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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-0001-031-0031 R1-66

McCracken County, Kentucky Gustavus A. Flournoy (Paducah, Kentucky, postmaster and county judge) N00005724 1798? Categories: People

Paducah, Kentucky, judge and postmaster. Virginia native. Married to Margaret Flournoy. Father of George B. Flournoy, Clara J. Flournoy, Thomas A. Flournoy, Rosa J. Flournoy. Postmaster in Paducah, Kentucky, from October 1, 1849, to August 27, 1853. County judge in McCracken County in 1860. County judge in McCracken County in 1862. County judge in McCracken County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: S.J. Trowell ( Paducah, Kentucky) Legal: McCracken Circuit Court Political: David C. Peters (McCracken County, Kentucky, carpenter, grocery merchant, and justice of the peace) Political: Peter Anderson (McCracken County, Kentucky, clerk and justice of the peace) Political: George Smedley (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, judge & JP)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah and Suburbs, p. 141A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 826. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Precinct 3, p. 27A. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, McCracken County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 672. KYR-0001-007-0648. KYR-0001-031-0031. George Smedley (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, judge & JP) N00011597 1798? Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, judge and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Christina Smedley, Father of Elizabeth Lewis Smedley and George Smedley. Police judge in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1850. Police judge in McCracken County in 1859. City judge in Paducah in 1860. Justice of the peace in McCracken County in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Division No. 1 (Paducah and Suburbs), p. 140A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District No. 2 Paducah, p. 907. KYR-0001-028-0021. KYR-0001-031-0031. 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. Peter Anderson (McCracken County, Kentucky, clerk and justice of the peace) N00015923 1808? Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, clerk and justice of the peace. Alabama native. Married to Sarah Anderson. Father of Cyna Anderson, James Anderson, Martin V. B. Anderson, and Emiline Anderson. Clerk in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in McCracken County in 1860. Justice of the peace in McCracken County in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah and Suburbs, p. 151A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 959. KYR-0001-031-0031. David C. Peters (McCracken County, Kentucky, carpenter, grocery merchant, and justice of the peace) N00015924 1813? Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, carpenter, grocery merchant, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Malinda Peters. Father of Mary E. Peters and William Andrew Peters. Resident engaging in manufacture and trades in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1840. Carpenter in McCracken County in 1850. Grocery merchant in McCracken County in 1860. Employed Bridget Humphries as a servant in McCracken County in 1860. Justice of the peace in McCracken County in 1862. Justice of the peace in McCracken County in 1865.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, p. 93. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah and Suburbs, p. 138B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 894. KYR-0001-031-0031. KYR-0001-007-0648. James Spence (McCracken County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and county clerk) N00015925 1825-05 1901-04-11 Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and county clerk. North Carolina native. Son of Elizabeth Spence. Married to Nancy Jane Moore Spence in McCracken County, Kentucky, on April 15, 1852. Father of Albert H. Spence, Malcolm G. Spence, Medora Spence, Eugene Spence, and William Spence. Schoolteacher in McCracken County in 1850. Schoolteacher in McCracken County in 1860. Clerk of the McCracken County Court in McCracken County in 1862.

Relationships Political: Gustavus A. Flournoy (Paducah, Kentucky, postmaster and county judge) Political: Peter Anderson (McCracken County, Kentucky, clerk and justice of the peace) Political: David C. Peters (McCracken County, Kentucky, carpenter, grocery merchant, and justice of the peace) Political: George Smedley (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, judge & JP)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 183A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 838. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 143B. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 303. "Judge James Spence Dead," Kentucky Advocate (Danville, KY), April 12, 1901, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86373884/. Kentucky Marriage Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994046, McCracken County Marriages, p. 1. 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). McCracken County, Kentucky P00000909 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Paducah. Located on the Ohio River and Tennessee River.

37.0834, -88.6 "Paducah, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 183. McCracken County Court O00000664 Categories: Organizations

Located in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Gustavus A. Flournoy. Clerk(s): P. H. Wallace, James Spence, and J. K. Leeman.

Relationships Legal: James Spence (McCracken County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and county clerk) Legal: David C. Peters (McCracken County, Kentucky, carpenter, grocery merchant, and justice of the peace) Legal: Peter Anderson (McCracken County, Kentucky, clerk and justice of the peace) Legal: George Smedley (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, judge & JP) Legal: Gustavus A. Flournoy (Paducah, Kentucky, postmaster and county judge)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. McCracken County, Kentucky 1862-10-20 Order English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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KentuckyMcCracken CountySct Monday Octo 20th 1862. -- Called Court

Presd Hon G. A. Flournoy

It is ordered that George Smedley is recom^m^ended to his Exellency the Governor of Kentucky as a suitable person to fill the office of Justice of the Peace in McCracken County in District No 1 to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Peter Anderson who has removed from this County. And David C Peters is also recommended as a suitable person to fill the office of Justice of the Peace in McCracken County in District No 7 to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of George Smedley who has removed from that District

James SpenceC. M. C. C. A Copy Att

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McCracken

J. P. Dist No 1 & 7

Com Issd Octo 30. 1862