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Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 760. Primarily nineteenth-century records of Edmonson County, Kentucky, particularly the county court. Includes the county court order book beginning in 1825, the year of the county’s creation, militia lists, deed lists, and fee books. Also includes genealogical and historical data on the Houchin family.
Short Family Papers (Mss 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Short Family Papers (Mss 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 743. Deeds of the Short family, primarily Joseph P. Short, David T. Short, and David’s daughter Leona (Short) Tichenor, for land in Muhlenberg and McLean counties in Kentucky.
Bryant, Farnsworth Dudley, B. 1939 - Collector (Mss 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, Farnsworth Dudley, B. 1939 - Collector (Mss 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 741. Business papers of the Thomson family of Fayette County, Kentucky, most notably Patrick Henry Thomson, his son William Z. Thomson, and son-in-law Squire C. Gaines. Includes scans of selected materials (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 732. Genealogical research, narratives, clippings, photographs, and local history pertaining to the Bennett, Hunt, Taylor and associated families of Kentucky, primarily Butler, McLean, Muhlenberg and Daviess counties.
Rowan Family (Sc 3592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan Family (Sc 3592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3592. Recording of a rebroadcast program first made in connection with Black History Month for radio station WOMI, Owensboro, Kentucky. Marilyn (Rowan) McKissic, speaking in character as her ancestor Mary (Munt) Rowan, tells the story of the Rowans of Owensboro, an African-American family whose members have maintained contact over a century of annual reunions.
Bryan Family Letters (Sc 3583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryan Family Letters (Sc 3583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3583. Letters of the Bryan and associated families of Montgomery County, Tennessee. Most are written to Tennessee “Tennie” Bryan and come from friends, relatives, and ardent male admirers. Two correspondents write during their Civil War Confederate service (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts) and a cousin, Fannie Parkhurst, writes from Vermont. Fannie also writes to her cousin Byron in Illinois about local news and her studies, school teaching, social activities and abhorrence of intemperance; she gossips about local courtships and mentions Byron’s brother Sherman, who she would marry after Byron’s death in Union …
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 1377. Research materials for a history of the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina, compiled by Dr. James M. Gifford.
Gee, John Bugg, 1801-1878 (Sc 3539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gee, John Bugg, 1801-1878 (Sc 3539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3539. Contract, 1 January 1841, for the hire of “Emily” for twelve months, stipulating a payment of $9.00 to John B. Gee by John Carter and Herod Turner. The contract also stipulates the clothing to be provided to Emily during the summer and winter.
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 673. Correspondence, business, and legal papers of various members of the Bate family of Sumner County, Tennessee. Some of the children are located in San Augustine, Texas. Most of the correspondence centers around the mother, Ann Franklin (Weatherred) Bate and her children, particularly Eugenia Patience (Bate) Bass Bertinatti and Humphrey Howell Bate, and to a lesser degree their siblings. Includes extensive documentation about the financial and legal condition of Bertinatti after the Civil War. The originals are in the Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 675. Papers and photographs of James Proctor Knott, Lebanon, Kentucky, and his wife Sarah "Sallie" (McElroy) Knott. Includes two journals of Sallie Knott covering the first eight years of their marriage (Click on "Additional Files" below to view typescripts), and miscellaneous papers of a related family, the Clarks.
Edwards, John, 1748-1837 (Sc 3417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edwards, John, 1748-1837 (Sc 3417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3417. Letter, 12 December 1824, of John Edwards, Lexington, Kentucky to George W. Williams, Paris, Kentucky. The former U.S. senator offers to discuss the terms on which Williams is to hire out slaves for Edwards’s factory business, but declines his request to train them in cigar-making. He also reports on his law studies, his hopes for financial success, and on a recent visit to Frankfort, Kentucky, where he found state legislators to be “mere factionists,” “without intelligence, without principle, dignity, [or] virtue.”
Callis, Caius Marcellus, 1804-1863 (Sc 3364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Callis, Caius Marcellus, 1804-1863 (Sc 3364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3364. Letter, 8 July 1849, of C. M. Callis, Hopkinsville, Kentucky to his brother-in-law Thomas Garland, Charlottesville, Virginia. He refers to the affection of his young son for his late mother’s family, and expresses concern over the financial consequences of Virginia’s establishment of free schools. He also reports on the anticipated discussion of slavery at Kentucky’s upcoming constitutional convention and to Senator Henry Clay’s proposal for gradual emancipation, which is favored by a “respectable minority.” He expects the convention merely to prohibit the importation of slaves, …
Mitchell, Samuel Williamson, 1833-1902 (Sc 3324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mitchell, Samuel Williamson, 1833-1902 (Sc 3324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3324. Letter, 24 December, 1856?, of Samuel W. Mitchell, Danville, Kentucky (where he graduated from Centre College in 1857 and from the theological seminary in 1860) to H. B. Craig, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Mitchell tells of his profitable resale to area Presbyterians of books purchased from an agent, and of meeting a “very fine” young lady. Describing Christmas in Danville, he notes the noisy firecrackers and the visibility of local African Americans, who uncharacteristically venture into the cold under the “impulse” of the liberty granted them during …
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 651. Letters and papers of the Weir family of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and related members of the Rumsey and Miller families. Well-to-do merchants and farmers, the Weirs were leading supporters of the Union during the Civil War, providing advocacy, financial support, and military service. Includes full-text scans of a letter from the brother of steamboat pioneer James Rumsey defending his legacy as an innovator; James Weir's journal; James Weir's will; the annotated recollections of Edward Weir, Sr.; and two letters from former Weir slaves recolonized in Liberia (Click on "Additional files" below).
