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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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-005-0109 BR7-176 to BR7-177

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Philip Tomppert, Jr. (Louisville, Kentucky, city court clerk) N002038 1839-02-13 1895-12-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Philip Tomppert and Margaret Tomppert. Married to Henrietta Reuning Tomppert in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 3, 1861. Father of Louis P. Tomppert and Eugenia E. Tomppert. Attended school in Louisville in 1850. Interpreter of the City Court in Louisville in 1861. Clerk of the Louisville City Court in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 19B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 1, p. 70B. "Board of Aldermen: Joint Session," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 19, 1861, p. 1. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 26078. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482709, p. 82. “Philip Tomppert Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), December 23, 1895, p. 8. "J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr (1839-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 155379750, accessed October 25, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155379750. Frederick Wobbe (Louisville Deputy County Clerk) N00001154 1839? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, tinner and deputy clerk. Hanover, Germany, native. Son of Fred Wobbe and Anna Wobbe. Tinner in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Deputy clerk of the Louisville City Court in Louisville in 1864 and 1865.

Relationships Legal: E. Noll (Mentioned in an affidavit from the Philip Tomppert Jr., clerk of the Louisville City Court dated October 25, 1862.) Legal: Clarinda Tackett Rasure (Julia Dean) (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 231. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, Kentucky, Louisville, 1865, p. 600. KYR-0001-004-1350. 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. James C. Gill (stub, Louisville) N00002928 1815? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and coroner. Kentucky native. Carpenter in Louisville in 1850. Coroner in Louisville in 1864.

Relationships Legal: John Welch (Jefferson County, KY, soldier (USA), murder suspect) Legal: Frederick Wobbe (Louisville Deputy County Clerk)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 127. KYR-0001-005-0051. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Louisville City Court O001838 1850 Categories: Organizations

Police court with jurisdiction in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Johnston. City Attorney(s): William G. Reasor, Robert J. Elliott. Clerk(s): Oliver H. Strattan (1861), J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, 1865, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6, ed. Edwards, Greenough, & Deved (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 323-24. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-10-18 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 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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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1 PHIL. TOMPPERT Jr., CLERK. FRED. WOBBE, DEPUTY CLERK. Clerks' Office, Louisville City Court, Louisville, Ky., Oct 18th 1865 Gov Bramlett

Sir on the 15th I held an Inquest on the body of a white woman about 25 years old, near the third (3rd) street road and about three (3) miles from the City of Louisville. She has been Murdered by some one unknown to me,

Her wounds are as follows a cut over each Eye one on forehand Forehead one just in front of Right Ear, Several Bruises on inside of right thigh and a wound which looked as though the flesh was twisted out her intestines was puled from her body through the Fundament Showing an act of the moste Diabolical rufianian the intestines cut or pulled loose from her body. Her cloths were all torne off of her not a Partickel remaining on her except one garter. Her right arm had been amputated just below the shoulder. the Evidences was plain of a sever strugle with some one. from all I can learn I think a Negro did it.

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2 though I have no Positive Pro^o^fe of it. the Object of this is to ask you to offer a reward for the Perpetrater of this moste Horable crime. I would sugest $5000 as a small sum for the Comth tho Pay for the detection of so great a Villian

Respectfully Yous &C James C. Gill. coroner J C Ky

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Reward $300 offered 24 Oct/65