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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-0001-031-0026 R1-59 to R1-60

Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky 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. George Helm Yeaman (Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and statesman) N00000812 1829-11-01 1908-02-23 Categories: People

Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and statesman. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lillia Pegram Triplett Yeaman in 1855. Father of Robert T. Yeaman, Stephen M. Yeaman, Lelia P. Yeaman, Jr., Virginia L. Yeaman Remnitz, and Anna H. Yeaman. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1851. Practiced law in Owensboro, Kentucky. Daviess County Court judge from 1854 to 1858. Elected as a member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1861. Unionist member of the 2nd Congressional District of Kentucky to the United States House of Representatives from December 1861 to March 1865. United States minister to Denmark from 1865 to 1870.

Relationships Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District No 1, p. 35-36. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, New York, New York County, New York City, p. 13. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. “George Helm Yeaman,” (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000015) (accessed December 5, 2016). “George Helm Yeaman Dies in New York,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), February 23, 1908. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1877), 153. Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr. (Muhlenberg County, attorney, merchant, politician, and soldier) N00009772 1816-11-29 1891-02-05 Categories: People

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, attorney, merchant, politician, and soldier. Greenville, Kentucky, native. Son of James Weir and Anna Cowman Rumsey Weir. Married to Harriet R. Miller Weir in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on September 2, 1838. Father of Edward Rumsey Weir, Jr., Anna C. Weir, Virginia Weir, Miller Weir, Max Weir, Jane Weir, Sallie Ann Weir, Susan M. Weir, and Emily Weir. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Muhlenberg County from 1841 to 1842. Attorney in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Attorney and merchant in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Owned forty enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Served in the Muhlenberg County Home Guard in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Muhlenberg County from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Militia Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Military: Muhlenberg County Court Political: James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician) Political: Sebastian C. Vick (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Political: George Helm Yeaman (Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and statesman)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 272A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 144-145. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky State, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 41. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 98A-B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, South Carrollton, p. 436B. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. X (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 640. "Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr. (1816-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 71435457, accessed December 4, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71435457. "Edward Rumsey Weir," Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County Marriages, Film 000557316, p. 4. Otto A. Rothert, A History of Muhlenberg County (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Company, 1913), 56-62. Hartford, Kentucky P001000 Categories: Places

Seat of Ohio County, Kentucky.

37.4512, -86.9092 "Hartford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 133. 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). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky 1862-09-22 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Hartford Kenty Sept 22d 1862 To His Excellency Gov J. F Robinson Frankfort Sir

So far as we know, we are the only candidates for Congress in the Second district to fill the vacancy occasioned by Genl Jas S Jacksons resignation.

We propose your writ of election shall fix Tuesday the 21st day of October as the day of election, or if that will not allow twenty days to elapse after the receipt of this, then as soon thereafter as possible --

We have deemed that owing to the disturbed and uncertain condition of

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affairs, the election should be ^held^ as soon as possible it can conveniently be done --

Very Respectfully Your obt Servts Geo H Yeaman Edwd R. Weir. Sr.

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2nd Congressional District

Issue Writ of election for Octr 29 1862.

J. F. Robinson

IssdSept 29. 1862