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Drake, Louise (Carson), 1894-1979 (Sc 3515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, Louise (Carson), 1894-1979 (Sc 3515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3515. “Sesquicentennial Vesper Service Remarks Made by Mrs. W. P. Drake at Pioneer Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, April 23rd, 1969,” a speech by Louise (Carson) Drake reviewing the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green and providing biographical and genealogical data on selected members, including some interred at Pioneer Cemetery.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 636. Correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian, relating principally to her work for the Presbyterian Church. Also includes materials documenting her service on the Inter-Racial Commission of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Groom, Charles Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 3205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Groom, Charles Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 3205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3205. Letters of Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey. Two 1967 letters detail the genealogy of Reverend Ephraim McLean of Logan County, Kentucky. A third letter to Dr. Ben M. Barrus of Bethel College in Tennessee offers several corrections to his article, “Factors Involved in the Origin of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,” published in the Journal of Presbyterian History (December 1967 and March 1968).
Goodknight, Thomas Mitchell, 1837-1908 (Sc 2769), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodknight, Thomas Mitchell, 1837-1908 (Sc 2769), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2769. Thomas Mitchell Goodknight's "Pastor's Journal" of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which includes a short biography, as well as a list of elders and deacons ordained, marriages performed, church members added, etc., during his ministry in Kentucky (particularly the C.P. church at Franklin), Kansas, and Texas. He also discusses his role as a Confederate chaplain during the Civil War.
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 (Sc 2740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bradburn, Ethel (Huffines), 1889-1954 (Sc 2740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2740. Paper titled “History of the Logan Presbyterial Society, 1887-1950” about a female missionary society in the Logan Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in south central Kentucky.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan Presbytery - Kentucky (Mss 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan Presbytery - Kentucky (Mss 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Minute book of the Logan Presbytery, Kentucky, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 31 August 1813 to 10 October 1845 (bound typescript) with accompanying index, an original minute book from 2 October 1869 to 2 May 1887, and printed copies (2) of minutes which were not recorded in the book, 5 April 1878, and 14 May 1886.
Franklin Presbyterian Church - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 2359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Franklin Presbyterian Church - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 2359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2359. Correspondence, budgets, financial information and miscellaneous historical data relating to Franklin Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Kentucky (formerly College Street Presbyterian Church), compiled by Stella Harris for a 1960 history of the church.
Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2306. Letter of recommendation for Thomas H. Beard from Smiths Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, 7 February 1898.
Chesnut, Walter Lewis, 1916-2014 (Sc 2261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chesnut, Walter Lewis, 1916-2014 (Sc 2261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2261. Walter Lewis Chesnut's thesis, "A History of Logan Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church" presented to the faculty of the Cumberland Presbyterian Theological Seminary in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Divinity. Also, a separate supplemental history of the Presbytery, 1954-1988, written by Chesnut.
Chesnut, Walter Lewis, 1916-2014 (Sc 2262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chesnut, Walter Lewis, 1916-2014 (Sc 2262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2262. Paper: "A History of Auburn Seminary" written by Walter Lewis Chesnut. The seminary, established by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1892, was located in Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky.
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 316. Session books of the Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes session minutes and membership lists. An index of all members from 1819-1888 includes members of Bowling Green Cumberland Presbyterian Church from 1866-1884.
Auburn Presbyterian Church - Auburn, Kentucky (Mss 308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Auburn Presbyterian Church - Auburn, Kentucky (Mss 308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 308. Minute books of the Auburn Presbyterian Church, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings and registers of pastors, elders, deacons, members, baptisms, marriages, deaths and removals.
Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 228. Minute book of Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Ohio County, Kentucky. Includes articles of faith, minutes of meetings, and registers of elders, deacons, members, baptisms and marriages.
Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1592. Typescript of the membership list and minutes of congregational meetings from 30 August 1831 to 17 October 1852, for the Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church located in Sumner County, Tennessee. The papers also contain a "Family Record" in which births, baptisms, marriages, and beginning/ending church membership dates are registered.