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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-0001-029-0117 R3-182 to R3-183

Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky Constantin Riendenger (Campbell County, Kentucky, liquor retailer and soldier.) N00017619 1829-05-18 1875-01-17 Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, liquor retailer and soldier. Native of Baden. Married to Catherine Kritz Riendenger in Campbell County, Kentucky, in December 1856. Father of Constantin Riendenger and John Riendenger. Served in the 42nd Kentucky Enrolled Militia (U.S.A) as a private from September 2, 1862 to September 17, 1862. Saloon keeper in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1863. Liquor retailer in Campbell County in 1864. Liquor retailer in Campbell County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned in a Campbell County petition.)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 389A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Campbell County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 358. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 16, Campbell County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 76. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 17, Campbell County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 169. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994030, Campbell County Births, p. 165. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #12369. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Campbell County Marriages, Film #000465411, p. 73. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 872. "Constantin Riedenger (1829-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial #90132816, accessed August 10, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90132816. Samuel Geisler (Newport, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) N00017653 1840-08-14 1885-08-03 Categories: People

Newport, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Native of Bavaria. Son of John Geisler and Barbara Geisler. Married to Elizabeth Geisler. Father of J. S. Giesler. Law student in Newport, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 42nd Kentucky Enrolled Militia (U.S.A.) as a private from September 2, 1862 to October 2, 1862. Attorney in Newport in 1862.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Conrad Viehmann (Campbell County, Kentucky, rag picker.) Legal: Constantin Riendenger (Campbell County, Kentucky, liquor retailer and soldier.) Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Social: Constantin Riendenger (Campbell County, Kentucky, liquor retailer and soldier.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 503. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 381B-382A. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 15, Campbell County, Kentucky, 1863, p. 67. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 875. "Samuel Geisler (1840-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial #92743751, accessed May 26, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92743751. Williams' Covington Directory for 1861 (Cincinnati: Williams & Co., 1861), 463. KYR-0001-029-0117. 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. Newport, Kentucky P00000862 Categories: Places

Co-seat of Campbell County, Kentucky, along with Alexandria, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

39.0914, -84.4958 Will Frank Steely, "Newport" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 680. 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). Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky 1862-11-09 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Newport Ky Nov. 9th '62 Sir

Inclosed you will find a petition of some of the most respectable Citizen of Newport on behalf of C. Redinger who was found guilty, as ^you^ will see therefrom, of the offence of selling Liqour to Minors, Mr Redinger is a poor man and unable to pay his fine, he therefor takes this Method of saving himself from total ruin, which would be the consequence if is compelled to pay the fine, if you will therefor exercise your leniety and remit the commonwealths portion of his fine you

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will receive the blessing of a poor man and his familly.

If you will attend this matter soon and let me know the result you will oblige your Exellency,

Humble and Ob'd. Ser't. Sam'l Geisler Atty at Law.

To his Exellency Governor Robinson of Kentucky.