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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-0001-031-0064 R1-103

Owenton, Owen 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. Lafayette Stout (Owen County, Ky, farmer, city trustee, and police judge Owenton) N00012199 1818? Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, farmer, town trustee, and judge. Kentucky native. Son of Nancy Stout. Farmer in Owen County, Kentucky, in 1850. Member of the board of trustees for the town of Owenton until 1862. Police judge in Owenton in 1862.

Relationships Political: Owenton Board of Trustees Political: Owenton Police Court Political: Andrew J. Mason (Owen County, Ky, attorney and clerk for Owenton bd of trustees) Political: Thomas A. Berryman (Owen County, Kentucky, attorney, chair of bd of trustees for Owenton)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 189A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, Owenton, p. 282A. KYR-0001-031-0064. Daniel S. Adams (Owen County, Kentucky, physician and politician) N00016713 1814-04 Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, physician and town trustee. Kentucky native. Married to Ann Mary Berryman Adams in Owen County, Kentucky, on November 4, 1840. Father of Thomas B. Adams, Lucy Gayle Adams, Daniel Avery Adams, and Stanley G. Adams. Physician in Owen County in 1850. Physician in Owen County in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Owen County in 1860. Member of the Owenton Board of Trustees in Owen County in 1862.

Relationships Political: Owenton Board of Trustees Political: Andrew J. Mason (Owen County, Ky, attorney and clerk for Owenton bd of trustees) Familial: Thomas A. Berryman (Owen County, Kentucky, attorney, chair of bd of trustees for Owenton)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 250A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 222. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 182 A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, Owenton, p. 285A-B. Twelfth Manuscript Census of the United States (1900), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, Cleveland, District 0053, p. 17. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Owen County Marriages, Film #00272768, p. 13. KYR-0001-031-0064. Thomas A. Berryman (Owen County, Kentucky, attorney, chair of bd of trustees for Owenton) N00003212 1801-01-31 1875-12-12 Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, attorney and town trustee. New Kent County, Virginia, native. Married to Lucy H. Gower Berryman in Owen County, Kentucky, on May 4, 1824. Father of Ann Mary Berryman and Lucy Wells Berryman. Attorney in Owen County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Owen County in 1850. Attorney in Owen County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Owen County in 1860. Chairman of the board of trustees for the town of Owenton in 1862.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Owenton Board of Trustees Social: John B. McHatten (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 250A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 411. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 54. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 182A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, Owenton, p. 285A. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Owen County Marriages, 1819-1941, Film #001943448, p. 1. "Thomas A. Berryman (1801-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial #19682549, accessed April 12, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19682549. KYR-0001-031-0064. Andrew J. Mason (Owen County, Ky, attorney and clerk for Owenton bd of trustees) N00012220 1825? Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, attorney and clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Rebecca Mason. Attorney in Owen County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Owen County in 1860. Clerk of the board of trustees for the town of Owenton in 1862.

Relationships Political: Owenton Board of Trustees Political: Thomas A. Berryman (Owen County, Kentucky, attorney, chair of bd of trustees for Owenton)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 222. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 182A. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, Owenton, Enumeration District 139, p. 115B. KYR-0001-031-0064. Owenton, Kentucky P00005524 Categories: Places

Seat of Owen County, Kentucky.

38.5365, -84.8419 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 223. “Owenton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 20, 2020, 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). Owenton Board of Trustees O00016711 1828 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body charged with oversight of the city of Owenton, Kentucky. Chairman: Thomas A. Berryman. Clerk(s): Andrew J. Mason.

"An Act authorizing the election of Trustees in the town of Owenton, Owen County," Acts Passed at the First Session of the Thirty-Seventh General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: Amos Kendall and Company, State Printer, 1829), 12-13. KYR-0001-031-0064. Owenton Police Court O00016712 1849 Categories: Organizations

Misdemeanor court presided over by the police judge of Owenton, Kentucky, with jurisdiction within the limits of the town. Judge(s): Lafayette Stout.

"An Act to incorporate the town of Owenton, in Owen County," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at December Session, 1849 (Frankfort, KY: A.G. Hodges & Company, State Printer, 1849), 169-72. KYR-0001-031-0064. Owenton, Owen County, Kentucky 1862-11-15 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Owenton Kty Nov 15/1862 Gov Robinson Dr Sir

at a called meeting of the Board of Trustees for town of Overton held in Owenton on the day of August 1862 the following order was entered --

It appearing that L Stout having received the highest number of votes for Police judge for the town of Owenton he is duly declared Elected to said office and the said Stout having presented his resignation to the Board of Trustees it was accepted --

It is now ordered that D S Adams be appointed to fill the vacancy -- and that the same be certified to the governor for commission

T A Berryman Chmn

A copy attest A. J. Mason clerk

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Owenton

Po. Judge D. S. Adams CommdNov. 24 1862