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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-0001-004-1393 BR12-163

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. David Whitehouse (Kenton County, KY, hotel keeper & physician) N00006240 1819-09-19 1870-06-25 Categories: People

Kenton County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and physician. Native of England. Married to Apolonia Whitehouse. Father of Josephine Whitehouse. Hotel keeper in Kenton County in 1860. Physician in Kenton County in 1862.

Relationships Social: Peter Jüng (Kenton County, Kentucky, vineyard hand.) Social: Clemons Sandfoss (Kenton/Campbell County student) Social: Franz "Frank" R. Kühr (Kenton County, Kentucky, Vine Grower) Social: John Kühr (Kenton County, Kentucky, student) Social: Ferdinand Kühr (Kenton County, KY, student ) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 318. Find A Grave, "David Whitehouse (1819-1870)," Memorial #92193878, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92193878 (accessed May 17, 2017). KYR-0001-004-1394. John Kühr (Kenton County, Kentucky, student) N00006242 1848? Categories: People

Kenton County, Kentucky, student. Kentucky native. Son of Frank Kühr and Catharine Kühr. Student in Kenton County in 1860. Resident of Kenton County in 1862.

Relationships Familial: Ferdinand Kühr (Kenton County, KY, student ) Economic: David Whitehouse (Kenton County, KY, hotel keeper & physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 302. Clemons Sandfoss (Kenton/Campbell County student) N00006244 1848? 1901? Categories: People

Alexandria, Kentucky, student. Native of Oldenburg, Germany. Son of Mary Sandfoss Jung. Student in Kenton County in 1860. Resident of Kenton County in 1862.

Relationships Economic: David Whitehouse (Kenton County, KY, hotel keeper & physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton, District 1, p. 324. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 124B. _ Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989_, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Campbell County Will Books, Vol D-E, 1878-1926; (Accessed through ancestry.com on January 22, 2020), pp.370-71. KYR-0001-004-1394. Ferdinand Kühr (Kenton County, KY, student ) N00006241 1846? Categories: People

Kenton County, Kentucky, student. Kentucky native. Son of Frank Kühr and Catharine Kühr. Student in Kenton County in 1860. Resident in Kenton County in 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 302. John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) N00000460 1815-12-14 1902-02-21 Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Genesee County, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth S. Johnson Fisk on October 14, 1842. Father of Charles H. Fisk, Virginia Fisk, Sarah C. Fish, Robert Fisk, Isabella Fisk, John F. Fisk, Jr., and Elizabeth Fisk. Attended common schools in New York and Cary’s Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio. Principal of the Germantown Academy in Mason County, Kentucky. Principal of the Mason Academy in Mason County. Studied law under Frank Hord, James T. Morehead, and James Pryor in Maysville and Covington. Attorney in Covington in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Kenton County from 1857 to 1865. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Attorney in Covington in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker) Political: William W. Boswell (Covington, Kentucky, hotel and tavern keeper) Political: William H. Shmoddle (Driver and agent for C. W. Roback in Covington, Kentucky) Military: William W. Mosher (General Merchant) Political: N. E. Kingsbury (Cincinnati, Ohio) Social: Simeon Sheppard (Kenton County) Social: Lorenzo Dow Croninger (Covington, Kentucky, master printer) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Lorenzo Dow Croninger (Covington, Kentucky, master printer) Legal: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Legal: Leonidas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, farmer and colonel 7th KY Cav (USA)) Legal: Richard J. C. Bocking (Indianapolis, Indiana resident and former soldier) Legal: Thomas Davis Kennedy (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer, enslaver, engineer) Legal: Thomas T. Sharp (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA) Legal: William Potts (Agent in the requisition of George Burkhamer (George Burkheimer) from Louisiana to Kentucky in 1864.) Legal: George Burkhamer (George Burkheimer) (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, steam boat captain.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 2, p. 240A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 4, p. 702. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 235B. Greg Perkins, “Fisk, John Flavel,” in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, eds. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), p. 342. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 421. James Russell Hallam (Kenton Co/Campbell Co attorney) N00006448 1818-10-16 1895-02-15 Categories: People

Newport, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Washington County, Pennsylvania, native. Son of Charles Hallam and Rosanna Hagen Hallam. Married to Clarina M. Bailey Hallam in Fayetteville, Tennessee, on January 21, 1841. Married to Martha P. Robinson Hallam on January 6, 1863. Father of Henry C. Hallam, Theodore Hallam, James R. Hallam, Jr., Orrin Hallam, and Frank Hallam. Read law at Nashville in 1836. Admitted to the bar in 1842. Delegate from Grant County to the Whig Party Convention of Kentucky in 1852. Assistant elector in Kentucky's 10th congressional district for the presidential election of 1852. Attorney in Newport in 1860. Sent to Camp Chase in 1862. Commonwealth's attorney pro tempore from c1864 to 1865 in the Kenton Circuit Court.

Relationships Legal: William Gearty (Cincinnati, Ohio railroad passenger agent) Legal: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Military: Charles William Brandon Allison (Union soldier; commander of Camp Chase prison (Ohio)) Legal: Henry C. Gassaway (Newport, Kentucky, produce dealer and provost marshal ) Political: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Simeon Sheppard (Kenton County) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: William S. Johnston (Covington, Kentucky, resident.) Economic: Kenton Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 49. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 103. "Whig State Convention," The Louisville Daily Courier, February 26, 1852, p. 2. The Louisville Daily Courier, October 15, 1861, p. 2. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), p. 460. Find A Grave, "Judge James Russell Hallam (October 16, 1818-February 15, 1895)," Memorial #33728805, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33728805/j-hall (accessed May 22, 2017). KYR-0001-004-1393. Kenton Circuit Court O00000410 1840 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 9th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): S. M. Moore and Joseph Doniphan. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): W. E. Arthur and R. B. Carpenter. Clerk(s): N. B. Stephens and B. W. Foley.

