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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-1445 MG22-6

Felix C. Jenkins (Marion Co. postmaster and hotel keeper) N00007650 1821? Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, postmaster and hotelkeeper. Kentucky native. Married to Susan Jenkins. Father of James Jenkins, Anna Jenkins, Sarah Jenkins, Thomas Jenkins, and Lewis Jenkins. Postmaster of Raywick in Marion County, Kentucky, from December 12, 1857 to September 8, 1858. Hotelkeeper in Marion County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: James M. Fogle (Lebanon, Marion Co, attorney) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Daniel B. Thompson (Loretto, Marion County, Kentucky farmer) Legal: Henry Beaven (Loretto, Marion County, Kentucky farmer) Legal: N. T. Hardey (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Richard DeKalb Scott (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: G. W. Riggs (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Benjamin R. Smith (Marion County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: F. K. Beaven (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Nicholas S. Ray (Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, lawyer and banker) Legal: Frederick B. Merimee (Lebanon, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: Wilford H. Medley (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Leo Beaven (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: George W. Lancaster (Marion County, Kentucky, surveyor and farmer) Legal: James M. Conn (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Richard M. Spalding (Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James H. Edelen (Marion County, Kentucky, merchant and druggist) Legal: Wm Milburn (Lebanon, Marion County, resident) Legal: Daniel H. Howard (Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, clerk and merchant) Legal: Judson Littlefield (Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: O. J. Luckett (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John W. Chandler (Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: James Elder (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John B. Wathen (Marion County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: Daniel S. Colgan (Marion County, Kentucky, minister) Legal: Napoleon Turner (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Anderson Corley (Marion County, Kentucky, saddler) Legal: Thomas Jefferson Clark (Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, coffee house keeper) Legal: Pious Carrico (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: G. S. Mock (Lebanon, Marion County, resident) Legal: William H. Witherton (Marion County, Kentucky, printer) Legal: William J. Lisle (Marion County, Kentucky, attorney & captain 10th KY Inf USA) Legal: Thomas C. Woods (Lebanon lawyer) Legal: John Shuck (Marion County, Kentucky, lawyer and slaveholder.) Legal: L. F. Thompson () Legal: Harvey Johnston (Lebanon, Marion County, tin plate worker and merchant) Legal: J. A. Mattingly (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John C. Russell (Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Davis Catlin (Haysville, Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Robert C. Harris () Legal: Wallace W. Purdy () Legal: Homer [Elleen] (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: H. M. Spalding (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: W. T. Dance (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: C. A. Jarboe (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Frank Bearman (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: [N K.] Buckler (Marion County) Legal: David Ballard (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: James A. Jarboe (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: [A J Buford] (Marion County) Legal: William C. Jarboe (Washington County, KY, farmer) Legal: Benedict Spalding, Jr. (Marion County, Ky, postmaster, clerk, and farmer) Legal: R.J. O'Daniel (farmer, Marion County) Legal: Pius B. O'Daniel (farmer, Marion County) Legal: Charles Jarboe () Legal: Benjamin Wheatley (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Edward H. O'Daniel (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James W. Tyler (farmer, Marion County) Legal: Henry Wilson Purdy (Marion County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Marion Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 589. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Martin County, Loogootee, p. 401A. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28. James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. Benedict Spalding (Marion County, Kentucky, legislator and farmer) N00009946 1783-06-10 1870-02-25 Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, farmer and legislator. St. Mary’s County, Maryland, native. Married to Eliza Elder Spalding in Washington County, Kentucky, on January 16, 1815. Married to Elizabeth McElroy Spalding in Floyd County, Indiana, on March 5, 1833. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Washington County in 1804, 1806, 1811 to 1812, 1812 to 1813, and 1835 to 1836. Farmer in Marion County in 1850. Farmer in Marion County in 1860. Employed Benedict Abell as a farmhand in Marion County in 1860. Senator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 2, 1861, to June 5, 1865.

Relationships Social: Felix C. Jenkins (Marion Co. postmaster and hotel keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 326A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, New Market, p. 573. “Benedict Joseph Spalding III,” Find A Grave, Memorial #65445799, accessed September 9, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65445799 G. Glenn Clift, Biographical Directory of the Kentucky General Assembly, n.p., 1970. Indiana Marriages (1811-2019), Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, IN, Roll #000549329, Floyd County Marriages, p. 102. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 18, 102, 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000241382, p. 97. Marion Circuit Court O00000425 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 5th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Kavanaugh and John E. Newman. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Andy Barnett and Lorenzo H. Noble. Clerk(s): N. T. Berry, Frederick B. Merimee, and T. C. Jackson.

Relationships Legal: John St. Clair (Marion Co, Kentucky, petitioner)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. 1861-11-01 Note 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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Marion Cir. Ct $20050. } Gaming F. C. Jenkins Respd 12. Mos Remission IssdNov. 1. 1861

The fine in this case is remitted except Fifty dollars & costs

J F Robinson

Enclosed to B. Spaulding

IssdMay 18. 1863