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Military: <rs ref='#S32203055'>John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32199783'>2nd Regiment of P. P.</rs><lb/>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p.180.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 84.</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32196780P0'>Lexington, Kentucky, resident and Quartermaster General of Kentucky. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of James Fisher Robinson and Susan D. Mansell Robinson. Married to Mary Wheeler Robinson in 1859. Graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1853. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Quartermaster General of Kentucky from 1862 to 1863.
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Social: <rs ref='#S32203582'>Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32207936'>James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32215359'>James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM &amp; 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32196659'>Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep &amp; attorney)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32198033'>Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32201674'>Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge &amp; speaker of State House)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32213742'>Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32213174'>John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32207203'>John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32208163'>Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32211671'>Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep &amp; US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA))</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32202320'>Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator &amp; Physician)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32208892'>Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32209540'>Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32203055'>John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32197907'>Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32209922'>Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep &amp; senator)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32213362'>Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32196917'>Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney &amp; State Rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32200010'>Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32199053'>Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. &amp; doctor)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32199626'>James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32205816'>Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep &amp; attorney)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32201719'>Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep &amp; senator)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32202442'>William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32199193'>Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col &amp; genl 6th Ky Inf &amp; Army of Cumberland USA)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32214577'>John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32201378'>John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep &amp; attorney)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32199701'>Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep &amp; former penitentiary lessee)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32215273'>John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32213426'>Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32213423'>Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32208284'>William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32206198'>Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney &amp; politician)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32204396'>Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer &amp; politician)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32202562'>James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty &amp; state senator)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32213522'>John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty &amp; state senator)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32203203'>35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32211754'>Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213767'>Kentucky Volunteers</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32204633'>Alfred Hall Ransom (Kenton County, KY, secretary for Ky Central RR)</rs><lb/>
Social: <rs ref='#S32214367'>David Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, hack driver and dray man)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 14. <lb/>

William Henry Perrin, ed., <hi rend='italic'>History of Fayette County, Kentucky, with an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region by Robert Peter, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Chemist to the State Geological Society, Etc.</hi> (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin and Company, 1882), p. 691. <lb/>

“Robinson, James Fisher, Jr., 1832-” <hi rend='italic'>Social Networks and Archival Context</hi>, <a href='http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6v1241s'>http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6v1241s</a> (accessed January 3, 2017).<lb/>
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<hi rend='italic'>Find A Grave</hi>, “James F. Robinson (1832-1892),” Memorial #98031371, <a href='http://findagrave.com/memorial/98031371'>http://findagrave.com/memorial/98031371</a> (accessed February 23, 2018).</bibl>
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Robert M. Rennick, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Place Names</hi> (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108.</bibl>
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<hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992).</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>The Commonwealth</hi> (Frankfort, Kentucky), 4 February 1858. <lb/>

KYR-0002-222-0023.</bibl>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32214627'>Kentucky Central Railway</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32202105'>[Unknown] Mitchell (Mason County, Captain of State Guard Unit)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201529'>Gray &amp; Todd</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203055'>John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 180-208.</bibl>
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