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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-0001-031-0072 R1-114

Falmouth, Pendleton 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 S. Hand (Pendleton County, KY, farmer and justice of the peace) N00014620 1801-02-03 1885-04-21 Categories: People

Pendleton County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Farmer in Pendleton County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Pendleton County in 1850. Farmer in Pendleton County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Pendleton County in 1860. Household owned an additional eight enslaved persons in Pendleton County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Pendleton County in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, District 2, p. 326A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, District 2, p. 456. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, p. 572. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, p. 189B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, Precinct 7, p. 512B. "James Steven Hand (1801-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial #127320617, accessed January 13, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127320617. KYR-0001-031-0072. Falmouth, Kentucky P00000550 Categories: Places

Seat of Pendleton County. Located on the Licking River.

38.6767, -84.3302 "Falmouth, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 19, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Warren J. Shonert, "Falmouth" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 305. Pendleton County, Kentucky P00000544 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Falmouth. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6767, -84.3302 "Falmouth, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 19, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Warren J. Shonert, "Pendleton County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 714. 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). Falmouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky 1862-11-12 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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Falmouth. Pendleton County Ky Nov: 12/62 His Excelcy J. F Robinson Sir

I herewith resign my office of Justice of the peace, in and for the County & State aforesaid

Respectfully Yours Jas. S. Hand

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Pendletown Co

Resignation J. P. Dist No 7. Nov 28. 1862