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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-0001-017-0111 MG3-482

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio William Proctor Mellen (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent) N00002563 1814 1873 Categories: People

Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent. Massachusetts native. Father of William S. Mellen. Married to Isabella Mellen. Father of Malcom Mellen and Isabel Mellen. Married to Ellen S. Mellen. Father of Ellen S. Mellen and Charlotte Mellen. Attorney in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Coal manufacturer in Lawrence County in 1860. Appointed commissioner of deeds for Kentucky in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861. Port authority in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Treasury agent in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1864.

Relationships Political: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Timothy Danielson Lincoln (Covington, Ky) Political: Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) Social: [Unknown] Simmons (Louisville Resident) Social: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Social: Scott Brown (Franklin County, KY, Adjutant genl of KY, farmer) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, My District, p. 471A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 589. F. & J. Rivers & George A. Bailey, The Congressional Globe and Appendix, Third Session Forty-First Congress: In Three Parts pt. 2 (Washington DC: Office of the Congressional Globe, 1871), 1026. Find A Grave, "William Proctor Mellen (1814-1873)," Memorial #78996603, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78996603 (accessed September 25, 2018). KYR-0001-017-0088. Ethan Allen Brown (Hamilton County, Ohio, law student, notary public and 1st lieut 34th OH Inf (U.S.A)) N00014701 1839-07-20 1862-10-07 Categories: People

Hamilton County, Ohio, law student, notary public, and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Daniel Wilson Brown and Esther Jane Brown. Student in Ashland County, Ohio, in 1850. Schoolteacher in Hamilton County in 1860. Law student and notary public in Hamilton County in 1861. Served in the 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from August 16, 1861, to October 7, 1862. Died in Gallipolis, Ohio, from wounds received at the Battle of Fayetteville, West Virginia, on October 7, 1862.

Relationships Political: State of Ohio Legal: William Proctor Mellen (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Ashland County, Ashland, p. 429B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Storrs, p. 86. Find A Grave, "Ethan Allen Brown (1839-1862)," Memorial #34874031, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34874031(accessed June 7, 2021). Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, vol. 3 (Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Pub. & MFG. Co., 1886), 589. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, Compiled 1861-1865, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917, NARA RG 94, Ohio, A-B. Williams' Cincinnati Directory (Cincinnati: C.S. Williams, 1861), 91. Hamilton County, Ohio P00001873 Categories: Places

County in southwestern Ohio. Seat at Cincinnati. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1955, -84.5428 Jennifer Herman, Ohio Encyclopedia (Somerset Publishers, Inc., 2002), 410. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Hamilton County, Ohio," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on July 30, 2020). Cincinnati, Ohio P00001208 Categories: Places

Seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1031, -84.512 "Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17. Ohio P001036 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Columbus. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

39.9612, -82.9988 "Columbus, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Jeff Wallenfeldt, Francis R. Aumann, and George W. Knepper, "Ohio," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Ohio-state. State of Ohio O00014700 1803 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Ohio. Capital at Columbus.

"A Brief History of Ohio's State Government," The Ohio Legislature, accessed June 7, 2021, https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/publications/a-brief-history. 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. Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 1861-03-16 Legal/Financial 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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State of Ohio Hamilton Co } ss

Wm P. Mellen of the City of Cincinnati in said county & state, being duly sworn says that he will well and truly execute and perform all his duties as Commissioner of Deeds for the state of Kentucky resident in said city & county in the state of Ohio, according to the best of his skill & judgment

Wm P. Mellen

State of Ohio Hamilton County } ss:

I Ethan A Browna Notary Public within and for the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, and duly commissioned as such do hereby certify, that William. P. Mellen, appeared before me in my office in the city of Cincinnati in said County and State; and being by me duly sworn made oath to the above affidavit and subscribed the same in my presence.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal this sixteenth day of March AD 1861.

HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO NOTARIAL SEAL

Ethan A Brown -- Notary Public. Hamilton County Ohio--

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Oath of Wm P. Mellen Comr of Deeds Filed Mar 18 1861