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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-0001-029-0547 R4-370 to R4-371

Brooksville, Bracken 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. Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) N00005743 1826? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Jane M. Respass. Father of Augustine Respass and Arthur F. Respass.

Relationships Legal: Bracken Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville post office, p. 51. Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) N00006559 1826? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Jane Newell on November 15, 1849. Father of William Nelson, Jennie E. Nelson, and Simon Nelson. Store keeper in Maysville in 1850. Merchant in Maysville in 1860 and 1863.

Relationships Social: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Bracken Circuit Court Social: Erastus "Tuce" Lambden (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, saloon keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 106. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 81. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 5, p. 22. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Mason County, Kentucky, October 1863, p. 111, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry,, comp., Marriage Records of Mason County, 1856-1860, Volume VI (Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, c1965), (accessed via ancestry.com). Elijah Connor Phister (Mason County, KY, circuit court judge, attorney, and later? mayor) N00005415 1822-10-08 1887-05-16 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Maysville, Kentucky, native. Son of Conrad Phister and Mary W. Conner Phister. Married to Jane A. Phister. Father of Anna E. Phister, Mary S. Phister, Amelia N. Phister, Thomas R. Phister. Graduated from Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky, in 1840. Studied law with John Sargent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Admitted to the bar in 1844. Practiced law with the firm of Payne & Waller in Mason County. Circuit court judge in Maysville in 1860. Employed two enslaved persons owned by Joseph B. Lindsey in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William M. Bartley (Ripley, OH laborer) Legal: Sarah C. Bartley (Ripley, Ohio) Legal: Matthew Warnock (Greenup County, KY, farmer) Legal: L. D. Ross (Greenup County, KY, attorney) Legal: Arnold Snider (Greenup County, KY, farmer and soldier) Legal: Greenup Circuit Court Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Political: John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer) Legal: Erastus "Tuce" Lambden (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, saloon keeper) Legal: Mason Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 172. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Salve Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 21. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds., The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 715. John Morton Duke, Jr. (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney and circuit court clerk) N00002672 1837? 1902-01-06 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of John M. Duke, Sr., and Hannah Duke. Married to Sarah "Sally" Taylor Dewees Duke on January 23, 1862. Student in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Clerk of the Mason Circuit Court from 1862 to 1867.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Economic: Mason Circuit Court Legal: Mason Circuit Court Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Legal: William M. Bartley (Ripley, OH laborer) Familial: Harrison Taylor (Speaker State House, Mason Co, KY)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 104B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 313. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 5A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Kentucky, 9th Congressional District, Vol. 1, September 1863, p. 97, p. 100 of microfilm, (Accessed via ancestry.com on May 19, 2020). “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 in 1867 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1867), p. 356. The Dewees Family : Genealogical data, biographical facts and historical information, Mrs. Philip E. LaMunyan, Ellwood Roberts, ed. Norristown, PA: William H. Roberts, 1905, 44-45. Lewis C. Pearce (Maysville, Kentucky, merchant and banker) N00003913 1810 1891-06-24 Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, merchant and banker. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Pearce and Mary Bridges Pearce. Married to Eliza Ann Stockwell Pearce. Father of Llewellyn T. Pearce, Virginia M. Pearce, William A. Pearce, James L. Pearce, Hiram M. Pearce, Charles B. Pearce, Eliza L. Pearce, and Samuel Pearce. Merchant in Maysville in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1850. Banker in Maysville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Hiram McIlvaine Pearce (Mason County, Kentucky, medical student and physician) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Social: Erastus "Tuce" Lambden (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, saloon keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, District 1, p. 33A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, District 1, p. 689. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, p. 320. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, p. 4B. Lewis C. Pearce: A Former Citizens of Maysville Passes Away at Covington," Maysville Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.), June 26, 1891, p. 2. "Charles Bridges Pearce," Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky(1896), p. 458-9. Find A Grave, "Lewis C. Pearce (1810-1891)," Memorial #136090646, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136090646 (accessed August 28, 2017). Hiram F. Pearce (Mason County, Kentucky, banker) N00006579 1813? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, banker. Kentucky native. Married to Minerva Pearce. Father of William L. Pearce, Mary E. Pearce, Phoebe Pearce, John Pearce, Lucy Pearce, and Hiram Pearce. Merchant in Mason County in 1850. Banker in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 109; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 179. Thomas M. Green (Maysville, Kentucky, newspaper editor) N00006580 1837? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Kentucky native. Son of Mary K. Green. Married to Nancy Green. Father of John Green, Bessie Green, and Pearce Green. Editor of The Weekly Maysville Eagle from 1863 to 1876.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 40; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 1, p. 4; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Mason County, KY, September 1863, p. 137, (Accessed via ancestry.com); "The Weekly Maysville Eagle," Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027432/) (Accessed on August 25, 2017). N. C. Mayhall (Signed a petition for Thomas A. Respass and Issac Newton in Brooksville, Kentucky) N00006582 Categories: People

Signed a petition for Thomas A. Respass and Issac Newton in Brooksville, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

