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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32207976P0'>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.
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266.<lb/>

John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. <lb/>

William Henry Engle, <hi rend='italic'>Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German</hi> (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7.</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32205846P0'>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 &amp; Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B.<lb/>

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97<lb/>

Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 116B. 

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg, District 2, p. 626. 

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg, District 2, p. 19. 

<hi rend='italic'>Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records</hi> (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), Green County, KY, September 1863, p. 209, (Accessed via ancestry.com).</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32205426P0'>Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, judge, and provost marshal. Henry County, Virginia, native. Son of Joseph Alexander and Sarah Bouldin Alexander. Married to Ellen C. Alexander. Graduated from Princeton College and the University of Louisville Law School. Attorney in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Cumberland County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1862. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Adair County in 1860. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Provost marshal of the 4th District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from May 1863 to December 1863. Judge of the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1864 to 1874.
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32207222'>Adair Circuit Court</rs><lb/>
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Social: <rs ref='#S32207242'>Eli Wheat (Adair County, Kentucky, saddler and judge)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32213597'>John R. Wheat (Adair County, Kentucky, merchant and captain)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32209182'>Edmund Terrill Willis, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer and judge)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32215446'> George R. Page (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32206408'>Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, p. 279A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, page 153.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, page 1A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 53B. <lb/>

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878) p. 32.<lb/>

"Will Arrive To-day: The Remains of Judge Alexander to be Interred in Cave Hill," <hi rend='italic'>Courier-Journal</hi> (Louisville, KY), March 26, 1888, p. 5.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Reports of Bvt. Brig. Gen. D. C. McCallum, Director and General Manager of the Military Railroads of the United States, and The Provost Marshal General</hi> (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), p. 151.<lb/>

Michael C. Watson, comp., <hi rend='italic'>An Adair County, Kentucky History</hi> (Columbia, Ky.: Watson Publications, 2001), p. 56.<lb/>

"Thomas Tyler Alexander (1823-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial 88555432, accessed March 16, 2017, <a href='https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88555432.'>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88555432.</a><lb/>

KYR-0001-004-1309.<lb/>

KYR-0001-029-0557.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District No. 2, p. 155. <hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District No. 2, p. 230; <hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg, District No. 2, p. 91-92. <hi rend='italic'>Transaction of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Mason of the State of Michigan</hi> (Detroit: Free Press Book and Job Printing House, 1861), p. 75. "The Grand Lodge of Kentucky F. &amp; A.M.,"  <a href='https://grandlodgeofkentucky.org/?page'>https://grandlodgeofkentucky.org/?page</a><hi rend='italic'>id=1330&amp;gmid=45 (accessed on September 5, 2017). _Find A Grave</hi>, "John M. S. McCorkle (1799-1875)," Memorial #157586453, <a href='http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=157586453&amp;ref=acom'>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=157586453&amp;ref=acom</a> (accessed September 5, 2017). KYR-0001-029-0557. KYR-0001-031-0251.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850),  Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 118; <hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg, District 2, p. 11; <hi rend='italic'>Find A Grave</hi>, "Ossian T. Ward (1837-1885)," Memorial #51394598, <a href='http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=51394598'>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=51394598</a> (accessed August 17, 2017).</bibl>
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              <persName>William Barret Allen (Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and politician)</persName>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32212818P0'>Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Jane Pope Helm Allen. Married to Huldah Wilcox Allen. Married to Miley "Millie" N. Baker Allen. Father of Jane Allen, Harriet Allen, Edward P. Allen, Mary B. Allen, and Fanny B. Allen. Attended Athens Seminary in Greensburg, Kentucky, under the Rev. John Howe. Studied under Dr. James Priestly in Nashville, Tennessee. Teacher in Greensburg. Studied law under Samuel Brents and admitted to the bar. Member of the Whig Party. Postmaster in Greensburg from 1823 to 1828. Justice of the peace in Green County from 1828 to 1829. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Green County from 1829 to 1831. Attorney for the Bank of the Commonwealth at Greensburg in 1829. Editor of a Whig political and literary publication in 1834. Clerk of the Bank of Kentucky branch at Greensburg from 1835 to 1839. Master in Chancery for Green County in 1843. Cashier of the Bank of Kentucky branch at Greensburg from 1839 to 1857. Member of the Masonic Order in Kentucky. Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky from 1846 to 1847. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in 1860. Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Kentucky State Militia (U.S.A.). Attorney in Greensburg from 1858 to 1862. County attorney for Green County from 1862 to 1874.
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32197189'>Green Circuit Court</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District No. 2., p. 154A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District No. 2, p. 226.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg District No. 2, p. 88. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg District No. 2, p. 77A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century</hi>, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong &amp; Company, 1878), 76-77.<lb/>

