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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-0001-031-0079 R1-122

John G. Newcomb (Taylor County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and private (U.S.A.)) N00017136 1824-09-08 1862-11-08 Categories: People

Taylor County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah E. Odawalt Newcomb. Father of Sarah L. Newcomb. Farmer in Taylor County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Taylor County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Taylor County in 1862. Served in the 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as private from March 21, 1862. Died of heart disease while in military service in Louisville Hospital on November 8, 1862.

Relationships Legal: Taylor County Court Military: United States Army

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, District 1, p. 164B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, p. 558. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0387. "John Gary 'McGary' Newcomb" (1824-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial #84363858, accessed January 20, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84363858. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994058, Taylor County Births. Registers of Death of Volunteers, 1861-1865, NARA RG 94, Vol. 15 Kentucky L-Z, p. 49. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 248-49. Rodophil E. Jeter (Green & Taylor County, KY, postmaster, provost marshal of Campbellsville, carpenter) N00007466 1821-11-30 Categories: People

Green County and Taylor County, Kentucky, carpenter, provost marshal, postmaster, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Anderson Jeter and Sorrow S. Allen Jeter. Married to Martha A. Jeter. Father of Susan Elizabeth Jeter, Martha A. Jeter, John J. Jeter, and Thomas Rodophil Jeter. House carpenter in Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. House joiner in Green County in 1860. Provost marshal of Campbellsville, Kentucky. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment U.S.A.) as captain from December 31, 1861, to his resignation on April 19, 1862. Postmaster of Campbellsville from May 5, 1864, to June 12, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 120A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensberg, p. 91. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 231A. "Jeter, the Slayer of an Indianapolis Policeman, Proves to be a Thoroughly Bad Man," Daily Tribune (Chicago , IL), August 30, 1882, p. 2. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Taylor County, Kentucky, vol. 28, p. 182. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 859. Steven L. Wright, Kentucky Soldiers and Their Regiments in the Civil War: Abstracted From the Pages of Contemporary Newspapers, vol 4-5, (Lois N. Miller Genealogical Publications, 2009). William Henry Perrin, J.H. Battle, G.C. Kniffin, Sketches From Adair, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland, Garrard, Green, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor, Washington Counties (Genealogical Reference Company, 1970). 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. George W. Montague (Taylor County, Kentucky, farmer and court clerk) N00003561 1821-02-21 1875-05-07 Categories: People

Taylor County, Kentucky, farmer and court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of James Montague. Married to Margaret T. Moore Montague in Greensburg, Kentucky, on April 6, 1843. Father of Elizabeth "Betty" E. Montague, James Brown Montague, Daniel Brown Montague, Arabella "Belle" Montague, Margaret A. Montague, Johanna "Jane" L. Montague, and McClelland Montague. Clerk in Taylor County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Taylor County in 1850. Farmer in Taylor County in 1860. Clerk of the Taylor County Court and Taylor Circuit Court from 1855 to 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Taylor Circuit Court Legal: Thomas Cox (Taylor County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Legal: Edward Yates (Taylor County Farmer) Legal: James C. Wood (Taylor co., KY) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Taylor County Court Legal: Benjamin C. Hord (Taylor County, Kentucky, bookkeeper and justice of the peace ) Legal: Daniel B. Moore (Taylor County, Kentucky, Clerk and assistant assessor) Legal: Taylor County Court Political: John G. Newcomb (Taylor County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and private (U.S.A.)) Political: John Rice Robinson (Taylor County, Kentucky, attorney and captain 27th KY Inf USA) Political: Rodophil E. Jeter (Green & Taylor County, KY, postmaster, provost marshal of Campbellsville, carpenter) Familial: Robert S. Montague (Taylor County, Kentucky, attorney and county clerk)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 194A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 36. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Division 2, p. 662. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Logan County, West Lincoln, p. 271A. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1855 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1856), 355-57. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. 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. "George W. Montague (1821-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial #30682648, accessed January 25, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30682648. George William Montague, History and Genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, and his Descendants, 1621-1894, (Amherst, MA: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1894), 209. John Rice Robinson (Taylor County, Kentucky, attorney and captain 27th KY Inf USA) N00002418 1823-02-23 1899-03-11 Categories: People

Taylor County, Kentucky, tobacconist, attorney and soldier. Taylor County, Kentucky, native. Son of Robert Robinson and Nancy Rice Robinson. Married to Ellen Melvina Scott Robinson in Davidson County, Tennessee, on May 24, 1860. Father of Henry S. Robinson. Tobacconist in Taylor County Kentucky, in 1850. Confirmed as a notary public in Taylor County on February 5, 1861. Served in the 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from March 21, 1862, to March 6, 1864.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: United States Army

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 194A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 234B. Charles Kerr, ed. History of Kentucky, vol 5 (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1922). "Ellen Melvina Robinson (1837-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial #73272526, accessed April 23, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73272526. "John R. Robinson (1823-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #95179469, accessed April 23, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95179469. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 244-45. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Davidson County Marriages, 1838-1864, p. 333. KYR-0001-017-0062. Robert S. Montague (Taylor County, Kentucky, attorney and county clerk) N00007457 1824-01-28 1900-01-01 Categories: People

Taylor County, Kentucky, attorney and county clerk. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of James Montague. Married to Margaret E. Cox in 1847. Father of Sallie E. Montague, Virginia Montague, Mary Montague, and Margaret Montague. Attorney in Campbellsville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Carthage, Illinois, in 1860. Employed Mary A. Troutman as a servant in Carthage in 1860. Attorney in Taylor County, Kentucky, in 1863. County clerk of Taylor County from December 1864 to October 1866.

Relationships Legal: Taylor Circuit Court Legal: Taylor County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 194A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Hancock County, Carthage, p. 677. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 235B. 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, Taylor County, 1863, p. 115. George William Montague, History and Genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, and his Descendants, 1621-1894, (Amherst, MA: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1894), 210. "Robert S. Montague (1824-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial 71065692, accessed June 22, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71065692 . KYR-0001-004-1383. Taylor County, Kentucky P00000681 Categories: Places

County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Campbellsville.

37.3434, -85.3419 "Campbellsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 14, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 290. 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. United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Taylor County Court O00000718 Categories: Organizations

Located in Campbellsville, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): William Cloyd. Clerk(s): George W. Montague and Robert S. Montague.

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. 1862-12 Order 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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State of Kentucky Taylor County Sct Decr Term 1862

It appearing to the Court that John G Newcomer a justice of the peace in district No 3 in Taylor County Kentucky has departed this life, R. E. Jeter is therefore recommended to his exelency the Governor of Kentucky as a suitable person to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of said Newcomer --

A Copy att Geo. W. Montague clk Taylor County Court

Taylor County Court Decr Term 1862

It appearing to the Court that Jno R. Robinson Notary public for Taylor County is now absent from said County acting as Captain in the United States Army, Robt S Montague is recommended to his exelency the Governor of Kentucky as a suitable person to fill the office of Notary Public for said County --

A Copy Att Geo. W. Montague clk

Taylor County Court

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Taylor Co

J. P. Dist No 3. R. E. Jeter

Notary R. S. Montague Appd made Dec 6. 1862