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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-0001-017-0160 MG4-56

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 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. Hugh W. Tener (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, atty, bookkeeper and commissioner of deeds) N00002585 1825 Categories: People

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, bookkeeper, and commissioner of deeds. Native of Ireland. Son of Robert Tener. Member of the Independent Taylor Men of Philadelphia, organized to support presidential candidate Zachary Taylor, in 1848. Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Bookkeeper in Philadelphia in 1860. Partner, with Robert C. Davis, of Tener & Davis law and collection office in Philadelphia from c1861. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1861 and 1862. Vice president of the 5th Ward of the Philadelphia Democratic Party in 1862. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1865.

Relationships Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Legal: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Economic: Tener & Davis Economic: Kinley J. Tener (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, clerk, student, and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, New Market Ward, p. 389A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, p. 68. "Address to the People of Pennsylvania," Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), October 20, 1848, p. 2. "Local Intelligence," The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA), August 25, 1862, p. 8. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1861 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1861), 979. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1862 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1862), 660. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1863 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1863), 746. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1864 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1864), 736. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1865 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1865), 668. KYR-0001-017-0160. Kinley J. Tener (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, clerk, student, and attorney) N00015138 1843 1923 Categories: People

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, clerk, student, and attorney. Native of Ireland. Son of Richard Tener. Clerk in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1860. Clerk in the firm of Tener & Davis in Philadephia in 1861. Law student in Philadelphia County in 1863. Law student in Philadelphia County in 1864. Attorney in Philadelphia County in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Tener & Davis

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, p. 299. "Kinley J. Tener (1843-1923)," Find A Grave, Memorial #204463010, accessed July 21, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204463010. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1863 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1863), 746. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1864 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1864), 736. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1865 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1865), 668. KYR-0001-017-0160. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania P00001701 Categories: Places

Seat of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Schuylkill River.

39.9523, -75.1638 "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 20, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Sylvester K. Stevens, John B. B. Trussell, and Mathew S. Magda, "Philadelphia," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed June 6, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Philadelphia. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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/. Tener & Davis O00015140 1861? 1871? Categories: Organizations

Law practice and collection firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Operated from c1861 to c1871. Partner(s): Hugh W. Tener and Robert C. Davis. Clerk: Kinley J. Tener (1861).

McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1861 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1861), 979. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1862 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1862), 660. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1863 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1863), 746. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1864 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1864), 736. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1865 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1865), 668. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1866 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: A. McElroy, 1866), 724. Gopsill's Philadelphia City and Business Directory for 1867-8 ed. Isaac Costa (Philadelphia: James Gopsill, 1867), 1236. Gopsill's Philadelphia City and Business Directory for 1868-9 ed. Isaac Costa (Philadelphia: James Gopsill, 1868), 1525. Gopsill's Philadelphia City Directory for 1870 ed. Isaac Costa (Philadelphia: James Gopsill, 1870), 1492. Gopsill's Philadelphia City Directory for 1871 ed. Isaac Costa (Philadelphia: James Gopsill, 1871), 1384. KYR-0001-017-0160. 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. Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 1861-04-16 Correspondence 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 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Law and Collection Office OF TENER & DAVIS, No 13 South Third Street, Philadelphia April 16 1861 Copy -- Dear Sir:

Your favor of 12th inst is received. For which please accept my thanks -- I was just on the point of writing for a renewal of my commission. Enclosed find Five Dollars, on receipt of which, I will be obliged if you will send me a new commission as comr of Ky

Yours ty

Hugh W. Tener

T. B. Monroe Jr Esq Sec'y of State Frankfort Ky

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Pennsylvania

Coms of Deeds H. W. Tener

Philad

IssdMay 20. 1861

Philada. May 16. 1861

T. B. Monroe Jr. Esq. Secy of State Frankfort Ky. Dear Sir:

I have been looking from for an answer to the within for several days past.

A reply by return mail will much oblige

Yours, respy Hugh W. Tener per K. J. Tener