Relationships Legal: Samuel H. Bannister (Kenton co farmer) Legal: John B. Stephens (Kenton co farmer) Legal: Benjamin Wilshire (Independence, Kentucky, blacksmith.) Legal: Edward A. Lamb (Kenton co farmer) Legal: Richard Mann (Covington, Kentucky, shoemaker) Legal: James L. Valandingham (Kenton Co farmer) Legal: R. Lipscomb (Kenton Co.) Legal: G. W. Miller (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Jesse Halton Stephens (Kenton Co farmer) Legal: Samuel Fleming Jones (Kenton Co farmer) Legal: Jordan Harris (Kenton Co farmer) Legal: Andrew J. Morris (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Bernard Topmiller (Cincinnati, Ohio, machinist) Legal: Henry Topmiller (Cincinnati, Ohio, plasterer) Legal: Henry H. Hellmann (Covington, KY, grocery merchant) Legal: Isaac Sutton (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, mineral water maker and business owner) Legal: J.H. Meyers (Kenton County, Kentucky, brewer) Legal: James Steers (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, teamster) Legal: William W. Rogers (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, master brick mason) Legal: Michael Moore (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, contractor ) Legal: John O'Donnell (Covington, Ky, merchant) Legal: John Buckner Lendrum (Covington, Ky, justice of the peace, mayor pro tem, and bookkeeper) Legal: John Herold (Covington, Kentucky, carding machinist) Legal: James G. Arnold (Kenton County, Ky, merchant) Legal: John Wesner (Ludlow, Kenton County, Kentucky, shoe maker) Legal: Moses Swim (Covington, Kenton County, carpenter) Legal: Peter Longshore (Covington, Ky, medicine maker, teamster) Legal: Joseph Doniphan (Bracken County, Ky, circuit judge, state rep, mayor, and attorney ) Legal: Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) Legal: Simeon Sheppard (Kenton County) Legal: Samuel W. Bloom (Cincinnati, OH, police officer) Legal: Samuel B. Laird (Covington, Kenton County, KY, tobacconist and cigar maker) Legal: Napoleon B. Stephens (Kenton County, Kentucky, county and circuit clerk) Legal: William Chester (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William Bridges (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, tobacconist ) Legal: Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier) Legal: Robert K. Sumerwell (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: S. Smith (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Robert Center (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Lucien Smith (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Willis Daniel (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, master carpenter) Legal: Francis M. Rogers (Kenton County, Kentucky, bricklayer) Legal: Thomas Dempsey (Covington, Kentucky, master tobacconist) Legal: Adam Glore (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Hiram Bond (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, master stone cutter) Legal: James A. Bowen (Kenton County, Kentucky, tobacconist) Legal: William H. Taylor (Kenton County, Kentucky, clerk, 1st lieut & pvt 2nd Ky Inf, ) Legal: William Maloney (Kenton County, Kentucky, brick mason) Legal: Van B. Wood (Covington, KY, carpenter) Legal: Wilson H. Horn (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Alfred Brown (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: James McPherson (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, Collector) Legal: Clinton Butts (Kenton County, Kentucky, tobacconist, merchant, marshal, and magistrate) Legal: James Calvert Foy (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, stable keeper and officer (U.S.A.)) Legal: Daniel W. Clark (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Samuel McClelland Moore (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, circuit judge) Legal: Alexander Campbell Ellis (Kenton County, Kentucky, deputy circuit clerk) Legal: Bushrod W. Foley (Covington, Kentucky attorney and mayor.) Legal: John T. Levis (Kenton County, Kentucky, cotton manufacturer and railroad president.) Legal: Michael Swiere (Covington, Kentucky, carpenter.) Legal: Henry Mondiek (Covington, Kentucky, teamster and grocer.)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. 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 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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His Excellency Gov Thos E Bramlette, Sir,

At the present December Term 1864, David Whitehouse-- was convicted under two indictments for selling liquor to two Minors-- one John Cure-- the other C. Sandfass-- On the trial of Cure-- defendant produced and proved by the Father of John Cure-- that in the year 1862 -- he had given Dr Whitehouse a written authority to sell his sons Ferdinand and John Whatever they wanted. Whitehouse kept a Tavern and would not permit the boys to drink liquor without the order -- which the father gave -- The Judge construed the law-- that there must be written authority for every sale -- that a general authority would not shield the defendant and therefore he was fined-- and immediately replevied the debt --

Precisely the same state of facts existed as to C. Sandfass-- under the same instructions he was fined $50 -- in each case-- the undersigned John F. Fiskdefendant-- and the undersignedJ. R Hallam prosecuted as Commonwealth Pro Tem -- We think this a fair case for Executive Clemency, Evidently the Landlord and both the parents did what they thought was a compliance with the law --

John F, Fisk

I make no recommendation but the facts are correctly set out in the above

J. R. Hallam Comlths attorney pro tem

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Kenton Cir Ct vs John F. Fisk and J. R. Hallam D. Whitehouse

To } Statement for Dr. Whitehouse Gov Bramlette

Remit & hand to Senator Fisk --

T E B 2 Judgts. 13th Jany/65