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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.
Marion County, Kentucky, attorney, state representative, and United States representative. Marion County native. Attended St. Mary’s College in St. Mary, Kentucky. Attorney in Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky from 1837. Served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1839. Attorney in Marion County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third congress. Served in the Thirty-third United States Congress from 1853 to 1855. Attorney in Marion County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Marion County in 1860.
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Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, teacher, farmer, and railroad agent. Washington County, Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Percy Knott and Maria Irvine McElroy Knott. Married Marion B. McElroy on July 11, 1847. Father of Joseph McElroy Knott, William Sneed Knott, Kate Grundy Knott, Jennie Marion Knott. School teacher at the Lebanon Seminary in Marion County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Worked with the Lebanon Branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1858 to 1890. Farmer in Marion County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Marion County in 1860.
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Kentucky soldier and railroad worker.Native of Ireland. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from August 22, 1862, to August 21, 1863. Worked on the Lebanon Branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in December 1864. Charged for the murder of Merritt Dicken by the Marion County Court in December 1864 and pardoned by Governor Thomas Elliott Bramlette on December 21, 1864.
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Marion County, Kentucky, merchant. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Eliza Ann Hamilton Merimee in Marion County, Kentucky, on October 16, 1853. Father of Thomas H. Merimee, Marie E. Merimee, Leonard S. Merimee. Employed by Leonard A. Spalding as a merchant in Marion County in 1850. Merchant in Lebanon in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Lebanon in 1860.
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Taylor County, Kentucky, laborer. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Dicken and Ann E. Dicken. Student in Taylor County in 1850. Laborer and student in Taylor County in 1860.
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Marion County, Kentucky, schoolteacher, soldier, and provost marshal. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Fidler and Mary Fidler. Resident of Marion County in 1850. Schoolteacher in Marion County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from November 21, 1861, to July 9, 1862. Served in the 4th Congressional District in Lebanon, Kentucky, as captain and provost marshal in December 1864.
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Seat of Marion County, Kentucky.
State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
Consisted of Shelby, Spencer, Anderson, Bullitt, Nelson, Washington, Marion, Larue, Hardin, Meade, Taylor, Green, Adair, and Casey counties in the west central area of Kentucky. Represented by William Clayton Anderson from 1859-1861 and Aaron Harding from 1861-1865. Provisional Government representative to Congress of the Confederate States of America: James Stone Chrisman.
Military board for enrolling recruits for the enrollment branch of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau. Established by the United States War Department on March 3, 1863. Abolished on August 28, 1866.
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Head-Quarters Provost Marshal,
th 1864.
His Excellency
Govenor of Kentucky
Sir
We have heard the representations of Mess wereGurillas and the evidence Showed that he had good cause to Suppose them to be Gurillas, We have heard no one doubt the honesty of his intentions, Foley is a discharged Soldier and we have never heard anything derogatory to his moral character, bearing the character of an honest hardworking & peaceable Irishman
And had these men proved to be Gurillas he would have been applauded by all good citizens & we repeat we have no doubt but that he acted in good faith under the impression that they were Gurillas & that he had good reasons for So believing. we therefore most cheerfully recommend him to executive clemency
we are most respectfully
your Obt Servts
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F B, Merimee Comr
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Lebanon, Ky.,
FIDLER, J. M.
Capt. and Pro. Mar. 4th Dist. of Kentucky.