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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-027-0009 R2-11 to R2-12

New York, New York County, New York 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. Seth Hastings Grant (New York City librarian) N00009494 1828? 1910-05-09 Categories: People

New York librarian. New York native. Librarian at the Mercantile Library in New York City, New York, in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Mercantile Library

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Bergen County, Harrington, p. 512. New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1739-1991 Union County, May 21, 1810 (accessed via ancestry.com). New York City, New York P00002569 Categories: Places

City in New York County, New York. Located at the confluence of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.

40.7128, -74.0059 George Lankevich, "New York City" in Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-City. “New York, New York," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed April 15, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Mercantile Library O00009493 1820 Categories: Organizations

Library in New York City, New York. Operated from 1820 to present. Operated as Mercantile Library Center for Fiction from 2005 to present.

Noreen Tomassi, “A History of the Mercantile Library,” The Center for Fiction, http://centerforfiction.org/about/history/ (accessed October 11, 2018). New York, New York County, New York 1862-08-20 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Mercantile Library, NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 20, 1862. DEAR SIR:

In view of the mighty influence of the present war on the future history of the human race, it would seem a duty we owe to posterity to leave them as perfect a record as possible of not only the actions but the motives and spirit of the times. In my capacity of librarian so many of the various publications on the subject have been brought before me, that the idea of collecting a more complete list of them for the aid of the coming historian has presented itself. With this purpose I have applied to various sources for assistance, and have met with encouraging success. An abstract of the results, thus far obtained, has appeared in the numbers of the Historical Magazine for the months of Aprildate&gt; to August of the present year.

To you, as one of the leaders of opinion, I appeal for your kind aid in this undertaking by the contribution of a copy, or the title-page and scope, of any Sermon, Essay, or Discourse of your own, or another's, which has a bearing on any of the many phases of this pregnant crisis.

Respectfully Yours, S. HASTINGS GRANT.

*** So soon as a degree of approximate completeness shall have been attained, it is the intention of the compileer to furnish those who have assisted him with a condensed statement of the information gathered.

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