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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-0001-031-0020 R1-52

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Theodore M. Morgan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and commissioner, captain 98th NY Inf USA) N00014138 1836-05-26 Categories: People

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman, soldier, and commissioner. Son of William C. Morgan and Jane C. Morgan. Married to Caroline D. Morgan. Father of Caroline A. Morgan and Theodore H. Morgan. Student in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Served in the 98th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from December 28,1861, to February 5, 1862. Partner in Morgan, Hanson, & Co. in Philadelphia in 1862 and 1863. Appointed commissioner for the Commonwealth of Kentucky on November 4, 1862. Claim agent in Philadelphia in 1863.

Relationships Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Economic: Morgan, Hanson and Co. Social: Anthony Joseph Drexel (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, banker and philanthropist) Social: Hugh Campbell (Saint Louis, Missouri, merchant, philanthropist, and commissioner) Social: Frederick Holbrook (Washington County, Vermont, governor) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Legal: James McCahen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, innkeeper, JP, and alderman)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Northern Liberties Ward 4, p. 239B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Essex County, Caldwell, p. 134A. Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts of New York State Volunteers, United States Sharpshooters, and United States Colored Troops (ca. 1861-1900), New York State Archives, Albany, New York, Series 13775, Roll #64, 98th Infantry, J-P, Box 67-68, Certificate #1054. McElroy’s Philadelphia City Directory for 1863, 26th edition (Philadelphia, PA: E. C. & J. Biddle & Co., 1863), 547. Septennial Census Returns, 1779–1863 (1863), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia Ward 22, Records of the General Assembly, RG 7, Box 1026 (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA), p. 177 of microfilm. “Theodore Miles Morgan (1836-1922)," Find A Grave, Memorial #80845918, accessed May 20, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80845918/. 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. James McCahen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, innkeeper, JP, and alderman) N00015170 1822-06-24 1870-05-19 Categories: People

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, innkeeper, justice of the peace, and alderman. Native of Ireland. Married to Elizabeth McCahen. Father of Catherine McCahen, Josephine McCahen, Byron McCahen, Margaret McCahen, Joseph McCahen, James McCahen, and John McCahen. Innkeeper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Alderman of the fifth ward in Philadelphia in 1860. Alderman and justice of the peace in Philadelphia in 1861. Alderman and justice of the peace in Philadelphia in 1862.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Political: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Legal: Theodore M. Morgan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and commissioner, captain 98th NY Inf USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, New Market Ward, p. 361 A-361 B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Ward 5, p. 269. "James McCahen (1822-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial #203052680, accessed July 23, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203052680. KYR-0001-017-0105. KYR-0001-031-0041. Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania P00002584 Categories: Places

Seat at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Schuylkill River.

39.9523, -75.1638 Sylvester K. Stevens, John B. B. Trussell, and Mathew S. Magda, "Philadelphia" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Philadelphia) (accessed June 6, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed July 20, 2021). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania P00001701 Categories: Places

Seat of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Schuylkill River.

39.9523, -75.1638 "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 20, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Sylvester K. Stevens, John B. B. Trussell, and Mathew S. Magda, "Philadelphia," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed June 6, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Philadelphia. Pennsylvania P001006 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Harrisburg. Located on Lake Erie and the Delaware River.

40.2737, -76.8844 Carol Lewis Thompson and E. Willard Miller, "Pennsylvania," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Pennsylvania-state. "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania O00015135 1776 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Pennsylvania. Capital at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Governor(s): William Fisher Packer (January 19, 1858, to January 15, 1861), Andrew Gregg Curtin (January 15, 1861, to January 15, 1867).

“1776-1861: Independence to the Civil War,” Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, accessed July 21, 2021, http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-history/1776-1861.html. “Former Pennsylvania Governors,” Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, accessed July 21, 2021, http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/governors/. 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. Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 1862-10-02 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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The State of Pennsylvania County of Philadelphia } s.s.

I, Theodore M Morgan duly appointed by the Governor of the State of Kentucky a Commissioner for the State of Kentucky resident at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania do solemnly swear that I will well & faithfully execute and perform all the duties of such Commissioner under and by virtue of the laws of said State of Kentucky.

Theodore M Morgan

Sworn and subscribed before me, this second day of October A D, One thousand eight hundred & sixty two.

James McCahen Alder & J. P.

THEODORE M MORGAN COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE OF Kentucky PHILADELPHIA PENN

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Pennsylvania

Comr of Deeds Oath of Theo. M. Morgan Filed Oct 6 1862