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Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Henry Holdship (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, clerk and commissioner of deeds) N00004917 1825? 1897? Categories: People

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, clerk and commissioner of deeds. Pennsylvania native. Married to Maria Holdship. Father of Charles Holdship and George W. Holdship. Clerk for the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company in 1861. Assistant secretary and treasurer of the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company in 1863. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1865.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Allegheny Ward 4, p. 66; The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial (Pittsburgh, Pa.), November 24, 1863, p. 1; Find A Grave, "Henry Holdship (1825-1897)," Memorial #122389150, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=122389150&ref=acom (accessed May2, 2017); Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities . . . for 1861-62 (Pittsburgh: George H. Thurston, 1861), 138. 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. C. H. Israel (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, alderman, entrepreneur, and notary public) N00004918 Categories: People

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, alderman, entrepreneur, and notary public. Alderman of the Fourth Ward of Pittsburgh in 1845. Secretary of the Lucesco Oil Company in Pittsburgh in 1863. Notary public in Pittsburgh in in 1863 and 1865.

Relationships Political: Henry Holdship (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, clerk and commissioner of deeds)

"Elections," Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pa.), January 8, 1856, p. 2; The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial (Pittsburgh, Pa.), September 16, 1863, p. 1. "Statements of Exchange," The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial (Pittsburgh, Pa.), October 2, 1863, p. 2. Pennsylvania P001006 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Harrisburg. Located on Lake Erie and the Delaware River.

40.2737, -76.8844 Carol Lewis Thompson and E. Willard Miller, "Pennsylvania," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Pennsylvania-state. "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania P00004916 Categories: Places

Seat at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

40.4406, -79.9959 "Allegheny County" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Allegheny) (accessed May 2, 2017). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania P001033 Categories: Places

Seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River, forming the Ohio River.

40.4406, -79.9959 "Pittsburgh" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Pittsburgh) (accessed May 20, 2017). 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. Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1865-01-27 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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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State of Pennsylvania County of Allegheny City of Pittsburg } S. S

On this 27th day of January A. D. 1865, before me a Notary Public in and for said City, personally appeared Henry Holdship, to me well known, who having been duly sworn, doth depose and say: That having been appointed by "Letters Patent" dated January 16th A. D. 1865 issued by the Governor of the State of Kentucky, A Commissioner of Deeds for theState of Kentucky, in and for the State of Pennsylvania, he will well and truly execute and perform all the duties of his station under said appointment --

Henry Holdship

Sworn and subscribed to on the day above written in testimony whereof I have hereunto placed my hand and affixed my seal of office.

C H ISRAELL Notary Public

NOTARY PUBLIC, ALLEGHENY CO. PA. C. H. ISRAELL.

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Comr of Deeds Oath of Henry Holdship Filed 2nd Feby 1865