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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-0001-029-0195 R3-294 to R3-295

Campbell County, Kentucky Philip Kennedy (Convicted of the rape of Elizabeth Franklin in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1862.) N00019988 Categories: People

Convicted of the rape of Elizabeth Franklin in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1862. Pardoned by Governor Thomas E. Bramlette on April 21, 1864.

Relationships Legal: Patrick White, Jr. (Hamilton County, Ohio, laborer) Legal: [Unknown] Ross (Mentioned as a witness to a crime in Taylor Mill, Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1862) Legal: William Evans Arthur (Covington, Kentucky, Commonwealth attorney & attorney)

"Mayor's Office," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), September 4, 1861, p. 3. "Unsuccessful Attempt to Break Jail," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), October 21, 1861, p. 3. "Circuit Court," _Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), February 7, 1862, p. 3. "Circuit Court," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), February 12, 1862, p. 3. "Convicted," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), February 13, 1862, p. 3. KYR-0001-004-0775 Patrick White, Jr. (Hamilton County, Ohio, laborer) N00017293 1840? Categories: People

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, laborer. Native of Ireland. Son of Patrick White and Nancy Ann White. Resident of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1850. Laborer in Cincinnati in 1860. Convicted of the rape of Elizabeth Franklin in Campbell County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1862. Pardoned by Governor Thomas Bramlette on April 21, 1864.

Relationships Legal: Elizabeth Franklin (Hamilton County, Ohio, seamstress) Legal: William Evans Arthur (Covington, Kentucky, Commonwealth attorney & attorney) Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary Legal: [Unknown] Ross (Mentioned as a witness to a crime in Taylor Mill, Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 4, p. 199A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 3, p. 180. "Convicted," Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), Feb. 13, 1862. KYR-0001-029-0195. KYR-0001-004-0555. KYR-0001-004-0775. Elizabeth Franklin (Hamilton County, Ohio, seamstress) N00017292 1840? Categories: People

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, seamstress. Daughter of Mary Franklin. Seamstress in Cincinnati in 1860. Resident of Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1861. Pressed charges against Patrick White and Philip Kennedy for rape in Campbell County in 1861.

Relationships Familial: Mary Franklin (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, seamstress) Familial: Mary Franklin (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, seamstress) Legal: Philip Kennedy (Convicted of the rape of Elizabeth Franklin in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1862.) Legal: Patrick White, Jr. (Hamilton County, Ohio, laborer) Legal: John Russ Haynes (Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 17, p. 139. "Newport News," Cincinnati Daily Press (Cincinnati, OH), February 7, 1862. KYR-0001-029-0195. KYR-0001-004-0555. Mary Franklin (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, seamstress) N00019986 1845? Categories: People

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, seamstress. Ohio native. Daughter of Mary Franklin. Seamstress in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 17, p. 139. John Russ Haynes (Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, physician) N00019990 1823 1902 Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, physician. Otsego County, New York native. Married to Mary Ladd Haynes in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1848. Physician in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Physician in Campbell County in July 1863. Physician in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 523. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Campbell County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 106. "A Native of Morris Killed," The Morris Chronicle (Morris, NY), March 19, 1902, p. 3. "John R. Haynes (1823-1902)," Find A Grave, Memorial 91017780, accessed May 15, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91017780. [Unknown] Ross (Mentioned as a witness to a crime in Taylor Mill, Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1862) N00019991 Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, resident. Witness at the prosecution of Philip Kennedy and Patrick White for rape in Campbell Circuit Court in 1862.

KYR-0001-029-0195. William Evans Arthur (Covington, Kentucky, Commonwealth attorney & attorney) N00004274 1825-03-03 1897-05-18 Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Cincinnati, Ohio, native. Son of William Arthur and Eliza Parsons Arthur. Married to Adeliza “Ada” Southgate Arthur in 1855. Father of W. E. Arthur, Jr. Married to Ethalinda Southgate Arthur in 1861. Father of Sidney Arthur and Ada Arthur. Studied law under John White Stevenson and James T. Morehead. Admitted to the bar in 1850. Attorney in Covington in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the ninth judicial district of Kentucky from 1856 to 1862. Employed Sarah Gibbers and Mary Kirk as servants in Covington in 1860. Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Breckinridge and Lane in 1860.

