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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-0001-007-0326 BR2-219

Carrollton, Carroll 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. Theoderick Fisher (Carroll County, Kentucky, merchant, clergyman, and justice of the peace) N00002088 1803? Categories: People

Carroll County, Kentucky, merchant, clergyman, and justice of the peace. New Hampshire native. Merchant in Carroll County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in 1850. Baptist clergyman in Ghent, Kentucky, in 1860. Justice of the peace in Carroll County in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Carroll County, District 1, p. 34.; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Carroll County, District 1, p. 3; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Carroll County, Ghent, p. 4. Samuel Stebbins Carlisle (Carroll County farmer) N00000695 1830-02-15 1915-04-09 Categories: People

Carroll County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Carlisle and Asneath Potifer Twiliger Carlisle. Married Elizabeth Mendenhall Carlisle. Farmer in Carroll County in 1850 and 1860.

Relationships Social: William Martin Fisher (Carroll co lawyer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, Districk No. 2, p. 203. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, District No. 2, p. 68. Find A Grave, "Samuel Stebbins Carlisle (1820 - 1915)," Memorial #12744508, https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12744508 (accessed May 17, 2017). Bland Ballard Elston (Carroll County, Kentucky, postmaster, farmer, and justice of the peace) N00002089 1831 1915-10-14 Categories: People

Carroll County, Kentucky, postmaster, farmer, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Marries to Lydia A. Elston. Father of Lena A. Elston, Ella Elston, Elizabeth Elston, and Frances H. Elston. Postmaster of Prestonville, Kentucky, from 1858 to 1859. Farmer in Carroll County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Carroll County in 1864.

Relationships Political: James S. Clark (Likely Carroll County)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Carroll County, District 2, p. 40; Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Prestonville, Carroll County, KY, P. 502 (accessed via Ancestry.com); Find A Grave, "Bland Ballard Elston (1831-1915)," Memorial #16284266, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16284266&ref=acom (accessed March 10, 2017). Richard William Masterson (Carroll County, Kentucky, attorney) N00002090 1817-03-14 1904-12-30 Categories: People

Carroll County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married Margaret "Maggie" J. Wright Masterson on November 16, 1858. Father of Kate J. Masterson. Surveyor for Carroll County in 1848. Census taker for Carroll County in 1850. Attorney in Carrollton, Kentucky in 1860.

Relationships Political: Samuel Stebbins Carlisle (Carroll County farmer) Social: Elijah Frank Nuttall (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge Eighth Judicial District) Social: William Beverly Winslow (Carroll County, Kentucky, attorney and bank president.) Social: Thomas A. Berryman (Owen County, Kentucky, attorney, chair of bd of trustees for Owenton)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Carroll County, Carrollton, p. 14; "Appointments by the Governor," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), September 20, 1848, p. 1; Find A Grave, "Richard William Masterson (1817-1904)," Memorial #31723382, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31723382&ref=acom (accessed March 10, 2017). Carrollton, Kentucky P00000697 Categories: Places

Seat of Carroll County, Kentucky. Located at the confluence of the Kentucky River and the Ohio River.

38.6809, -85.1794 Mary Ann Gentry, "Carrollton" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 166. Carroll County, Kentucky P00000682 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Carrollton, Kentucky. Located at the confluence of the Kentucky River and the Ohio River.

38.6748, -85.0694 Mary Ann Gentry, "Carroll County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 165. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Carroll County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 30, 2020). Carroll County Court O00000609 Categories: Organizations

Located in Carrolton, Carroll County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Alex A. Lathrop. Clerk(s): John R. Vance, Allen Hanks, and R. F. Harrison.

Relationships Political: Allen Hanks (Carroll County Court Clerk) Political: John James Orr (County Atty., Carroll Co.) Political: Rowland Thomas Vories (Carroll County sheriff)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Carrollton, Carroll County, Kentucky 1864-11-30 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Carrollton Nov 30, 1864 E. L. Vanwinkle Esqr Secty

Dear Sir I received sometime since a letter requesting me to recommend some good loyall man to act as justice of the Peace for District No 1 in the place of T. Fisher resigned I have delayed answering in order to comply but have not been abble to find the right sort of man who would accept the appointment

I hoever respectfully request that Samuel Carlisle may be commissioned as Justice of the Peace for Carrollton District No 2 in the room of B. B. Elston resgined, his loyalty and fitness are unquestioned & undoubted. I would like very much for him to have his Commission in time for our Court of claims (which by Special Statue) meets next Monday the 5th of Decr as we have only two Justices in Commission in this (Carroll) County

Respectfully R. W. Masterson

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Carroll Co Justice Peace Sam'l Carlisle apptd2nd Dec/64