KYR-0001-029-0547. John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) N00006583 1821? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1846. Attorney in Maysville in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mason County from 1853 to 1855. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 48A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 98. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 13A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 1, p. 397A. The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky (Danville, KY: Cincinatti Gazette Steam Print, 1860), p. 16. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 547-8. Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) N00005226 1824? Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney. Vermont native. Married to Elizabeth A. Carpenter. Father of Julius Carpenter, Mary E. Carpenter, Nellie A. Carpenter, Lillie A. Carpenter, and Nannie R. Carpenter. Attorney in Covington, Kentucky, in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 9th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Investigated for bribery, embezzlement, and failing to appear at court in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Pendleton County Court Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Samuel Thomas Hauser, Sr. (Pendleton County, Kentucky, attorney and county judge) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: Coleman Shaw (farmer) Legal: Thomas Hays (Campbell County resident) Legal: John J. Nelson (Campbell County resident) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Bracken Circuit Court Legal: Thomas J. Terry (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: George Ennis (Harrison County, Ky, resident) Legal: David A. Grimes (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Marquis "Marcus" Lafayette Broadwell (Cynthiana, Ky, judge) Legal: John James McClintock (Harrison County, Ky, farmer and clerk) Legal: Thomas R. Rankin (Harrison County, Ky, hotel keeper) Legal: Joseph B. McClintock (Harrison County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer) Legal: Thomas W. Hedges (Harrison County, Ky, physician ) Legal: George W. Berry (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William G. Courtney (Harrison County, Ky, farm hand) Legal: Benjamin F. Dills (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William A. Hinkson (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Robert Scott Holmes (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Richard J. Levi (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Charles Green Land (Cynthiana, Kentucky, mayor and clerk) Legal: Fleming Cummins (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: James H. Debrular (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Jesse B. Hickman (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William Hutcherson (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: David Dills (Harrison County, Ky, laborer) Legal: Thomas A. Rankin (Harrison County farmer) Social: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: George Sidle (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Harrison Circuit Court Legal: William W. Trimble (Harrison County Lawyer) Legal: Lorenzo Dow Croninger (Covington, Kentucky, master printer) Legal: Thomas T. Sharp (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA) Legal: James W. Steward (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer ) Legal: Elijah Kirtley (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: John VanDeren (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Aaron H. Wheeler (Nicholas + Harrison County, KY, farmer ) Legal: Andrew Jackson Renaker (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.) Legal: Thomas Edwards (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Lewis Veatch (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.) Legal: James T. Smith (Harrison County, Kentucky, cooper.) Legal: William Hutchinson (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Thomas V. Dills (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and slaveholder. ) Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky Political: John Brough (Twenty-sixth Governor of the State of Ohio, newspaper editor, railroad president, and politician.) Legal: Moses Nelson (Preble County, Ohio, carpenter and agent of the State of Ohio.) Legal: Andrew J. Surface (Ohio farmhand and soldier.) Legal: Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 318B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston Ward 2, p. 54A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Kenton County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 40. 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. Report on the Committee of Circuits on the case of R. B. Carpenter, Esq., Attorney of the Ninth Judicial District, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865). Henry C. Taylor (Bracken County, Kentucky, farmer) N00006586 1836? Categories: People

Bracken County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Taylor. Resident of Bracken County in 1850. Farmer in Bracken County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Social: Erastus "Tuce" Lambden (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, saloon keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 429; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, District 1, p. 61; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Foster, p. 4. Benjamin Grant Willis (Bracken County, Kentucky, attorney) N00006584 1823-03-09 1884-02-18 Categories: People

Bracken County, Kentucky, attorney. Bourbon County, Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Garrett Willis and Ann Moseby Grant Willis. Married to Clara J. Payne Willis on July 29, 1845. Father of Harry P. Willis, Benjamin P. Willis, Letitia Willis, Annie Willis, Clara Willis, and Charles Willis. Attended Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, from 1833 to 1836. Attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from 1839 to 1840. Studied law under James M. Preston in Burlington, Kentucky, from 1840 to 1842. Admitted to the bar in 1842. Attorney in Burlington from 1842 to 1844. Attorney in Helena, Arkansas, from 1844 to 1848. Moved to Brookville, Kentucky, in 1848, and resumed the practice of law. Attorney in Bracken County in 1850. Judge of the Bracken County Court from 1851 to 1854. Member of the Democratic Party. Attorney in Bracken County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), p. 417-418; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 477; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Germantown, the Eastern District, p. 127; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Brooksville, p. 7; Find A Grave, "Benjamin G. Willis (1823-1884)," Memorial #114276009, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=114276009 (accessed May 26, 2017). John N. Furber (Brooksville, Kentucky, and Covington, Kentucky, attorney) N00006587 1813 1878 Categories: People

