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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-0001-005-0111 BR7-172 to BR7-173

Louisville, Jefferson 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. William Hipwell (Louisville soldier and police) N00005313 1822? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, soldier and police officer. Native of Ireland. Married to Alecia Hipwell. Father to Thomas H. Hipwell, Mary Hipwell, Katie Hipwell, Lucy A. Hipwell, Marie C. Hipwell, Willie Hipwell and Jennie Hipwell. Boot maker in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1850. Shoemaker in La Porte County, Indiana, in 1860. Served in the 35th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from December 11, 1861 to November 26, 1862. Police officer in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Legal: William Whalen (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: Louis Kiner (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: Christian Quinot (Louisville, Kentucky, blacksmith) Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: James P. Harbeson (lawyer) Social: James P. Harbeson (lawyer) Legal: William K. Thomas (Jefferson County, Kentucky, jailer) Legal: Matthew Skiffington (Peoria County, Illinois, laborer and barkeeper. ) Legal: Richard James Oglesby (Fourteenth governor of the State of Illinois, soldier, attorney, and politician.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Rhode Island, Providence County, Providence, Ward Six, p. 402B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, La Porte County, Center Township, p. 134. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 11, p. 446B. Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Indiana State Department of Health and Vital Records, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, IN, Certificate 463. Chas. C Chapman, History of La Porte County, Indiana, (Chicago: Chas. Chapman & Co., 1880), 530. James P. Harbeson (lawyer) N00005401 1828? 1925-02-02 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Son of Ben Harbeson and Mary Paxton Harbeson. Graduate of Louisville Law School in the 1850s. Captain and Major in the 16th Kentucky Infantry of U.S. Army in 1861. Married to Mary E. Shreve Harbeson on June 21, 1866. Married to Alice Andrews Harbeson. Father of James P. Harbeson, Amy Ashton Harbeson, Mary D. Harbeson, Charles M. Harbeson, Robert Harbeson, and Ben Harbeson. Partner with Judge Thomas A. Marshall, in the law firm of Marshall & Harbeson in 1865. Judge of Louisville City Court in 1865.

Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky: With Special Reference to Stocks Immediately Derived from the Valley of Virginia; Tracing in Detail Their Various Genealogical Connexions and Illustrating from Historic Sources Their Influence Upon the Political and Social Development of Kentucky and the States of the South and West, (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1889), 110. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), p. 337. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000819623, Jefferson County Marriages, p. unknown. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994038, Henderson County Marriages, p. 1. Kentucky Wills and Probate Records (1774-1989) – Probate Records Vol. O-R (1886-1966), Fleming, p. 255. Find A Grave, “James P. Harbeson (1828-1925),” Memorial #121951448, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=121951448 (accessed June 5, 2017). 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. Illinois P00004765 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern region of the United States. Capital at Springfield. Located on the Ohio River and Mississippi River.

39.8017, -89.6437 Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, ed., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, 1918), p. 241, 258. Roger D. Bridges and Rodney O. Davis, Illinois: Its History and Legacy (St. Louis: River City Publishers, 1984). “Springfield, Illinois," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. City of Louisville O001028 1851 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the city of Louisville, Kentucky.

Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky., Approved March 24, 1851, With All the Amendments to Same now In Force, and Acts of the Legislature Pertaining to the City of Louisville to this Date. December 1, 1862 (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Printer, 1862). Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-10-14 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Louisville, Ky., Octo 14th 1865

Governor Bramlette, Dr Sir, This will introduce to you Capt W. Hipwett who deserves a requisition for a man in Illinois, charged with felony committed in this State. I take pleasure in recommending him to you as a gentleman and a reliable man.

I am Governor with great respect your obt Servant

James P. Harbeson

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CITY OF LOUISVILLE Mayor's Office, Louisville, Ky., Octo 14th 1865 Govenor Bramlette. Dr Sir.

This will introdu to you capt Wm Hipwell Who desires a requisition for a man in Illinois, charged with felony committed in this State,, I take pleasure in reccommending him to you as a gentleman and a reliable Man.

I am Govenor with great respect Your obt Servant James P Harbeson