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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-0001-007-0388 BR2-301

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania John Joseph Mitchell (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, attorney and commissioner of deeds) N00005573 1819-06 1902-09-14 Categories: People

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, attorney and commissioner of deeds. Pennsylvania native. Married to Mary Ellen Mitchell. Father of Mary C. Mitchell, Lawrence Mitchell, John M. Mitchell, H. J. Mitchell, and Annie Mitchell. Attorney and real estate partner at Blakely & Mitchell, with James Blakely, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1844. Attorney in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Laurenceville, p. 65.; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Ward 17, p. 96; Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pa.,), September 17, 1844, p. 3; Find A Grave, "John Joseph Mitchell (1819-1902)," Memorial #137688594, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=137688594&ref=acom (accessed May 9, 2017); KYR-0001-007-0388. William A. Herron (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, court clerk and entrepreneur) N00005574 1819? Categories: People

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, court clerk and entrepreneur. Pennsylvania native. Marries to Louisa Herron. Father of John H. Herron and James Herron. Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions for Allegheny County in 1860 and 1865. President of the Pittsburgh & Minersville Railroad Co. in 1865. President of the Pittsburgh Glass Manufacturing Co. in 1865.

Relationships Legal: John Joseph Mitchell (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, attorney and commissioner of deeds)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Ward 13, p. 77; Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities, the Adjoining Boroughs and Villages, also, Parts of the Adjacent Townships, for 1865-'66 (Pittsburgh: George H. Thurston, 1865), p. 164; KYR-0001-007-0388. 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. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1865-03-16 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 Pennsylvania County of Allegheny } SS.

On this sixteenth day of March A.D. 1865 -- before me personally appeared John J. Mitchel appointed Commissioner for the State of Kentucky who having been duly sworn deposes and says that he would well and truly perform all the duties of his said Station

John J. Mitchel

Sworn and subscribed this 16th day of March A.D. 1865 before me

W. A. Herron Clerk Court of Quarter Sessions

W A. H Mar 16 1865

PITTSBURGH PA

My official seal John J. Mitchel Commissioner for Kentucky in Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Comr Deeds Oath of John J Mitchel Pennsylvania filed 21st March/65