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Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Gilbert, Mary C. (Sc 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 339. Letter written by Mary Gilbert, Binghamton, New York, to fellow poet, Lima Canon, Bowling Green, Kentucky, complimenting her writings and informing her of a new poetry group organization.


Henry Clay Memorial Foundation (Sc 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Henry Clay Memorial Foundation (Sc 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 341. Letter written by Raymond F. McLain, Lexington, Kentucky, to Marvin Moorman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the Henry Clay Foundation and its program involving Ashland, Clay’s Lexington home. Foundation members are listed, and there is a related letter of Moorman.


Bush Family Papers (Sc 2495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Bush Family Papers (Sc 2495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2495. Correspondence, pedigree charts and sundry other items relating to the Bush family genealogy, particularly members from Barren County, Kentucky.


Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921 (Sc 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921 (Sc 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 337. Copy letter written by Henry Watterson, Louisville, Kentucky, to an unknown addressee, requesting addressee to be especially kinds to an acquaintance of his.


Waggoner, Laura L., 1883-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Waggoner, Laura L., 1883-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2492. Letters written to Laura Waggoner in Mayfield, Kentucky, primarily by her brother, John F. Waggoner in Kirksey, Kentucky, containing family and personal news. Includes data relating to John F. Waggoner’s death and an attorney’s letter to Laura Waggoner in Kirksey, Kentucky regarding a tobacco farmer’s debt.


Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Lehman, George, 1812-1889 (Sc 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 338. Typescript of legal brief of Congressional Case No. 2310, which concerns Civil War claims of George Lehman of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Application was originally filed 18 August 1871 and resume of case was dated 30 June 1888.


Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Paxton, Garland, B. 1919 (Sc 2493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 2493. Documents relating to Garland Paxton’s military service in the U.S. Army’s 319th Infantry Regiment during World War II.


Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2494. Letter written from Hopkinsville, Kentucky by “Abby L.” to “Annie,” possibly her sister. In addition to various witty observations and gossip, she supplies news on her health and disposition and comments about the family members with whom she is staying.


Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 230. Miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Franklin Procter and his wife, Lila Pendleton Procter, chiefly regarding disposal of thier property; includes letters, memoranda, and joint will.


Martin, Elbridge Gerry, 1834-1909 (Sc 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Martin, Elbridge Gerry, 1834-1909 (Sc 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 336. Legal papers – deeds mortgages, etc., of the Pulliam Family of Allen County, Kentucky, 1845-1851 (4) and of Mr. Martin of Allen and Barren Counties, 1875-1882 (3), and business papers, 1888-1893 (10), receipts, 1874-1893 (11), and small account books, 1880-1888 (9).


Blakey, George Douglas, 1809-1885 (Sc 335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Blakey, George Douglas, 1809-1885 (Sc 335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 335. Letter written by George D. Blakey, Bowling Green, Kentucky., to William Heth Whitsitt, relating genealogical information about the Ewing and Whitsitt families.


Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 234. Two letters written to L. Alleyne Baker, a school teacher In Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky. An 1898 letter, from a cousin, contains family news; a 1907 letter pertains to educational matters. Also includes an undated essay by a female high school student entitled, “Woman’s Sphere.”


Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company (Sc 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company (Sc 231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 231. Letter, 24 May 1938, containing information about the proposed Cumberland & Ohio Railroad through Taylor County, Kentucky, which was never constructed. Also Cumberland & Ohio Railroad tax receipt, 31 July 1873.


Mckinney, Collin, 1766-1861 (Sc 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Mckinney, Collin, 1766-1861 (Sc 232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 232. Photocopy and typescript of dismissal in good standing of Collin McKinney and his wife, Betsy, from Hurricane Creek Meeting House, Baptist Church of God, Southern Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists, Casey County, Kentucky. Also includes photocopy of a picture of Collin McKinney and photocopy of a picture of his home in Texas.


Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Davis, Jacob Weaver, 1819-1862 (Sc 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 235. Photocopy of letter 11 April 1862 written by Jacob Weaver Davis, serving in the Union Army, to his brother, George, in McLean County, Kentucky, concerning the fighting at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. Also, 1969 letter from the donor giving information pertaining to Davis and the 1862 letter.


Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Covington, Josephine (Wells), 1832-1872 (Sc 236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 236. Photocopies and typescript of 2 March 1862 letter written by Mrs. Josephine (Wells) Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her father, Judge Robert William Wells of Missouri. She relates happenings in Bowling Green during its occupation and later evacuation by Confederate troops (18 September 1861-14 February 1862). Also includes information about Mrs. Covington and the Covington family. The original 2 March 1862 letter is housed at the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.


Wood, William Roberts (Sc 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Wood, William Roberts (Sc 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 334. Letter written by William Roberts Wood, Chicago, Illinois, to Margie Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding genealogical information about the Yandell and Wood families. Also includes a letter about the donation from Miss Helm.


Truman, Lee C., Jr. (Sc 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Truman, Lee C., Jr. (Sc 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 332. Photocopy of a speech titled “Telephone History—Bowling Green, Ky.,” which Lee C. Truman, Jr. delivered on 17 November 1970 at the Warren County Historical Society about telephone service in Bowling Green from 1880 to 1967.