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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-0001-031-0027 R1-61 to R1-62

Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada Territory John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) N00000823 1787-09-10 1863-07-26 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah O. Lee Crittenden. Father of George Bib Crittenden, Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman, Cornelia A. Crittenden Young, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Sarah Lee Crittenden Watson, and Robert Henry Crittenden. Married to Maria Knox Innes Crittenden. Father of John J. Crittenden III and Eugene Wilkinson Crittenden. Married to Elizabeth Moss Crittenden. Attended Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky. Attended Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. Graduated from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1806. Admitted to the bar in 1807. Practiced law in Woodford County, Kentucky; Russellville, Kentucky; and Frankfort, Kentucky. Attorney for the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1810. Served as a major to General Samuel Hopkins and as an aide-de-camp to Governor Isaac Shelby during the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1811 to 1817, 1825, and from 1829 to 1832. Member of the United States Senate from 1817 to 1819, 1835 to 1848, and 1855 to 1861. United States district attorney from 1827 to 1829. Attorney general of the United States from March to September 1841 and from 1850 to 1853. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Employed Thomas Lee as a laborer in Franklin County in 1850. Owned forty-two enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Unionist member of the United States House of Representative from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. Died in Frankfort, Kentucky on July 26, 1863.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 36B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No 1., p. 862-3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort Dist. No 1, p. 83. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No 1, p. 490A. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 118-119. “Crittenden, John J,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 240 “Crittenden, John Jordan,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 19, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000912. "John Jordan Crittenden, Jr, (1787-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial #23284, accessed December 19, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23284. William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) N00015196 1834 1929-03-03 Categories: People

Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner and commissioner of deeds. North Carolina native. Miner in California in 1859. Miner in Storey County, Nevada Territory, in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the State of Kentucky in the Nevada Territory in 1863.

Relationships Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Theodore Miller (Storey County, Nevada, resident)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Nevada, Storey County, Virginia City, p. 375A. Great Registers, 1866-1898, Alameda County, California State Library, Sacramento, Ca., p.147. "Van Bokkelen Rites Slated for Tomorrow," Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), Mar. 4, 1929, p. 35. KYR-0001-031-0258. 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. Theodore Miller (Storey County, Nevada, resident) N00015201 1822? Categories: People

Storey County, Nevada, resident. Kentucky native. Clerk in Yuba County, California, in 1850. Clerk in Nevada County in 1852. Resident in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1862.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, California, Yuba, Grass Valley, p. 310A. Census of the State of California (1852), Population Schedules, Nevada County, p. 205. Virginia City, Nevada P00015208 Categories: Places

Census designated settlement in western Nevada.

39.3096, -119.6496 "Virginia City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 29, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "History," Virginia City, accessed July 28, 2021, https://visitvirginiacitynv.com/history/. Nevada Territory P00015192 Categories: Places

Created as a territory in the western United States on March 2, 1861. Capital at Genoa in 1861, moved to Carson City in 1861. Admitted to statehood on October 31, 1864.

39.1638, -119.7674 “Carson City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 18, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress, (Washington D.C.: George Bowman, Senate Printer, 1861), 371-72. "Nevada Admission Acts," Nevada Legislature, accessed July 28, 2021, https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NVAdmActs.html. "Town of Genoa History," Town of Genoa, accessed July 28,2021, http://www.genoanevada.org/aboutushistory/history/index.php. California P00002428 Categories: Places

State in the far western United States. Capital at Sacramento. Located on the Pacific Ocean.

38.5816, -121.4944 Gregory Lewis McNamee and Neil Morgan, "California" in Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/California-state (accessed on May 25, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Sacramento, California," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 15, 2021). 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). Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada Territory 1862-10-29 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Virginia City Nevada Teritory October 29th 1862 Hon. J. J. Crittenden. Dr. Sir.

Mr. Wm A. M. Van Bokkelen of this City, wishes to procure the appointment of the Governor of Ky. of Commissioner of Deeds of that State for this Territory. There are many Kentuckians here whose convenience will be promoted by having a resident Comr here, and we can recommend Mr. VanB. as entirely worthy and well qualified for the position, His appointment will give us great pleasure. Although you are taking no active part in political affairs now, yet I have thought you would in this matter oblige old constituents and friends by endorsing Mr VanBs application to the Gov. of Ky. which will doubtless be sufficient to secure the appointment.

Even in this accidental

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communication I cannot forbear the opportunity to thank you for former kindness to me. Your appointment of me as one of your aids when Govr of Ky was my first political promotion, and your letters of introduction when I came to California in 1850 contributed materially to my welfare. Allow me also to express my regret that the evening of your life, which has been so nobly spent in the service of your Country, should be rendered unhappy by its misery and peril, which you are compelled sorrowfully to witness, after having vainly endeavored to prevent -- from fields of blood and tears good men now look back to the "Crittenden Compromise" as the tired swimmer looks to the fading shore when he is drifting seaward.

With unabated respect and affection for our old Ky. Chief I remain

Your Obliged friend Theodore Miller