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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-0001-029-0113 R3-174 to R3-175

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 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. Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) N00017301 1807? Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler. Native of Germany. Married to Henrietta Kramer. Peddler in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary Legal: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Social: [Unknown] Hurston (Jefferson County, KY, possibly burglary victim resident) Social: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Jefferson County, KY, possible robbery victim) Familial: Henrietta Kramer (Jefferson County, KY, resident) Familial: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Jefferson County, KY, daughter of Kauffman Kramer) Legal: Leonidas Chambers (Louisville lawyer/Dpty Clk Circuit Ct) Legal: T G Brown (Jefferson County, KY, ) Legal: John Clifton McDonald (Louisville, KY, book binder) Legal: Michael Billing (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker and grocer) Legal: Alexander A. Harvey (Jefferson County, KY, resident) Legal: Jefferson A. Benseman (Jefferson County, KY, saddler and farmer) Legal: James W. Graham (Jefferson County, KY, farmer) Legal: Roland Whitney (Jefferson County, KY, merchant) Legal: Thomas Meek (Jefferson County, KY, steamboat pilot) Legal: Thomas Howell Crawford (Louisville, Kentucky, mayor and real estate agent) Legal: William J. Cornell (Louisville, Kentucky, brick layer and grate setter) Legal: Louisville Police Court Legal: City Work House of Louisville Social: Charles Lee Stancliff (Jefferson County, Kentucky, architect and police chief. ) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned in a petition from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in November 1862.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 641. "Arrest of a Thief," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), February 27, 1862, p. 3. Charles Lee Stancliff (Jefferson County, Kentucky, architect and police chief. ) N00017625 1815? 1873-01-10 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, architect and police chief. Connecticut native. Married to Caroline G. Read Stancliff in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 24, 1844. Father of Maria Stancliff, Mary Stancliff, Joseph Stuart Stancliffe, Albert Stancliff, Anna Stancliff, and Clay Stancliff. Architect in Jefferson County in 1860. Employed Mina Stroeman and Josephine Barger in Jefferson County in 1860. Appointed chief of police in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 8, 1862.

Relationships Social: Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) Legal: Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 744. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 11, p. 499B. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007126, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 249. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817888. "Board of Common Council," Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), May 12, 1862, p. 1. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

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

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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). Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1862-11-19 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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Office Chief of Police, Louisville, Ky, Nov 19th 1862. To His Excellency Gov Robinson

In consideration of the respectability of Kaufman Kremers family and other circumstances changes my mind and I withdraw my former letter, of the 10th Inst

Respectfuly Chas L. Stancliff Chief of Police