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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0091 Folder 4

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky George Washington Johnson (Provisional Governor of Kentucky) N001002 1811-05-27 1862-04-08 Categories: People

First governor of the provisional Confederate government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Betsy Payne Johnson. Married to Ann Viley Johnson on August 20, 1833. Father of Eliza Woolfolk Johnson, Willa Viley Johnson, Madison Conyers Johnson, Martha Lydia Johnson, Junius Ward Johnson, Warren Viley Johnson, Henry Viley Johnson, and Euclid Lane Johnson. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Practiced law in Georgetown, Kentucky. Planter in Scott County, Kentucky, and Helena, Arkansas. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County from 1838 to 1840. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Member of the Southern Rights Party. First provisional Confederate governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from November 20, 1861, to April 8, 1862. Served as an aide to Confederate General John C. Breckinridge. Served in the 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from April 6, 1862 to April 8, 1862. Died on April 8, 1862 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Social: William P. Adcock (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 612. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, pp. 228A-B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 168-69. Lowell H. Harrison, "Johnson, George, W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 473. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971, 255. Thomas W. Bullock (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) N00008280 1819? 1883? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Bullock. Father of M. B. Bullock. Farmer in Scott County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850.

Relationships Social: Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 454. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County. Find A Grave, "Thomas Bullock (1819-1883)," Memorial #100558683, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100558683/thomas-bullock (accessed January 24, 2018). Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept) N00008279 1806-09-21 1886-12-07 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and administrator. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Elizabeth Payne Johnson. Married to Sallie Ann Clay Johnson on December 23, 1828. Graduate of Transylvania University in 1823. Studied law with Martin D. Hardin in Frankfort, Kentucky. Studied law with Robert Wickliffe. Graduate of the Law Department of Transylvania University in 1825. Admitted to the bar in 1825. Attorney in Lexington from 1828 to 1870. Director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington from 1837 to 1858. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. President of the Lexington Northern Bank of Kentucky from 1858 to 1878. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Stockholder and director of the Cincinnati, Lexington, and Louisville Railroad. President of the Law Department at the University of Kentucky in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Northern Bank of Kentucky Legal: Northern Bank of Kentucky Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 145B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 13 of 72 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 110. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 51-52. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 80. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 625-27. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 146-49. Find A Grave, "Madison Conyers Johnson (1806-1886)," Memorial #82208004, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82208004/madison-conyers-johnson (accessed January 24, 2018). Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. New York P001007 Categories: Places

State in the northeast United States. Capital at Albany. Located on the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.

42.6526, -73.7562 Alan K. Campbell and Paul Joseph Scudlere, "New York," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-state. "Albany, New York," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed May 22, 2017, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Tennessee P001001 Categories: Places

State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.

35.5175, -86.5804 Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith, Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), 69. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 14, 2019). Paynes Depot, Kentucky P00005406 Categories: Places

Settlement in southern Scott County, Kentucky.

38.142, -84.6236 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 228. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Paynes Depot, Kentucky" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 23, 2019). Northern Bank of Kentucky O00002742 1835 1899 Categories: Organizations

Principal office located at Lexington, Kentucky. Established by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on February 20, 1835. President(s): Madison C. Johnson. Cashier(s): Augustus F. Hawkins.

Branch office located at Barbourville, Kentucky. Dissolved by 1863. President(s): George M. Adams. Cashier(s): William McClanahan.

Branch office located at Covington, Kentucky. President(s): James M. Preston and James Taylor. Cashier(s): William Ernst.

Branch office located at Glasgow, Kentucky. President(s): George W. Trabue. Cashier(s): Thomas J. Gorin.

Branch office located at Louisville, Kentucky. President(s): William Richardson and L. L. Warren. Cashier(s): John Milton and Henry C. Pindell. Director(s): 1861—W. Mitchell, Sandford Duncan, E. A. Gardner, William E. Glover, W. F. Bullock, and L. L. Warren. 1864—William E. Glover, E. A. Gardner, William Hughes, D. B. Light, Robert Murrell, and R. A. Robinson.

Branch office located at Paris, Kentucky. President(s): Charlton Alexander and Robert T. Davis. Cashier(s): Thomas Kelly and Charlton Alexander.

Branch office located at Richmond, Kentucky. President(s): Daniel Breck. Cashier(s): E. L. Shackleford.

Relationships Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept)

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: Albert G. Hodges, State Printer, 1834), 166-81. "An Act to establish the Northern Bank of Kentucky," Tanner's Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, compiler Henry Tanner (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 324-25. The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, ed. J. Smith Homans, vol. 12 (June 1860): 995. J. D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory, for 1864 (Louisville: L. A. Civill, 1864), 89-91. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1861 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1861), 38. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1863 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1863), 20. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1864 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1864), 19. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1861-02-07 Correspondence 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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Northern Bank of Kentucky,

Lexington, Feb 7. 1861 Dear George

You told me you had the New York Pepper Apple, perhaps you also have Smiths Cider apple. The latter is a fine eating Apple and does well as far south as the Southern part of Tennessee. I wish you to cut me some scions of the Pepper and Smiths Cider if you have it. also of Carter a Southern Apple. I only want a few. Tie each up seperately and designate their names by a lable tied to the branch. You could also at same time send me those Pyracanthus bushes which I understood you to say you did not want. Send them all to Payne's station some warm day & let them come up by a Railroad write me when you send them so I may be on the look out for them. It would be well to tie up in a bundle the Pyracanthus bushes putting some straw around the roots to prevent drying up.

From what Tom Bullock tells me, and from my own recollection I fear I hurt your feelings by ^my^ impolite mode of dissenting from one of your remarks. I very ^much^ regret the circumstance, and pray you to forgive it.

Yours Truly M. C. Johnson.

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