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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-0001-029-0555 R4-381

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) N00004805 1830? Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, grocer. Native of Ireland. Married to Margaret Donahoe. Father of Mary Donahoe, Michael Donahoe, John Donahoe, and James Donahoe. Grocer in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Fayette Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 4, p. 116. KYR-0001-029-0555. Speed Smith Goodloe (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00004016 1837-02-10 1877-05-14 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Son of David S. Goodloe and Sally A. Goodloe. Married to Mary E. Shreve Goodloe in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, on April 5, 1860. Resident of Lexington in 1850. Graduated from Centre College in 1856. Resident of Lexington in 1860. Attorney in Lexington. Judge of the Lexington City Court from 1862 to 1870.

Relationships Political: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Alexander H. Robertson (Petition signer in Fayette County, Kentucky) Legal: Lexington City Court Legal: James Robinson (Kenton County, KY, farmer and soldier)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 214A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 596. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819612. Alexander Maydwell, Jr., comp., Maydwell's Lexington City Directory for 1867 (Cincinnati: Miami Printing and Publishing Co., 1867), 13. 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. The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, 1860 (Danville: Cincinnati Gazette Steam Print, 1860), 26. William Henry Perrin, ed., _History of Fayette County, Kentucky, with an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region by Robert Peter, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Chemist to the State Geological Society, Etc. (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin and Company, 1882), 609. "Speed S. Goodloe (1837-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100859397, accessed September 1, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100859397. KYR-0001-020-1934. 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. Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Fayette Circuit Court O00000377 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): John B. Norton.

Relationships Legal: John C. Cable (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Charles Scott Todd Bodley (Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff) Legal: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) Legal: George Washington Brand (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer and bank director) Economic: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Harrison Keith (Plymouth, Massachussetts, salesman and soldier (U.S.A.)) Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge)

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. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1863-08-28 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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Lexington Ky, Aug 28 -- 63 My dear Sir

This note will be handed you by James Donahoe of Lexington. He has a petition requesting the remission of a fine, inflicted in The Fayette Circuit Court, Feby 1862, Mr Donahoe is now acting as a good citizen and has abandoned the grocery business. of the fine was made upon the testimony of a man, whose affidavit taken after the trial disproved all he testified to before Court.

I think his a case,, which presents strong grounds for Executive clemency --

Truly Yours

Speed. S. Goodloe

To Hon James F. Robinson