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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-0001-006-0101 BR6-127 to BR6-128

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin) N00008425 1819-10-30 1904-08-05 Categories: People

Ninth Governor of the state of Wisconsin. Clarendon, New York native. Son of Shubael Lewis and Eleanor Robertson Lewis. Attended Clarkson Academy and Clinton Seminary in New York. Attorney in Columbus, Wisconsin in 1845. Married to Orlina Marion Lewis on July 23, 1846. Elected district attorney, county judge of probate, and member of the state constitutional convention of 1847 to 1848. Elected to the state general assembly in 1852. Elected to the state senate in 1853. Lieutenant governor in Wisconsin from 1854 to 1856. Secretary of state in Wisconsin from 1862 to 1864. Governor of Wisconsin from January 4, 1864 to January 1, 1866.

Relationships 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: John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.) Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Legal: Oliver W. Root (county attorney) Legal: Henry Barnes (printer, Campbell County) Political: Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.) Political: State of Wisconsin

J. T. White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XII (New York: James T. White & Company, 1904). 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. John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.) N00006113 1843? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer. Virginia native. Son of Elizabeth Barnes. Laborer in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Farmer in Campbell County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Familial: Henry Barnes (printer, Campbell County) Economic: Henry Barnes (printer, Campbell County) Legal: Ephraim Ladd (Campbell County, Kentucky, carpenter and justice of the peace.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 844. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Campbell County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 36. 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. 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. 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. James R. Page (Frankfort, KY, merchant, capt 9th KY Cav USA & asst. sec. state) N001778 1827? 1875? Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, soldier, and statesman. New York native. Married to Susan Page in 1850. Father of Isaac R. Page, Henry C. Page, and John H. Page. Married to Mary T. Hodges Page in Franklin County, Kentucky, on December 8, 1858. Father of James R. Page, Albert M. Page, and Lizzie D. Page. Clerk in Frankfort in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and major from August 22, 1862, to February 14, 1863. Assistant Secretary of State under Ephraim L. Van Winkle, who served from September 1, 1863, to May 23, 1866.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District N. 1, p. 39B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 914. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, pp. 241-42. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Richland County, Denver Township, p. 517B. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0098. “Decoration Day,” The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, KY), May 28, 1892, p. 3. "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 – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll 994034, Franklin County Marriages. "Memorandum," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), May 31, 1867, p. 1. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 228-29, 251. William E. Hughes (Jefferson County, KY, newspaper editor and public printer) N00002718 1820? Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, newspaper editor and public printer. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Eliza R. Harney Hughes in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 10, 1846. Father of Edward H. Hughes, Wallace E. Hughes, William B. Hughes, Mary E. Hughes, Martha Hughes, and Thomas P. Hughes. Editor in Louisville in 1850. Editor of the Louisville Democrat with John H. Harney in Louisville in 1860. Installed as public printer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in December 1861.

Relationships Military: William G. Rogers (Regimental quartermaster in 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Elias Thomasson (Regimental quartermaster. 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Economic: The Commonwealth Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 181A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 1104. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Arkansas, Desha County, Mississippi Township, p. 504B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 346. Pennsylvania, U. S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968_, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA, Philadelphia County, File 23061. Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.) N00005591 1827-08-16 1899-11-08 Categories: People

Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin. Brown County, Wisconsin, native. Son of Henry Smith and Elvira Foster Smith. Married to Sarah M. Fellows Smith in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, on September 1, 1853. Father of Anna E. Smith, Henry L. Smith, and Eva E. Smith. Graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, in 1846. Attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1850. Attorney in Milwaukee in 1860. Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Social: Francis Bloodgood (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Political: Andrew G. Miller (Wisconsin associate justice and judge) Political: State of Wisconsin Political: James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin) Legal: Government of the United States of America Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Ward 4, p. 335. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Ward 7, p. 106A. Wisconsin Marriage Records Pre-1907, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Vol 01-09, Microfilm 104, Marriage 01957. "Died in London," The Weekly Wisconsin(Milwaukee, WI), November 11, 1899, p. 4. Parker McCobb Reed, The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography (Milwaukee, WI: P.M. Reed, 1882), 191-9. Wisconsin P00002521 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Madison. Located on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.

43.0731, -89.4012 Ingolf K. Vogeler and Robert W. Finley, "Wisconsin," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 9, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Wisconsin. "Madison, Wisconsin," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 24, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. State of Wisconsin O00019944 1848 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the State of Wisconsin. Capital at Madison.

Richard Nelson Current, Wisconsin: A History (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1977). Charles R. Tuttle, An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin: Being a Complete Civil, Political, and Military History of the State (Madison, WI: B.B. Russell & Co., 1875). Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) O00010556 1792 Categories: Organizations

Office of the Governor, in which the constitution of Kentucky vests the executive power of the state.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380-81. 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. Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

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To his Excellency,

GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF Wisconsin

WHEREAS, Claudius Tift stands charged by Indictment of John Barnes with the crime of Felony, AND WHEREAS, Information has been received at the Executive Department of this State, that the said Claudius Tift has fled from justice, and is now in the State of Wisconsin a fugitive from justice; and it being important and highly necessary for the good of society that the perpetrators of such offences should be brought to justice:

Now, Therefore, I, THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do, by these presents, demand the said Claudius Tift as a fugitive from the justice of the laws of this State, and made known to your Excellency that I have appointed Moses Cook my agent to receive said fugitive, and bring him to this State, having jurisdiction of the said offense, that he may abide his trial for the crime for which he stands charged.

In compliance with the requisitions, I herewith annex and submit to your Excellency a copy of the Indictment affidavit upon which the demand is founded, which I certify to be authentic.

SEAL OF KENTUCKY UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed, at FRANKFORT, on the 17th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty five, and in the 74th year of the Commonwealth.

BY THE GOVERNOR: Thos E Bramlette E. L. VanWinkle, SECRETARY OF STATE, By Jas R Page Asst Secty Commonwealth Office -- WM. E. HUGHES, State Printer.

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Requisition upon Gov of Wisconsin Returned with Atty Genl's of Wisconsin Opinion filed 8th Dec/65 & new Requisition issued 8 Dec/65