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Washington County, District of Columbia, Justice of the peace and commissioner of deeds. Native of Württemberg. Married to Ellen C. Mohun Walter in Washington D.C. on March 11, 1847. Father of Catherine Pauline Walter and Charles A. Walter. Professor of Music in Washington D.C. in 1850. Justice of the peace in Washington D. C. in 1860. Commissioner of Deeds in Washington D. C. in 1862. Justice of the peace in Washington D. C. in 1863.
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.
Washington County, District of Columbia, circuit court clerk. Maryland native. Married to Sally Smith. Father to Rebecca Smith, Molly Smith, Samuel Smith, Sally Smith, Richard Smith, Clementine Smith, and Anna Smith. Washington County Circuit Court clerk in Washington County, District of Columbia from 1848 to 1863. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Washington County in 1850. Farmer and court clerk in Washington County in 1860. Employed Mary Flemming as a cook, Louis Drebles as a laborer, Eliza Drebles and Dervinda Drebles as Washerwomen, Martha Drebles as a cook, and John Mathews, Moses Mathews, and Albert Mathews as servants in Washington County in 1860. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Washington County in 1860.
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Seat of government of the United States of America. Located on the Potomac River.
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).
Circuit Court for Washington County, District of Columbia. Created by Congress in the act for the Government of the Federal District in 1801. Dissolved and responsibilities assumed by the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia in 1863. Chief Judge: James Dunlop. Associate Judges: James S. Morsell and William Merrick. Clerk: John A. Smith.
Washington County } SS.
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Chas Walter
Commissioner for Kentucky in Washington D, C,
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS FOR KENTUCKY
DIST OF COLUMBIA
Subscribed and sworn to this th day of October A. D. 1862
Dist Columbia
Oath.
Chas Walter
Com r of Deeds
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