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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-0001-029-0528 R4-337

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. William Age (Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer) N00000440 1810? Categories: People

Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer. Tennessee native. Married Nancy Age. Father of Felix M. Age. Farmer in Edmonson County in 1850 and 1860.

Relationships Social: James W. Crouch (Edmonson County, Kentucky, tavern attendant, constable, and soldier) Legal: Aaron Lawson (Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer and court clerk) Political: Larkin J. Procter (Edmonson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, hotelkeeper, and Mammoth Cave lessee)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 18; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 55; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, Precinct 5, p. 35; KYR-0001-029-0531. Larkin J. Procter (Edmonson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, hotelkeeper, and Mammoth Cave lessee) N00000968 1822-03-12 1895-11-19 Categories: People

Edmonson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, hotelkeeper, and Mammoth Cave lessee. Bracken County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary Eleanor Roberts Procter on October 24, 1844. Father of Walker R. Procter, David L. Procter, and James Procter. Resident of Mason County, Kentucky, in 1836. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1841. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lewis County from 1843 to 1844. Delegate to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Lewis County in 1849. Attorney in Edmonson County in 1850. Resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1853 to 1856. Lessee of Mammoth Cave in Edmonson County, Kentucky, from 1856 to 1861. Hotelkeeper in Edmonson County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Edmonson County from 1861 to 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 2, p. 203. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 85. Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.), November 22, 1895. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994045 Lewis County Marriages. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lewis County Marriages, Film 000344051, p. 86. "Larkin J. Procter (1822-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 42902849, accessed August 10, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42902849. KYR-0001-004-0855. Edmonson County, Kentucky P00000441 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Brownsville. Located on the Green River.

37.1942, -86.2158 Ron D. Bryant, “Edmonson County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), p. 284. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Edmonson County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 3, 2020). 1863-08-08 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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Aug 8th 1863 Govenor Robinson

Enclosed, you will find the Petition of Wm Age of this county asking to be, relieved from the payment of a fine of 40$ I, think his a meritorious case and that the facts are as he has stated them I was. presant when he was tried he was not present, and I believe he, could, have shown the facts to be as he has stated them

Respectfully L J Procter