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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.
Mentioned as the wife of Peter Ziemer in a petition written on behalf of Ziemer in Louisville, Kentucky.
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas P. Satterwhite and Mary Cabell Breckinridge Satterwhite. Married to Maria Preston Pope Rogers Satterwhite in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 14, 1858. Father of Lilly R. Satterwhite and Thomas P. Satterwhite Jr. Graduate of the University of Louisville Medical College in 1857. Student in Fayette County in 1850. Physician in Louisville from 1857 to 1917. Employed Margaret Smith as a domestic servant in Louisville in 1860. Employed one enslaved person owned by William Ronalds in Louisville in 1860. Demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Louisville Medical College in 1864.
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Body subjected to grave robbing from the potter's field cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, in December 1863.
Body subjected to grave robbing from the potter's field cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, in December 1863.
Mentioned as a janitor for the University of Louisville Medical Department in a petition written in his behalf in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Goss Reasor in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Father of William T. Reasor and Catharine L. Reasor. Member of the City Council of Louisville from the 2nd Ward in 1859. Attorney in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861. City attorney of Louisville from 1861 to 1866.
Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and judge. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy A. Guy Johnston in Shelby County, Kentucky, on November 28, 1828. Father of George G. Johnston. Married to Rosa A. Johnston. Father of John C. Johnston, Louisa Johnston, Eliza Johnston, Henry S. Johnston, Florence Johnston, George W. Johnston and Rosey Johnston. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1829 and 1832. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1838 to 1842. Delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Shelby County. Attorney in Shelby County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1850. Judge of the Louisville City Court from 1854 to 1865. Elected circuit judge of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky in Jefferson County in August 1865.
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Louisville, Kentucky, physician. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Tutored by James Logue. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington in 1832. Worked in Dr. Dudley’s office in Lexington in 1832. Married to Susan F. Hewitt Bell on April 4, 1833. Father of Carson H. Bell. Partnered with Dr. Meriwether in Louisville from July 1832 til his death. Wrote for the Louisville Advertiser and the Louisville Journal. Appointed Chair of the Science and Art of Medicine and Public Hygiene at the University of Louisville in 1857. Directed a military hospital in Louisville during the Civil War and served on the Board of Examining Surgeons. President of the Western division of the United States Sanitary Commission. Deacon of the First Church of the Disciples in Louisville.
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Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, professor of chemistry. Charleston, South Carolina, native. Married to Sarah Julia Guthrie Smith in Jefferson County, Kentucky on June 24, 1852. Attended the University of Virginia from 1836 to 1838. Graduate of the Medical College of South Carolina in 1840. Chemist in Giessen and Paris from 1841 to 1844. Established the Medical and Surgical Journal of South Carolina in 1846. Teacher and researcher by invitation in Turkey from 1846 to 1850. Chair of the Department of Science at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1850 to 1852. Professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1852-1854. Professor of chemistry at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Chair of the Medical Department at the University of Louisville until 1866.
Louisville, Kentucky, physician and professor. Chairman of the medical department of the University of Louisville. Married to Virginia L. Bayless. Father of Benjamin Bayless, Mary B. Bayless, Sallie G. Bayless, Elizabeth W. Bayless, Martha B. Bayless, Maria D. Bayless, George Bayless, and Esther Bayless. Physician and professor in Louisville in 1860.
State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.
Department of medical education and training at the University of Louisville. Operated in Louisville, Kentucky from 1846 by an act of the Kentucky Legislature, which combined the Louisville Medical Institute and Louisville College.
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Louisville, Kentucky, police force. Founded as the office of watchmen in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 9, 1806. Instituted as the designated police force by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on March 8, 1856.
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County jail in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Jailer(s): William K. Thomas (1860-1865), Warden(s): Henry C. Thomas (1860), Assistant jailer(s): George Winters (1860), Henry C. Thomas (1865)
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Jefferson County, Kentucky, cemetery. A workhouse and adjacent cemetery were constructed in Louisville, Jefferson County Kentucky in 1850 and subsequently demolished in 1968, and the cemetery's location is best described as part of Eastern Cemetery. The Potter's Field was a known location for obtaining bodies for anatomical research in the Medical and Anatomy Departments of the University of Louisville in Louisville during the nineteenth century.
To
His Excellency
Governor State of
The undersigned petitioner would respectfully state that he is a poor man, without any means of support, except his daily labor as Janitor of
He states that the night of the
This petitioner was subsequently indicted and fined one Hundred
dollars.
This petitioner states that he did in this matter, as he supposed nothing more than his duty, that it ^is^ absolutely necessary to science and the Medical department of this University to have subjects, that in this matter the deceased persons had no known friends or relatives whose feelings were harassed or annoyed and that it is the uniform rule of this University to get such subjects would in any harass or annoy friends or relatives.
He asks your excellency to remit the said fine
Governor Bramlette,
A Prof- of one of our Medical schools, in company with the Janitor of the school, in the night time Entered a grave yard ^the
have subjects for dissection for the diffusion of science in the proffession being taught by the Profs. I respectfully ask for a remission
Respectfully
city atto
I concur with Mr Reasor
We earnestly hope his excellency Gov Bramlette will remit the above mentioned fine
It seems to me that a more righteous case for the Governor's interposition could not be presented. All the facts are well known to me.
T. P. Satterwhite