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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-0001-031-0047 R1-72

Winchester, Clark 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. Edwin T. Taylor (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and miller) N00016576 1820? Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and miller. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Ann S. Day Taylor in Butler County, Kentucky, on August 25, 1842. Father of Mary H. Taylor, William G. Taylor, D. Welbourn Taylor, Elizabeth A. Taylor, and Hubbard Taylor. Farmer in Clark County in 1850. Farmer and miller in Clark County in 1860. Employed John Fletcher as a miller in Clark County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Clark Circuit Court Legal: Richard Allen (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 11A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 832. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 341B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Precinct 4, p. 45A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Butler County Marriages, Film #000367208, p. 45. Thacker Quisenberry (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00016860 1816 1898 Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Son of Tandy Quisenberry. Married to Frances G. McMurtry Quisenberry in Clark County, Kentucky, on August 17, 1836. Father of William P. Quisenberry and Orvilia Quisenberry. Married to Elizabeth Brockman Quisenberry in Clark County on February 6, 1843. Father of Elizabeth Quisenberry. Married to Permelia Mitchell Quisenberry in 1845. Father of Susan Quisenberry, Johnson Quisenberry, Ann E. Quisenberry, Matilda Quisenberry, Margaret Quisenberry, Jerusha Quisenberry, Thacker Quisenberry, and Roger Quisenberry. Farmer in Clark County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Farmer in Clark County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Clark County in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 13A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 287-8. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 832-3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 341B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Precinct 4, p. 49A-B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, 1793-1911, Film #001943687, p. 40. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film #001943687, p. 92. "Thacker Colby Quisenberry Sr. (1816-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial #82276843, accessed December 23, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82276843; "Was a Native of Fayette," Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), November 9, 1900, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91072021/. KYR-0001-031-0047. Theodore Kohlhass, Sr. (Clark County, Kentucky, accountant and politician) N00000475 1814-09-09 1863-12-10 Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, accountant and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Henry Kohlhass and Prudence Kohlhass. Married to Arabella Keith Kohlhass in Clark County, Kentucky, on April 2, 1839. Father of Henry W. Kohlhass, McElroy Kohlhass, Julia Kohlhass, and Theodore Kohlhass, Jr. Grocer in Clark County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in 1850. Assistant clerk of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1839 to 1847. Prinicpal clerk of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1847 to 1852. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County from 1853 to 1857. Accountant in Clark County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Thacker Quisenberry (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 47. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester District 2, p. 80. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester District 2, p. 347B. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 16, Clark County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 250. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, 1793-1911, Film 001943687. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), p. 130. "Theodore Kohlhass, Sr. (1814-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial 101125475, accessed August 16, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101125475. KYR-0001-007-0263. Aylett Hawes Buckner (Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, clerk and court clerk) N001787 1809-09-16 1867-09-01 Categories: People

Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Charlotte Forsythe Buckner in Illinois in 1833. Father of Benjamin F. Buckner, Susan Buckner, and Daniel T. Buckner. Resident of Jacksonville, Illinois. Attorney in Jacksonville. Editor of the Illinoian in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, in 1838. Attorney in Winchester, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Clerk in Clark County in 1850. Clerk of the Clark Circuit Court from 1858 to 1861. Clerk of the Clark Circuit Court in 1865. Hired one enslaved person in Clark County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Stephen Burditt (Hancock county farmer) Social: Jacob Swearer (Hancock county farmer) Social: A. J. Logden (hancock county,ky) Social: S. B. Burnett (hancock county, KY) Social: Jeff Burnett (hancock county farmer) Social: J. H. Mathews (Hancock County, KY, petition signer) Social: Richard C. Walker (hancock county) Social: Wilfred Hayes (hancock county) Social: George H. Roberts (Hancock County, Kentucky, constable and farmer.) Social: Jeff Richey (hancock county farmer) Social: Thomas M. Wheatly (hancock county) Social: Thomas G. Lynch (hancock county) Social: Baird Sterett (Hancock County, KY, farmer) Social: Charles E. Price (hancock county) Social: Henry Paul (hancock county) Social: Thomas M. Newman (hancock county) Social: Thomas Ogden (hancock county) Social: John Swigurt (hancock county) Social: George Jarboe (hancock county farmer) Social: Sylvester Key (Hancock Co) Social: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: R. G. Tift (hancock county, ky, schoolteacher) Social: William Sterett (hancock county, ky, farmer, politician, & atty) Social: Alexander C. Lindsay (hancock county, KY, farmer & home guard soldier) Social: Green Sterett (Hancock County, KY, physician) Social: W. G. Mays (Hancock County, KY, farmer) Social: William Clark (Hancock co, Ky, resident) Social: William Hawkins Tindle, Jr. (hancock county) Social: Thomas Clark (hancock county) Social: John K. Johnson (hancock county) Social: N. Stark (Hancock County, KY,) Social: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Social: David Davison (hancock county) Social: Wayman Cooper (hancock county) Social: Thomas F. Tindle (hancock county) Social: William Cook (hancock county) Social: Charles Jefferson Sterett (Hancock Co med student & CS soldier) Social: John Probus (hancock county) Social: Benjamin Lynch (Hancock Co) Social: Frank Gist (hancock county) Social: Hawkins Tindle, Sr. (hancock county) Social: Robert Hardy (hancock county blacksmith) Social: Davis L. Adair (Hawesville newspaper editor) Social: William B. Tindle (hancock county)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 41A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, District 2, p. 873. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, District 2, p. 348B. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 290. 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), 305. 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), 11. Patrick A. Lewis, For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 29-30, 46-51. "Aylett Hawes Buckner (1809-1867)," Find A Grave, Memorial 50717378, accessed August 16, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50717378. James Simpson (Winchester, Ky, judge, attorney, politician, businessman) N00001905 1796-03-16 1876-05-01 Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, judge, banker, and politician. Native of Belfast, Ireland. Son of James Simpson, Sr. Married to Mary L. Caldwell Simpson on February 22, 1825. Father of Fanny I. Simpson, Mary H. Simpson, Carrie Simpson, Isaac P. Simpson, and James D. Simpson. Studied law under Samuel Hanson in Clark County, Kentucky. Attorney in partnership with Chilton Allen in Winchester from 1817 to 1827. Circuit court judge from 1835 to 1847. Associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1847 to 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County from 1860 to 1864. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Winchester in 1860. Partner with William Winn and Robert N. Winn in the Deposit Bank of Winn, Simpson & Co. in Clark County in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Robert Nicholas Winn (Clark County, Kentucky, banker) Economic: William Winn (Clark County, Kentucky, banker) Social: Thacker Quisenberry (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 45A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 879. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 34. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 140A. H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: Lewis Publish Company, 1897), 78. "James (1796-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100539928, accessed November 3, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100539928. Charles Eginton (Clark County, Kentucky, attorney) N001798 1814-09-23 1890-09-23 Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, attorney. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Sarah L. Eginton. Father of Mary J. Eginton and Thomas M. Eginton. Attorney in Clark County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Attorney in Clark County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Clark County, District 2, p. 4. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, District 2, p. 78. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, District 2, p. 33. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 4. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #7012976, Covington Deaths, p. 585. "Judge Charles S. Eginton (1814-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #58497535, accessed August 16, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58497535. James T. Woodward (Clark County, Kentucky, salt maker and farmer) N00016861 1811? Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, salt maker and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Woodward. Father of Mary C. Woodward Bates. Salt maker in Clay County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned thirty-one enslaved persons in Clay County in 1850. Farmer in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 154A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 327. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 817. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 336A-B. James Flanagan (Clark County, Kentucky, co court clerk, newsp editor, attorney, NP, Co atty) N001793 1820-09-28 1906-03-26 Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, court clerk, editor, attorney, and notary public. Kentucky native. Son of Peter Flanagan and Ruth Flanagan. Married to Sarah "Susan" Wilson Flanagan on January 4, 1860. Father of George W. Flanagan. Clerk in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eight enslaved people in Clark County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1857. Editor of the Winchester Chronicle in Clark County in 1858. Notary public in Clark County in 1859. Attorney in Clark County in 1860. County attorney in Clark County from 1862. Notary public in Clark County in 1861. Attorney in Clark County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 46B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 313. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 872. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 126A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Clark County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 6. Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), February 2, 1858. ”Clark County,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), August 9, 1862. ”Judge Jas. Flanagan of Clark Co.,” The Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY), July 23, 1905. "James Flanagan (1820-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial 25030151, accessed August 8, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25030151. KYR-0001-017-0128. Winchester, Kentucky P001792 Categories: Places

Seat of Clark County, Kentucky.

37.9901, -84.1797 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 321. "Winchester, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 23, 2019, 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). Clark County, Kentucky P001786 Categories: Places

County in Kentucky. Seat at Winchester. Located on the Kentucky River.

37.9901, -84.1797 William B. Scott, Jr., “Clark County” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), p. 197. "Winchester, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky 1862-10-30 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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WinchesterKyOct 30" 1862 His Ex'lly

Jas F. RobinsonEsq Gov of Ky

A vacancy in the office of Justice of the peace in District No 4 in Clark County, has occurred by the election of E. T. Taylor as Presiding Judge of said County.

The Union people of said district desire the vacancy filled by the appt of Thacker Quisenberrywho is a patriotic & intelligent resident of the district & an unflinching Union man

Very resply &c

Theodore Kohlhass A. H. Buckner James Simpson

Chas Eginton

James T. Woodward had heretofore been recommended for the vacant office; but since then he has removed from the district. Mr. Quisenberry has heretofore been ^a^ Justice in that district, and his appt will be acceptable to the Union party of the district.

Very respy Jas Flanagan

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Clarke Co

J. P. Dist No 4 Com IssdNov. 1 1862