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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-0001-004-0110 BR8-162

Glasgow, Barren 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. Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) N00000330 1798-05-03 1877-12-08 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Gorin and Elizabeth Franklin Gorin. Father of Melvina M. Gorin, Franklin Gorin, Underwood Gorin. Married to Frances C. Boardman Gorin in Davidson County, Tennessee, on July 30, 1841. Father of Alice A. Gorin. Married to Deborah P. Campbell Gorin in Warren County, Kentucky, on January 23, 1852. Father of Harry C. Gorin and Anna Gorin. Admitted to the bar in January 1820. Resident in Barren County in 1830. Owned three enslaved persons in Barren County in 1830. Owned Mammoth Cave from 1838 to 1840. Resident in Barren County in 1840. Owned four enslaved persons in Barren County in 1840. Attorney in partnership with John Bell in Nashville, Tennessee. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay at Gorin and Gazlay in Louisville from 1859 to 1863. Owned five enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay and Jack Fry in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Economic: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Legal: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Political: James Harrison (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Political: John Roberts (Louisville attorney) Political: Robert Jackson Elliott (Louisville, Kentucky, city attorney and councilman) Political: Charles P. Rudd (Jefferson County Attorney) Political: William Alexander Hauser (Louisville, KY, attorney) Political: Wilkins George Anderson (Jefferson County) Political: William Fontaine Bullock (Louisville, KY, attorney & judge) Political: H. C. Lindell (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) Political: Charles Ripley (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Political: Alfred Harris (Louisville lawyer) Political: Isaac R. Greene (Louisville attorney) Political: Isaac D. Stone (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney.) Political: Edwin S. Craig (Louisville, KY, Commonwealth’s attorney 7th district & attorney) Political: William W. Fry (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: George William Caruth (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Byron Bacon (Louisville, KY, attorney) Political: James Guthrie Coke (Louisville Attorney) Political: Samuel Smith Nicholas (Louisville attorney) Political: Patrick Joyes (Louisville Attorney) Political: Reuben Thomas Durrett (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Samuel Russell (Louisville banker and attorney.) Political: James A. Beattie (Louisville attorney) Political: Thomas Ware Gibson (Louisville attorney. ) Political: Thomas W. Riley (ex-Mayor of Louisville) Political: James Speed Pirtle (Louisville Banker and Attorney.) Political: William Poindexter Thomasson (Indiana attorney) Political: John Graham Simrall (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Charles T. Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and French consular) Political: William Mix (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Caldwell (Louisville attorney) Political: Samuel S. English (Louisville attorney) Political: Charles B. Cotton (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney.) Political: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Political: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Political: Joseph G. Wilson (Louisville KY attorney) Political: John Watson Barr (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Joseph Bryson Kinkead (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and US Navy midshipman) Political: Thomas Alexander Marshall (KY Chief Justice) Political: Samuel Stone Bush (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: William C. Wood (Louisville, KY, attorney) Social: John A. M. Foree (Louisville, Kentucky, farmer and attorney) Social: James Harris (Mattoon, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: R. H. Cochrell (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: M. S. Fields (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Francis Maguire (Louisville atto.) Social: John Fry (Louisville attorney) Social: William W. Shaw (Louisville attorney) Social: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Social: Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: C. K. Fairfax (Louisville & Richmond attorney) Social: Caleb Wallace Logan (Jefferson County, KY, attorney & judge) Social: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Social: Richard Hilaire Rousseau (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Samuel Ayers Atchison, Jr. (Louisville, KY, attorney/Democrat (JR).) Social: Martin Bijur (Louisville, KY, attorney & commwlth atty) Social: Frank Yocum (Jefferson Co, Ky, gardener )

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 129. Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 157. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 1, p. 394B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow Division 1, p. 190. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 525. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 286B. Find A Grave, "Franklin Gorin (1798-1877)," Memorial #7181990, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7181990 (accessed February 11, 2020). Tennessee Marriage Records (1780-2002), Tennessee State Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, Davidson County Marriages, p. 75. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film #000339890. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-1860 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1860), 102. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 102. Mary Young Southard and Ernest C. Miller, eds., Who's Who in Kentucky: A Biographical Assembly of Notable Kentuckians (Louisville: The Standard Printing Co., 1936), 538. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Vol. III (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1912), 1673-74. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 323. KYR-0001-004-0364. John W. Ritter (Barren Co, Ky, attorney and judge 4th Jud Distr Circ Ct) N00001152 1805? Categories: People

Glasgow, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Amanda M. McAchran Ritter in Shelby County, Kentucky, on May 16, 1839. Father of Sarah T. Ritter, Jane Ritter, Josephine Ritter, John Ritter, Julia Ritter, and Horace "Bill" Ritter. Attorney in Barren County in 1847. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in Barren County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860. Judge of the Equity and Criminal Court of the 4th Judicial District in 1862.

Relationships Social: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Political: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District) Legal: Equity and Criminal Court in the Fourth Judicial District Legal: Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 492B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren, District 1, p. 821. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren, District 1. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259274, p. 746. The Kentucky State Register for the year 1847 (Louisville, Kentucky: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 46. KYR-0001-031-0010. Glasgow, Kentucky P00000336 Categories: Places

Seat of Barren County, Kentucky.

36.9959, -85.9119 "Glasgow, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 11, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 116. Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky 1863-10-26 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Glasgow Ky. 26th Octr 1863 Governor Bramlett

Dear Sir I have learned with suprise and regret that Mr Franklin Gorin of Louisville has been indicted for malicious shooting. I have known Mr Gorin all my life, and I think I can say with the utmost confidence that he is not the character of man to be guilty of such an officeence Mr Gorin is not the man to bear malice, I know him to be an impetitous man, but of high Strung and manly and noble Sentiments and Sympathies such indeed as adorn human nature. I would most respectfully suggest that his pardon would not militate against the publick interests of the country, but, upon the contrary would be but such an exercise of

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of clemency and mercy as might be well extended to an old man who has acted a faithful part for his country and the best interests of Society -- If mr Gorin has at any time deviated from the character I have given him I feel assured that Such deviations have been the result of excitement rather than malice and malevolence

I remain very truly &c John W Ritter

P S. I feel assured that every Union man in this portion of the state would be pleased to know that Mr Gorin was pardoned

J W R