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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-0001-029-0143 R3-220

Eddyville, Lyon 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. Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) N00000209 1834 Categories: People

Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Caldwell County, Kentucky, native. Son of Solomon W. Martin and Altezera Martin. Married to Fransannah Stone in Lyon County on October 25, 1854. Laborer in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Lyon County, Kentucky, in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Livingston County from 1862 to 1863.

Relationships Social: John V. Hildreth, Sr. (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer.) Social: William Washington Hildreth (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Albert Elmore (Livingston County, KY, carpenter)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky Caldwell County, District No. 1, p. 337A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 692. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, District 1, p. 32B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lyon County Marriages, Film 000321364. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), p. 479. Eddyville, Kentucky P00003025 Categories: Places

Seat of Lyon County, Kentucky.

37.0945, -88.0803 "Eddyville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 88. Lyon County, Kentucky P00002081 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Eddyville.

37.0945, -88.0803 "Eddyville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Lyon County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 588. 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). Smithland, Kentucky P00004802 Categories: Places

Seat of Livingston County, Kentucky. Located at the junction of the Ohio River and Cumberland River.

37.1389, -88.4034 H. Lee Wallace, "Smithland" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 832. USGS: Earth Explorer, " Smithland, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 23, 2019). 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. 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. Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky 1862-12-27 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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Eddyville Lyon County Ky Decr 27 1862 Hon J F Robertson Governor of Kentucky

Sir In the latter part of October last the enclosed petition to your Excellency was mailed at this office to Col. Jonas Martin at Smithland Ky, which was remailed by him to Louisville as appears by the envelope. I have this day recd the petition by mail from the Returned Letter office to my address. I now enclose it to you for your action

Respectfully Robert, A, Dickson