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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-0001-031-0093 R1-138

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Morris S. Wickersham (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, physician and commissioner of deeds) N00015292 1815? 1883-09-23 Categories: People

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, physician and commissioner of deeds. Pennsylvania native. Married Mary Catherine O'Neill Wickersham in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, on June 4, 1844. Father of Mary Wickersham, Ida Wickersham, and Robert Wickersham. Broker in Philadelphia County in 1850. Physician in Philadelphia in 1860. Employed Pierre Derose, Carry Jones, and Emmeline Barry as servants in Philadelphia in 1860. Kentucky commissioner of deeds in Philadelphia from December 2, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia Middle Ward, p. 40B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia Ward 8, p. 1-2. Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records, Burials, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reel 226. New Jersey, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1739-1991, New Jersey. Surrogate's Court, Gloucester County, 1804-1922, p. 577-78. Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Register of Marriages March 1837 to July 1866, U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1907, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, p. 21. KYR-0001-031-0093. William V. Archer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney and commissioner of deeds) N001780 1834? Categories: People

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney and commissioner of deeds. Native of Ireland. Attorney in Philadelphia in 1860. Attorney in Philadelphia in 1862. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, Ward 8, p. 145. McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory, 1862 (Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., 1862), p. 14. KYR-0001-007-0332. 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. Pennsylvania P001006 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Harrisburg. Located on Lake Erie and the Delaware River.

40.2737, -76.8844 Carol Lewis Thompson and E. Willard Miller, "Pennsylvania," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Pennsylvania-state. "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania P00001701 Categories: Places

Seat of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Schuylkill River.

39.9523, -75.1638 "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 20, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Sylvester K. Stevens, John B. B. Trussell, and Mathew S. Magda, "Philadelphia," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed June 6, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Philadelphia. 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. Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 1862-12-22 Legal/Financial 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 Pennsylvania City of Philadelphia

I, Morris S Wickersham of the City of Philadelphia do hereby declare & affirm that I will well & truly execute & perform alle the duties of Commissioner of Deeds &c of the State of Kentuckyaccording to the Laws of the State.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this twenty-Second day of December 1862.

Morris S Wickersham

MORRIS S. WICKERSHAM COMMISSIONER OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN.

State of Pennsylvania City of Philadelphia

I William V Archer Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky duly appointed & commissioned by the Governor thereof for the State of Pennsylvania authorized to take & certify depositions do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit of Morris S Wickersham was taken before me this Twenty Second day of December 1862 in the said city of Philadlephia.

Wm V. Archer Commissioner of Kentucky Philadelphia Penna

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Pennsylvania

Comr of Deeds Oaths M. S. Wickersham Filed Decr 26. 1862