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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-0001-007-0348 BR2-249 to BR2-250

Baltimore, Maryland Herman L. Emmons, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland, soldier and commissioner of deeds) N00004919 1833? Categories: People

Baltimore, Maryland, soldier and commissioner of deeds. Pennsylvania native. Married to Jane L. Emmons. Father of Edith M. Emmons. Captain in the 5th New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery from February 1862 to February 1865. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Baltimore in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Maryland, Baltimore, Ward 18, p. 142; ivil War Muster Roll Abstracts of New York State Volunteers, United States Sharpshooters, and United States Colored Troops [ca. 1861-1900]. Microfilm, 1185 rolls. New York State Archives, Albany, New York, Box Number 717, Abstract# 1691 (accessed via ancestry.com). 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. Nelson Taylor (New York attorney, soldier, and congressman) N00004920 1821-06-08 1894-01-16 Categories: People

New York attorney, soldier, and congressman. South Norwalk, Connecticut, native. Captain in the 1st New York Volunteer Infantry during the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. Senator of the California State Senate from 1850 to 1856. Graduated from Harvard Law School in 1860. Colonel of the 77th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment from 1861 to 1862. Brigadier General of U.S. Volunteers from 1862 to January 1863. Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1865 to 1867. Member of the Democratic Party.

Relationships Social: Herman L. Emmons, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland, soldier and commissioner of deeds)

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. "Taylor,Nelson," (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000096) (accessed May 2, 2017). William Rogers (Resident of Baltimore, Maryland) N00004921 Categories: People

Resident of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Herman L. Emmons, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland, soldier and commissioner of deeds) Social: Herman L. Emmons, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland, soldier and commissioner of deeds) Political: Herman L. Emmons, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland, soldier and commissioner of deeds)

KYR-0001-007-0348 Baltimore, Maryland P00003303 Categories: Places

City in Maryland. Located on the Chesapeake Bay.

39.2904, -76.6122 "Baltimore" in Encyclopedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltimore) (accessed March 30, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Baltimore, Maryland," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 15, 2021). 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. Baltimore, Maryland 1865-01 Correspondence 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 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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Law Offices OF HERMON L. EMMONS, Jr. Baltimore, Md. January 1865. To His Excellency, Thomas E. Bramlette Governor of the State of Kentucky Sir:

I respectfully request an appointment as Commissioner, resident in Baltimore, Md, and authorized to take Depositions, Acknowledgements of Deeds, &c., for the State of Kentucky

Yours, very respectfully, Hermon L. Emmons. Jr,

Baltimore, Md, January 1865.

The undersigned, having confidence in the integrity and ability of Hermon L. Emmons, Jr., recommend his appointment as Commissioner of Deeds.

Nelson Taylor M. C. William Rogers

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Comr Deeds Maryland H. L. Emmons Jr apptd & comd 29th Mch 1865