 "The Grand Lodge of Kentucky F. &amp; A.M.: Past Grand Masters," (<a href='https://grandlodgeofkentucky.org/?page_id=1330&amp;gmid=41)'>https://grandlodgeofkentucky.org/?page_id=1330&amp;gmid=41)</a> (accessed on September 6, 2017).<lb/>

"William B. Allen (1803-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #106115556, accessed March 10, 2017, <a href='https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106115556.'>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106115556.</a></bibl>
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              <persName>David T. Towles (Green County, Kentucky, attorney, county court clerk, and soldier)</persName>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32201875P0'>Green County, Kentucky, attorney, county court clerk, and soldier. Green Countty native. Son of George W. Towles and Frances Towles. Married to Martha A. Montgomery Towles in 1851. Father of Elizabeth F. Towles, Sallie E. Towles, Lucy C. Towles, and Benjamin F. Towles. Educated in the common schools and at St. Mary's College in Marion County, Kentucky. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment as a private during the U.S.-Mexican War from June 1846 to June 1847. Teacher in the Green County public schools from 1847 to 1853. Law student in Green County in 1850. Attorney in Green County in 1853. Assessor of Green County from 1856 to 1860. Attorney in Green County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from December 30, 1861 to April 12, 1862. Clerk of the Green County Court from 1862 to 1874.
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32209252'>William H. Woods (Green County, Kentucky, Presbyterian minister)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 132B. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 64. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0268.<lb/>

 <hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Mexican War Veterans</hi> (Frankfort, Ky.: John D. Woods, Public Printer and Binder, 1889), p. 30.<lb/>

H. Levin, <hi rend='italic'>The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky</hi> (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 488-90. <lb/>

KYR-0001-029-0557.</bibl>
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                  <bibl>Ron D. Bryant, “Green County,” in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 387.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>USGS: Earth Explorer</hi>, "Greensburg, Kentucky," <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/</a> (accessed on October 23, 2019).</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32211888P0'>Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.
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                <geo>38.2009, -84.8733</geo>
                  <bibl>"Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer,  accessed July 16, 2019, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

Robert M. Rennick, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Place Names</hi> (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108.</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32206277P0'>State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
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                <geo>38.2009, -84.8733</geo>
                  <bibl>"Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992).</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32214715P0'>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).
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                </note>
                  <bibl>Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380.<lb/>

Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366.<lb/>

Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233.</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32204772P0'>Legislative branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Comprised of the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Kentucky Senate.
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<p xml:id='OTPS32204772P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203582'>Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207936'>James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32215359'>James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM &amp; 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32196659'>Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep &amp; attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32198033'>Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201674'>Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge &amp; speaker of State House)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213742'>Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213174'>John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207203'>John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211671'>Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep &amp; US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202320'>Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator &amp; Physician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32209540'>Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203055'>John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197907'>Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32209922'>Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep &amp; senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213362'>Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32196917'>Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney &amp; State Rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200010'>Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199053'>Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. &amp; doctor)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199626'>James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205816'>Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep &amp; attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201719'>Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep &amp; senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199193'>Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col &amp; genl 6th Ky Inf &amp; Army of Cumberland USA)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214577'>John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201378'>John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep &amp; attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199701'>Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep &amp; former penitentiary lessee)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32215273'>John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213426'>Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213423'>Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208284'>William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206198'>Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney &amp; politician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204396'>Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer &amp; politician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202562'>James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty &amp; state senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213522'>John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty &amp; state senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201291'>Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32201291'>Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32208063'>Kentucky Home Guard</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211234'>2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206659'>Kentucky State Militia</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205653'>John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213360'>Leonidas Polk (Louisiana, bishop and general (C.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206511'>Simon Bolivar Buckner  (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201258'>T. &amp; J. F. Jefferson</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206190'>Martin A. Walker (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213520'>Charles Gaupin (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204593'>William H. Landrum (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207610'>John Cullen (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206139'>Francis Linnemann (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214685'>Joseph Francis Terstegge (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201330'>John Rausch Gheens (Jefferson County, KY, grocer &amp; flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201288'>Peter Klippel (Jefferson County, KY, grocer and flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212625'>Samuel Harris (Jefferson County, KY, peddler and flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210840'>Frank Struck (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208356'>Elias T. Oberdorfer (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200028'>John T. Doyle (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32196931'>James Collings (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213984'>Alexander F. Clark (Jefferson County, KY, wholesale &amp; retail grocer &amp; flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197224'>Christopher Abel (Jefferson County, KY, grocer &amp; flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214088'>Philip Winkler (Jefferson County, KY, grocer &amp; flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202810'>Joseph Martin (Jefferson County, KY, wholesale grocer &amp; flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197996'>William Gathright (Jefferson County, KY,  merchant and flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201382'>John R. Knott  (Jefferson County, KY, clerk and flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207091'>John J. Ellis  (Jefferson County, KY, grocer &amp; flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199507'>Michael Enright (Jefferson County, KY, retail grocer &amp; flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212050'>Martin Breen (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214480'>George Hill (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204015'>John Snyder &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199545'>John Gaffenberger (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203894'>Thomas McGrain, Jr. (Jefferson Co, KY, &amp; Harrison Co, IN, clerk, flour dealer &amp; merchant)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207958'>Paul Wilhelm Carle (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200261'>James Kennedy (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203091'>Stege &amp; Reiling</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205656'>Montgomery &amp; Bro.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204467'>E. T. Sale &amp; Co. </rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208352'>Marshall Halbert &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206612'>Castleman, Murrell &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203268'>Lane &amp; Bartlett Wholesale Grocers</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201380'>Albert Engelhard (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer &amp; wholesale grocer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206908'>Nock, Wicks &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206091'>Jack &amp; Brother Wholesale Grocers</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203490'>G. McCullum &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208882'>Tait, Anderson &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212260'>Baldwin Sanderson &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197934'>Sage Bower &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210758'>Billing &amp; Dreisbach</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208491'>Smith &amp; Smyser</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207593'>John B. McIlvain &amp; Son</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197522'>John Cochran &amp; Son</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213213'>J. Vernon &amp; Son</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210389'>N. S. Glore &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210391'>Schuler &amp; Hutti</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202443'>J. S. Byers &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197199'>John C. Ameling &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211978'>Guy &amp; Clark Manufacturer</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204422'>C. Bremaker &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199858'>H. Wedekind &amp; Co. </rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201153'>Brown &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205332'>Brown, Bro. &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32196601'>Kennedy Mills</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212322'>Glazebrook Brothers &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201061'>Weller &amp; Parker</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214758'>John Terry &amp; Co.</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210460'>William Garrard Timberlake (Jefferson Co, KY, flour inspector)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197237'>Joab Clark (Christian Co, KY, Clerk of Circuit Court)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203859'>William Brown (Christian County, Kentucky, schoolteacher, farmer, and justice of the peace)</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>Robert M. Ireland, <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky State Constitution: A Reference Guide</hi> (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999).<lb/>

“Kentucky General Assembly.” Constitution of Kentucky, Kentucky Legislative Research Commission, 2019, apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/constitution (Accessed July 23, 2019).</bibl>
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                <idno>O00000506</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1861">
                  <ab>1861</ab>
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                <event type="ended"  when="1865">
                  <ab>1865</ab>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32210137P0'>Military forces of the Confederate States of America, administered by the Confederate War Department. Commander(s): General Robert E. Lee (1862-1865).
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32210137P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199982'>William Harris (possible confederate soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203269'>United States Army</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209378'>John L. Morrison (La Salle County, Illinois, farmer and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214878'>Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213968'>William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210257'>John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col  &amp; Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210257'>John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col  &amp; Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207646'>[Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212431'>Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201969'>Jefferson Davis (CS President)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208412'>Confederate States of America</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199081'>Congress of the Confederate States of America</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204676'>Provisional Council</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32215130'>Provisional Government of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204676'>Provisional Council</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204262'>The People's Bank of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206571'>Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203142'>Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204255'>Committee on Banks</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199799'>Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32215047'>Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197734'>John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken &amp; Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202775'>John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211822'>James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212441'>Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197272'>Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199774'>Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214027'>Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214572'>Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206562'>John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201331'>James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203833'>Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and)</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>Henry Putney Beers, <hi rend='italic'>The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America</hi> (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1968, reprinted 1986), 259.</bibl>
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              <orgName>Green County Court</orgName>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32212663P0'>Located in Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Samuel A. Spencer. Clerk(s): Robert Marshall and David T. Towles.
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32212663P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32213636'>Archibald C. Cox (Green County sheriff and farmer)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32202350'>Ossian T. Ward  (Green County, Kentucky, attorney)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32198006'>Lorenzo Hobbs Noble (Lebanon, Marion Co, Kentucky, attorney &amp; commonwealth's atty)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32201875'>David T. Towles (Green County, Kentucky, attorney, county court clerk, and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32208777'>James Whitlock  (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, farmer, and justice of the peace)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32198231'>Creed H. Craddock (Green County, Kentucky, farmer tenant and justice of the peace)</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in <hi rend='italic'>1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1</hi>. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308.<lb/>

