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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-0001-031-0037 R1-82

Versailles, Woodford 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. David Pliney Robb (Woodford Co, KY, police judge, clerk, merchant, banker) N00007408 1831 1907 Categories: People

Versailles Kentucky, police judge, clerk and merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Robb and Rebecca Robb. Married to Cynthia I. Hilber Robb in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on April 6, 1854. Clerk in Lewis County in 1850. Boot and shoe merchant in Versailles in 1860. Police judge in Versailles from May 7, 1861, to November 3, 1862. County court clerk in Woodford County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Versailles Police Court Social: Hezekiah H. Culbertson (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and police judge)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 2, p. 183A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 825. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 519A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000183145, p. 274. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Woodford County, KY, July 1863, p. 210. "David Pliney Robb (1831-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial 196135299, accessed March 13, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196135299. KYR-0001-017-0151. KYR-0001-020-1411. Hezekiah H. Culbertson (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and police judge) N00013976 1825-08-10 1895-03-08 Categories: People

Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and police judge. Ohio native. Married to Susan Kinkead Culbertson in Woodford County, Kentucky, in September 1847. Farmer in Woodford County in 1850. Merchant in Woodford County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1860. Chairman of the Versailles Board of Trustees in Woodford County in 1861. Merchant in Woodford County in 1863. Police judge in Versailles from November 7, 1862, to 1863.

Relationships Social: William T. Martin (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Lee Atwell (Woodford County, Kentucky, resident and jailor) Political: Moses Nathan Hall (Woodford County, Kentucky, waggoner, farmer, and town marshal) Political: Leonidas B. Peters (Woodford County, Kentucky, clerk and postmaster) Political: William T. Martin (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Versailles Board of Trustees Political: Versailles Police Court Political: Jonathan "Swift" Darneal (Woodford County, KY, circuit court clerk) Military: Kentucky State Militia Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 2, p. 496B-497A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 823. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 489A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 502A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Woodford County, KY, July 1863, p. 69. "H. H. Culbertson (1825-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial #140018044, accessed January 28, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140018044. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film #000252322. KYR-0001-004-0304. KYR-0001-017-0151. KYR-0001-031-0037. Versailles, Kentucky P00002991 Categories: Places

Seat of Woodford County, Kentucky.

38.0526, -84.7299 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 304. “Versailles, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 13, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky 1862-11-03 Correspondence English Version 1 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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Versailles Ky Nov 3d 1862 Gov J F Robinson

I hereby resign the office of Police Judge of the town of Versailles Ky

D P Robb

I would hearby recommend the appointment of H H Culbertson as a suitable person for the office of Police Judge of Versailles Mr Culbertson is a true Union man & will be very acceptable to the people

D P Robb

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Versailles

Po. Judge H H Culbertson AppdNov. 7. 1862