<title type="main">Joshua B. Fitch to James F. Robinson

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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-0001-031-0033 R1-68 to R1-69

Clarksburg, Lewis 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. Joshua Barnes Fitch (Lewis County, Kentucky, postmaster, farmer, justice of the peace, carpenter, and county sheriff) N00015723 1823-07-24 1886-08-10 Categories: People

Lewis County, Kentucky, postmaster, farmer, justice of the peace, carpenter, and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Mahala Ruggles Fitch in Lewis County, Kentucky, on October 11, 1846. Father of Thomas C. Fitch, William L. Fitch, Horatio B. Fitch, Laura F. Fitch, Elijah H. Fitch, and Mary H. Fitch. Postmaster at Clarksburg in Lewis County from October 24, 1854, to March 17, 1856. Farmer in Lewis County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Clarksburg until October 30, 1862. Carpenter in Lewis County in 1863. County sheriff in Lewis County in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, p. 894. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, Vanceburg, p. 532A. 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), 149. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Lewis County, KY, October 1863, p. 48. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994045, Lewis County Births. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lewis County Marriages, Film #000344051, p. 15. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Lewis County, Kentucky, vol. 14. "Joshua Barnes Fitch (1823-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial #44819898, accessed September 20, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44819898. KYR-0001-031-0033. Clarksburg, Kentucky P00014653 Categories: Places

Seat of Lewis County, Kentucky, from 1809 to 1864. Located on Salt Lick Creek.

County in northeastern Kentucky. Seat at Clarksburg from 1809 to 1864. Seat at Vanceburg from 1864. Located on the Ohio River.

38.5851, -83.366 "Clarksburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 2, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 171. Ron D. Bryant, “Lewis County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 548-49. 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). Clarksburg, Lewis County, Kentucky 1862-08-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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.

Clarksburg Lewis Co Ky August 29 1862 Gov Jas. F. Robinson

I hereby tender to you my resignation as Justice of the Peace in and for Lewis County for Clarksburg District No. 3.

I am most Respectfully Yours &c

J. B. Fitch

Lewis Co

Resignation of J. B. Fitch J. P. Dist No 3. Octo 30 1862