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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-0001-006-0043 BR6-47 to BR6-48

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. Henry Holt (Indicted for murder in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1864. Fugitive from justice in Illinois in 1864.) N00020284 Categories: People

Indicted for murder in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1864. Fugitive from justice in Illinois in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: Francis Manville Webster (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney.) Legal: Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. )

KYR-0001-006-0043. Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. ) N00006116 1804? 1869-03-23 Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, state agent, city marshal, and deputy sheriff. Ohio native. Married to Sarah A. Cook. Father of William D. Cook, Mary Cook, Jane Cook, Sarah Cook, John Cook, Robert Cook, and William Cook. Farmer in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Agent for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the requisition of Charles Leeds from Missouri in 1859. City marshal in Newport, Campbell County, in 1860. Deputy sheriff of Campbell County in 1861. Agent for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the requisition of Claudius Tifft from Wisconsin in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Ephraim Ladd (Campbell County, Kentucky, carpenter and justice of the peace.) Legal: John P. Jackson (Newport, Kentucky, tinner) Legal: John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.) Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Legal: James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin) Legal: State of Wisconsin Legal: Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.) Legal: Henry Holt (Indicted for murder in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1864. Fugitive from justice in Illinois in 1864.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Campbell County, Newport, p. 34A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 250. "On Their Winding Way," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), February 25, 1861, p. 3. "Death of the City Marshal," The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), March 24, 1869, p. 7. "Action of the City Council in Regard to the Death of Marshal Cook," The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), March 25, 1869, p. 7. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Begun and Held in the Town of Frankfort, on Monday, the Fifth Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord 1859, and of the Commonwealth the Sixty-Eighth (Frankfort, KY: Jno B. Major, 1859), 977. Francis Manville Webster (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney.) N00004738 1820? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney. New York native. Son of Waite Webster and Sarah Manville Webster. Married to Ann E. Swiney Webster. Father of Mary Alice Webster, S. Nazarene Webster, York Webster, F. Gertrude Webster, Katie Webster, and Anna Webster. Attorney in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Campbell County in 1850. Attorney in Campbell County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Campbell County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Jacob Hawthorn (Campbell County, Kentucky, merchant and politician) Political: George Coy (Maysville, Kentucky machinist) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: William H. Girty (Campbell County, KY, Clerk) Legal: Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. ) Political: Richard Yates (Morgan County, Illinois, governor, attorney, representative, and senator)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 44A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 634. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 237A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 381B. Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. IX (Harrisburg, PA: Press of Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1899), 152-3. 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. 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/. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Campbell Circuit Court O00000361 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 9th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): S. M. Moore and Joseph Doniphan. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William Evans Arthur (1856-1862) and R. B. Carpenter (1862-1865). Clerk(s): Gus Artsman and Benjamin Beall.

Relationships Legal: F. S. Grismier (Newport, Campbell Co, KY, soldier) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: William Gearty (Cincinnati, Ohio railroad passenger agent) Economic: Gustavus Artsman (Newport, Kentucky, attorney, and circuit court clerk) Familial: Austin Morris (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Familial: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John S. M. Gruder () Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Jacob Carmack (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Wright (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Thomas J. Daniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Smith (Campbell County, KY, blacksmith) Legal: William Lees (Campbell County, KY, laborer) Legal: Timothy McDaniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Thomas Jones (Campbell County, KY, farmer and deputy court clerk) Legal: John Henderson, Jr. (Campbell County, KY, riverboat pilot and farmer) Legal: John Hayden Nelson (Campbell County, KY, attorney) Legal: J. H. Darr (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: James H. Scott (Kenton County, KY, farmer) Legal: William C. Byrd (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Byrd (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Luther Dayton (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John F. Traver (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Dones (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Jonathan Horsfall (Campbell County, KY, jailer) Legal: George Richard Fearons (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: John Kinney (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Fridolin "Fred" Brutsche (Newport, Kentucky, shopkeeper and distiller.)

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, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. 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. State of Illinois O00014696 1818-12-03 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Illinois. Capital at Springfield, Illinois. Governor(s): William Henry Bissell (January 12, 1857 - March 18, 1860), John Wood (March 18, 1860 - January 14, 1861), Richard Yates (January 14, 1861 - January 16, 1865), and Richard James Oglesby (January 16, 1865 - January 11, 1869).

Relationships Political: Richard Yates (Morgan County, Illinois, governor, attorney, representative, and senator) Political: Ozias Mather Hatch (Springfield, IL, secretary of state of IL (1856-1864))

Janet Cartwright, Richard T. Lockhart, and Paul Simon, “Illinois,” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed June 5, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/place/Illinois-state. “Former Illinois Governors," National Governors Association, accessed June 5, 2021, https://www.nga.org/former-governors/illinois. Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky 1864-09-30 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 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Newport Ky Sep 30/64 Tho E Bramlette

Gov of Ky Sir

Herewith I send you a copy of an indictment found in our court against Henry Holt -- He has fled from this state and is in the state of Ill as I am informed and believe -- It is desired by parties here who wish to have him brought to justice to obtain from you upon the Govr of Ill a Requisition for the fugitive & I write this in view of such proceeding

I would suggest as a proper person to act as the agent of this state in the behalf M Cook Esqr who is City Marshal of this place

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and who will I have no doubt be efficient and diligent in the discharge of Such duty --

I am most respectfully &c F. M. Webster City Atty Newport

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Requisition Govr Illinois apptd M. Cook Agent 3rd Oct/64