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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.
Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer. Tennessee native. Married Nancy Age. Father of Felix M. Age. Farmer in Edmonson County in 1850 and 1860.
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Edmonson County, Kentucky, tavern attendant, constable, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married Sarah Crouch. Father of Polly A. Crouch, Felix A. Crouch, Mary A. Crouch, M. J. Crouch, Olivia Crouch, Bell Crouch, Sarah A. Crouch, and Susan Crouch. Farmer in Edmonson County in 1850. Tavern attendant in Edmonson County in 1860. Constable in Edmonson County in 1863. Sergeant in the 48th Volunteer Infantry Regiment from October 1863 and December 1864.
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Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer and court clerk. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Married to Ursula A. Walker Lawson in August 1858. Father of Sarah A. Lawson, Robert N. Lawson, and Emer Lawson. Apprentice tanner, under William H. Clark, in Barren County in 1850. Farmer in Edmonson County in 1860. Clerk of the Edmonson Circuit Court from 1863 to 1867. Clerk of the Edmonson County Court from 1863 to 1865.
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County in western Kentucky. Seat at Brownsville. Located on the Green River.
Seat of Edmonson County, Kentucky. Located on the Green River.
Located in the 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Asher W. Graham. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): W. B. Jones. Clerk(s): T. B. McIntire and Aaron Lawson.
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Located in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): J. E. Bacon. Clerk(s): T. B. McIntire, Aaron Lawson, and Noah Morris.
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To. his Excelency
Your Petitioner
he states that the fact were these, in Reunion of the Union party as it was intended at the time to Recruit for the Army-- which was done upon that day. Said Crouch-- stating that he and others would throw in and pay what Petitoner had to pay for Said Liquor-- He and others did make up a portion-- of said mony-- but not the whole amount, Petitioner furnishing the ballance Petitioner did not sell said Whisky-- he made no profit on the same, did not buy it to sell, for Profit, and he is informed that upon the trial but one Witness was Examined against him & who testified to seeing money-- paid by 2 persons-- which Patitioner states was handed him as above stated to make up the amount or part of the amt Paid by him--
He states that he was not present at the trial, he was present at the first term after the Inditement and, the the Rebles came in the county and no court was held and as the courts had been so Iregular, Petitioner was not aware and did not know when court was or he would have attended and could have proved the facts stated-- He had
spoken to an attorney before the first Term, after the Inditement to attend to the case but there being no court Your Petitioner Suposed he had to be summoned and notified when the case would be tried, and in the disturbed Condition of the Country, he did not know that Court was to be held at the time it was, he lives about 14 miles from the County seat in a remote part of the county, and on the aposit and North side of
He therefore hopes that your Excelency will Remit said Fine,
William Age
Wm Age this day made oath before me that the Statements in the foregoing Petition are true
I, certify that I was present and heard ^Evidence upon^ the trial agains Wm Age but, one witness was sworn. he stated he saw Two Persons -- hand Age Mony-- The Court was not held at the first term after the finding of said Inditement, for the reasons stated in the Petition-- and the Petitioner lives as stated some 12 or 14 miles from the County Seat
Edmonson Eq. & Crim Ct
Wm Age Pettn to remit fine
$40. } liquor
I am of opinion that the fine in this case should be remitted and so direct
J F Robinson
Issd th 1863