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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-0001-017-0295 MG4-233 to MG4-234

Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland 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. James B. Latimer (Baltimore County, Maryland, lawyer, commissioner of deeds, and notary public) N00019168 1800? Categories: People

Baltimore, Maryland, attorney and commissioner of deeds. Maryland native. Attorney in Baltimore in 1860. Employed Bridget McIntire and Mary McIntire as servants in Baltimore in 1860. Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky in Baltimore from 1861 through 1866.

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: State of Maryland

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore Ward 10, p. 961. E.M. Cross's and Co.'s Baltimore City Business Directory for 1863-1864 ed. Henry R. Hellier (Baltimore, Maryland: E. M. Cross & Co. Publishers, 1863), 448. Woods' Baltimore City Directory for 1865-1866 ed. John W. Woods (Baltimore, Maryland: John W. Woods, 1865), 247. KYR-0001-017-0383 Baltimore, Maryland P00003303 Categories: Places

City in Maryland. Located on the Chesapeake Bay.

39.2904, -76.6122 "Baltimore" in Encyclopedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltimore) (accessed March 30, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Baltimore, Maryland," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 15, 2021). Maryland P00001160 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Annapolis. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

38.9784, -76.4922 "Annapolis, Maryland," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. James E. DiLisio and James H. Bready, "Maryland," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Maryland-state. 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. State of Maryland O00019169 1788 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Maryland. Capital at Annapolis.

"Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Maryland; April 28, 1788," The Avalon Project, accessed January 19, 2023, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ratme.asp. Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland 1862-01-10 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 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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Jas W TateEsqr Dear Sir,

I shall be pleased to hear from you by return mail --

I enclose the State Tax $5 in good loyal money.

Your's Respectfully James B Latimer Comr of the State of Kentucky within and for the State of Maryland residing in the City of Baltimore --

Balt 10' Jany 1862 Let the Commission bear date the 13' of January if you please

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Comr of Deeds Jas B. Latimer Com IssdJany 13. 1862