Brooksville, Kentucky, and Covington, Kentucky, attorney. Northwood, New Hampshire, native. Son of Joshua Furber and Alcey Neally Furber. Married to Margaret A. Linn Furber in 1845. Father of Neally L. Furber. Married to Martha M. Smith Furber in Bracken County on July 23, 1857. Father of Charles S. Furber, Anna M. L. Furber, and Martha L. Furber. Teacher in Mason County. Admitted to the bar in Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1840. Delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1844. Attorney in Bracken County in 1850. Attorney in Bracken County in 1860. Attorney in Covington in 1865.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 477A; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Brooksville, p. 145; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 6, p. 34A; Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Bracken County Marriages, p. _Find A Grave, "John Neally Furber (1813-1878)," Memorial #112864989, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112864989 (accessed May 26, 2017). W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, *Kentucky: A History of the State (seventh edition; Louisville, KY: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), p. 797-798; Charles H. Lee, Sr. (Mason County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney) N00006589 1818-06-20 1891-12-16 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Leaverett, Massachusetts, native. Son of Charles and Sarah Hobart Lee. Married to Caroline Dudley Lee in 1843. Father of Rosa M. Lee and Charles H. Lee, Jr. Married to Martha Thomas Less in 1854. Married to Julia C. Ball Lee in 1859. Father of George Dudley Lee and Fannie S. Lee. Moved to Vermont in 1829 to pursue education. Teacher in Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Moved to Mason County in 1841. Teacher in Mason County from 1841 to 1846. County surveyor in Bracken County, Kentucky. from 1846 to 1850. Farmer in Bracken County in 1850. Read law and admitted to the bar in 1851. Attorney in Bracken County from 1851 to 1857. Judge of the Bracken County Court from 1857 to 1861. Returned to practicing law in Bracken County. Moved to Falmouth, Kentucky, in 1865, and continued work as an attorney. Member of the Presbyterian Church.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 438B-439A; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, Falmouth, p. 2; Find A Grave, "Charles H. Lee (1818-1891)," Memorial #54424197, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54424197&ref=acom (accessed August 25, 2017); W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 834. Richard J. Hughey (Bracken County, Kentucky, court clerk) N00006588 1817 Categories: People

Bracken County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth J. Hughey. Father of Emma Hughey, Louisa Hughey Clara Hughey, and Jennie Hughey. Surveyor in Bracken County in 1850. Clerk of the Bracken Circuit Court from 1858 to 1865. Clerk of the Bracken County Court from 1858 to 1865. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 472; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Brooksville, p. 130; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Eastern District, p. 5; Thomas S. Page, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1860), p. 290. Grant Green, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1862), p. 305. William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, 1866), p. 11. William A. Doniphan (Augusta, Kentucky, attorney) N00006592 1830-05-29 1865-04-05 Categories: People

Augusta, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of George Doniphan and Mary Doniphan. Student in Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Augusta in 1860. Died in 1865.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 452; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 122; Find A Grave, "William A. Doniphan (1830-1865)," Memorial #114274146, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=114274146 (accessed May 26, 2017). Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. Bracken County, Kentucky P00000319 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Brooksville, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6826, -84.0658 "Bracken County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 110-111. "Brooksville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 19, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Brooksville, Kentucky P00004716 Categories: Places

Seat of Bracken County, Kentucky.

38.6826, -84.0658 “Bracken County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 110-111. "Brooksville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 19, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Bracken Circuit Court O00000347 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): W. E. Arthur and R. B. Carpenter. Clerk(s): Richard J. Hughey and George B. Poage.

Relationships Legal: William C. Marshall (Bracken County, Kentucky, attorney and Ky state rep) Legal: William D. Ratcliffe (Bracken Co, Ky, tavern keeper & capt 10th Cav USA)

“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. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Brooksville, Bracken County, Kentucky 1863-08-26 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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 "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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To his Excellency James F. Robinson, Governor of Kentucky,

The undersigned respectfully represent that at the present term of the Bracken Circuit Court, Thomas A. Ressess and Isaac Nelson, having been indicted for consenting to act, and having acted as seconds in a duel fought in said County, appeared in court and without subjecting the Commonwealth to the expense and trouble of a trial, acknowledged the truth of the allegations against them, and were fined the sum of $150 each, The other parties indicted for the same offense were not found by the Shff, and have not appeared in court, Both the gentlemen dreserve the forbearance and clemency of your excellency, and we respectfully ask that you will remit so much of their fines as you have authority to do under the law, and With the highest respect also the penalty of disfranchisement imposed by the statute in such cases, We are well satisfied that the parties for whom we invoke this act of clemency are gentlemen who will well appreciate your kind interposition.

With the highest regard &c Brooksville, Ky, Aug 26 1863, Thorton. F. Marshall

E. C. Phister Jno M Duke

L C Pearce H F Pearce Thos. M. Green N. C. Mayhall -- J G Hickman R, B, Carpenter H. Taylor B. G. Willis John N Furber C, H, Lee

Richd J, Hughey W. A. Doniphan-

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Sept 5th 1863 Remit all except Costs &c. Tho E Bramlette

Bracken Cir Court vs Nelson & Ressess $150. each Remitted 5th Sept 1863