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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, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-006-0042 BR6-46

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Ephraim L. Van Winkle (Pulaski Co, KY, attorney & Sec. State) N001777 1827-07-20 1866-05-23 Categories: People

Pulaski County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and statesman. Wayne County, Kentucky, native. Son of Micajah Van Winkle and Mary Phillips Van Winkle. Married to Ellen Eliza Phillips Van Winkle. Father of Milton E. Van Winkle, Mary E. Van Winkle, Lucy A. Van Winkle, and Betty Van Winkle. Attended the Monticello Academy in Wayne County, Kentucky. Graduate of the Louisville School of Law in 1850. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Wayne County in 1855. Commonwealth's attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in 1856. State elector for Constitutional Union Party candidate John Bell in 1860. Attorney in Pulaski County in 1860. Employed James Cowan as a day laborer in Pulaski County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Pulaski County in 1860. Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to May 23, 1866.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division No. 2, p. 242B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 155. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset District 1, p. 195A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Pulaski County, KY, July 1863, p. 163. "Ephraim Van Winkle," Office of the Kentucky Secretary of State, accessed September 22, 2021, https://web.sos.ky.gov/ofx/secsofstate?id=39. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls 994057, Wayne County Births. Thomas Woodward (Louisville, Kentucky, barkeeper.) N00010682 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, barkeeper. Barkeeper in Louisville in 1864. Charged with the murder of Christian Baker in Louisville in 1864.

Relationships Economic: Michael Sharer (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, hotel keeper) Social: Christian Baker (Louisville, Kentucky shoemaker) Legal: Delos T. Bligh (Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer and police officer, detective) Legal: City of Louisville Police Department Legal: William K. Thomas (Jefferson County, Kentucky, jailer)

KYR-0001-004-1398. KYR-0001-004-1915. William Milo Stone (Sixth governor of Iowa, attorney, and judge.) N00020428 1827-10-14 1893-07-18 Categories: People

Sixth governor of Iowa, attorney, newspaper editor, judge, and soldier. Jefferson County, New York, native. Son of Truman F. Stone and Lavina North Stone. Married to Caroline M. Mathews Stone in 1858. Father of William Stone. Chairmaker in Coschocton County, Ohio, in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1851. Attorney in Marion County, Iowa, in 1854. Editor of The Knoxville Journal in Marion County in 1855. Presidential elector for the Republican Party from Iowa in 1856. District judge in Marion County in 1860. Served in the 3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and major from June 8, 1861, to September 9, 1862. Captured at the Battle of Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee, in April 1862. Served in the 22nd Iowa Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from September 9, 1862, to August 13, 1863. Republican Governor of the State of Iowa from January 14, 1864, to January 16, 1868. Appointed brevet brigadier general of volunteers on March 13, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Coshocton County, Coshocton, pp. 126A-B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Iowa, Marion County, Knoxville, p. 19. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Iowa, Marion County, Knoxville Township, p. 72A. "Death of Governor Stone," The Oklahoma Times Journal (Oklahoma City, OT), July 19, 1893, p. 1. "Passed away in Oklahoma," The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, IA), July 19, 1893, p. 1. Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, vol. IV (New York City: The Century History Company, 1903), 253. Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 930. Dexter North, John North of Farmington Connecticut and His Descendants: With a Short Account of Other Early North Families (Washington, D.C.: 1921), 62. Delos T. Bligh (Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer and police officer, detective) N00005178 1823-03-19 1890-03-01 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer, soldier, police officer and detective. Delaware County, New York, native. Married to Cassandra "Kate" Davis Bligh. Father of Mary Bligh and Emma Bligh. Married Kate Ovington Bligh in 1859. Father of Anna Bligh, Amy Bligh, and Lois Bligh. Served in the Louisville Legion (U.S.A.) as a private from May 1846 to November 1846. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1847. Bricklayer in Louisville in 1850. Police officer and detective in Louisville from 1856 to 1890.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William K. Thomas (Jefferson County, Kentucky, jailer) Legal: Christian Hafner (Fugitive in Indiana.) Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: David Owen (Carroll County, Kentucky, jailer..) Legal: William Shriver (Jefferson County, Kentucky, student, laborer, corporal, quartermaster sergeant, adjutant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant (U.S.A.))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 321B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 702. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 507A. "His Life Ended," The Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), March 2, 1890, p. 9. Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police: History and Personnel (Louisville, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2005), 11, 76. "Delos Thurman Bligh (1823-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6942591, accessed May,18, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6942591. Richard Owen Priest (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and patrolman) N00012445 1810-12-25 1890-04-06 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, carpenter and patrolman. Kentucky native. Son of Peter Priest and Lucy Priest. Married to Ann Hurd Priest in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 2, 1852. Father of Kate Priest. Carpenter in Louisville in 1850. Patrolman in Louisville in 1853. Carpenter in Louisville in 1860. Chief of Police in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Political: William Milo Stone (Sixth governor of Iowa, attorney, and judge.) Legal: City of Louisville Police Department Legal: Emma Morris (Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Fugitive from justice.) Legal: Joseph Swinney (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and agent.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 198A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 636. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707. "Dick Priest Dead," Courier-Journal(Louisville, KY), April 7, 1890, p 7. 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. 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). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Iowa P001009 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Des Moines. Located on the Mississippi River.

41.6005, -93.6091 "Des Moines, Iowa," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Rex D. Honey and Neil E. Salisbury, "Iowa," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Iowa-state. City of Louisville Police Department O00012619 1806-06-09 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, police force. Founded as the office of watchmen in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 9, 1806. Instituted as the designated police force by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on March 8, 1856.

Relationships Legal: Peter Ziemer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, janitor) Legal: Thomas Palmer Satterwhite (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Jacob B. Ehrich (Louisville, Ky, Police Dept; "always wore a silk hat") Legal: Joseph Swinney (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and agent.) Legal: Richard Owen Priest (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and patrolman)

"The History of the Louisville Division of Police," Louisvilleky.gov, accessed on May 12, 2020, https://louisvilleky.gov/government/police/history-louisville-division-police. State of Iowa O00020427 1846 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the State of Iowa. Capital at Des Moines. Governor(s): Samuel J. Kirkwood (1860-1864) and William M. Stone (1864-1868).

Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa: Form the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, vol. I (New York City: The Century History Company, 1903). Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-09-19 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Office Chief of Police, Louisville, Ky., Sept 19th 1864 Hon'ble the Secy of State Frankfort Ky, Dr Sir

Enclosed you will find copy of Indictment against Thos Woodward, who is charged with murder. You will please send requisition for him on the Gov. of Iowa, appointing Delos. T. Bligh agent to convey him here.

Respectfully Richd O Priest Chief of Police

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Requisition Govr Iowa for Thos Woodward

Delos T. Bligh Agent 20th, Sept 1864