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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-0001-031-0085 R1-128

Monroe County, Kentucky Henry Eagle (Monroe County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and police judge) N00015333 1830-03-25 1892-10-27 Categories: People

Monroe County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and police judge. Jackson County, Tennessee, native. Son of John Eakle and Rachael Eakle. Married to Elizabeth Chism Eagle in Monroe County, Kentucky, on January 8, 1857. Father of Molly A. Eagle, John H. Eagle, and Alonzo C. Eagle. Farmer in Macon County, Tennessee, in 1850. Merchant in Monroe County, Kentucky, in 1860. Police judge in Monroe County in 1862. Merchant in Barren County in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Macon County, District 6, p. 165B-166A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, Tompkinsville, p. 189. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, Tompkinsville, p. 211B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Barren County, KY, February 1864, p. 105. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994049, Monroe County Marriages. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Monroe County Administrators Bonds, 1885-1901, p. 195. "Henry Eagle (1830-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial #14001689, accessed August 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14001689. KYR-0001-031-0085. 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. Levi A. Smithwick (Monroe County, Kentucky, school teacher and county clerk) N00015336 1821? Categories: People

Monroe County, Kentucky, school teacher and county clerk. North Carolina native. Married to Sydney L. Smithwick. Father of Amelia F. Smithwick, Cynthia C. Smithwick, and M. M. Smithwick. School teacher in Smith County, Tennessee, in 1850. County clerk in Monroe County, Kentucky, from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Legal: Henry Eagle (Monroe County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and police judge) Political: Monroe County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Smith County, p. 268A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, Tompkinsville, p. 42. 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), 303. 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), 12. Tompkinsville, Kentucky P00008566 Categories: Places

Seat of Monroe County, Kentucky.

36.7023, -85.6916 Ron D. Bryant, “Tompkinsville,” Kentucky Encyclopedia, accessed July 21, 2018 http://www.kyenc.org/entry/t/TOMPK01.html. “Tompkinsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Monroe County Court O00000667 Categories: Organizations

Located in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Samuel Ray, Sr. Clerk(s): J. C. Conklin and L. A. Smithwick.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Monroe County, Kentucky Order English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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State of Kentucky Monroe County Court } Sct

Henry Eakle this day filed his Certificate of Election to the office of Police Judge of Tompkinsville which is ordered to be certified to the Governor of the State of Kentucky for his Commission

Monroe County court

I S. A. Smithwicke Clerk of Said Court Certify that the above is a true Copy of an order made at the Sept term of the Monroe County Court this 9" day of Dec 1862

S. A. Smithwicke Clk m c c

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Tompkinsville

Co. Judge Henry Eakle Com IssdDecr 16. 1862