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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-0001-017-0115 MG3-489 to MG3-490

Brooklyn, Kings County, New York Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) N00002581 1833-07-03 1862-04-06 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Frankfort, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Bell Monroe Sr. and Eliza P. Monroe. Married to Elizabeth C. Grier Monroe on November 15, 1859. Father of Robert Grier Monroe. Attended the University of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana. Practiced law in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1849. Household owned three enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Editor of Kentucky Statesman in Lexington in 1856. Mayor of Lexington in 1859. Secretary of state for Kentucky under Beriah Magoffin from August 30, 1859, to October 1, 1861. Owned one enslaved person in Franklin County in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as major from October 1861 to April 1862. Killed in action on April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Political: John Milton Johnson, Sr. (Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and surgeon (CSA)) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James G. Craig (Cincinnati, Ohio) Political: John E. Hamilton (Covington ky atty) Political: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Political: Anthony Claybrook McElroy (Springfield, ky bank cashier) Legal: Julius Rowley Pomeroy (Brooklyn, New York, teacher, commissioner of deeds, and attorney) Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: William Lewis Nugent (Washington County, Mississippi, attorney, commissioner, lieutenant colonel, second lieutenant, captain, and assistant adjutant general (C.S.A.)) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Legal: Charles James Brenham (San Francisco, California, notary public and commissioner of deeds) Political: Perry Wherritt (Harrison County, Kentucky, tanner and county court clerk) Political: Isaac Raney (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: Francis Poe (Sacramento County, California, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Legal: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Legal: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Legal: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Legal: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Legal: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Legal: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 701. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 384-85. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 500B. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J.M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), 548. Ed Porter Thompson, History of the Orphan Brigade, (Louisville: Lewis N. Thompson, 1898), 458-66. "Maj Thomas Bell Monroe (1833-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15725235, accessed December 9, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15725235. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 270. Julius Rowley Pomeroy (Brooklyn, New York, teacher, commissioner of deeds, and attorney) N00014774 1825? 1877-04-10 Categories: People

Brooklyn, New York, teacher, commissioner of deeds, and attorney. Native of Ireland. Married to Elvena F. Sherman Pomeroy. Father of Edward Pomeroy. Attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1847. Teacher in Brooklyn, New York, in 1850. Commissioner of Deeds for Kentucky in Brooklyn in 1861. Attorney in Brooklyn in 1865. Employed Celia Cumming as a servant in Brooklyn in 1865. Commissioner of Deeds for Kentucky in Brooklyn in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, Ward 3, p. 220B. New York, U.S., State Census (1865), Population Schedules, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, p. 20. The Brooklyn City Directory for the Year Ending May 1st, 1865 (Brooklyn, NY: J. Lain and Company, 1865), 333. Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Wesleyan University, 1846-47, (Middletown, CT: W. D. Starr, Printer, 1847), 12. "Julius Rowley Pomeroy (Unknown-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial #182852201, accessed June 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182852201. KYR-0001-007-0426. Brooklyn, Kings County, New York P00005611 Categories: Places

Located on Long Island in Kings County, New York. Located on the East River, the New York Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean.

40.6782, -73.9442 "Brooklyn" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Brooklyn-borough-New-York-City) (accessed May 10, 2017). New York P001007 Categories: Places

State in the northeast United States. Capital at Albany. Located on the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.

42.6526, -73.7562 Alan K. Campbell and Paul Joseph Scudlere, "New York," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-state. "Albany, New York," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed May 22, 2017, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. State of New York O00014237 1788-07-26 Categories: Organizations

Government of the state of New York. Capital at Albany, New York. Governor(s): Edwin Denison Morgan (1859-1863), Horatio Seymour (1863-1865), and Reuben Eaton Fenton (1865-1869).

Relationships Political: Edwin Denison Morgan (Albany County, New York, governor, merchant, maj genl Dpt of New York in US Army, U. S. senator) Political: Lockwood Lyon Doty (Albany County, New York, executive secretary and soldier)

Alan K. Campbell and Paul Joseph Scudiere, in Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-state, (accessed April 11, 2021). National Governors Association, Former Governors of New York, https://www.nga.org/former-governors/new-york/, (accessed April 11, 2021). Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky O00012489 1792-06-01 Categories: Organizations

Records all the acts of the governor and serves as the notary public for the Commonwealth. Secretaries of State: Thomas B. Monroe, Jr. (August 1859-October 1861); Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (October 1861-August 1862); Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (August 1862-September 1863); Ephraim L. Van Winkle (September 1863-May 1866).

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Political: Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Political: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Political: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Political: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Political: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Political: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Political: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Political: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Political: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident) Economic: William S. Dehoney (Franklin County Merchant) Economic: George W. Robb (Franklin County Merchant)

"Executive Services," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, https://www.sos.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). "Secretaries of State," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, http://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/default.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). "Kentucky Secretary of State Time Line," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, http://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/sostimeline.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). 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. Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 1861-03-23 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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State of New York City of Brooklyn} ss. March 23d 1861 To the Secretary of State. Dear Sir,

Your kind note referring to the expiration of myterm as Commissioner for Kentucky, has just been received, and I enclose the fee of five dollars, desiring to have my Commission renewed.

Please send same to me at no. 157 Henry street, Brooklyn N. Y. and much oblige.

Yours respectfully Julius R Pomeroy.

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Comr of Deeds J. R. Pomeroy Brooklyn IssdMar 28. 1861