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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-0001-004-0118 BR8-173 to BR8-174

Warren 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. William C. Wood (Louisville, KY, attorney) N00000770 1831? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Francis E. Wood. Father of Mary R. Wood, John T. Wood, Carrie E. Wood, and Allice A. Wood. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861.

Relationships Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist) Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Legal: Collis Ormsby (Louisville merchant) Legal: R. H. Cochrell (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: H. C. Murrett (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: A. S. Gilmore (Pulaski) Legal: Thomas Antle (Henry Co. farmer) Legal: J. C. Sayers (Rockcastle County, KY, farmer) Legal: F. S. J. Ronald (Louisville tobacco merchant & postmaster) Legal: Robert Jackson Elliott (Louisville, Kentucky, city attorney and councilman) Legal: Thomas J. Elliott (Jefferson County, Kentucky)

Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 267. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Missouri, Livingston County, Chillicothe, p. 22. Henry Grider (Warren County, KY, attorney) N00000777 1796-07-16 1866-09-07 Categories: People

Warren County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Sallie Grider. Father of Daniel Grider, Rachel Grider, and Virginia Bryant Grider. Attorney in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Served in Payne's Company of the Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Militia as a corporal during the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Warren County in 1827 and 1831. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Warren County from 1833 to 1837. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the Third Congressional District of Kentucky from 1843 to 1847. Attorney and farmer in Warren County in 1850. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Attorney in Warren County in 1860. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the Third Congressional District of Kentucky from 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Social: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Political: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 76A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 134. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 436B "Grider, Henry - Biographical Information,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 25, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000455. Warren County, Kentucky P001020 Categories: Places

County in southwestern Kentucky. Seat at Bowling Green. Located on the Barren River.

36.9903, -86.4436 “Warren County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 932-33. "Bowling Green, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 30, 2021, 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. Warren County, Kentucky 1863-11-03 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Warren Cty Ky Nov 3rd 1863 His Excellency

Govenor Bramlette, I understand my old friend & acquaintance, F. Gorin Esq of Louisville Ky is indicted for maliciously shooting a mMr Wood. I know Mr Gorin better than any man in Louisville. I have practiced law with ^him,^ long long years, ever since we were young men untill he went to Louisville& we are both now getting old. Mr Gorin. I beg leave to express to you my sympathy & regret at this event, This trial & visitation to Mr Gorin so painful in his old age: Tho, still vigorous in mental power, & noble & generous in his feelings principles & conduct! It is not

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in Mr Gorin's nature or character to do a malicious, unprovoked ignoble deed -- He may occassionally be impetuous as I am and all of us are; but his long life in a prominent & public capacity is strong, conclusive evidence; that the charge of so low & cowardly a crime cannot be true of Mr Gorin He could not be guilty of malicious shooting -- The facts are familiar to his Louisvillefriends -- I speak of his character, the absence of all charges against him during a long public life: And I should regret most deeply the necessity of Mr Gorin being required, in view of the whole subject, to submit to a trial in open court as at ^all^ necessary to public justice or policy.

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You will therefore permit me, (tho not fully acquainted ^with you^,) to request you petition your Excellency in the exercise of the high perogative you hold under the Constitution, to remit the charge in the indictment & pardon Mr Gorin of the supposed offence with with he stands charged. Glorious are the ministration of mercy &in righteous! In this country, in eight or ten counties, Mr Gorin has many familiar kind friends, they would rejoice at the interposition of The Executive, Iand to this end we invoke your most serious kind consideration! I am in all good will & kindness Most respectly your friend

H. Grider