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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-031-0010 R1-38 to R1-39

John W. Ritter (Barren Co, Ky, attorney and judge 4th Jud Distr Circ Ct) N00001152 1805? Categories: People

Glasgow, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Amanda M. McAchran Ritter in Shelby County, Kentucky, on May 16, 1839. Father of Sarah T. Ritter, Jane Ritter, Josephine Ritter, John Ritter, Julia Ritter, and Horace "Bill" Ritter. Attorney in Barren County in 1847. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in Barren County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860. Judge of the Equity and Criminal Court of the 4th Judicial District in 1862.

Relationships Social: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Political: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District) Legal: Equity and Criminal Court in the Fourth Judicial District Legal: Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 492B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren, District 1, p. 821. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren, District 1. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259274, p. 746. The Kentucky State Register for the year 1847 (Louisville, Kentucky: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 46. KYR-0001-031-0010. William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District) N00005301 1816-02-04 Categories: People

Simpson County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Jones and Mary Young Jones. Married to Mary P. Lewis Jones on May 10, 1838. Father of Virgil A. Jones, Elenora I. Jones, Eugenia A. Jones, and John N. T. Jones. Married to Mary A. Mann Jones on April 14, 1846. Father of James S. Jones, Harriet B. Jones, Elizabeth Jones, and William O. Jones. Studied law under Franklin Gorin in Barren County, Kentucky. Attorney in Barren County in 1837. Attorney in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 4th Judicial District in Simpson County from 1858 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Ellis Harper (Captain, Harper's Partisan Rangers) Legal: George W. Dalton (Simpson County, farmer and sheriff) Legal: William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (Seventeenth governor of the State of Tennessee, newspaper editor, and politician.) Legal: Simpson Circuit Court Social: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Social: Arden Richard McClanahan (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Warren Circuit Court Political: Allen Circuit Court Political: George W. Dalton (Simpson County, farmer and sheriff) Legal: James M. Vance (Hart County, Kentucky, farmer. Fugitive from justice.) Legal: Alexander McHatton (Hart County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Legal: Richard James Oglesby (Fourteenth governor of the State of Illinois, soldier, attorney, and politician.) Legal: Hart Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 7B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 4. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 133. The Biographical Record of Logan County, Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901), 227-28. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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. Equity and Criminal Court in the Fourth Judicial District O00014136 1858-02-09 Categories: Organizations

Equity and Criminal Court for the entire 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): John W. Ritter.

"An Act to Amend an act, entitled 'An act to establish an Equity and Criminal Court in the fourth Judicial District'," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1860), 59. KYR-0001-031-0010. Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky O00000316 Categories: Organizations

This Commonwealth of Kentucky judicial district included Butler, Logan, Edmondson, Warren, Simpson, Hart, Barren, Allen, Metcalfe, and Monroe Counties from 1860 to 1861. From 1862 to 1865, the district included Butler, Logan, Edmondson, Warren, Simpson, Hart, Barren, and Allen Counties. Judge(s): Asher W. Graham (1860-1865), John W. Ritter (Equity and Criminal Court) (1860-1865). Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William B. Jones (1860-1865).

Relationships Legal: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District)

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. KYR-0001-031-0010. 1862-09-01 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Commonwealth of Kentucky to wit

I John W Ritter Judge of the Equity and Criminal Courtfor the fourth Judicial District Do certify that on this day Wm B. Jones the Attorney for the Commonwealth for said District came before me & took the oaths of office required of him, certificate of which is written on the back of his Commission of date 20th August 1862, as follows towit

"State of Kentucky to wit

This day came personally before the undersigned, Judge of the Equity and Criminal Court, for the fourth Judicial District, Wm B Jones, Attorney for the Commonwealth, for in, and for said District, to whom the within Commission issued, and took the Several oaths, required by the Constitution, and laws of this Commonwealth, preparatory to entering on the discharge of the duties of his said office, under said Commission

Wm B Jones

Subscribed and Sworn to by Wm B Jones this 1st day of September, 1862

J W Ritter

"

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In witness whereof I hereto subscribe my name as Judge as aforesaid this 1st day of September 1862

J W Ritter

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W. B. Jones ComthAtto. 4th Dist. Oath

Filed Sept 11. 1862