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Virigina City, Storey County, Nevada Territory John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) N00000823 1787-09-10 1863-07-26 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah O. Lee Crittenden. Father of George Bib Crittenden, Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman, Cornelia A. Crittenden Young, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Sarah Lee Crittenden Watson, and Robert Henry Crittenden. Married to Maria Knox Innes Crittenden. Father of John J. Crittenden III and Eugene Wilkinson Crittenden. Married to Elizabeth Moss Crittenden. Attended Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky. Attended Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. Graduated from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1806. Admitted to the bar in 1807. Practiced law in Woodford County, Kentucky; Russellville, Kentucky; and Frankfort, Kentucky. Attorney for the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1810. Served as a major to General Samuel Hopkins and as an aide-de-camp to Governor Isaac Shelby during the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1811 to 1817, 1825, and from 1829 to 1832. Member of the United States Senate from 1817 to 1819, 1835 to 1848, and 1855 to 1861. United States district attorney from 1827 to 1829. Attorney general of the United States from March to September 1841 and from 1850 to 1853. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Employed Thomas Lee as a laborer in Franklin County in 1850. Owned forty-two enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Unionist member of the United States House of Representative from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. Died in Frankfort, Kentucky on July 26, 1863.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 36B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No 1., p. 862-3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort Dist. No 1, p. 83. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No 1, p. 490A. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 118-119. “Crittenden, John J,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 240 “Crittenden, John Jordan,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 19, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000912. "John Jordan Crittenden, Jr, (1787-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial #23284, accessed December 19, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23284. Theodore Miller (Storey County, Nevada, resident) N00015201 1822? Categories: People

Storey County, Nevada, resident. Kentucky native. Clerk in Yuba County, California, in 1850. Clerk in Nevada County in 1852. Resident in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1862.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, California, Yuba, Grass Valley, p. 310A. Census of the State of California (1852), Population Schedules, Nevada County, p. 205. James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) N00015239 1815-06-10 1876-12-25 Categories: People

Carson City, Nevada, governor, judge, senator, and commissioner. Madison County, New York, native. Son of James Nye and Thankful Crocker Nye. Married to Elsie Benson Nye. Father to Mary Nye and Charles Nye. Attended Homer Academy in New York. District attorney in Madison County, New York, in 1839. Judge of Madison County Court in New York from 1840-1848. County Court Judge in Madison County in 1850. Boarder in New York City in 1855. First commissioner of the Metropolitan Board of Police in New York City from 1857 to 1860. Governor of the Nevada Territory from March 22, 1861, to October 31, 1864. Governor of the State of Nevada from October 31, 1864, to December 5, 1864. Member of the United States Senate from Nevada from February 1, 1865, to March 3, 1873.

Relationships Political: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) Political: Theodore Miller (Storey County, Nevada, resident) Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Social: William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Madison County, Hamilton, p. 103B. Census of the State of New York (1855), New York County, City New York, Ward 20, District 5, p. 45. "Gov. James Warren Nye," National Governors Association, accessed August 4, 2021, https://www.nga.org/governor/james-warren-nye/. "James Warren Nye, (1815-1876)," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present, accessed August 4, 2021, https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=n000177. John R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, Part I: Coat-of-Arms, (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1910), 292, 295-96. 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. 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. William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds) N00015196 1834 1929-03-03 Categories: People

Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner and commissioner of deeds. North Carolina native. Miner in California in 1859. Miner in Storey County, Nevada Territory, in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the State of Kentucky in the Nevada Territory in 1863.

Relationships Political: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James Warren Nye (Carson City, Nevada, governor, police commissioner) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Theodore Miller (Storey County, Nevada, resident)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Nevada, Storey County, Virginia City, p. 375A. Great Registers, 1866-1898, Alameda County, California State Library, Sacramento, Ca., p.147. "Van Bokkelen Rites Slated for Tomorrow," Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), Mar. 4, 1929, p. 35. KYR-0001-031-0258. Virginia City, Nevada P00015208 Categories: Places

Census designated settlement in western Nevada.

39.3096, -119.6496 "Virginia City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 29, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "History," Virginia City, accessed July 28, 2021, https://visitvirginiacitynv.com/history/. Nevada Territory P00015192 Categories: Places

Created as a territory in the western United States on March 2, 1861. Capital at Genoa in 1861, moved to Carson City in 1861. Admitted to statehood on October 31, 1864.

39.1638, -119.7674 “Carson City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 18, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress, (Washington D.C.: George Bowman, Senate Printer, 1861), 371-72. "Nevada Admission Acts," Nevada Legislature, accessed July 28, 2021, https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NVAdmActs.html. "Town of Genoa History," Town of Genoa, accessed July 28,2021, http://www.genoanevada.org/aboutushistory/history/index.php. 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). Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Virigina City, Storey County, Nevada Territory 1862-11-15 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Virginia City N. T. Nov 15th 1862 Hon J. J. Crittenden Sir

I enclose a letter of introduction to you from one of yourKentucky friends T. Miller also a letter asking an appointment of commissioner of Deeds, with the endorsement of Gov. Jas. W. Nye, and a note to the Secretary of State about his fees.

I take the liberty to ask your endorsement of my application, and the forwarding of same to the Governor.

The war having caused several changes in your Executive, I would ask that you fill in the name of the person who is governor, as we have not been able to settle the question who is the present governor.

I direct to Louisvillehaving seen a notice of your removal to that place

Yours respectfully

Wm A. M. Van Bokkelen