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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-0001-031-0067 R1-107 to R1-108

Campton, Wolfe County, Kentucky James Gates (Hamilton County, Ohio, bookseller, printer, and merchant) N00016720 1821 1887 Categories: People

Hamilton County, Ohio, bookseller, printer, and merchant. Native of England. Married to Sarah M. Fowler Gates. Father of Edwin Gates, Sidney Gates, Oliver Gates, Charles Gates, George Gates, Sarah "Kittie" Gates, and William H. Gates. Bookseller in New York, New York, in 1850. Bookseller in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1860. Printer in Hamilton County in 1862. Merchant in Hamilton County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, New York County, Ward 5, p. 250A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ward 15, p. 404. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ward 21, p. 702A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Hamilton County, OH, June 1863, p. 13. "James Gates (1821-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial #78936578, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78936578. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #24235. Steven R. Boyd, Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010), 4, 89. KYR-0001-031-0067 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 B. Nickell (Wolfe County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00016719 1816 1891 Categories: People

Wolfe County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Baker Nickell. Father of Priscilla Nickell, Frances Elizabeth Nickell, Robert Nickell, Mary Nickell, Andrew Nickell, Henry Nickell, Jane Nickell, Frances Nickell, Perlina Nickell, and Joseph Nickell. Farmer in Morgan County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Morgan County in 1860. Recommended as a justice of the peace in Wolfe County in 1862.

Relationships Political: Wolfe County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Morgan County, p. 152B-153A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Morgan County, Division 2, p. 357-68. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wolfe County, Precinct 2, p. 410B. "John B. Nickell (1816-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial #21137352, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21137352. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #32733. KYR-0001-031-0067. Andrew Porter Lacey (Wolfe County, Kentucky, circuit and county court clerk, justice of the peace, farmer, and postmaster) N00016722 1836-11-27 1913-03-17 Categories: People

Morgan County and Wolfe County, Kentucky, clerk, justice of the peace, farmer, and postmaster. Kentucky native. Son of Mark Lacy and Sarah "Sally" Huff Lacy. Resident of Morgan County, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in Morgan County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Wolfe County in 1862. Farmer in Wolfe County in 1863. Clerk of the Wolfe Circuit Court and the Wolfe County Court in 1865. Postmaster of Swiftville in Wolfe County from September 19, 1865, to January 30, 1867.

Relationships Political: Wolfe County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Morgan County, p. 153A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Morgan County, Division 2, p. 441. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wolfe County, Campton, p. 445A. "Andrew Porter Lacey (1836-1913)," Find A Grave, Memorial #8705352, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8705352. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Wolfe County, KY, December 1863, p. 212. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #9300. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Wolfe County, Kentucky, vol. 38, p. 206. KYR-0001-031-0067. James Williams (Wolfe County, Kentucky, county court clerk) N00016724 Categories: People

Wolfe County, Kentucky, court clerk. County court clerk in Wolfe County, Kentucky, in 1862.

Relationships Political: Wolfe County Court Political: Andrew Porter Lacey (Wolfe County, Kentucky, circuit and county court clerk, justice of the peace, farmer, and postmaster) Political: John B. Nickell (Wolfe County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Economic: James Gates (Hamilton County, Ohio, bookseller, printer, and merchant)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 303. KYR-0001-031-0067. Cincinnati, Ohio P00001208 Categories: Places

Seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1031, -84.512 "Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17. Campton, Kentucky P00016721 Categories: Places

Seat of Wolfe County, Kentucky.

37.727, -83.5052 "Campton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed December 12, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Wolfe County - Place Names," Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection: Kentucky Place Names, Morehead State University, accessed December 12 2021, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu. Wolfe County, Kentucky P00010787 Categories: Places

County in eastern central Kentucky. Seat at Campton.

37.727, -83.5052 "Campton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed December 12, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 323. 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). Wolfe County Court O00000728 Categories: Organizations

Located in Campton, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Moses B. Lacey. Clerk(s): William F. Hanks, George W. Cox (1861), James Williams (1862), and Andrew P. Lacey (1865).

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Campton, Wolfe County, Kentucky 1862-11-26 Correspondence English Version 1 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 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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Campton Wolfe Co Ky Novr 26th 1862 Govr Roberson Sir

At the last term of the county court for Wolfe County it was ordered by the court that John B. Nickell be recommended to your honor as a Suitable person to be commissioned Justice of the peace in the 2nd district -- Wolfe County Ky, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Andrew P. Lacey in sd district --, please forward commission

James Williams C W C C

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