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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-0001-029-0563 R4-394 to R4-395

Hopkinsville, Christian 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. Samuel M. Bernard (Hopkinsville, KY attorney, asylum manager, and Jefferson Co, KY, notary public) N00002481 1826? Categories: People

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney, asylum manager, and notary public. Kentucky native. Attorney in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Hopkinsville in 1860. Manager of the Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky in Hopkinsville in 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1864.

Relationships Political: James Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, and Christian County, Kentucky, physician and asylum superintendent) Legal: John Feland (Christian Co, Ky, attorney and quarter master (U.S.A.)) Legal: Christian Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 424. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 145. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 186. p. 9 Statement of the Board of Managers of the Western Lunatic Asylum, to the Governor of Kentucky, In Relation to the Burning of Said Institution, Accompanied by Estimate of Cost for Reconstruction (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1861), p. 10. KYR-0001-007-0197. James Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, and Christian County, Kentucky, physician and asylum superintendent) N00002457 1829-03-06 1902-01-10 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, and Christian County, Kentucky, physician and superintendent of Public mental health institutions. New Castle, Kentucky, native. Married to Henrietta Rodman. Father of Mary Rodman and Thomas Rodman. Graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville in 1849. Physician in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1850. Superintendent of the Feeble-Minded Institute from 1861 to 1863. Superintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky from 1863 to 1889.

Relationships Political: Samuel M. Bernard (Hopkinsville, KY attorney, asylum manager, and Jefferson Co, KY, notary public)

“Dr. James Rodman,” The American Practitioner and News 33 no. 3 (February 1902): p. 113. William Henry Perrin, ed., Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1884), p.197-99. Charles Mayfield Meacham, A History of Christian County Kentucky from Oxcart to Airplane (Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1930), p. 296-98. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 78. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hamby Precinct, p. 33. Find A Grave, "Dr. James Rodman (1829-1902)," Memorial #89559618, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89559618&ref=acom (accessed September 22, 2017). Hopkinsville, Kentucky P00002431 Categories: Places

Seat of Christian County, Kentucky.

36.8656, -87.4886 "Hopkinsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. William T. Turner, "Hopkinsville," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 440-41. Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky O00002422 1848 Categories: Organizations

Public mental health institution. Located in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Created in February 1848. First patients arrived in 1854. Main building destroyed by fire on November 30, 1861. Superintendent(s): Dr. S. Annan and Dr. James Rodman.

Relationships Economic: William E. Price (Christian County, Kentucky, merchant and manager of the Western Lunatic Asylum.) Economic: James Shipp Phelps (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant, and Louisville, Kentucky, tobacconist.)

Charles Mayfield Meacham, A History of Christian County Kentucky from Oxcart to Airplane (Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1930), p. 296-98. William Henry Perrin, ed., Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1884), 197-199. William T. Turner, "Western State Hospital" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 944-45. 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. Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky 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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Western Lunatic Asylum of Ky., Hopkinsville, , 186. Hon J. F, Robinson Govr of Ky

Allow me to present J, S, M, Bernard of this city to your exscellency, with whom he has business, A favorable consideration of Mr Bernards matter will be a source of gratification to a number of your political friends in Hopkinsville. Mr B is a gentleman eminently worthy of your excellencys Kindly offices in his behalf

Resptly yr servt

Jas Rodman