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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-0001-005-0117 BR7-188

Jefferson County, Kentucky Traugott Krachrugge (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00005413 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Had two horses and one wagon stolen from him in Louisville on November 5, 1865.

KYR-0001-005-0117. Louis Henry (Louisville, Kentucky thief) N00005414 Categories: People

Charged with stealing two horses and one wagon from Traugott Keacheugge in Louisville, Kentucky.

Relationships Legal: Traugott Krachrugge (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-005-0117. Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) N00002909 1819? 1882-01-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace. New Hampshire native. Married to Sarah Adams Clement in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 15, 1840. Father of Charles Clement, Josephine Clement, Mary Clement, Corinna Clement, James Clement, George A. Clement, William B. Clement, Henry C. Clement, and John S. Clement. Attorney in Louisville in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Justice of the peace in Louisville in 1861. Justice of the peace in Louisville in 1862. Justice of the peace in Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Andrew Braden (Soldier in 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry) Legal: James Harris (Mattoon, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Traugott Krachrugge (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist) Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Legal: T. E. Dennis (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: Anna Schmitt (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Mary Schmitt Yanner (Maria Jannar) (Louisville, Kentucky, seamstress) Legal: Charles Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer) Legal: Charles S. Glass (Jefferson County, Kentucky, steamboat mate and day policeman) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3. p. 291A-B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3. p. 814. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 8, p. 94B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 199. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817881. KYR-0001-031-0009. KYR-0001-033-0033. Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) N00005412 1818-08-25 1897-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and city marshal. Spotsylvania County, Virginia native. Son of George Tiller and Lucy Mills Tiller. Married to Sophronia Beeler Tiller in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 10, 1838. Father of George Tiller, Theodore Tiller, Leslie Tiller, Alice Tiller, Mollie Tiller, and Prentice Tiller. Plasterer in Louisville in 1845. Plasterer in Louisville in 1850. Policeman in Louisville from 1852 through 1865. Sergeant at arms of the Louisville Common Council in 1858 and 1859. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Traugott Krachrugge (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) Political: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Legal: Ellen M. Thompson Sharpe Reeder (Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 15B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, District 2, p. 364. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 532A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482706, p. 55. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 28819, State 410. John B. Jegli’s Louisville, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Shippingport, and Portland Directory for 1845-1846, (Louisville, The Louisville Journal, 1845), 174. "Runaway Captured," Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), 26 Aug 1856, p. 3. "Untitled," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 6 April 1859, p. 3. "Untitled," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 12 Jan 1863, p. 3. "Carter Tiller Dead." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 19 Jan 1897, p. 8. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 246. 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), 567. "Carter W. Tiller (1818-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 77034411, accessed September 20, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77034411. Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) N00005190 1823-08-04 1877-11-01 Categories: People

Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician. Wayne County, Indiana, native. Son of James Throck Morton and Sarah Miller Morton. Married to Lucinda M. Burbank Morton in Wayne County, Indiana, on May 15, 1845. Father of John M. Morton, Mary E. Morton, Lilias Morton, Walter S. Morton, and Oliver Throck Morton. Attended Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1843. Read law with John S. Newman in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1845. Admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1847. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Circuit judge for the 6th Judicial District of the State of Indiana in 1852. Member of the Republic Party. Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana in 1856. Attorney in Wayne County in 1860. Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana from January 14, 1861, to January 16, 1861. Governor of the State of Indiana from January 16, 1861, to January 24, 1867, following the resignation of Henry S. Lane.

Relationships Legal: Charles B. Lewis, Jr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Vanderburgh Circuit Court Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: State of Indiana Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Executive Department, Indiana Military: United States War Department Military: 57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Warren Horr (Clark County, Indiana, sheriff, merchant, capt & maj 4th IN Cav USA) Political: William A. Peelle (Randolph County, Indiana, attorney and secretary of state) Legal: Francis "Frank" Smith (Clark County, Indiana, day laborer) Political: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Political: Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) Legal: Charles W. White (Garrard County Kentucky. ) Legal: James Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: Green Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: David C. Hall (Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Adam Stephens (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer. ) Political: Willis Marion Hughes (Clark County, IN, resident) Political: William J. Roberts (Clark County, Indiana, farm laborer. Fugitive from justice.) Political: William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff) Political: Charles P. Jacobs (Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private sec. to Gov. Oliver P. Morton) Political: James Blythe Hynes (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and major (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Emerson Marsh (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney ) Legal: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant) Legal: Andrew Lucas Robinson (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, politician, attorney, and customs surveyor) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana, in 1865.) Legal: Samuel H. McCarty (Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, farmer and fugitive from justice) Legal: John Rider (Clark County, Indiana, fugitive from justice.) Legal: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Legal: Melvin Weir (Clark County, Indiana, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace.) Political: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Political: Indiana State Prison South

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 170B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 21. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 9, p. 592A. William Dudley Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton: Including His Important Speeches, vol. I (Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899). A. James Fuller, Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Kent, OH.: Kent State University Press, 2017). Oliver P. Morton of Indiana: Sketch of His Life and Public Services (Indianapolis, IN: Journal Company, Printers, 1876). Charles Manning Walker, Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver P. Morton (Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Journal, 1878). "Lilias Morton (1850-1852)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78619930, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78619930. "Mary E Morton (1848-1849)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78620060, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78620060. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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/. Dubois County, Indiana P00005416 Categories: Places

Seat at Jasper.

38.3914, -86.9311 Ronald L. Baker and Marvin Carmony, Indiana Place Names (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975), 43. Jasper, Indiana P00005417 Categories: Places

Seat of DuBois County, Indiana.

38.3914, -86.9311 Ronald L. Baker and Marvin Carmony, Indiana Place Names (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975), 78. Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, 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). Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-11-22 Legal/Financial 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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The State of Kentucky County of Jefferson

This day C, FW. Tiller made oath before me that on or about the 5th day of November 1865 a felony was committed in the City of Louisville Jefferson County and state of Kentucky by the felonious stealing and taking away two horses and one wagon the property of Traugott Krachrugge of said City, That said horses and wagon were worth $200,00

That affiant has good grounds to beleive that one Louis Henry committed said felony and that he is now a fugitive from Justice confined in the Jail of Dubois County (at Jaspe Jasper) in the state of Indiana (where he has been arrested on said charge and the horses and wagon recovered) and now awaits requisition)

C. W. Tiller

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 122d day of November 1865

Jos Clement. J P J C

J C No 22 1865

Please make out the requisition and forward it to C W Tiller Louisville Ky

C. W. Tiller Police officer

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Requisition upon Gov Indiana for Louis Henry & C. W. Tiller apptd Agent 25 Nov/65