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Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) N00000233 1810-03-15 1870-05-03 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, editor, and statesman. Lexington native. Married to Virginia Cooper Wickliffe on November 25, 1844. Graduate of Transylvania University in Fayette County in 1827. Editor and proprietor of the Observer and Reporter in Lexington from 1838 to 1865. Member of the Whig Party. Resident of Lexington in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1863.

Relationships Social: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Social: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Social: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Social: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Social: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Social: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Social: John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator) Social: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Social: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Social: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Social: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Social: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) Social: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Social: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Social: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Social: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Social: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Social: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Social: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Social: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Social: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Social: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Social: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Social: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Social: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Social: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Social: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Social: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Social: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Social: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Social: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Social: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Military: William G. Rogers (Regimental quartermaster in 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Elias Thomasson (Regimental quartermaster. 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Social: Henry Gilbert (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and butcher) Political: James B. Speed (Louisville, Kentucky, bookkeeper; pvt & lieut 1st Ky Light Artillery USA, clerk for QM Dpt of OH) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James P. Barbour (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer, miller, court clerk, and politician) Political: Reuben Samuel Peters (Washington County, Kentucky, county court clerk) Political: Anthony B. Hundley (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: John E. McIntire (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and judge) Political: James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) Political: John H. Carr (Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk QM Dept USA and notary public ) Political: James Thomson Davidson (Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public) Political: S. B. Brown (Captain, Assistant Quarter Master) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 600. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 459A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 348. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 630-31. "The Late D. C. Wickliffe," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 5, 1870, p. 2. "Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (1810-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial 65784654, accessed August 28, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65784654. John H. Carr (Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk QM Dept USA and notary public ) N00016718 1834-05-18 1898-01-06 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk and notary public. Harrison County, Kentucky, native. Married to Eliza J. McAlister Carr in Anderson County, Kentucky, on December 24, 1857. Father of Edgar Carr. Clerk in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1860. Clerk in the Quartermaster's Department in Fayette County in 1862. Notary public in Fayette County in 1862. Clerk in Fayette County in 1863.

Relationships Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 404. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, District 1, p. 313A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994027, Anderson County Marriages. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Fayette County, KY, July 1863, p. 8. "John Howard Carr (1834-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial #83656141, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83656141. KYR-0001-031-0066. S. B. Brown (Captain, Assistant Quarter Master) N00009418 Categories: People

Assistant Quartermaster in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1862. Assigned to Colonel J. L. Donaldson as Assistant Quartermaster in the Department of the Cumberland in 1864.

Relationships Military: Leonidas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, farmer and colonel 7th KY Cav (USA)) Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army

War of the Rebellion Official Records of the Civil War: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies 1889, Washington: Government Printing Office, Serial 109, Page 635. https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/109/0635 (accessed September 28, 2018). KYR-0001-027-0021. KYR-0001-031-0066. 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. 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/. 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). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. 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. Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army O00013213 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Chief supply office for the U. S. Army. This office operated a system of field depots and a transportation network to deliver the goods to the soldiers, also responsible for burial of war dead and care of national cemeteries from 1862. Civil war-era U. S. Quartermasters General: Brigadier General Thomas Sidney Jesup (May 1818 - June 1860), Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnson (June 1860 - April 1861), Major General Montgomery C. Meigs (April 1861 - February 1882).

Relationships Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army))

"Quartermaster Corps History," U. S. Army, Fort Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Corps, February 19, 2019, https://quartermaster.army.mil/qm_history.html (accessed August 6, 2020). "Previous Quartermaster Commandants," U. S. Army, Fort Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Corps, February 21, 2019, https://quartermaster.army.mil/bios/previous-qm-generals/previous-qm-commadants-bios.html (accessed August 6, 2020). Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1862-11-21 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Assis't Quartermasters Office Lexington Ky Nov 21, 1862 HonD. C. Wickliffe Sect State Frankfort Ky Sir

I have the honor to request the appointment of John H Carr -- (a Loyal Citizen of this county & City and Clerk in the Quartermasters Depart. under me) as Notary Public -- Such an appointment would facilitate my business much in the taking of affidavits

Very Respectfully Yr Obt Svt S. B. Brown Capt & A Q M

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Fayette Co

Notaries Jno. H. Carr Jas T. Davidson

AppdNov. 24 1862