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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-0001-031-0061 R1-99

Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada Territory 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. James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) N00015239 1815-06-10 1876-12-25 Categories: People

Carson City, Nevada, governor, judge, senator, and commissioner. Madison County, New York, native. Son of James Nye and Thankful Crocker Nye. Married to Elsie Benson Nye. Father to Mary Nye and Charles Nye. Attended Homer Academy in New York. District attorney in Madison County, New York, in 1839. Judge of Madison County Court in New York from 1840-1848. County Court Judge in Madison County in 1850. Boarder in New York City in 1855. First commissioner of the Metropolitan Board of Police in New York City from 1857 to 1860. Governor of the Nevada Territory from March 22, 1861, to October 31, 1864. Governor of the State of Nevada from October 31, 1864, to December 5, 1864. Member of the United States Senate from Nevada from February 1, 1865, to March 3, 1873.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: Theodore Miller (Storey County, Nevada, resident) Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Social: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Madison County, Hamilton, p. 103B. Census of the State of New York (1855), New York County, City New York, Ward 20, District 5, p. 45. "Gov. James Warren Nye," National Governors Association, accessed August 4, 2021, https://www.nga.org/governor/james-warren-nye/. "James Warren Nye, (1815-1876)," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present, accessed August 4, 2021, https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=n000177. John R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, Part I: Coat-of-Arms, (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1910), 292, 295-96. John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) N00000823 1787-09-10 1863-07-26 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah O. Lee Crittenden. Father of George Bib Crittenden, Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman, Cornelia A. Crittenden Young, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Sarah Lee Crittenden Watson, and Robert Henry Crittenden. Married to Maria Knox Innes Crittenden. Father of John J. Crittenden III and Eugene Wilkinson Crittenden. Married to Elizabeth Moss Crittenden. Attended Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky. Attended Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. Graduated from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1806. Admitted to the bar in 1807. Practiced law in Woodford County, Kentucky; Russellville, Kentucky; and Frankfort, Kentucky. Attorney for the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1810. Served as a major to General Samuel Hopkins and as an aide-de-camp to Governor Isaac Shelby during the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1811 to 1817, 1825, and from 1829 to 1832. Member of the United States Senate from 1817 to 1819, 1835 to 1848, and 1855 to 1861. United States district attorney from 1827 to 1829. Attorney general of the United States from March to September 1841 and from 1850 to 1853. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Employed Thomas Lee as a laborer in Franklin County in 1850. Owned forty-two enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Unionist member of the United States House of Representative from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. Died in Frankfort, Kentucky on July 26, 1863.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 36B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No 1., p. 862-3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort Dist. No 1, p. 83. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No 1, p. 490A. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 118-119. “Crittenden, John J,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 240 “Crittenden, John Jordan,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 19, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000912. "John Jordan Crittenden, Jr, (1787-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial #23284, accessed December 19, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23284. William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) N00015196 1834 1929-03-03 Categories: People

Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner and commissioner of deeds. North Carolina native. Miner in California in 1859. Miner in Storey County, Nevada Territory, in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the State of Kentucky in the Nevada Territory in 1863.

Relationships Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Theodore Miller (Storey County, Nevada, resident)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Nevada, Storey County, Virginia City, p. 375A. Great Registers, 1866-1898, Alameda County, California State Library, Sacramento, Ca., p.147. "Van Bokkelen Rites Slated for Tomorrow," Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), Mar. 4, 1929, p. 35. KYR-0001-031-0258. Virginia City, Nevada P00015208 Categories: Places

Census designated settlement in western Nevada.

39.3096, -119.6496 "Virginia City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 29, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "History," Virginia City, accessed July 28, 2021, https://visitvirginiacitynv.com/history/. Storey County, Nevada P00015337 Categories: Places

County in western Nevada. Seat at Virginia City.

39.3096, -119.6496 "Storey County, Nevada," County Explorer: National Association of Counties, accessed August 12, 2021, https://ce.naco.org/. "Virginia City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 29, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Nevada Territory P00015192 Categories: Places

Created as a territory in the western United States on March 2, 1861. Capital at Genoa in 1861, moved to Carson City in 1861. Admitted to statehood on October 31, 1864.

39.1638, -119.7674 “Carson City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 18, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress, (Washington D.C.: George Bowman, Senate Printer, 1861), 371-72. "Nevada Admission Acts," Nevada Legislature, accessed July 28, 2021, https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NVAdmActs.html. "Town of Genoa History," Town of Genoa, accessed July 28,2021, http://www.genoanevada.org/aboutushistory/history/index.php. 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. Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada Territory 1862-11-15 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Virginia City Storey County Territory of Nevada Nov 15th 1862 To His Excellency J F Robinson Gov of Kentucky Sir

I would respectfully apply to you for the appointment of Commissioner of Deeds with power to administer oaths and to take depositions and affidavits to be used in your state

At present I hold commissions from several of the states and territories, and designing to make this my special business, desire to possess if possible a commission froom your state.

I have the honor to enclose the endorsement of Gov. James W. Nye of this territory, and to refer to the Hon. J. J. Crittenden through whose hands this will reach you.

Yours respectfully

Wm A. M. Van Bokkelen