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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-007-0314 BR2-205

San Francisco, San Francisco County, California Harry Smith Homans (California/New York Life Insurance Agent) N00001130 1838-01-08 1889? Categories: People

Sacramento, California, clerk and commissioner of deeds. Pennsylvania native. Clerk in Sacramento in 1860. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in California in 1864.

Relationships Political: William Loewy (California attorney and clerk) Political: California

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, California, Sacramento County, Sacramento Ward 2, p. 91; Find A Grave, "Harry Smith Homans (1838-1889)," Memorial #93851955, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93851955&ref=acom (accessed March 29, 2017); KYR-0001-007-0314. 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. William Loewy (California attorney and clerk) N00001129 1833? 1918-08-10 Categories: People

California attorney and clerk. Native of Prussia. Relocated to San Francisco in 1852. Admitted to the California bar in 1860. Attorney in San Francisco. Practiced law with Judge Walter Van Dyke. Clerk of San Francisco County, California, in 1864. Ex-officio clerk for the 12th District Court of California in 1864.

Relationships Political: 12th District Court of California Legal: 12th District Court of California Political: California

"William Loewy, Veteran Lawyer Dies at San Jose," San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, Calif.), August 12, 1918, p. 3; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, California, San Francisco, San Francisco Ward 4, p. 354; KYR-0001-007-0314. California P00002428 Categories: Places

State in the far western United States. Capital at Sacramento. Located on the Pacific Ocean.

38.5816, -121.4944 Gregory Lewis McNamee and Neil Morgan, "California" in Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/California-state (accessed on May 25, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Sacramento, California," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 15, 2021). San Francisco, California P00006526 Categories: Places

City and county of San Francisco, California. The city and county were coexistent in 1856. Located on the Pacific Ocean.

37.775, -122.4194 Gladys Cox Hansen, Kenneth Lamott, and Barnaby Conrad, "San Francisco," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 23, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Francisco-California. "San Francisco, California," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, 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. 12th District Court of California O00001128 Categories: Organizations

Contains San Francisco County, California in 1864.

KYR-0001-007-0314 San Francisco, San Francisco County, California 1864-11-29 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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State of California City and County of San Francisco } S, S,

I, H. S. Homans duly appointed by the Governor of the State of Kentucky a Commissioner for the State of Callifornia Kentucky resident at the City and County of San Francisco State of California. do solemnly swear that I will well and faithfully execute and perform all the duties of such Commissioner under and by virtue of the laws of said State of Kentucky

H. S. Homans

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 29 -- day of November A D 1864 Wm Loewy

County Clerk, ex officio Clerk of the 12th District Court in and for said County

W L Nov Nov 29 1864

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Caflifornia Comr Deeds Oath of H. S. Homans filed 6th Jany 1865