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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-0001-031-0028 R1-63

Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) N00001223 1831-01-02 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, post office clerk, and state official. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas L. Tate and Nancy Taylor Tate. Married to Lucy J. Hawkins Tate in Woodford County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1856. Father of Howard S. Tate and Edmonia Tate. Clerk of the U.S. Post Office in Frankfort, Franklin County, in 1848. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Assistant secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1854 to 1855 and from 1859 to 1863. Owned two enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Assistant clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1865 to 1867.

Relationships Political: Benjamin F. Graves (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Cawein (Louisville restaurant owner and merchant) Political: Thomas Sullivan (Louisville, Jefferson Co) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: George W. Thompson (Parke County, Indiana, merchant, attorney, deed commissioner, and court clerk) Political: William Alexander (Brandenburg, Meade Co. lawyer) Political: James F. Overton (Meade Co. Ky miller) Political: Enos Keith (Meade Co, Ky) Political: Alexander Bell Patrick (Breathitt Co & Cir Ct Clerk, private CSA) Political: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Economic: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Political: Oscar J. Somes (McCracken County, Kentucky, bank teller and capt 3rd Ky Inf (C.S.A)) Political: Josiah Stoddard Byers (McCracken County, Kentucky, bookstore clerk, midshipman, captain 3rd Ky Inf CSA) Political: Commercial Bank of Kentucky Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Political: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds) Political: Charles James Brenham (San Francisco, California, notary public and commissioner of deeds) Political: Theodore M. Morgan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and commissioner, captain 98th NY Inf USA) Political: State Department of Kentucky Political: Joseph Tucker (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, resident) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: John G. Douglass (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Legal: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 22B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 259. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 491B. James C. Klotter, "Tate, James W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 867-68. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994058, Woodford County Marriages. John C. Herndon (Henderson County, Kentucky, clerk and notary public) N00015205 1841? 1905-08-01 Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, clerk and notary public. Kentucky native. Son of John C. Herndon and Margaret Clark Herndon. Married to Julia Dimmett Herndon. Resident in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in Boyle County 1860. Commissioned notary public in Henderson County on October 30, 1862. Clerk in Henderson County in 1863.

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Economic: Farmers' Bank of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 105A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 907. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Henderson County, KY, July 1863, p. 243. "Death Comes," Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.), Aug 2, 1905, p. 10 Aladore C. Clarke (Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk and notary public) N00015207 1840? Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk and notary public. Virginia native. Student in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in Jefferson County in 1860. Notary Public in Jefferson County in 1862.

Relationships Legal: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 322A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 137. Henderson, Kentucky P001815 Categories: Places

Seat of Henderson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8362, -87.59 Boynton Merill Jr., "Henderson," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000), p. 423-24. “Henderson, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Henderson County, Kentucky P00002891 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Henderson. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8362, -87.59 "Henderson, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Henderson County," The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 424. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 137-38. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Farmers' Bank of Kentucky O00002741 1850-02-16 Categories: Organizations

Principal office located at Frankfort, Kentucky. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on February 20, 1839. President(s): Philip Swigert. Cashier(s): John B. Temple.

Branch office located at Covington, Kentucky. President(s): R. Pretlow. Cashier(s): Thomas B. Page.

Branch office located at Henderson, Kentucky. President(s): Joseph Adams. Cashier(s): T. D. Tilford and Leonard H. Lyne.

Branch office located at Maysville, Kentucky. President(s): Harrison Taylor. Cashier(s): James A. Johnson.

Branch office located at Mount Sterling, Kentucky. President(s): A. Barnes. Cashier(s): William Mitchell.

Branch office located at Princeton, Kentucky. President(s): P. B. McGoodwin and R. B. Ratliffe. Cashier(s): Caleb B. Henry.

Branch office located at Somerset, Kentucky. President(s): John M. Hail. Cashier(s): Eben Milton.

Relationships Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary)

J. Smith Homans, ed., The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, vol. XII (June 1860): 995. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1861 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1861), 38. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1863 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1863), 20. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1864 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1864), 19. "An Act to Incorporate the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printers, 1849), 7-20. Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky 1862-09-01 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Office of the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky.

Henderson, Sept 1st 1862

J. W. Tate Esq. Asst Secy. Dear Sir

You will confer a favor upon me by obtaining for me a Commission as Notary for this County. -- Send it as soon as convenient & write in the charges, & I will remit to you. Your immediate attention will much oblige.

Your friend.

Jno C. Herndon

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Henderson Co.

Jno. C Herndon Notary Public
Jefferson Co A. C. Clarke Notary Public

Coms IssdOcto 30 1862.