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Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

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.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) N00006168 1820-03-06 1899-07-02 Categories: People

Washington, D. C., soldier and engineer. Clinton, Connecticut, native. Son of Edward Wright and Nancy Wright. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1841. Married to Louisa M. Bradford Wright on August 11, 1842. Father of Mary H. Wright, Edward B. Wright, and Rosa Wright. Assistant professor at U.S. Military Academy from 1842 to 1844. Member of the Army Corps of Engineers from 1841 to 1884. Served as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain from 141 to 1855. Served as assistant to the chief engineer from 1855 to 1861 in Washington, D. C. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on September 14, 1861. Commander of the Department of the Ohio from 1862 to 1863. Appointed major general on May 12, 1864. Commander of U. S. Army Sixth Corps from 1864 to April 1865.

Relationships Military: United States War Department Military: William Nelson (U.S. Army major general)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Washington, D. C., Ward 1, p. 357-58. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, New York, Ward 15 District 1, p. 378B. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6, eds. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske (New York: Appleton, 1889), 623. Ezra J. Warner Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 575-76. "Horatio G. Wright (1820-1899)," Arlington National Cemetery, accessed June 5, 2019, https://ancexplorer.army.mil. “Memoir of Horatio Gouverneur Wright,” Transactions of American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. 46 (December 1901), 551-54. Official Army Register for January 1880 (Washington, D.C: Adjutant General’s Office), 96. Cincinnati, Ohio P00001208 Categories: Places

Seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1031, -84.512 "Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 1862-08-28 Telegram English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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30 Cincinnati Aug 28th 1862 Gov Robinson

Can you put a Ky regiment being organized at Frankfort if not can shelter be found for a regiment without tents

H. G. Wright Maj Genl