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Washington, District of Columbia Garrett Davis (Kentucky attorney, farmer, and politician) N00000244 1801-09-10 1872-09-22 Categories: People

Bourbon County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Rebecca Trimble Davis in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on September 21, 1826. Father of Robert Trimble Davis, Caroline Scott Davis Magowan, and Rebecca T. Davis. Married to Eliza Jane Morrow Davis. Father of Garrett Morrow Davis. Clerk in the Office of the County Clerk in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Clerk in the Office of the County Clerk in Bourbon County. Admitted to the bar in 1823. Attorney in Bourbon County. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bourbon County from 1833 to 1838. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representative of the United States from the Twelfth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1839 to 1847. Member of the House of Representative of the United States from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1843 to 1847 Delegate to 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Bourbon County, Kentucky. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. Declined the nomination of the American Party for President of the United States in 1856. Attorney and farmer in Bourbon County in 1860. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1860. Member of the Senate of the United States from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872. Regent of the Smithsonian Institution from 1864 to 1872.

Relationships Military: P. H. Watson (Washington, D. C., patent agent and assistant to the secretary of war) Military: T. Edson (Captain, Lieutenant, USA, Louisville Ordnance officer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 289B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 498. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 683. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 136B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, Ward 2, p. 446A. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 129. “Davis, Garrett,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed January 11, 2017, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000099. “Davis, Garrett,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 255-256. “The Death of Garrett Davis,” Louisville Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 23, 1872, p. 2. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000183145. "Garrett Davis (1801-1872)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7773367, accessed January 11, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773367. 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. T. Edson (Captain, Lieutenant, USA, Louisville Ordnance officer) N00010092 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Served as Captain and Lieutenant in U.S.A. in 1862.

Relationships Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

KYR-0003-134-0023 KYR 0003-143-0029 P. H. Watson (Washington, D. C., patent agent and assistant to the secretary of war) N00010118 1820? Categories: People

Washington, D. C., patent agent and assistant to the secretary of war. Native of England. Married to Rose R. Watson. Father to Charles Watson, Edward Watson, Ellen Watson, Leonard Watson. Patent agent in Washington, D. C. in 1860. Employed Alice Williams, William H. Thomas, Pauline Gunnell, Mary A. Butler in Washington, D. C. 1860. Assistant to the secretary of war in 1862.

Relationships Military: T. Edson (Captain, Lieutenant, USA, Louisville Ordnance officer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, District of Columbia, Washington, p. 58. Washington, District of Columbia P00001134 Categories: Places

Seat of government of the United States of America. Located on the Potomac River.

38.9072, -77.0369 Jeane Mason Fogle, "Washington, D.C." in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC) (accessed May 22, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, D.C.," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 8, 2019). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Washington, District of Columbia 1862-09-14 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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Washington D. C Sepr 14th 1862 Hon Garret Davis

Before your recent visit to Washington and since may last, there has been delivered to the authorities of Kentucky 12618 muskets & rifles -- 1380 Carbines 4509 revolvers 5000 sabres and 7507 horse equipments -- since you left we have sent to Gov Robinson care Lieut Edson Louisville4000 muskets and 1000 revolvers with accoutrements

P. H. Watson Asst Secy of War