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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-0001-031-0070 R1-111 to R1-112

Elizabethtown, Hardin 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. Charles Horace Wintersmith (Hardin Co, KY, asst tax assessor, possible notary public) N00016888 1836-08-02 1885-07-31 Categories: People

Hardin County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of Horace Gates Wintersmith and Margaret F. Wintersmith Wintersmith. Married to Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Metcalfe Wintersmith in Hardin County, Kentucky, on January 13, 1860. Father of Joseph Wintersmith and Theodore Wintersmith. Student in Hardin County in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1850. Resident of Hardin County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 57B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 275. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 92. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 11, p. 479A. "Charles Horace Wintersmith (1836-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial #12101971, accessed January 4, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12101971. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, 1793-1862, Film #000390788. William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) N00000217 1828? Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and government official. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Mulholland Samuels in Hardin County, Kentucky, on May 24, 1850. Father of Hugh Samuels, Robin Samuels, and Fanny Samuels. Attorney in Hardin County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hardin County from 1851 to 1853. Attorney and clerk in Hardin County in 1860. Clerk of the Hardin County Court. Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort from September 1861 to 1862. Commissioner for Hardin County to the stockholders' meeting of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1862 and 1863. Auditor of Public Accounts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 31, 1863, to 1867.

Relationships 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: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) 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: 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) Political: Samuel F. Roberts (Kenton County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Reuben R. Jones (Meade Co, Ky, sheriff and major) Economic: Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Upper or Northern District, p. 306B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, 3rd District, p. 91. Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Company, Commencing on the First of July, 1861, and ending on the Thirtieth of June, 1862, (Louisville: Hanna & Co., 1862), 58, 71. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 25. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, 1793-1862, Film #000390788. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 307. KYR-0001-037-0253. Edward M. Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, notary public, court commissioner, and tobacco superintendent) N00016881 1830-11-08 1913-12-13 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, notary public, court commissioner, and tobacco superintendent. Kentucky native. Son of Edward Crabb Drane and Judith Coleman Dupuy Drane. Married to Alice Keats Drane in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 15, 1855. Father of Adele Drane, Clarence Drane, and George Drane. Notary public in Henry County in 1862. Commissioner of the county court in Henry County in 1863. Commissioner of the chancery court in Henry County in 1863. Commissioner of the county court in Henry County in 1864. Superintendent of weighing and coopering tobacco in Louisville in 1864.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 552B. “A Fine Farm for Sale.”Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY). Sept. 30, 1863. “Captain Ed. M. Drane Dies.” Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), Dec. 14, 1913. “Capt. Ed. M. Drane Dies at Frankfort.” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Dec. 14, 1913. “Commissioner’s Sale.” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Jan. 1, 1864. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Henry County, KY, June 1863, p. 122. Georgie Hopkins Ford, Kentucky Brights and Their Kin: Including the Crabb, Drane, Ford, Hopkins, and King Families (Berkeley, CA, 1989), 93-94. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 10, Henry County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 22. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994040, Jefferson County Marriages. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #31936. Owensboro Monitor (Owensboro, KY), March 9, 1864. “The Tobacco Inspectors,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 3, 1864. KYR-0001-031-0070. Elizabethtown, Kentucky P00002906 Categories: Places

Seat of Hardin County, Kentucky.

37.7031, -85.8649 “Elizabethtown,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 290. "Elizabethtown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 90-91. 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). Hardin County, Kentucky P00001583 Categories: Places

County in west central Kentucky. Seat at Elizabethtown. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7031, -85.8649 "Elizabethtown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. “Hardin County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 404-05. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), p. 130. LaRue County, Kentucky P00001718 Categories: Places

County in west central Kentucky. Seat at Hodgenville, Kentucky. Located on the Rolling Fork River.

37.574, -85.74 “Hodgenville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 3, 2022, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 166. Henry County, Kentucky P00000758 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at New Castle. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.4334, -85.1697 "New Castle, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 138. 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. Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky 1862-11-24 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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Eliz Town Ky Nov 24. 1862 His Excellency J. F. Robinson Esq

Gov. Ky

Mr. Horace Gates Wintersmith a good Union man wants appointment of Notary Public for Hardin Co

He is a young man of fine business habits & is appointed assistant Assessor for Hardin & Larue

Please mail to him here --

& oblige

Your friend

W. T. Samuels

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Hardin Co Notary H. G. Wintersmith

AppdNov 28. 1862

Henry Co. Notary

E. M. Drane

AppdNov 28. 1862