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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-0001-017-0183 MG4-88

Rough and Ready, Anderson County, Kentucky James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) N00001223 1831-01-02 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, post office clerk, and state official. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas L. Tate and Nancy Taylor Tate. Married to Lucy J. Hawkins Tate in Woodford County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1856. Father of Howard S. Tate and Edmonia Tate. Clerk of the U.S. Post Office in Frankfort, Franklin County, in 1848. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Assistant secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1854 to 1855 and from 1859 to 1863. Owned two enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Assistant clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1865 to 1867.

Relationships Political: Benjamin F. Graves (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Cawein (Louisville restaurant owner and merchant) Political: Thomas Sullivan (Louisville, Jefferson Co) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: George W. Thompson (Parke County, Indiana, merchant, attorney, deed commissioner, and court clerk) Political: William Alexander (Brandenburg, Meade Co. lawyer) Political: James F. Overton (Meade Co. Ky miller) Political: Enos Keith (Meade Co, Ky) Political: Alexander Bell Patrick (Breathitt Co & Cir Ct Clerk, private CSA) Political: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Economic: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Political: Oscar J. Somes (McCracken County, Kentucky, bank teller and capt 3rd Ky Inf (C.S.A)) Political: Josiah Stoddard Byers (McCracken County, Kentucky, bookstore clerk, midshipman, captain 3rd Ky Inf CSA) Political: Commercial Bank of Kentucky Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Political: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds) Political: Charles James Brenham (San Francisco, California, notary public and commissioner of deeds) Political: Theodore M. Morgan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and commissioner, captain 98th NY Inf USA) Political: State Department of Kentucky Political: Joseph Tucker (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, resident) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: John G. Douglass (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Legal: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 22B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 259. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 491B. James C. Klotter, "Tate, James W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 867-68. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994058, Woodford County Marriages. Henry B. Grant (Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk, notary, and captain (U.S.A.)) N00015068 1837-03 1926-08-26 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk, notary, and soldier. Auburn, New York, native. Son of Lorain Grant and Betsy Grant. Married to Maria L. Richardson Grant in Louisville, Kentucky, on February 26, 1863. Father of Rebecca Grant. Resident in Cass County, Michigan, in 1850. Clerk for Northern Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Notary in Louisville in 1861. Served in the twenty-seventh Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) as captain from October 20, 1861, to January 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Michigan, Cass County, Ontwa, p. 257A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 430B-431A. “Captain H. B. Grant One of the Most Prominent Masons in Kentucky Dies at His Home in Louisville,” The Central Record (Lancaster, KY), Aug. 30, 1912, p. 2. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482709, p. 151. Tanner's Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville, KY: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 103. "Henry Bannister Grant (1837-1926)," Find A Grave, Memorial #84519169, accessed July 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84519169. KYR-0001-017-0183. Thomas Scudder Page (Frankfort, KY, farmer & former asst state auditor ) N00004216 1800-04-19 1877-04-17 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, state auditor and farmer. New York native. Son of John Page and Eliza Harriet Rothwell Page. Resident of Virginia in 1802. Married to Sophia Western Woolfolk Page. Married to Jane Briggs Julian Page in 1828. Second state auditor in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Franklin County in 1860.

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Henry B. Grant (Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk, notary, and captain (U.S.A.)) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 2, p. 54B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 2, p. 295. "Thomas Scudder Page (1800-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 79947618, accessed April 10, 2017. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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). Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Rough and Ready, Anderson County, Kentucky 1861-08-09 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 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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James W. TateEsq: Will you have a Comm: as Notary, sent to Henry B. Grant of Louisville Ky: -- Iwill pay charges --

Very Respy Tho. S. Page Rough & Ready 9 Aug/'61

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Jefferson Co

Notary H. B. Grant ApdAug 12 1861