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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-0001-029-0168 R3-258

Jefferson County, Kentucky Samuel Moore (Samuel Frazier) (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident.) N00019721 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Charged with robbing George Gross in Louisville Police Court in December 1862. Indicted for robbery in Jefferson Circuit Court in January 1863. Forfeited recognizance in Jefferson Circuit Court in April 1863.

"Police Proceedings," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 20, 1862, p. 1. "Jefferson Circuit Court, Criminal Term," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 15, 1863, p. 3. KYR-0001-029-0163. James Keenan (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, shoe salesman.) N00019414 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, shoe salesman. Charged with robbing George Gross in Louisville Police Court in December 1862. Acquitted of robbery in Jefferson Circuit Court in May 1863. Proprietor of the Cincinnati Boot and Shoe Store in Louisville in 1864.

"Police Proceedings," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 20, 1862, p. 1. "Jefferson Circuit Court, Criminal Term," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 15, 1863, p. 3. "Jefferson Circuit Court," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), May 7, 1863, p. 3. J.D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory, for 1864: With an Appendix of Much Valuable Information, Carefully Compiled from Original Sources, a Summary of the Nation Tax Law, &c., &c. (Louisville, KY: L.A. Civill, 1864), 88. Joseph Berger (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, laborer.) N00019720 1836? Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, laborer. Native of Switzerland. Son of Peter Berger and Mary Berger. Charged with robbing George Gross in Louisville Police Court in December 1862. Acquitted of robbery in Jefferson Circuit Court in May 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 831. "Police Proceedings," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 20, 1862, p. 1. "Jefferson Circuit Court, Criminal Term," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 15, 1863, p. 3. "Jefferson Circuit Court--Criminal Term," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), May 8, 1863, p. 3. Urbin E. Ewing (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician.) N00019716 1799-07-23 1874-12-23 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Lloyd Robert Moore Ewing. Father of Catherine Moore Ewing, Robert Moore Ewing, Mary Lloyd Moore Ewing, Sallie Lloyd Moore Ewing, and John Donaldson Ewing. Married to Jane Butler Ewing. Father of Mildred Ewing, Nelly Ewing, and Jane Ewing. Resident of Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1840. Physician in Louisville in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Owned Joseph [Unknown] in Louisville in 1856. Owned Sam [Unknown] in Louisville in 1859. Physician in Louisville in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Employed Elizabeth Brown and Susan Collins as servants in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Moore (Samuel Frazier) (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident.)

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 37. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 193A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 691. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 263A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 36A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths. "A Negro Shoots at a Barber," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), May 26, 1859, p. 1. "Noted Woman," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), May 21, 1907, p. 3. Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. II (Harrisburg, PA: The Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1896), 11-12. "Jane Butler Ewing (1804-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98100830, accessed May 3, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98100830. "Sarah Lloyd Moore Ewing (1807-1833)," Find A Grave, Memorial 96725273, accessed May 3, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96725273. "Dr Urbin Epinetus Ewing (1799-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial 96722763, accessed May 3, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96722763. James P. Chambers (Jefferson Co, Ky, court clerk and attorney) N002041 1830? 1898 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Chambers. Father of Samuel Chambers and Henry Chambers. Graduate of University of Louisville law school in 1847. Confirmed as a notary public in Jefferson County on February 5, 1861. Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 71. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007129: Jefferson County, Books 9-11, p. 445. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, Session of 1859-’60 (Louisville: Hull & Brother, 1860), 9. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., in the City of Louisville, for 1865-6, eds. Edward, Greenough, and DeVed (Louisville: Edward, Greenough, & DeVed, 1866), 243. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 54. 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), 303-308. 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), 301-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. 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), 347-350. KYR-0001-017-0062. 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. 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, 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. Jefferson Circuit Court O001000 1850 Categories: Organizations

Part of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky. Serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, with courthouse at Louisville. Judge(s): Peter B. Muir, George W. Johnston. Commonwealth's Attorney(s): Edwin S. Craig, James R. Dupuy. Clerk(s): James P. Chambers

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, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. 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 Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough, & Deved, pub., 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), 324. 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. Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-01-15 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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State of Kentucky January Term 1863 Jefferson Circuit Court January 15 1863 The Commonwealth Plff versus } Indict felony Samuel Moore alias Samuel Frazier indicted with James Keenan and Joseph Burgher Defts

The defendant Samuel Moore alias Samuel Frazier being solemnly called to appear in discharge of the recognzance entered into by him in this Court on the 6 day of January 1863, Came not but made default -- It is therefore considered by the Court that the Clerk of this Court issue a writ of scire facias against the said Samuel Moore alias Frazier together with U E Ewing his bail, to shew cause if any they have or can why the Commonwealth shall not have judgment and execution thereon against them for the sum of six hundred dollars each according to the form and effect of said recognizance and for a breach of the conditions thereof

A Copy Attest James P Chambers c

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Jefferson Cir. Ct.

Forfeiture remitted to Ewing the Bail

J F Robinson

$600. } Recog. Enclose to Doct U E Ewing Louisville

IssdApril 18th 1863

Commonwealth vs } Copy Recd Samuel Moore &c