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in <hi rend='italic'>1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24</hi>. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. <lb/>

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in <hi rend='italic'>1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10</hi>. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. <lb/>

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in <hi rend='italic'>1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1</hi>. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. <lb/>

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in <hi rend='italic'>1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1</hi>. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. <lb/>

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in <hi rend='italic'>1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1</hi>. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350.</bibl>
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<date when='1863-08-25'>August 25<hi rend='sup'>th</hi> 1863</date><lb/>
To his Excellency<lb/>
Gov. <rs ref='#S32207976'>Robinson</rs> or Gov. <rs ref='#S32205846'>Bramlette</rs>.<lb/>
<rs ref='#S32211888'>Frankfort</rs>
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<p corresp='TTP35095247P1' xml:id='OTP35095247P1'>Accompanying this letter will be an application of the <rs ref='#S32209252'>Rev. W H Woods</rs> to be relieved of two fines each of $50. <unclear>infavor</unclear> of the <rs ref='#S32214715'>Commonwealth of Kentucky</rs> against him for Solemnizing the rights of Matrimony without having taken the Oath required in Such Cases. -- I am Cognizant of the facts in the cases. and am Satisfied they are Such as to call for Executive interposition -- The act of <rs ref='#S32204772'>the Legislature</rs> aforesaid was passsed at a time when this portion of <rs ref='#S32206277'>the state</rs> was overrun with <rs ref='#S32210137'>Confederate troops</rs> and it was not until long After the passage of the act that there was official notice of it in this part of the State and as was proven in these trials there was no one could have administered the Oath for the want of a knowledge of its requirements --.M<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>r</hi></hi> Woods is a Preacher of standing &amp; character in the Presbyterian Church; has a family of children and not well able to pay the fine<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>s</hi></hi> aforesaid, I therefore urgently request that the aforesaid fines be remitted.
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<p corresp='TTP35095247P2' xml:id='OTP35095247P2'>I remain Very Respt &amp;c<lb/>
<rs ref='#S32205426'>T T Alexander</rs>
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          <p corresp='TTP35095248P1' xml:id='OTP35095248P1'>Greensburg Ky <date when='1863-08-25'>Aug 25, 1863</date>.
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<p corresp='TTP35095248P2' xml:id='OTP35095248P2'>The undersigned attys who have heard a portion if not all the facts connected with the two prossecutions mentioned in the within letter of Mr. Alexander join with pleasure with him and the Petitioner in praying the remission of the two fines mentioned- Respectfully &amp;c
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<p corresp='TTP35095248P3' xml:id='OTP35095248P3'><milestone n='2' unit='column'/><cb n='1'/><rs ref='#S32202356'>Jno. S. McCorkle</rs>
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<p corresp='TTP35095248P4' xml:id='OTP35095248P4'><cb n='2'/><rs ref='#S32202350'>Ossian T. Ward</rs><lb/>
<rs ref='#S32212818'>Wm B Allen</rs><milestone n='1' unit='column'/>
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<p corresp='TTP35095248P5' xml:id='OTP35095248P5'>The undersigned states that he was clerk of the <rs ref='#S32212663'>County Court of Green County Ky</rs> during the year <date when='1862'>1862</date> and that the Rev<hi rend='sup'>d</hi> W<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>m</hi></hi> H, Woods did file in my office on the <gap/> day of <date when='1862-12'>Decr 1862</date> the oath required by the act of <date when='1862-08-31'>31<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>s</hi></hi> of Aug 1862</date> before solemnizing marriages= From my knowledge of the facts I join cheerfully in his prayer for the remission of the two fines mentioned in his Petition= Given under my hand as Clerk of said Court this <date when='1863-08-25'>25<hi rend='sup'>th</hi> day of August 1863</date>=
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<p corresp='TTP35095248P6' xml:id='OTP35095248P6'><rs ref='#S32201875'>David, T, Towles</rs>
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