This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.
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.
Georgetown, Kentucky, cashier, politician, trustee, and postmaster. Kentucky native. Postmaster of Stamping Ground, Kentucky, from 1834 to 1840. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1839. Cashier at the Farmers Bank of Georgetown from 1860 to 1863. Trustee at Georgetown College in Georgetown.
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:
London, Kentucky, circuit court clerk and attorney. Whitley County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Boyd and Mary A. Sears Boyd. Attended the common school in Whitley County. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Read law with Judge Green Adams, in Barbourville, Kentucky, in 1855. Clerk of the Whitley Circuit Court from 1856 to 1862. Admitted to the bar in 1858. Relocated and practiced law in London from 1863 to 1867.
Relationships
Economic:
Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.
Located at Georgetown, Kentucky. President(s): James F. Robinson. Cashier(s): Fabricius C. McCalla.
Office
My
Good news for once! Your friend
But they would not pay any interest because the law excused them from that. -- I am so glad to get the principal that I can overlook the other without complaining. Good news isnt it?
Yours
F. C. MCalla
F. C. Macalla