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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-0001-031-0062 R1-101

Lexington, Fayette 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. James Thomson Davidson (Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public) N00016709 1823-01-24 1878-05-06 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public. Washington, D.C., native. Married to Catherine “Kate” M. Hull Davidson. Father of Mary Eliza Davidson, Catherine “Kate” A. Davidson, Sarah J. Davidson, Jennie Davidson, Louis Davidson, Nannie Davidson, John H. Davidson, Laura A. Davidson, and Robert B. Davidson. Clerk in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Clerk of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Fayette County in 1860. Clerk of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Fayette County in 1862. Appointed as a notary public in Fayette County in 1862.

Relationships Economic: Madison Conyers Johnson (Fayette County, KY, attorney, bank director, professor, and chair of Transy U trustees) Economic: Northern Bank of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 217A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 609. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 425. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 203B. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #3029. "James Thomson Davidson (1823-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial #99745168, accessed December 7, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99745168. KYR-0001-031-0066. Thomas Mitchell (Lexington, Kentucky, banker) N00006560 1830-07-13 1912-02-09 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, banker. Kentucky native. Married to Mary S. Mitchell in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1853. Father of Anna Mitchell. Cashier of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in 1860. Cashier of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in 1865. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Second Bank of Kentucky Economic: First National Bank of Lexington Economic: Edward S. Duncanson, Sr. (Lexington, Kentucky, banker and notary public) Social: Edward S. Duncanson, Sr. (Lexington, Kentucky, banker and notary public) Economic: James Thomson Davidson (Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public) Economic: Madison Conyers Johnson (Fayette County, KY, attorney, bank director, professor, and chair of Transy U trustees) Economic: Northern Bank of Kentucky

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 4, p. 516. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 4, p. 460B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 251A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252408. "Thomas Mitchell (1830-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial #42586089, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42586089, (accessed December 13, 2021). Madison Conyers Johnson (Fayette County, KY, attorney, bank director, professor, and chair of Transy U trustees) N00011564 1806-09-21 1886-12-07 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, bank director and university trustee. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of Major William Johnson and Elizabeth Payne Johnson. Married to Sallie Ann Clay Johnson on December 23, 1828. Graduated from Transylvania University in 1823. Read law with Martin D. Hardin in Frankfort in 1824. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1825. Attorney in Fayette County from 1828 to 1865. Member of the Whig party. Owned seven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fayette County from 1853 to 1855. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fayette County from 1857 to 1859. Member of the board of directors of the Northern Bank of Kentucky. President of the Northern Bank of Kentucky from 1858. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Chairman of the board of trustees of Transylvania University in 1865. President of the law department of Kentucky University in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Northern Bank of Kentucky

Seventh‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1850),‌ ‌Population‌ ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌District‌ ‌1,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌145B.‌ ‌ ‌Seventh‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1850),‌ ‌Slave ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌District‌ ‌1,. Eighth‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1860),‌ ‌Population‌ ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌Lexington,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌389.‌ ‌ ‌Eighth‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1860),‌ ‌Slave ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌Lexington Ward 1,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌450A-B.‌ ‌ Ninth‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1870),‌ ‌Population‌ ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌ Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌Lexington‌ ‌Ward‌ ‌1,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌194B.‌ ‌ J.‌ ‌M.‌ ‌Armstrong,‌ ‌The‌ ‌Biographical‌ ‌Encyclopædia‌ ‌of‌ ‌Kentucky‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Dead‌ ‌and‌ ‌Living‌,‌ ‌ (Cincinnati,‌ ‌Ohio,‌ ‌1878), ‌Volume‌ ‌1,‌ ‌pp.‌ ‌146-47.‌ ‌ "Madison‌ ‌Conyers‌ ‌Johnson‌ ‌(1806-1886),"‌ ‌Find‌ ‌A‌ ‌Grave,‌ Memorial‌ ‌‌82208004‌,‌ ‌accessed‌ ‌December‌ ‌26,‌ ‌2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82208004‌‌.‌ ‌ KYR-0001-009-0038.‌ ‌‌ Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Fayette County, Kentucky P001031 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lexington.

38.0406, -84.5037 "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 99. Northern Bank of Kentucky O00002742 1835 1899 Categories: Organizations

Principal office located at Lexington, Kentucky. Established by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on February 20, 1835. President(s): Madison C. Johnson. Cashier(s): Augustus F. Hawkins.

Branch office located at Barbourville, Kentucky. Dissolved by 1863. President(s): George M. Adams. Cashier(s): William McClanahan.

Branch office located at Covington, Kentucky. President(s): James M. Preston and James Taylor. Cashier(s): William Ernst.

Branch office located at Glasgow, Kentucky. President(s): George W. Trabue. Cashier(s): Thomas J. Gorin.

Branch office located at Louisville, Kentucky. President(s): William Richardson and L. L. Warren. Cashier(s): John Milton and Henry C. Pindell. Director(s): 1861—W. Mitchell, Sandford Duncan, E. A. Gardner, William E. Glover, W. F. Bullock, and L. L. Warren. 1864—William E. Glover, E. A. Gardner, William Hughes, D. B. Light, Robert Murrell, and R. A. Robinson.

Branch office located at Paris, Kentucky. President(s): Charlton Alexander and Robert T. Davis. Cashier(s): Thomas Kelly and Charlton Alexander.

Branch office located at Richmond, Kentucky. President(s): Daniel Breck. Cashier(s): E. L. Shackleford.

Relationships Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept)

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: Albert G. Hodges, State Printer, 1834), 166-81. "An Act to establish the Northern Bank of Kentucky," Tanner's Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, compiler Henry Tanner (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 324-25. The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, ed. J. Smith Homans, vol. 12 (June 1860): 995. J. D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory, for 1864 (Louisville: L. A. Civill, 1864), 89-91. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1861 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1861), 38. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1863 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1863), 20. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1864 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1864), 19. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1862-11-20 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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Northern Bank of Kentucky, Lexington, Nov 20. 1862. Govr J F Robinson Dear Sir

I wish you would commission James T Davidson Notary Public for this County. He is our only clerk at present, and in the absence or sickness of our Teller, it is often important to have a notary in Bank.

Respectfully M C Johnson.