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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-0001-031-0077 R1-120

Grundy, Pulaski 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. Eli S. Salyer (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and justice of the peace) N00017105 1812? Categories: People

Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and justice of the peace. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Salyer. Farmer in Pulaski County, Kentucky, in 1850. Postmaster in Grundy in Pulaski County from April 26, 1855, to October 21, 1856. Farmer in Pulaski County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Pulaski County in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Division 1, p. 25B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 1, p. 218. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Pulaski County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 712. KYR-0001-031-0077. Henry J. Simpson (Pulaski County, Kentucky, carpenter) N00017112 1831? Categories: People

Pulaski County, Kentucky, carpenter. Orange County, North Carolina, native. Son of Lemuel W. Simpson and Lucy Faucett Simpson. Married to Elizabeth H. Ellis Simpson in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on November 17, 1860. Married to Mariah Cox Simpson in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on November 17, 1863. Resident of Alamance County, North Carolina, in 1850. Resident of Pulaski County, Kentucky, in 1860. Carpenter in Pulaski County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, North Carolina, Alamance County, North District, p. 81B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 1, p. 220. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Pulaski County, KY, August to September 1863, p. 344. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994053, Pulaski County Marriages, p. 170. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994053, Pulaski County Marriages. North Carolina Marriage Bonds - Abstracts, 1760-1957, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, RG 048, Orange County, p. 367. James Vanhook (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00017127 1823-09-05 1910 Categories: People

Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Jane Morgan Vanhook in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on October 23, 1848. Father of George C. Vanhook, William M. Vanhook, and Milton G. Vanhook. Farmer in Pulaski County, Kentucky, in 1860. Justice of the peace in Pulaski County in 1862.

Relationships Social: Henry J. Simpson (Pulaski County, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: Eli S. Salyer (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and justice of the peace)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 1, p. 216. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Cumberland County, District 9, p. 190A. "James Harvey Vanhook (1823-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial #44660516, accessed January 20, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44660516. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994053, Pulaski County Marriages, p. 184. KYR-0001-031-0077. Grundy, Kentucky P00017111 Categories: Places

Town in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

37.0705, -84.5654 "Grundy, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 19, 2022, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Pulaski County - Place Names," Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection: Kentucky Place Names, Morehead State University, accessed January 19, 2022, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu. Pulaski County, Kentucky P00000268 Categories: Places

County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Somerset.

Relationships Political: John E. Cosson (Pulaski co, ky, Circuit Ct. Clk.) Political: Leroy D. Garner (Pulaski County, Kentucky, merchant's clerk) Political: James Doolin (Pulaski County, Kentucky, merchant)

37.092, -84.6041 Roger D. Tate, Jr., “Pulaski County” in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 747-49. "Somerset, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. 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). 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. Grundy, Pulaski County, Kentucky 1862-11-27 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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Grundy } Nov 27th 1862. to the Govenor of the State Ky

I here by resine my office as Jesticee of the peace of District no 12 Pulaski county & desire you to appoint E. S. Salyer or H. Simpson to fill my place I think the said Salyer is the best qualified as he has filled this same office heretofore when he was in office before he was Said to be the best in the county

Jas vanhook J P

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Pulaski Co J. P. Dist No 12

To the Govenor of Kentucky Frankford Ky

IssdDecr 3rd 1862