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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-0001-029-0136 R3-209

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. Andrew J. Morgan (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00017800 1823? Categories: People

Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Eulett Morgan in Lewis County, Kentucky, on October 8, 1846. Father of John T. Morgan, Daniel B. Morgan, Mary J. Morgan, Andrew J. Morgan, William H. M. Morgan, James J. Morgan, Matilda E. Morgan, Isaac Morgan, Sarah Morgan, and Nancy Morgan. Farmer in Lewis County in 1850. Farmer in Lewis County in 1860. Farmer in Lewis County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 1, p. 235A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, p. 942-943. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Audrain County, Salt River Township, p. 603B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Lewis County, KY, October 1863, p. 74. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lewis County Marriages, Film 000344051. Michael Moore (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer) N00018874 1815-05-31 1891-03-31 Categories: People

Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Diana Enix Moore in Lewis County, Kentucky, in January 1837. Father of Mary Moore, William Moore, John Moore, Dallas Moore, Lucinda Moore, Harriet E. Moore, Eliza E. Moore, and George M. Moore. Farmer in Lewis County in 1850. Farmer in Lewis County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Andrew J. Morgan (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 1, p. 236B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, p. 946. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, Laurel Precinct, pp. 478A-B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lewis County Marriages, Film 000344051. "Michael Moore (1815-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 83015400, accessed November 17, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83015400. 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. 1862-12-02 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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To the Govner of the Commonwealth of Ketucky

I am Well acquainted with Andrew J Morgan and Know him to be a Good Citizen and a Peacable Man and think that it would be right to remit the fine against him

Yores. truly. Dec 2 1862 Michael Moore