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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-019-0080 MG5-148

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Cyrenius Wait (Somerset, Kentucky, politician, merchant, and entrepreneur) N00004764 1791-09-30 1868-06-08 Categories: People

Somerset, Kentucky, politician, merchant, and entrepreneur. Massachusetts native. Married to Eliza E. Beaty Wait in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on October 18, 1838. Married to Mary J. Newell Wait. Father of Daniel W. Wait, John Q. A. Wait, George W. Wait, Benjamin F. Wait, Millard F. Wait, Henry C. Wait, and Margaret Wait. Moved to Somerset and established a saltworks. Wharf operator at Waitsboro, Kentucky, on the Cumberland River. Established the first silk production venture in Pulaski County. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pulaski County from 1848 to 1850 and 1857 to 1861. Founder of the Buck Creek Bridge Company in Pulaski County in 1858. Merchant in Somerset in 1860. Owned thirty-one enslaved persons in Somerset in 1860. Trustee of the Somerset Academy in Somerset in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, District No. 1, p. 12. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, District No. 1, p. 3. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Pulaski County Marriages, Kentucky, p. 136. "An Act to Incorporate the Buck Creek Bridge Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1858), 169-170. "An Act for the benefit of the Somerset Academy," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 463. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, (Louisville: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 683. Rodger D. Tate, "Pulaski County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 748. Cyrenius Wait Papers, 1790-1950, bulk 1830-1859, University of Kentucky Special Collections, https://nyx.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt7sn00zq188 (accessed on March 29, 2018). Find A Grave, "Cyrenius Wait (1791-1868)," Memorial #17731805, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17731805/cyrenius-wait (accessed March 29, 2018). Andrew Jackson James (Frankfort, KY, attorney, Ky state rep, and Atty Genl of Ky 1859-63) N00004857 1817-06-04 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, legislator, and attorney general of Kentucky. Pulaski County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary A. Beatie James in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on March 16, 1841. Father of Sarah B. James, John B. James, Daniel James, Anna Eliza James, Clara James, Samuel James, and Emma James. Attorney in Somerset in 1850. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Somerset in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives in the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Pulaski County in 1855. Attorney general of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Owned ten enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Andrew Monroe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Charles M. Thruston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, court clerk and ageny) Political: Thomas Mitchell (Jefferson County, Kentucky, superintendent, clerk, apptd JP 1861 never served?) Political: Military Board of Kentucky Social: Cyrenius Wait (Somerset, Kentucky, politician, merchant, and entrepreneur)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 1A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 475. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 236. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 488A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 144B. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), 314. C. E. James, A Short History of Franklin County, Kentucky... (Frankfort, KY: George A. Lewis, 1881), 10. Clarence E. Walker, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Kentucky State Bar Association, Held in Olympian Springs, Ky., July 9, 10 and 11, 1913 (Louisville, KY: Westerfield-Bonte Company, 1913), 177-76. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pulaski County Marriages, Film #000804052, p.162. 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. Pulaski County, Kentucky P00000268 Categories: Places

County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Somerset.

Relationships Political: John E. Cosson (Pulaski co, ky, Circuit Ct. Clk.) Political: Leroy D. Garner (Pulaski County, Kentucky, merchant's clerk) Political: James Doolin (Pulaski County, Kentucky, merchant)

37.092, -84.6041 Roger D. Tate, Jr., “Pulaski County” in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 747-49. "Somerset, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Whitley County, Kentucky P00002893 Categories: Places

County in southeastern Kentucky. Seat at Williamsburg, also known as Whitley Court House. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.7434, -84.1597 Ron D. Bryant, "Whitley County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 949-50. "Williamsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 3, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). Military Board of Kentucky O00006066 1861-05-24 1862-08-28 Categories: Organizations

Agency of the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky responsible for state military affairs from May 1861 to August 1862. The board existed in three different iterations and with different members. Member(s) from May 24, 1861, to September 25, 1861: Beriah Magoffin (President), Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, Peter Dudley, and John B. Peyton. Phillip Swigert was secretary in June 1861. Member(s) from September 25, 1861, to March 15, 1862: John B. Temple (President), Peter Dudley, Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, and E. H. Taylor. Member(s) from March 15, 1862, to August 28, 1862: John B. Temple and George T. Wood.

Relationships Military: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.) Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard Military: Thomas Noble Lindsey (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and paymaster general) Military: William Benton Nevitt (Larue County, Kentucky, attorney) Military: Ebenezer C. Guest (Butler County, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster) Military: John Harrison Brown (Allen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: William E. Williams (Cumberland County, Kentucky, machinist and miller) Military: John T. Rogers (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John P. Monroe (Monroe County, Kentucky, miller and merchant) Military: John W. Walker (Simpson County, Kentucky, solider (U.S.A.)) Military: James W. Tandy (Carroll County, Kentucky, Farmer) Military: George W. Sanders (Gallatin County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Joseph H. Glover (Barren County, Kentucky, millwright) Military: Benjamin F. Wash (Anderson County, Kentucky, teacher, pvt 54th KY Inf USA) Military: Daniel W. Lovell (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John T. Sanders (Wayne County, Kentucky, banker. ) Military: Cornelius F. Campbell (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Thomas W. Price (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA) Military: John L. Davidson (Todd County, Kentucky, contractor) Military: Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA) Military: John Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer) Military: John Jefferson Wylie (Caldwell County, Kentucky, saddler) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Robert Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer, surveyor, state Rep) Military: John Tecumseh Milam (Franklin Co, Ky, merchant and pvt 22nd KY Inf USA) Military: Squire Lucas (Grant County, KY, merchant, postmaster, andsheriff) Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. "An Act for the regulation of the militia and to provide for the arming of the State," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 4-6. "An Act to dispense with the Military Board," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: John B. Major, Public Printer, 1862), 260. KYR-0002-022-0104. Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1861-06-10 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Frankfort 10th. June 1861 To theKy. Millitary Board Gentln

I submit to you herewith two a Short letter from Mr Senator Wait on the subject of the manufacture of Gun Powder.

I know the fact that he owns a large quantity of Mountain lands on bohth sides of the Cumberland River in the vicinity of the mouth of Rockcastle River in Pulaski& Whitley counties I know also that the caves of that region are numerous and abound in Salt Petre, and believe gunpowder can be manufactured as cheap there as at any other point in Kentucky The location is secure from invasion and but little danger of Negro insurrection or incendiarism.

Mr Wait is a reliable man.

Respy

A. J. James

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Senator Waite for manufacturing gunpowder