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Simpsonville, Shelby County, Kentucky Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) N00000233 1810-03-15 1870-05-03 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, editor, and statesman. Lexington native. Married to Virginia Cooper Wickliffe on November 25, 1844. Graduate of Transylvania University in Fayette County in 1827. Editor and proprietor of the Observer and Reporter in Lexington from 1838 to 1865. Member of the Whig Party. Resident of Lexington in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1863.

Relationships Social: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) 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: 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: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) 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) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Military: William G. Rogers (Regimental quartermaster in 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Elias Thomasson (Regimental quartermaster. 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Social: Henry Gilbert (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and butcher) Political: James B. Speed (Louisville, Kentucky, bookkeeper; pvt & lieut 1st Ky Light Artillery USA, clerk for QM Dpt of OH) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James P. Barbour (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer, miller, court clerk, and politician) Political: Reuben Samuel Peters (Washington County, Kentucky, county court clerk) Political: Anthony B. Hundley (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: John E. McIntire (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and judge) Political: James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) Political: John H. Carr (Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk QM Dept USA and notary public ) Political: James Thomson Davidson (Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public) Political: S. B. Brown (Captain, Assistant Quarter Master) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 600. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 459A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 348. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 630-31. "The Late D. C. Wickliffe," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 5, 1870, p. 2. "Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (1810-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial 65784654, accessed August 28, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65784654. Simpsonville, Kentucky P00015323 Categories: Places

City in Shelby County, Kentucky. Located two miles west of Little Bull Skin Creek.

38.2226, -85.3552 “Shelby County Place Names,” Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection: Kentucky Place Names, Morehead State University, accessed August 12, 2021, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennickmscollection/. "Simpsonville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed on August 12, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Shelby County, Kentucky P001013 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Shelbyville.

38.212, -85.2236 Ron D. Bryant, "Shelby County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 816. "Shelbyville County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 30, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). 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. United States of America P001802 Categories: Places

Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

38.8951, -77.0364 Karl Patterson Schmidt et al., "United States" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States) (accessed May 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, District of Columbia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 29, 2020). Simpsonville, Shelby County, Kentucky 1862-12-04 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Simpsonville Shelby Co Kentucky Dec 4 1862 D. C. WickliffEsq Frankfort Ky Dear Sir

I am assistant Assesor for Shelby County under the United States Excise law I find in certain cases it is necessary for persons to be sworn You will please give me authority to administer oaths by giving me the appointment of Notary Public

Yours Respectfully James G. Byars

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Shelby Co

Notary Public James G. Byars AppdDecr. 10. 1862