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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-0001-029-0580 R4-416 to R4-417

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. H. A. Huesman (Eminence, Kentucky, and Middletown, Kentucky, liquor merchant) N00005553 1816? Categories: People

Eminence, Kentucky, and Middletown, Kentucky, liquor merchant. Native of Baden. Married to Morinda Huesman. Father of Mathias Huesman, Theodore Huesman, Amelia Huesman, Julia Huesman, Hinkelmina Huesman, Herman Huesman, Mary Huesman, and Walter Huesman. Owned liquor mercantile in Louisville from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Legal: Henry County Court Legal: George T. Humston (Henry County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and circuit court clerk) Political: George T. Humston (Henry County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and circuit court clerk) Political: Moses Silberman (Henry County, Kentucky, merchant) Political: C. Fitman (Likely Henry County) Political: Thomas W. Rice (Henry County, Kentucky, saddler) Political: Edmund S. Pryor (New Castle, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Ed Nallate (Likely Henry County)

U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1862, Collection District 3, Division 10, p. 23. U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1863, Collection District 3, Division 10, p. 12. U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1865, Collection District 3, Division 9, p. 23 Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 10, p. 19. KYR-0001-029-0580. Ed Nallate (Likely Henry County) N00005554 Categories: People

Signed a petition for H. A. Huesman.

KYR-0001-029-0580. Edmund S. Pryor (New Castle, Kentucky, attorney) N00005556 1838? Categories: People

New Castle, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Pryor and Harriet J. Pryor. Resident of Henry County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in New Castle in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 2, p. 441. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 5. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 2. Thomas W. Rice (Henry County, Kentucky, saddler) N00005560 1832? Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, saddler. Kentucky native. Married to Mary J. Rice. Father of Mary Ellen Rice, Henrietta T. Rice, Thomas C. Rice, Emma J. Price, William P. Rice, George E. Rice, and Charles M. Rice. Saddler in Henry County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 146. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Eminence, p. 8. George T. Humston (Henry County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and circuit court clerk) N00004939 1838? Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and circuit court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of C. M. Humston and Susan Humston. Married to Gabriella Keightly Humston in LaGrange, Kentucky, on May 19, 1863. Student in Henry County in 1850. Deputy sheriff in Henry County in 1860. Clerk of the Henry Circuit Court from 1863 to 1867.

Relationships Social: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Madison B. Ireland (Henry County, KY, hotelkeeper and farmer.) Legal: Henry Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 378A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision No. 1, p. 263. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District of New Castle, p. 333A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 001943429. 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), 11. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, 1867), 356. KYR-0001-004-0317. C. Fitman (Likely Henry County) N00005563 1830? Categories: People

Kentucky native. Signed a petition for H. A. Huesman.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, Eminence, p. 52. KYR-0001-029-0580. Moses Silberman (Henry County, Kentucky, merchant) N00005565 1837? Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, merchant. Native of Germany.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 153. Henry County Court O00000637 Categories: Organizations

Located in Newcastle, Henry County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): John C. Montfort. Clerk(s): Edmund P. Thomas and Morgan B. Pearce.

Relationships Economic: George T. Humston (Henry County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and circuit court clerk)

“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. H. A. Huesman Store O00005567 Categories: Organizations

Retail store located in Henry County, Kentucky. Existed in 1863. Owner(s): H. A. Huesman.

Relationships Economic: H. A. Huesman (Eminence, Kentucky, and Middletown, Kentucky, liquor merchant)

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To his ExcellencyJames F Robinson

Your Petitioner H A Huseman would respectfully state that he is a cripple and has lost a leg- That he procured from the County Court of Henry County a Merchants license and under it supposed. that he had a right to sell liquors by the small -- FThat he never under said license sold liquor to be drank in his store or on premises adjacent thereto with a knowledge that it was to be so drank in the store or on such premises.

Notwithstanding this in some five indictments which were tried against ^him^ at the present Term of this Court, It was proven that persons who purchased spiritous Liquors of him did drink and not with his consent the liquors so drank upon premises ajacent to his said store -- He states that he is a poor man & a cripple and under the law was fined the sum of twenty dollars in each case- He therefore under all the circumstances ^asks^ that your Excellency will remit said fines and your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray &c

H. A. Huesman

This day the Petitioner appeared before me and made oath the the statements in the above petition are true to the best of his knowledge and belief --

Ed Nallate

E. S. Pryor Thos W Rice Geo. T. Humston C, H, C C. C. Fitnam M Silberman

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H A. Huseman Pettn to remit fine No good reason to remit Pettn refused