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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-0001-031-0043 R1-76

Whitley County, Kentucky 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. Calvin Luther Creekmore (Whitley County, Kentucky, farmer) N00007566 1823-02-05 1906-07-31 Categories: People

Whitley County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Horatio Creekmore and Lurany Creekmore. Married to Mahala Creekmore. Father of Lorenza Creekmore, Luraney Creekmore, Napoleon B. Creekmore, Addison W. Creekmore, Joseph R. Creekmore, Millard Fillmore Creekmore, Elizabeth Creekmore, Calvin L. Creekmore, Mahala Creekmore, Helen Narcissus Creekmore, Susan Creekmore, and Mary Creekmore. Farmer in Whitley County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Whitley County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Whitley County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, District 1, p. 336A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, Williamsburg, p. 65. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, Whitley Court House Precinct, p. 329A. "Calvin Luther Creekmore (1823-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial #18572091, accessed November 22, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18572091. 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). Whitley County, Kentucky P00002893 Categories: Places

County in southeastern Kentucky. Seat at Williamsburg, also known as Whitley Court House. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.7434, -84.1597 Ron D. Bryant, "Whitley County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 949-50. "Williamsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 3, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Whitley County Court O00000725 Categories: Organizations

Located in Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): C. L. Creekmore. Clerk(s): J. C. Watkins, Terrill Foley, and J. W. Siler.

“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. Whitley 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 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.
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Whitley C. H. Ky November 3rd 1862 Hon D. C Wickliffe Secretary of State Dr Sir

No mail has reached this place from the interior of the State Since August last, You will find from the election returns in your office that I was at August last duly elected Presiding Judge of the County Court of this (Whitley) Co.

The mails will henceforth be regularly delivered here from northern points, will you therefore forward my Commission.

If the Commission has been Sent out, I suggest the necessity of forwarding a duplicate, as much of the mail matter which is Suspended by the way, never reaches its destination

I am Sir very Respectfully Your Obt Servt C. L Creekmore

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Whitley Co

Pr. Judge C. L. Creekmore Com IssdNov 12 1862