Relationships Political: Jacob Hawthorn (Campbell County, Kentucky, merchant and politician) Political: George Coy (Maysville, Kentucky machinist) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Pendleton Circuit Court Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: Daniel W. Clark (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Henry H. Hellmann (Covington, KY, grocery merchant) Social: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: Campbell Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, p. 263A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, p. 700. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, p. 257A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll 994043: Kenton County Births. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 39. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, vol. II (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 997-9. “In Linden Grove,” The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH), May 21, 1897, p. 7. "William Evans Arthur (1825-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7092733, accessed April 2, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7092733/william-evans-arthur. KYR-0001-020-1486. KYR-0001-021-0014. 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. Newport, Kentucky P00000862 Categories: Places

Co-seat of Campbell County, Kentucky, along with Alexandria, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

39.0914, -84.4958 Will Frank Steely, "Newport" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 680. Campbell Circuit Court O00000361 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 9th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): S. M. Moore and Joseph Doniphan. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William Evans Arthur (1856-1862) and R. B. Carpenter (1862-1865). Clerk(s): Gus Artsman and Benjamin Beall.

Relationships Legal: F. S. Grismier (Newport, Campbell Co, KY, soldier) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: William Gearty (Cincinnati, Ohio railroad passenger agent) Economic: Gustavus Artsman (Newport, Kentucky, attorney, and circuit court clerk) Familial: Austin Morris (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Familial: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John S. M. Gruder () Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Jacob Carmack (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Wright (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Thomas J. Daniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Smith (Campbell County, KY, blacksmith) Legal: William Lees (Campbell County, KY, laborer) Legal: Timothy McDaniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Thomas Jones (Campbell County, KY, farmer and deputy court clerk) Legal: John Henderson, Jr. (Campbell County, KY, riverboat pilot and farmer) Legal: John Hayden Nelson (Campbell County, KY, attorney) Legal: J. H. Darr (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: James H. Scott (Kenton County, KY, farmer) Legal: William C. Byrd (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Byrd (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Luther Dayton (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John F. Traver (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Dones (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Jonathan Horsfall (Campbell County, KY, jailer) Legal: George Richard Fearons (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: John Kinney (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Fridolin "Fred" Brutsche (Newport, Kentucky, shopkeeper and distiller.)

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. 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. Campbell County, Kentucky Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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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Campbell Circuit Court Comth of Ky vs } on joint trial for Rape Philip Kennedy & Patrick White

On the calling of this cause the atto for the Comth introduced as a witness Elizabeth Franklin who stated that in the summer of 1861 she and her sister Mary walked out on Saturday evening about 4 o'clock from their residence in New Port and to what is called Taylor Mill -- bottom about 1/2 mile from the City and took their seats together under a walnut tree and commenced cracking walnuts, when four men approached them two of whom after merely speaking walked ^on^ and the other two (Kennedy & White) remained talking to them -- Very soon Kennedy seized & knocked her down and violently and against all her efforts which she could make in defense -- had criminal connection with her -- during this time White was present and immediately afterwards he had also like violent connection with her -- Her sister Mary had in the meantime run off and she as soon as she could went back home & told her mother all that had occurred

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The Court then introduced Mary Franklin who stated that she went with her sister Elizabeth to the mill bottom as stated by her and Kennedy becoming rough & violent in his manner she ran off & Kennedy after her, who soon returned to where her sister was, but she very much alarmed ran home --

Mrs Franklin the mother of Elizabeth stated that on the evening referred to Elizabeth came home greatly distressed and related to her what had occurred as stated by E. and that E. was much bruised --

Dr Haynes was introduced who stated that he was sent for to see Elizabeth on the evening of the alleged rape, felt her pulse, found it regular, not excited, but E. was bruised over the eye

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Mr Ross was then introduced who stated that he was out in the Mill bottom on the evening referred to after the occurrence, saw two men whom he thought were the prisoners not far from Elizabeth, saw Kennedy buttoning up his breeches --

The undersigned was the Attorney for the Com'th on the occasion of the trial of Kennedy & White which resulted in their conviction for the Crime of Rape -- To the best of my recollection the above recital comprehends the substance of the testimony before the trial Jury

W. E. Arthur

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Patrick White Pettn for Pardon } Enclosure

From this evidence in this case I think verdict of Jury should stand and Pettn is refused 16 Jan 1863

J F Robinson