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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-0001-031-0058 R1-96

Hawesville, Hancock 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. John McCarty Brown (Hancock County, KY, Presiding Judge and magistrate) N00003668 1799? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, judge and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Minerva Jane Murray Brown. Father of Eli Huston Brown, Walker Brown, and Annie Brown. Magistrate in Hawesville, Kentucky, in 1860. Presiding judge in Hancock County in 1862.

Relationships Military: Hancock County Home Guard Political: Hancock County Court Political: Joseph McClair Wilson (Hancock County, Kentucky, druggist and justice of the peace )

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 112. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #6042. KYR-0002-022-0045. Joseph McClair Wilson (Hancock County, Kentucky, druggist and justice of the peace ) N00016400 1835? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, druggist and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Son of Robert J. Wilson and Sarah Wilson. Married to Sallie G. Holmes Wilson in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 19, 1861. Father of Gardner Holmes Wilson and Robert J. Wilson. Attended school in Hancock County, Kentucky, in 1850. Druggist in Hancock County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Hancock County in 1860. Justice of the Peace in Hancock County in 1862.

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: John McCarty Brown (Hancock County, KY, Presiding Judge and magistrate)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 269B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 1047. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 88A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, Birmingham, p. 249B. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #21638. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819614. KYR-0001-031-0044. Hawesville, Kentucky P001817 Categories: Places

Seat of Hancock County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

37.9001, -86.755 “Hawesville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 27, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 419. 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). Hancock County, Kentucky P001816 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Hawesville. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8281, -86.7617 "Hancock County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 30, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lee A. Dew, "Hancock County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 401-02. Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky 1862-10-18 Correspondence 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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Hawesville Ky Oct 18th 1862 Gov. J. F. Robinson

Sir=Some time since several of my friends petitioned to your Excellency to appoint me to the office of Justice of the Peace in this the Hawesville District which office has become vacant vacant -- theformer Justice having been elected County Judge -- and not having heard from you I have concluded that the Petition has become mislaid I have determined to write you and ask your consideration as to myself in regard to the aforesaid office -- I will merely say that I am and have been all the time a warm lover and advocate of the Union Cause and think I can claim with without impunity to be an honest man and if I receive the office solicited to I will endeavor to discharge the duties imposed upon me with impartiality between man and man -- Your early attention to this is requested as we are in need of a Justice as we have none in town

Yours respectfully J. M. Wilson

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Hancock Co

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Dist No 2 AppdNov 14 1862