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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-0001-029-0188 R3-284

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. Bridget Kearney (Jefferson County, KY, resident, petitioner) N00012569 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Married to [Unknown] Kearney. Mother of [Unknown] Kearney and [Unknown] Kearney. Adopted mother of [Unknown] [Unknown]. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1862 and 1863. Fined for assaulting Peter Foley, Patrick Rick, and Margaret Rick in Louisville in 1862.

Relationships Legal: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Social: Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) Social: Hervey Seaton (Louisville, Jefferson County, day policeman - 6th Ward) Social: W. Heffernan (Unknown (Jefferson County)) Social: J. A. Thomas (Louisville petition signer for Bridget Kearney) Social: Martin Corcoran (Louisville, Jefferson County, tinner) 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 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: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Social: William McGuire (Louisville, Kentucky, police officer) Social: George A. Blenner (Louisville, Jefferson County, resident) Social: Augustus G. Schmidt (Louisville, Kentucky, druggist) Social: Samuel Birch (Louisville, Jefferson Co., provision dealer) Social: George Wolf (Louisville, Kentucky, jeweler)

The Louisville Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) December 4, 1862, p. 1. KYR-0001-029-0164. KYR-0001-029-0188. [unknown] Kearney (Louisville resident married to Bridget Kearney) N00012644 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Married to Bridget Kearney. Father of [Unknown] Kearney and [Unknown] Kearney. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky.

Relationships Familial: Bridget Kearney (Jefferson County, KY, resident, petitioner)

KYR-0001-029-0164. 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. 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. 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. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-01-22 Correspondence 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 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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Louisville Jan 22d 1863. His Excellency Gov Jas F. Robinson Dr Sir

Mrs Kearny was fined in two cases in the city court at the last Term $75. that is $25 in one case & $50 in the other; you have respited the collection for six months & Mrs Kearney has requested me to state to you her character & Standing here, she is a widow & has always been regarded as a civil orderly & well behaved woman, she never was arrested before on any charge nor for any Misdemeanor, & I presume she is wholy unable to pay the fines; I have no reccollection that he Husband was ever arrested or charged with any violation of the Penal Laws

Very Respectfully your obt Servt Geo. W. Johnston. (over)

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The Draftsman of the Petition made a mistake in stating that the fine was $75 in Each case It was that amount in the two cases. $25 in one case & $50 in the other case.

I do not recollect that Mrs Kearny was Ever fined foranyviolation of the law before the time herein mentioned

W. G, Reasor