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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-0001-017-0275 MG4-209

Joseph Martin Rogers (Jefferson County, Kentucky, student and notary public) N00014680 1839-07-14 1923-09-28 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, student and notary public. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of B. F. Rogers and Mary Ann Coons Rogers Keyes. Married to Kate Gamble Rogers in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 17, 1863. Father of Bernard Rogers. Attended school in Fayette County in 1850. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Attended school in Jefferson County in 1860. Graduate of the University of Louisville in Jefferson County. Household owned thirty-three enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Attorney in Jefferson County in 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861.

Relationships Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: Horatio Fleming Simrall (Jefferson County, KY, attorney and law professor, offered VP of prov govt) Social: William Fontaine Bullock (Louisville, KY, attorney & judge) Social: Henry Pirtle (Louisville)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 133A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 513. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 464. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 404B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 580A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819617. The Lexington Herald, March 16, 1898, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78884578/. "Joseph Martin Rogers (1839-1928)," Find A Grave, Memorial 107542924, accessed June 3, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107542924. KYR-0001-017-0142. Henry Pirtle (Louisville) N00000343 1799 1880-03-28 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Jane A. Pirtle. Father of Alfred Pirtle, Ella Pirtle, James Pirtle, Jane Pirtle, Harriet K. Pirtle, and Elizabeth A. Pirtle. Admitted to the bar in 1819. Appointed Circuit Court Judge in Louisville in 1829 and again in 1846. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1840 to 1844. Appointed chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court in 1850. Chancellor of Louisville Chancery Court in Louisville in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Employed one additional enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Appointed chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court in 1862. Professor of constitutional law, equity, and commercial law at the University of Louisville.

Relationships Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 296A-B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 119. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 272B. The History of Kentucky, Edition 8a (Louisville: F. A. Battey Publishing Company, 1888). William Fontaine Bullock (Louisville, KY, attorney & judge) N00000977 1807 1889 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edmund Bullock and Elizabeth Fontaine Bullock. Married to Mary Bullock. Father of John O. Bullock, William F. Bullock, Jr., Pearce Bullock, Henry P. Bullock, and Wallace Bullock. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1824. Began practicing law in Louisville in 1828. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Louisville from 1838 to 1841. Trustee of the Kentucky School for the Blind. Appointed circuit judge of the Fifth Judicial District of Kentucky in 1846. Circuit judge in Louisville in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Employed Bridget Flanigan as a servant in Louisville in 1860. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861.

Relationships Political: Louise Cabois Berthe Ballard (Louisville, KY, resident - Widow of slave trader Rice Carter Ballard)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 350B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 865. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 254. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 2. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 753-56. "Judge William Fontaine Bullock (1807-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 92046669, accessed June, 29, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92046669. KYR-0001-017-0062. Horatio Fleming Simrall (Jefferson County, KY, attorney and law professor, offered VP of prov govt) N00009121 1818-02-16 1901-08-15 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and law professor. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Simrall and Rebecca Graham Simrall. Married Lydia Ann Newell Simrall in Mississippi on February 22, 1842. Father of Graham H. Simrall, James Simrall, Horatio F. Simrall, Joseph Simrall, and George B. N. Simrall. Attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, from 1835 to 1836. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1838. Resident of Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi in 1839. Member of the Mississippi State Legislature from Wilkinson County from 1846 to 1848. Attorney in Wilkinson County in 1850. Law professor at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky from 1857 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861. Elected but never served as lieutenant governor of the Kentucky provisional government under George W. Johnson in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Wilkinson County, p. 295A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 119. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 272B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Jackson County, Hinds, p. 746B. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 227. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, vol. 2, (Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1881), 772-775. Find A Grave, "Judge Horatio Fleming Simrall (1818-1901)," Memorial 26780638, accessed May 14, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26780638. G. Glenn Clift, Governors of Kentucky, 1792-1942 (Cynthiana, Ky: Hobson Press, 1942), 142-43. Robert A. Powell, Kentucky Governors (Frankfort, KY, 1976), 116. Fayette County, Kentucky P001031 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lexington.

38.0406, -84.5037 "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 99. 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). Petition English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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The undersigned know Joseph M. Rogers, Esq. of Fayette Co. Ky., to be a man of fine moral character and high integrity, and of studious habits: and a gentleman courteous in his bearing among his fellows,

Henry Pirtle W F. Bullock

H, F. Simrall