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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-0001-004-0365 BR9-79 to BR9-80

Harrodsburg, Mercer 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. J. Harvey Vanderipe (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and grocer) N00012447 1821? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and grocer. Kentucky native. Married to July Ann Vanderipe. Father of Susan Vanderipe, John Vanderipe, William Vanderipe, Catherine Vanderipe, David Vanderipe, Charles Vanderipe, and Frances Vanderipe. Farmer in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Grocer in Mercer County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William A. Hooe (Mercer County, KY, attorney, state rep & state senator) Legal: Charles Catlett (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 325B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 723. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 51B. Charles Catlett (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004115 1823-06-15 1883-05-18 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Ann Edgerton Catlett in Garrard County, Kentucky, on November 11, 1844. Father of Julia Ann Catlett, James H. Catlett, Daniel Catlett, Mary J. Catlett, and John Catlett. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: William A. Hooe (Mercer County, KY, attorney, state rep & state senator)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, Division 1, p. 32B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 609. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 32. Find A Grave, "Charles Catlett (June 15, 1823-May 18, 1883)," Memorial #70947155, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70947155 (accessed May 21, 2018). O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) N00006609 1818? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney. Indiana native. Attorney in Mercer County in 1860. Member of the board of curators of Kentucky University in 1865.

Relationships Social: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Legal: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney) Legal: James Harlan, Jr. (Franklin County/Mercer County Attorney/Politician) Legal: John Shackleford, Jr. (Fayette County, KY, Christian minister, curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: William Logan Williams (Lincoln County, KY, minister, educator, univ curator) Legal: Richard J. White (Madison County, KY, farmer and university curator) Legal: Richard Moore Bishop (Cincinnati, Ohio, merchant, politician, and university curator) Legal: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Legal: John Bryan Bowman (Mercer County, KY, attorney, educator, farmer, college regent) Legal: Abraham Hite Bowman (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: John Augustus Williams (Mercer County, KY, educator, Daughters College, curator KY Univ) Legal: Andrew Steele (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: Benjamin B. Groom (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: William Thomas Moore (Curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: David Williams Thompson (Mercer County, KY, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: Joseph Smith (Fayette County, KY, physician and curator of Kentucky University) Social: Charles Catlett (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: J. Harvey Vanderipe (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and grocer) Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Legal: Nimrod Harris (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas H. Buckner (Mercer County, KY, planter) Legal: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States 1860, Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 692. KYR-0001-009-0038. Harrodsburg, Kentucky P00000555 Categories: Places

Seat of Mercer County, Kentucky.

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky 1863-12-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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HarrodsburgKy Decr 29. 63 Govr Bramlette Dr Sir

Enclosed find Petition of Vanderipe & Catlett for which I bespeak your early and merciful consideration

Respectfully O S Poston

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Remit all except fees & costs.

Tho E Bramlette