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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-0001-029-0163 R3-250 to R3-251

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. Mary Ann Burns (Louisville, Kentucky, petitioner) N00010692 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Servant in Louisville in 1863. Petitioned to extend deadline of a fine against her in January 1863.

Relationships Legal: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Legal: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal)

KYR-0001-029-0163. William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) N00003714 1822? 1895-04-22 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal. Indiana native. Married to Amanda C. Hydes in 1851. Father of William H. Hydes and Calvert Hydes. Bricklayer in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Elected M. W. Grand Patriarch of The Grand Encampment Oddfellows Lodge in Louisville on July 16, 1856. Plasterer in Louisville in 1860. Household employed one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. City marshal in Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Social: Henry B. Green (Louisville, Kentucky, chair maker and policeman) Legal: Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 292A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 814. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 360. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 6, p. 281B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 550B. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007129, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 36. "Born in a Log Cabin. Funeral of William R. Hydes Yesterday Afternoon. A Louisvillian For Seventy-Six Years. A Local Landmark," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 24, 1895, p. 6. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, June 1863, p. 153. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 535. Philip Tomppert, Jr. (Louisville, Kentucky, city court clerk) N002038 1839-02-13 1895-12-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Philip Tomppert and Margaret Tomppert. Married to Henrietta Reuning Tomppert in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 3, 1861. Father of Louis P. Tomppert and Eugenia E. Tomppert. Attended school in Louisville in 1850. Interpreter of the City Court in Louisville in 1861. Clerk of the Louisville City Court in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 19B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 1, p. 70B. "Board of Aldermen: Joint Session," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 19, 1861, p. 1. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 26078. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482709, p. 82. “Philip Tomppert Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), December 23, 1895, p. 8. "J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr (1839-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 155379750, accessed October 25, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155379750. William Gatton Reasor (Louisville, KY, attorney, city council, and notary public) N002029 1830? 1870-10-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Goss Reasor in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Father of William T. Reasor and Catharine L. Reasor. Member of the City Council of Louisville from the 2nd Ward in 1859. Attorney in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861. City attorney of Louisville from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 579. Annual Communication of the Mayor, and Reports of Departments, of the City of Louisville, (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1867), p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819615. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 308. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 307. KYR-0001-017-0062. George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) N00001155 1807? 1877? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and judge. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy A. Guy Johnston in Shelby County, Kentucky, on November 28, 1828. Father of George G. Johnston. Married to Rosa A. Johnston. Father of John C. Johnston, Louisa Johnston, Eliza Johnston, Henry S. Johnston, Florence Johnston, George W. Johnston and Rosey Johnston. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1829 and 1832. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1838 to 1842. Delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Shelby County. Attorney in Shelby County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1850. Judge of the Louisville City Court from 1854 to 1865. Elected circuit judge of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky in Jefferson County in August 1865.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Seventh Judicial District of Kentucky Political: James C. Gill (stub, Louisville) Legal: Frederick Wobbe (Louisville Deputy County Clerk) Legal: William L. Gray, Jr (Louisville) Legal: Horatio Fleming Simrall (Jefferson County, KY, attorney and law professor, offered VP of prov govt) Legal: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Legal: John Joyce (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and prov govt rep) Legal: James G. Gorsuch (Jefferson County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Legal: Louis B. Bates (Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Abraham P. Gorsuch (Jefferson County, Kentucky, steamboat engineer and printer) Legal: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Squire Caple (Jefferson County, Kentucky, cooper and soldier.) Legal: Joseph F. Woods (Jefferson County, Kentucky. Kentucky native.) Legal: Benjamin Woods (Jefferson County, Kentucky.) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Provisional Council Social: George Wolf (Louisville, Kentucky, jeweler) Social: Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) Social: W. Heffernan (Unknown (Jefferson County)) Social: J. A. Thomas (Louisville petition signer for Bridget Kearney) Social: Joseph C. Ellis (Louisville, Jefferson County, clerk) Social: Eugene Dougherty (Louisville, Jefferson County, shoemaker ) Social: James Treasy (Louisville, Kentucky, saddler) Social: John Koch (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: A. Loeser (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky. ) Social: George Johnson (Unknown (Jefferson County, composite bio)) Social: James O'Neal (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: John J. McDevitt (Louisville, Jefferson County, minister) Social: James McDermott (Louisville, Kentucky, grocer) Social: James Ryder (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: James C. Gill (Jefferson County, Kentucky, coroner) Social: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Social: Michael Dawson (Jefferson County, tavern keeper) Social: George A. Blenner (Louisville, Jefferson County, resident) Social: Augustus G. Schmidt (Louisville, Kentucky, druggist) Social: Samuel Birch (Louisville, Jefferson Co., provision dealer) Political: Hervey Seaton (Louisville, Jefferson County, day policeman - 6th Ward) Political: Martin Corcoran (Louisville, Jefferson County, tinner) Political: Thomas Slevin (Louisville, Kentucky, dry goods merchant. ) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: William McGuire (Louisville, Kentucky, police officer) Political: Thomas P. Cain (Louisville, Jefferson County, dry goods merchant) Social: Richard Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, cook/criminal) Social: Jane Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, seamstress) Social: Conrad Shroeder (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Political: Louisville Police Court Social: Clarinda Tackett Rasure (Julia Dean) (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam.) Social: Sally White (Jefferson County, Kentucky, washer woman.) Social: William E. Curry (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, policeman.) Social: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Social: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 369B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p 221. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, pp. 495B-96A. History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties, vol. 1 (Cleveland: L. A. Williams & Co., 1882), 511-12. John M. Palmer, Personal Reflections of John M. Palmer: The Story of an Earnest Life (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1901), 243. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film 000259285. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 709. "George W Johnston (unknown-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 150314903, accessed March 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150314903. 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. City of Louisville O001028 1851 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the city of Louisville, Kentucky.

Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky., Approved March 24, 1851, With All the Amendments to Same now In Force, and Acts of the Legislature Pertaining to the City of Louisville to this Date. December 1, 1862 (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Printer, 1862). Louisville City Court O001838 1850 Categories: Organizations

Police court with jurisdiction in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Johnston. City Attorney(s): William G. Reasor, Robert J. Elliott. Clerk(s): Oliver H. Strattan (1861), J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6, ed. Edwards, Greenough, & Deved (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 323-24. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-01-24 Petition English Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Louisville Corner of 12 and Walnut Jany 24' 1863

To his Excellency G. F Robinson

Governor of Ky

I have an indictment prefered against me and am fined 20 Dollars and costs I have borrowed 10 and paid it into Court. I cannot possibly get the remaining sum

I have a Widowed and afflicted sister and her 3 children depending upon me for support -- I have no means to keep them only by serving which is sometimes difficult to get

2

We are very often without the common necessaries of life or a fire to warm us. I have no Furniture and scarcely 10 Dollars worth of goods in my little store

I am a lone Woman and very delicate in health

I am threatened to be incarcerated if I cannot pay this money, if such takes place my Sister as well as her children and myself must become a burthen upon the Commonwealth of Ky.

This is the first offense I am quite ignorant of the Laws of this Country.

I have only been in this Country 12 Months

3

Trusting you will listen to this humble appeal

I am your most obedieous Petitioner

Mary Ann Burns

To his Excelency G. F. Robinson Govenor of Ky

4

I corroborate the statements of the within Petitioner

W R Hydes Marshal City of Louisville Ky

Phil Tomphert Jr. C C C L

The Petitioner being poor, as stated in her petition & considering her case somewhat deserving Executive Clemency I respectfully ask for a respite for six months

W, G, Reasor. atty I concur with Mr Reasor

Geo. W. Johnston

Mary Ann Burns Pett. to remit fine

Louisville City Ct

Respite fine 6 months J F Robinson $20. } -- M. A. Burns IssdFeby 9. 1863