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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-0001-017-0296 MG4-235 to MG4-236

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 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. Arthur M. Burton (Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, attorney.) N001781 1829 1898 Categories: People

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, student and attorney. Delaware native. Son of Sarah Burton. Attended school in Philadelphia in 1850. Attorney in Philadelphia in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Frank Waters (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia South Ward, p. 141B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia Ward 14, p. 609. "Arthur M. Burton (1829-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial 151131803, accessed January 19, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151131803. 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/. 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. United States Department of the Treasury O00010587 1789-09-02 Categories: Organizations

Department located in Washington, D.C. Formulates, recommends, and administers domestic and international financial, economic, and tax policies. Manages the public debt. Serves as financial agent for the United States government. Manufactures coins and currency. Oversees the administration of the U.S. Mint, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Bureau of Public Debt, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Secret Service, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. Savings Bonds Division. Established September 2, 1789. Administered by the Secretary of the Treasury. Civil War-era Secretaries of Treasury: Philip R. Thomas (December 12, 1860-January 14, 1861), John A. Dix (January 15, 1861-March 6, 1861), Salmon P. Chase (March 7, 1861-June 30, 1864), William P. Fessenden (July 5, 1864-March 3, 1865), Hugh McCulloch (March 9, 1865-March 3, 1869).

Relationships Economic: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent)

The National Archives "General Records of the Department of the Treasury." https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/056.html#56.1 (accessed April 23, 2019). U.S. Department of the Treasury "Prior Secretaries" https://home.treasury.gov/about/history/prior-secretaries (accessed June 6, 2019). Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 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 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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Philadelphia, January 10th 1862 No. 243 South Fifth Street Hon. Jas W. Tate Asst Secretary of State FrankfortKy Dear Sir,

Your favor of the 6th inst is just received, in which it is stated that my Commission as a Commissioner of Deeds for Kentucky will be renewed upon your receipt of Five Dollars the State Tax thereon. This amount is herewith remitted in a United States Treasury Note. I remain

Very Resply Your obedt Servt Arthur M. Burton

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Comr of Deeds A. M. Burton Philad ComdJany 13. 1862