Helm Family Papers (Mss 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm Family Papers (Mss 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 633. Correspondence, business papers, deeds, and miscellaneous records of the Helm family of Butler County, Kentucky, and related families.
Alexander, Ingram, 1772-1841 (Sc 3250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alexander, Ingram, 1772-1841 (Sc 3250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3250. Deeds (5), land survey, and will related to Ingram Alexander, Cumberland County, Kentucky.
Faulkner, Richard C., 1792-1867 - Letters To (Sc 3242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Faulkner, Richard C., 1792-1867 - Letters To (Sc 3242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3242. Letters, 16 May 1818 and 4 July 1819 to Richard C. Faulkner, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, from a brother, possibly named Thomas. Writing from King and Queen County, Virginia, he laments his inability to sell a mill that was part of their father’s estate, refers to the settlement of the estate of another brother, John, and relates items of local news. The second letter answers Richard’s query about the price of slaves, makes observations about the local economy, and urges Richard to forward a deed for the mill, …
Capwell, Franklin Wall, 1823-1889 (Sc 3232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Capwell, Franklin Wall, 1823-1889 (Sc 3232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3232. Letter, 10 January 1845, of teacher Franklin W. Capwell to his parents in Wyoming County, New York. Writing from Mortonsville, Kentucky, he describes the circumstances of his decision to teach at a seminary there, listing his subjects and fees. He finds Southern women unsuitable for their lack of education, but declares that their wealth makes them good marriage prospects for other Northern men. He also comments on the reliance on slaves for ordinary labor, the defense of slavery by ministers, and the fear of slave …
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3203. Four letters, 1836-1837, of Noah S. Pond to his sister and brother-in-law in Washington, Connecticut. Writing from New Design, Trigg County, Kentucky, where he is working as a peddler, Pond describes many aspects of life in frontier Kentucky: changeable weather, agricultural practices and prices, lay preaching, voting, and the lives of slaves, who he believes are well treated and better off than the poor in the North. He describes selling to a Dutchman who dislikes “Yankees,” notes recent political developments, and finds Kentucky …
Hays Family Papers (Sc 3161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hays Family Papers (Sc 3161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3161. Estate papers of the Hays family of Warren County Kentucky: wills of Samuel, Rebecca and Daniel W. Hays; William Hays estate settlement; appraisement of slaves of Daniel Hays; and sale bill of personal property of Rebecca Hays.
Forggett, Essie (Fa 1104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Forggett, Essie (Fa 1104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1104. Student paper titled “Slavery in Green County” in which Essie Forggett details the history of the settlement of Green County and its eventual dependence upon slave labor. Forggett also includes stories of slave auctions, punishments, attempted escapes, and religious practices of slaves throughout the region. Paper is based on information collected by Forggett from county clerk records and in-person interviews with slave descendants.
Western Lunatic Asylum - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 3093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Western Lunatic Asylum - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 3093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3093. Documents, chiefly 1854-1870, relating to the operation of the Western Lunatic Asylum, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Includes contracts and accounts for wood, coal, foodstuffs, laborers and employees, and repair and construction. Also includes legislation relating to appropriations and management, an 1855 inventory of movable property, a report to Governor Beriah Magoffin of an 1860 fire, and contracts and inventories relating to the subsequent rebuilding of the asylum.
A Few Comments About The Unfair Criticisms Of Abraham And Mary Lincoln Or Two Sides Of A Penny, Rebecca Clark
A Few Comments About The Unfair Criticisms Of Abraham And Mary Lincoln Or Two Sides Of A Penny, Rebecca Clark
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
There are a tremendous number of books and articles printed about Abraham and Mary Lincoln. They comment, critique, and analyze every aspect of their lives before, during, and after the Lincoln Presidency. No triviality has been deemed too small or inconsequential to dwell upon and debate. In fact, the Lincolns, from the beginning of Abraham’s courtship of Mary Todd to after the fatal assassination, were treated unfairly and subjected to false attacks by the press, public, and family members for self-serving agendas, and nefarious purposes. Despite her family’s qualms over her choice of a husband, Mary saw in Abrahamqualities others …
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; a name index to Shaker Record C; and a name index of probationary members signing Articles of Agreement.
Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3071. Miscellaneous papers and photographs of the Boucher family of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes promissory notes, tax and other receipts, deeds, Civil War military passes and slave indentures.
Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 573. Correspondence and papers of of the Pool, Keel and Beauchamp families of Metcalfe (formerly Barren) County, Kentucky. Includes papers of related families: Mitchell, Clark, Rogers, Cook, Shirley Yates, and others. Civil War letters include a letter from James F. Keel (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescript) describing activity at Nashville, Tennessee in July 1862.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.
Denny, John, 1750-1834 (Sc 2979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Denny, John, 1750-1834 (Sc 2979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2978. Power of attorney, 25 May 1824, of John Denny, Mercer County, Kentucky, appointing John Guthrie, also of Mercer County, his agent and attorney for the purpose of pursuing, regaining possession of, and disposing of six slaves seized by James Denny and Asher Labertew. Includes detailed physical descriptions of the slaves. Denny and Labertew biographical data is also included.
Brown Family Letters (Sc 2943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown Family Letters (Sc 2943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2943. Letters of the Brown family of Cynthiana and Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Includes letters of Judge Henry O. Brown to his wife Lucy Ann while on circuit, a petition of Princeton, Kentucky citizens urging Judge Brown to relocate in order to serve their district, and a copy of a letter from Sally Doom, probably to her brother (and Judge Brown’s son-in- law) Charles Nourse, eloquently deploring Southern secession and slavery (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan). Also includes a photograph of three unidentified women and an infant.