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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0109 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. Richard H. Higgins (Louisville, KY bank teller) N00001781 1836? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, bank teller. Virginia native. Teller at the Banking Office of Shreve & Tucker in 1860. Confirmed as a notary public in Jefferson County on February 5, 1861.

Relationships Economic: Frank Waters (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney)

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 121. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 5th Ward City of Louisville, p. 192. KYR-0001-017-0062. John Allen Higgins (Lexington, Kentucky, planter) N00008151 1832? Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, planter. Mississippi native. Son of Joel Higgins and Ann Louise Gibson Higgins. Married to R. "Bettie" C. Higgins. Father of Sue Higgins, Joel Higgins, Ann Louise Higgins, Mary Higgins, and Aline Higgins. Student in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Planter in Lexington in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, City of Lexington, 4th Ward, p. 108. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, City of Lexington, 4th Ward, p. 12. Find A Grave, "John Allen Higgins (1831-1880)," Memorial #51275346, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51275346/john-allen-higgins (accessed August 4, 2017). Frank Waters (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney) N00008152 1837 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, attorney. Lexington native. Son of Thomas H. Waters and Caroline C. Waters. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington in 1852. Graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown, District of Columbia, in 1855. Graduated from the Transylvania University Law Department in 1856. Admitted to practice law in 1856. Attorney in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John Allen Higgins (Lexington, Kentucky, planter) Legal: Richard H. Higgins (Louisville, KY bank teller)

Robert Peter, M.D., History of Fayette County, Kentucky, With an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region (Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, 1882), 745. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 2, p. 206B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 3rd Ward, Lexington, p. 149. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 3rd Ward, Lexington, p. 38. 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/. Scott County, Kentucky P001030 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Georgetown, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 Ann Bolton Bevins, "Scott County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992), 805-06. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1861-07-08 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Lex. Ky. July 8. 1861 Geo W Johnson Esqr Scott Co. Ky. Dear Sir.

Yours of a day or two since was received. Mr R Higgins cannot of course agree to any arbitrament without the consent of J. A. Higgins who is now South taking the depositions according to notice served upon you. As the lawyer of both J A & R Higgins I will say to you that your proviso as to an agreement of facts is impossible and even if the case is arbitrated evidence will have to be taken as if ni court -- There is however plenty of time between this and Nov and without giving

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any decided answer now both of us can go on taking sproof and if we then agree we can select arbitrators --

Very Truly &c Frank Waters,

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July 8. 1861. F. Waters -- Higgins suit