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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0111 Folder 4

Spring Station, Woodford 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. [unknown] Thomas (Possibly Samuel B. Thomas) N00008164 Categories: People

Business associate of George Washington Johnson and Robert Aitcheson Alexander in 1861.

Relationships Economic: Robert Spreul Crawford Aitcheson Alexander (Woodford County, Kentucky, stock-breeder, planter, real estate investor, and iron furnace owner )

KYR-0003-092-0105. Robert Spreul Crawford Aitcheson Alexander (Woodford County, Kentucky, stock-breeder, planter, real estate investor, and iron furnace owner ) N00008148 1819-10-25 1867-12-01 Categories: People

Woodford County, Kentucky, stock-breeder, planter, real estate investor, and iron furnace owner. Frankfort, Kentucky, native. Subject of Great Britain. Son of Robert Alexander and Eliza Richardson Alexander. Moved to England in 1837. Groomed by his uncle, Sir William Alexander, to manage the iron-ore operation at Airdrie and Cowdenhill estates, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Inherited Airdrie and Cowdenhill estates in 1842. Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1846. Relocated to Woodford County in 1849. Owned and operated Woodburn Stock Farm in Woodford County from 1849 to 1867. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1852. Owned 119 enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1860. Owned 126 enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1865. Established Airdrie Iron Works of America in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in 1851. Owned additional properties in Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. Purchased famed thoroughbred horse Lexington in 1856.

Relationships Economic: Commercial Bank of Kentucky

Diane Bundy and Jennifer Howard, "The Alexander Family of Woodburn Farm, Woodford County, Kentucky," Ancestors 45, no. 1 (Autumn 2009): 4-14. Alexander Family Papers, 1509-1969, Finding Aid (MSS 9), Kentucky Historical Society. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 82. "Robert Aitcheson Alexander," Daily Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 22, 1867, p. 4. Kentucky Tax Lists, 1792-1887, Woodford County, Kentucky. William Preston Mangum, A Kingdom for the Horse: The Legacy of R.A. Alexander and Woodburn Farms (Harmony House Publishers, 1999). William E. Railey, History of Woodford County, Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: Clearfield, 1938), 27-28. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Woodford County, KY, Jul 1863, p. 1, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "Robert Spreul Crawford Aitcheson Alexander (1819-1867)," Memorial #44119878, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44119878/robert-spreulcrawfordaitcheson-alexander (accessed December 8, 2017). Spring Station, Kentucky P00008165 Categories: Places

Located in Woodford County, Kentucky.

38.1656, -84.7847 William Preston Mangum, A Kingdom for the Horse: The Legacy of R.A. Alexander and Woodburn Farms (Harmony House Publishers, 1999). Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 280. Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Spring Station, Woodford County, Kentucky 1861-07-16 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Spring Station Ky 16 July/61 G. W. Johnson Esqr Georgetown Scott Co Dear Sir

I have had no opportunity of seeing you lately on the subject of the money due me or of learning what chance there may be of your being able to raise the amt; I am sorry to be obliged thus to urge the thing but necessity is a hard master as they say & I am myself pressed to meet my own engagements -- Can Mr. Thomas not get the money out of Bank where he is doing his business? I hear that money is not hard to raise out of Bank if one is not a borrower as I have been obliged to be-

Yours in haste R Aitcheson Alexander

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R. A, Alexander July 16, 1861