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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, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0089 R3-140

Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) N00002670 1827-03-11 1866-05-27 Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant. Ohio native. Son of Richard Brookover and Isabell Brookover. Married to Rachel Brookover. Father of Henry Brookover. Grocery merchant in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1850. Grocer in Maysville in 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Thomas E. Grier (Mason County, KY, grocery clerk & Ohio soldier) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Familial: John W. Brookover (Huntington, Brown County, Ohio, farmer and soldier.) Legal: Samuel W. Wood (Mason County, Kentucky, city collector) Familial: Amanda Bradford Brookover (Brown County, Ohio resident.) Social: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Enslaved person in Mason County, Kentucky) Social: Green H. McAtee (Mason County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 108A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 304. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Mason County, KY, October 1863, p. 12. "James C. Brookover (1827-1866)," Find A Grave, Memorial #128439900, accessed November 13, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128439900/james-c.-brookover. John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) N00003336 1804? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Ann Reid Taylor in Mason County, Kentucky, in September 1828. Attorney in Mason County in 1850. Attorney in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 120A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 177. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film #000281842. 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. Maysville, Kentucky P00001219 Categories: Places

Seat of Mason County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6412, -83.7444 Jean W. Calvert, "Maysville" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 621-22. " Maysville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 21, 2019, 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). 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. Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky 1862-10-27 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Maysville Kentucky Octr 27 1862 Dear Sir

Enclosed you will find a petition to remit a fine imposed upon Mr Brookover.

The petition and accompanyiing copy of the Indictment exhibit the history of the case and the circumstances of its inflection; I hope they are such as will authorize your interference and if you cannot remit. it would be a great Relief to the petitioner if you will postpone its collection.

Most Respectfully yrs

Jno D Taylor

Honble Ja's F Robinson Frankfort Ky

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Honble James F Robinson Frankfort Ky