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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-0001-031-0032 R1-67

John Stevens (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer) N00015926 1798? 1868? Categories: People

Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer. Maryland native. Married to Deborah "Debby" Duke Stevens in Ohio County, Kentucky, on September 7, 1819. Married to Susan Stateler Stevens in Ohio County on September 6, 1838. Father of Laura Deborah Stevens Taylor, Emily Stevens, Martha J. Stevens Ezell, Lucy H. Stevens Taylor, James K. Stevens, and Fidelia W. Stevens. Farmer in Ohio County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Ohio County in 1850. Farmer in Ohio County in 1860. Recommended for an appointment as Justice of the Peace in Ohio County on October 30, 1862.

Relationships Political: Ohio County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 26B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 642. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #2570. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 33. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 110. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 148. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494957, p. 201. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494957, p. 393. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Ohio County Administrators Bonds, 1868, p. 145. KYR-0001-031-0032. 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. Daniel S. Hill (Ohio County, Kentucky, judge) N00001015 Categories: People

Ohio County, Kentucky, judge. Judge in Ohio County in 1863.

Relationships Political: Ohio County Court

The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives, 1863-1864 (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1864), 54. KYR-0001-004-0149. John D. Miller (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer) N00015927 1899-11-28 Categories: People

Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Miller and Mary Miller. Married to Frances E. Wilson Miller in Ohio County, Kentucky, on March 9, 1854. Father of Mary F. Miller, Mahala E. Miller, Susan J. Miller, George W. Miller, and Joseph M. Miller. Farmer in Ohio County in 1850. Farmer in Ohio County in 1860. Farmer in Ohio County in 1863.

Relationships Political: Ohio County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 35B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Caney, p. 718. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Caney, p. 351A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Ohio County, KY, July 1863, p. 36. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 143. "John Denham Miller (1829-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #111922657, accessed October 2, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111922657. KYR-0001-031-0032. Elijah Mitchell (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and soldier) N00016061 1832? 1864-06-03 Categories: People

Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and soldier. Tennessee native. Married to Louisa Duff Mitchell in Grainger County, Tennessee, on October 21, 1849. Father of Margaret Mitchell, Mary Mitchell, James Mitchell, and William Mitchell. Farmer in Grainger County in 1850. Farmer in Ohio County, Kentucky, in 1860. Justice of the Peace in Ohio County in 1861. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) as a sergeant and a private from October 25, 1861, to June 3, 1864. Demoted to private on June 25, 1862. Reported as deserted from Bowling Green, Kentucky, on September 8, 1862, until November 17, 1862. Died of gunshot wounds at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on June 3, 1864.

Relationships Political: Ohio County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Grainer County, District 6, p. 48A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Caney, p. 737. Burial Registers of Military Post and National Cemeteries, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, NARA RG 92, Chattanooga National Cemetery, p. 339 of 905 of microfilm. _Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Grainger County Marriages, 1850-1859. KYR-0001-031-0032. Robert Moseley (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, bridge keeper) N00001698 1801? Categories: People

Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, bridge keeper. Kentucky native. Married to Amanda Moseley. Father of Julia A. Moseley, Thomas J. Moseley, Luvenia J. Moseley, Mary A. Moseley. Bridge keeper in Hartford, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Political: Ohio County Court Legal: Elijah Mitchell (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and soldier) Legal: John D. Miller (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John Stevens (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Daniel S. Hill (Ohio County, Kentucky, judge) Legal: Ohio County Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 780. Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) N00000233 1810-03-15 1870-05-03 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, editor, and statesman. Lexington native. Married to Virginia Cooper Wickliffe on November 25, 1844. Graduate of Transylvania University in Fayette County in 1827. Editor and proprietor of the Observer and Reporter in Lexington from 1838 to 1865. Member of the Whig Party. Resident of Lexington in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1863.

Relationships Social: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Social: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Social: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Social: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Social: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Social: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Social: John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator) Social: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Social: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Social: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Social: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Social: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) Social: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Social: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Social: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Social: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Social: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Social: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Social: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Social: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Social: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Social: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Social: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Social: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Social: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Social: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Social: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Social: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Social: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Social: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Social: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Social: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Military: William G. Rogers (Regimental quartermaster in 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Elias Thomasson (Regimental quartermaster. 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Social: Henry Gilbert (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and butcher) Political: James B. Speed (Louisville, Kentucky, bookkeeper; pvt & lieut 1st Ky Light Artillery USA, clerk for QM Dpt of OH) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James P. Barbour (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer, miller, court clerk, and politician) Political: Reuben Samuel Peters (Washington County, Kentucky, county court clerk) Political: Anthony B. Hundley (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: John E. McIntire (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and judge) Political: James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) Political: John H. Carr (Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk QM Dept USA and notary public ) Political: James Thomson Davidson (Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public) Political: S. B. Brown (Captain, Assistant Quarter Master) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 600. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 459A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 348. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 630-31. "The Late D. C. Wickliffe," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 5, 1870, p. 2. "Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (1810-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial 65784654, accessed August 28, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65784654. Ohio County, Kentucky P00002417 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Hartford. Located on the Green River.

Relationships Legal: John Thomas (Ohio County, Kentucky, saddler apprentice.) Legal: Alonzo L. Morton (Ohio Circuit Ct. Clerk) Legal: Virgil Porter Addington (Ohio County, Kentucky, merchant and tailor.) Legal: Peter Thomas (Ohio County, Kentucky, saddler apprentice.) Legal: Thomas Moseley (Ohio County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: John Ford (Mentioned in an Ohio County, Kentucky, court document related to Moses Baer.)

37.4512, -86.9092 "Hartford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 24, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 218. 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. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

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).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Ohio County Court O00000674 Categories: Organizations

Located in Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): David S. Hill. Clerk(s): R. Seth Mosely.

Relationships Legal: Peter Trisler Whittinghill (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. 1862-10 Order 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 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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State of Kentucky County Court of Ohio CountySct October Term 1862

Ordered that John Stevens be accd he is hereby recommended to the Govenor of this Commonwealth as a Suitable person to fill the vacancy of Justice of the Peace in District No 7 in view of D. S. Hillresigned: and also John D. Miller to fill a Similar vacancy in Disctrict No. 1 of this County in view of E. MitchellResigned

A Copy Attest --

R. J. Moseley Cl'k O, C, C,

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N. B. If the Govenor makes the within appointments the Secretary of Statewill please send Commissions to me at Hartford --

R. J. Moseley

Ohio Co.

J. P. Dist No 1 & 7 IssdOcto 30 1862