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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-0001-004-2166 BR14-402

Covington, Kenton 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. George W. Thompson (Kenton Co, Ky, bar keeper and saloon owner) N00008157 1824-10-02 1902-09-12 Categories: People

Kenton County, Kentucky, bar keeper and saloon keeper. Indiana native. Married to Sarah Thompson. Father of James Thompson. Bar keeper in Covington in 1860. Employed Elizabeth Mifford in 1860. Saloon keeper in Kenton County in 1863. Member of the International Order of Oddfellows.

Relationships Slavery: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Enslaved resident of Covington) Economic: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Enslaved resident of Covington) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Enslaved resident of Covington) Political: James Pryor (Carroll County, KY, judge & Kenton County, KY, attorney) Political: Mortimer Murray Benton (Kenton County, Ky, attorney and mayor) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Hiram F. Bowen (Kenton County, Kentucky, master carpenter) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: William Evans Arthur (Covington, Kentucky, Commonwealth attorney & attorney) Political: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Social: William Maxwell (Kenton County Master carpenter) Social: Robert K. Sumerwell (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: John R. Ricke (Covington, Kentucky, city clerk) Social: Alexander Campbell Ellis (Kenton County, Kentucky, deputy circuit clerk) Social: John A. Goodson (Covington, Kentucky, retired farmer) Social: Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) Social: Solomon C. Perrin (Kenton Co, KY, minister, attorney, court clerk, and judge) Social: Churchill J. Blackburn (Kenton County, Kentucky, physician & CSA surgeon)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, p. 694. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton, Covington Ward 4, p.236B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Kentucky, 6th Congressional District, Vol. 3, June and July 1863, p. 233, p. 467 of microfilm, (Accessed via ancestry.com on April 6, 2020). Find A Grave, "George Washington Thompson (1824-1902)," Memorial #90471559, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90471559 (accessed November 16, 2019). KYR-0001-004-2166. KYR-0001-020-1491. Solomon C. Perrin (Kenton Co, KY, minister, attorney, court clerk, and judge) N00004524 1802? Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, minister, attorney, clerk, judge, and politician. Kentucky native. Son of W. C. Perrin. Married to Mary J. Perrin. Father of William Josephus Perrin, Charles Perrin, and Franklin Perrin. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Harrison County in 1833 and 1836. Christian minister in Kenton County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Clerk of Kenton County Court from 1859 to 1862. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of Kenton County Court in 1862.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: George W. Thompson (Kenton Co, Ky, bar keeper and saloon owner)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 3, p. 251. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, 111. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 5, p. 259. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 3. "Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859,” in 1860 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 292. "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), 303-308. “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. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), p. 189. "The War in the West: Kentucky, from Green River, from Zollicoffer's Camp, the National Court," The New York Times, 15 January 1862. KYR-0001-020-2147. KYR-0001-007-0406. Covington, Kentucky P00000936 Categories: Places

Seat of Kenton County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

Relationships Economic: John R. Ricke (Covington, Kentucky, city clerk) Economic: Andrew H. Herod (Kenton County, Kentucky, jailer) Economic: C. A. Preston (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and mayor)

39.0837, -84.5086 "Covington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. John E. Burns, "Covington," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 236. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky 1865-08-23 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Covington Ky Augt 23d 1865 To his Excllency Gov. Bramlette Dear Sir

I address you this letter in behalf of Geo. W Thompson, who was fined for selling Sprituous Liquors to a minor Some three or more years since and Petitioned your predecessor for a remittance, but he only respited the fine for a time and now there is an Execution in the hands of the Shiriff for the amt due to the Com,w'th he having paid the Attys fee and costs hopes that you will see his original Petition and if consistent remit the amt due the state, Geo W Thompson is less able he says to pay now than he was when the fine was assessed, As he has been Sick and lingered long with the worst kind of case of small Pox; which cost him a good deal, he has not been fined since and is a verry clean gentleman and a compliance will never be forgotten by him

Respectfully Yours, S. C. Perrin.

N. B. Enclosed please find $2,00 the fee in case the fine is remitted please answer soon

S. C. Perrin