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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0084 MG3-448

George Brobston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, plumber and gas fitter) N00002506 1819? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, plumber and gas fitter. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Randall Brobston in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 30, 1842. Father of Daniel Brobston, Henry Brobston, Mary Brobston, Annie Brobston, George Brobston, and Louwela Brobston. Married to Emma J. Radway Brobston in Medina County, Ohio, on November 2, 1854. Father of Lizzie Brobston. Glass cutter in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Gas fitter in Louisville in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Plumber in partnership with Thomas Williams in Williams & Company in Louisville in 1861. Plumber in Louisville in 1863. Plumber in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 346A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 102. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 271B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Louisville, District 6, p. 586A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 5. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Medina County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 409. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, July 1863, p. 21. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 42, 264. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 225. Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) N00002525 1835-01-01 1894-12-19 Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Adair County native. Son of Nathaniel Gaither and Martha Morrison Gaither. Married to Susan Shelby Magoffin Gaither on September 25, 1861. Resident of Adair County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in Adair County. School commissioner and county attorney. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from October 2, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private.

Relationships Legal: Robert H. Thompson (Bourbon County) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Social: John Baylor Temple (Frankfort, Kentucky, banker and attorney; Preident of the Military Board of Kentucky) Social: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Social: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Caldwell County, Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: Franklin County Court Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Legal: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Legal: Thomas Barclay Harrison (Logan County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Joshua Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Joseph S. Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer, newspaper editor, and notary public) Political: Luther R. Martin (Indianapolis, Indiana, clerk and real estate agent.) Political: William Y. Wiley (Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, real estate agent, broker, life insurance salesman, commissioner of deeds, and soldier) Political: Henry Martin (Providence County, Rhode Island, justice of the peace, notary public, and commissioner of deeds) Political: James E. Stone, Sr. (Hancock County, Kentucky, minister and court clerk.) Political: William R. Mason (Judge of the Hancock County, KY, Court) Political: Timothy Holmes (Hancock County, KY, physician & home guard soldier)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 31A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 171. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, Columbia, p. 90. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 32. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 5th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1885), 862. Michael C. Watson, "An Adair County History," vol. 1 (2001), 71, 83, 221, 226. 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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