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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-0001-005-0121 BR7-192

Newport, Campbell 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. Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) N00005429 1817-03-27 1910-03-14 Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, painter and soldier. Madison County, New York, native. Son of Reuben Tifft and Betsy Decolan Tifft. Married to Mary E. Mullen Tifft on May 9, 1846. Father of Mary Tifft, Elizabeth Tifft, Scott D. Tifft, Kate Tifft, and Annie Tifft. Painter in 1845. Served in the 3rd United States Light Artillery (U.S.A.) as a captain from September 10, 1845, to September 10, 1850. Painter in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant and captain from December 8, 1861, to October 17, 1864. Discharged on account of disability on October 17, 1864. Charged with with a felony in Campbell County in 1864. Fugitive from justice in Wisconsin in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Oliver W. Root (county attorney) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Jailer in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1865.) Legal: Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. ) Legal: James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin) Legal: State of Wisconsin Social: John P. Jackson (Newport, Kentucky, tinner) Legal: Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.) Legal: John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell, Newport, p. 481. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0364. Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M233, Roll MIUSA1798102880. _Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 134. "Veteran of Three Wars," The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, IA), January 22, 1906, p. 5. "Iowa's Oldest Veteran," The Register and Leader (Des Moines, IA), February 4, 1906, p. 3. "Octogenarian Crosses the Bar," The Sanborn Pioneer (Sanborn, IA), March 17, 1910, p. 5. George W. Schee and O.H. Montzheimer, Biographical Data and Army Record of Old Soldiers Who Have Lived in O'Brien Co., Iowa (Primghar, IA: 1909), 168-9. "CPT Claudius Tifft (1817-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial 61083620, accessed May 9, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61083620. KYR-0001-005-0121. KYR-0001-005-0123. Oliver W. Root (county attorney) N00005424 1835-10-03 1904-08-03 Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Campbell County, Kentucky, native. Son of Ira Root and Sarah Perry Root. Attended school in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Graduated from Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1858. Attorney in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Graduated from Cincinnati Law School in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1861. County attorney for Campbell County, Kentucky, from 1861 to 1865. Served in the 42nd Enrolled Militia (U.S.A.) as a private from September 2, 1862, to September 27, 1862.

Relationships Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Legal: Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. ) Legal: Ephraim Ladd (Campbell County, Kentucky, carpenter and justice of the peace.) Legal: John P. Jackson (Newport, Kentucky, tinner) Legal: Henry Barnes (printer, Campbell County) Legal: John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 28A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 597. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 302A. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 875. "O.W. Root Passed Away," The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), August 4, 1904, p. 5. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 414. "The Late Hon. O.W. Root," The Miami Student, vol. XXIV (Hamilton, OH: The Republican Press, 1905), 1-2. Newport, Kentucky P00000862 Categories: Places

Co-seat of Campbell County, Kentucky, along with Alexandria, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

39.0914, -84.4958 Will Frank Steely, "Newport" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 680. 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). La Crosse, Wisconsin P00005425 Categories: Places

Seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin.

43.8014, -91.2396 “La Crosse, Wisconsin-A Brief History,” Wisconsin Historical Society, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Ny:True,Ro:0,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=Ntk:All%7cla+crosse%7c3%7c,Ny:True,Ro:0&dsRecordDetails=R:CS2392&dsDimensionSearch=D:la+crosse,Dxm:All,Dxp:3&dsCompoundDimensionSearch=D:la+crosse,Dxm:All,Dxp:3 Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky 1865-11-08 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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Newport Kentucky Nov 8. 1865 To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Gov of Kentucky Dr Sir,

It is most respectfully requested by me that steps may be promptly taken by your Excellency to arrest and bring to this city for trial one Claudius Tift charged in the enclosed affidavit with felony. Said Tift fled the state and went to La Crosse Wisconsin after committing the offense -- The case is a clear one agst him

Most respectfully Oliver W. Root County atty,