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Edward Mitchell (Boyle County, Kentucky, clerk and agent for Liverpool and London) N00019150 1837? 1872-02-27 Categories: People

Boyle County, Kentucky, clerk and banker. Boyle County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Mitchell and Mary A. Mitchell. Married to Blanche "Bettie" Prather Mitchell in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 20, 1859. Father of Louisa Mitchell and Jessie Mitchell. Attended school in Boyle County in 1850. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Attended Centre College in Boyle County in 1851. Clerk in Boyle County in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Clerk in Boyle County in 1863. Agent for the Liverpool and London Globe Insurance Company in 1864. Banker in partnership with Henry S. Julian and Thomas D. Tilford in H.S. Julian & Company in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Wellington Harlan (Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Legal: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) 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, Boyle County, District 2, p. 362B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 596. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 915. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 148A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 95A. Kentucky, Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 167. Kentucky, Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 181. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Boyle County, KY, August 1863, p. 70. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 376, 446. _The Twenty-Seventh Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, for the Year Ending June 26, 1851, (Danville: Students of Centre College, Lexington Observer & Reporter Print Office, 1851), p. 15. KYR-0001-004-0499. Wellington Harlan (Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) N00020165 1833-01-21 1892 Categories: People

Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and solider. Kentucky native. Son of Jehu Harlan and Clarissa Black Harlan. Farmer in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Served in the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from October 9, 1861 to June 7, 1862. Farmer in Boyle County in 1863.

Relationships Familial: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney) Legal: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 857. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 42A. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 481. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Boyle County, KY, August 1863, p. 7. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 628. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0183. Alpheus H. Harlan, ed.History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, Vol. 1. (Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1881), p.273. "Wellington Harlan (1833-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial 57099646, accessed June 1, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57099646. John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney) N00002635 1833-06-01 1911-10-14 Categories: People

Kentucky politician, soldier, and attorney. Boyle County, Kentucky, native. Son of James L. Harlan, Sr., and Eliza Shannon Davenport Harlan. Married to Malvina French Shanklin Harlan in 1856. Father of Edith Harlan, Richard Harlan, James S. Harlan, and John Maynard Harlan. Graduated from Centre College in 1850. Studied law at Transylvania University. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1853. Member of the Whig Party. Frankfort city attorney from 1854 to 1856. Judge of the Frankfort County Court from 1858 to 1859. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, with William F. Bullock in 1861. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) Regiment as a colonel from 1861 to 1863. Member of the Union Party. Attorney general of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

Relationships Legal: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Political: Mortimer D. Hay (Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Familial: James Harlan, Jr. (Franklin County/Mercer County Attorney/Politician) Political: P. N. Smith (Jessamine County) Political: Woodson Dickerson (Nicholasville, Kentucky, druggist) Political: S. Noland (Commonwealth attorney) Political: Melvin T. Lowry (Jessamine County, Kentucky, county and circuit court clerk) Political: William R. Welch (Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer, attornery, and notary public) Political: United States Congress Political: Jessamine Circuit Court Political: John B. Cook (Nicholasville, Kentucky, grocery keeper) Political: William H. Daniel (Jessamine County, Kentucky, resident, prov govt) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Social: Jesse S. Sinclair (Scott County, Kentucky,) Social: Elza Thomason (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and hotel keeper) Social: Benjamin S. Newton (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Edmund H. Parrish, Sr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Legal: James H. McCampbell (Shelby County, Kentucky, Justice of the Peace, constable, 2nd lieut & capt 6th Ky Inf (USA))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 54A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 243. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 563A. Augustus E. Willson, "John Marshall Harlan," The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, ed. H. Levin (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 151-55. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 31-32. Lorren P. Beth, John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig Justice (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). "John Marshall Harlan, 1877-1911," The Supreme Court Historical Society, accessed August 20, 2021, https://supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-court-timeline-of-the-justices-john-marshall-harlan-1877-1911/. 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. Boyle County, Kentucky P00002353 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Danville.

37.6456, -84.7722 Ron D. Bryant, "Boyle County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 110. "Danville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Danville, Kentucky P00005549 Categories: Places

Seat of Boyle County, Kentucky.

37.6456, -84.7722 "Danville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Richard C. Brown, "Danville," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), 252. Correspondence 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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In a case from Boyle of Mitchell I believe is the name send remission of punish of confinement to Wellington Harlan Danville.

J. Harlan

For Mr Tate