jefferson County in 1860. Owner of M.W. Sherrill & Co. in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) Economic: James T. Vanarsdale (Mercer/Jefferson Co. merchant) Social: Isaac Caldwell (Louisville attorney) Social: James T. Vanarsdale (Mercer/Jefferson Co. merchant) Social: John R. Graham (Frankfort, Kentucky, grocer and judge)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 140. Find A Grave, "Mason W. Sherrill (1809-1901)," Memorial #21462331, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21462331 (accessed May 26, 2017). KYR-0001-004-0077. Isaac Caldwell (Louisville attorney) N00000790 1824-01-30 1885-11-05 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Adair County native. Married to Catherine Smith Caldwell. Father of Isaac Palmer Caldwell. Graduated Georgetown College in 1844. Studied law under Judge Zachariah Wheat and practiced with him until 1851. Practiced in partnership with George Alfred Caldwell from 1851 to 1866. Third President of the University of Louisville.

Relationships Social: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant)

H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897) 186-88. "Issac Caldwell" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 155. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Campbellsville, Kentucky P00000507 Categories: Places

Seat of Taylor County, Kentucky.

37.3434, -85.3419 Betty Mitchell Gorin, "Campbellsville," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993), 156. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), p.47. "Campbellsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 14, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1863-09-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Frankfort Septr 29. 1863 Govr Tho. E. Bramlette Dear Sir

I meet here at the Hotel Mason W. Sherrill formerly of Campbellsville Ky. now ofLouisville, who has an application before you for remission of a fine.

I have known Mr Sherrill for many years and always esteemed him as a respectable man never having heard any thing to his discredit.

I do not believe that Mr Sherrill would have violated the law, for which he was fined, if he had known it to be a violation of law, or that it was wrong.

Very Respy.

Isaac Caldwell