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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-0001-007-0315 BR2-206

Samuel Corbin Bull (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, soldier, and commissioner) N00001131 1834-09-19 1905-01-19 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, soldier, and commissioner. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Jacqueline Page Bull. Father of Jennie Page Bull and Annie Tilford Bull. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Clerk for James M. Todd in Frankfort. Served in the Frankfort Union Guard as a second lieutenant from July 1862 to August 1862. Served in the 36th Regiment of Enrolled Militia as a sergeant in June 1864. Commissioner of the Kentucky Institute for the Feeble Minded in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 242. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 869 and 897. "Death of Samuel C Bull," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 20, 1905, p. 7. Find A Grave, "Samuel Corbin Bull (1834-1905)," Memorial #79950446, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79950446/samuel-corbin-bull (accessed March 29, 2017). James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) N00001132 1817-07-28 1897-03-27 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Todd and Lucy Ann Payne Washington Todd. Married to Alisonia Bibb Rennick Todd. Father of Alexander B. Todd, Lucy P. Todd, Thomas A. Todd, William J. Todd, Letty L. Todd, Anna S. Todd, Alisonia Todd, and James M. Todd, Jr. Postmaster in Vanceburg, Kentucky, from 1845 to 1850. Postmaster of Frankfort from 1850 to 1853. Grocer in Frankfort in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Commissioner of the Kentucky Institute for the Feeble Minded in 1864.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: John C. Baker (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John C. Baker (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 80. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 19. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 8. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, p. 613 and 654, (accessed via Ancestry.com). The Kentucky Advocate (Danville, Ky.), March 29, 1897, p. 2. "James Madison Todd, the Fourth," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), July 30, 1899, p. 12. Find A Grave, "James M. Todd (1817-1897)," Memorial #61964239, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61964239 (accessed March 29, 2017). Kentucky Institute for the Feeble Minded O00001133 1860-02-11 1972? Categories: Organizations

Located in Frankfort, Kentucky. Established by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly on February 11, 1860 and signed into law by Governor Beriah Magoffin.

Relationships Political: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) Political: Samuel Corbin Bull (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, soldier, and commissioner) Economic: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) Economic: Samuel Corbin Bull (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, soldier, and commissioner)

"An Act to establish a Institution for the education of idiots and feeble-minded children," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 23-25. 1864-11-19 Note English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Feeble M. Institute S. C. Bull apptd Commissioner 19th Nov/64

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"Appoint Sam C Bull Commissioner of Feaeble Minded Institute vice Jas M. Todd Resigned