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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-0001-029-0598 R4-443

William H. Ruggles (Carroll County, Kentucky, silversmith and hotel keeper) N00006138 1837? Categories: People

Carroll County, Kentucky, silversmith and hotel keeper. New York native. Son of Harlo Ruggles and Mariah Ruggles. Married to Lizzie Ruggles. Father of Lilly B. Ruggles. Resident of Livingston County, Kentucky, in 1850. Silversmith in Carroll County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Carroll Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Livingston County, Mount Morris, p. 67. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, Carrollton, District 2, p. 9. KYR-0001-029-0598. William Morely (Likely Carroll County ) N00006139 Categories: People

Shot by William H. Ruggles in Carroll County, Kentucky, in 1862.

Relationships Social: William H. Ruggles (Carroll County, Kentucky, silversmith and hotel keeper)

KYR-0001-029-0598. KYR-0001-029-0244. John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) N00002277 1829-04-07 1903-12-01 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney. Ohio native. Married to Theresa Frank Scott in Mason County, Kentucky, on September 3, 1857. Married to Sallie F. Chiles Scott in Mason County on November 30, 1859. Father of Nettie Scott. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Attorney in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860. Partner with James Simpson in Simpson & Scott law firm in Frankfort in 1861. Commonwealth's attorney for the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Carroll Circuit Court Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Charles O'Hara (blacksmith, Grant County) Legal: Heman D. Stratton (school teacher, Grant County) Legal: William Tucker (Grant County resident) Legal: G. Washington Osborn (Grant County resident) Legal: Robert F. Coleman (Burlington, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: John Sanders (Posey, Indiana, farmer) Legal: Boone County Court Legal: Boone Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Legal: Jesse Redman (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: John W. Brookover (Huntington, Brown County, Ohio, farmer and soldier.) Legal: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Grant Circuit Court Social: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Social: Winthrop Hartly Hopson (Fayette County, Kentucky, minister. ) Social: [Unknown] Frazier (Mentioned as a judge in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1862.) Social: Emery Whitaker (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: John Calvin Mason (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney, congressman, and soldier.) Social: Robert Milligan (Mercer County, Kentucky, professor and university president. President of Kentucky University) Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: W. T. Moore (Franklin County, Kentucky, minister.) Social: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) Political: Willard Preble Hall (Seventeenth Governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician.) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Familial: Nettie Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: David G. Venable (Frankfort, Kentucky, student and soldier) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 363. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 154A. 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. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1867), 324. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts for the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1868, Legislative Document Series, No. 2 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, Public Printer, 1869), 23. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994048, Mason County Marriages. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281844. "John L. Scott," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), November 13, 1860, p. 2. "New Law Firm at Frankfort--Simpson & Scott," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 8, 1861, p. 3. "Touching Bereavement," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 8, 1866, p. 3. "Attorney John L. Scott Dead," The Morning Herald (Lexington, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 4. "Deaths: John L. Scott," Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 1. L. F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky (Frankfort, KY: Roberts Printing Co., 1912), 149. "Col John Lafayette Scott (1829-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15017815, accessed September 5, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15017815. 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. Carroll Circuit Court O00000365 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 8th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall and George C. Drane. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): P. U. Major and John L. Scott. Clerk(s): John Hogan and Alfred R. Gaunt.

Relationships Legal: Lewis E. Krutz (Kentucky saw mill operator and tavern keeper) Political: Alfred R. Gaunt (Clerk, Carroll Cir. Ct) Political: John Hogan (Carroll Cir. Ct. Clerk ) Legal: James Humphrey (Carroll County laborer) Legal: William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds)

“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. [unknown] Hotel O00006137 Categories: Organizations

Carroll County, Kentucky, hotel. Existed in 1862. Owner(s): William H. Ruggles.

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Comwth vs W H Ruggles- indict for shooting with intent to kill- Carroll Circuit

The following an are the leading facts as presented on the trial- Ruggles and Morely were drinking- They quarreled- Ruggles had a pistol in his hand- Morely was standing at the head of the stairs and Ruggles at the foot Morely told Ruggles to shoot and he fired This occurred in Moorely's house at night. Morely kept a hotel --

John L. Scott. Com. Atty