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Political History

Western Kentucky University

2012

Preston Hopkins Leslie

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Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Slaughter Family Papers (Sc 402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 402. Will, 1798; slavery bill of sale, 1810; militia commission, 1820; letters concerning Slaughter estate settlement, 1835-1843 (9); Mexican War claim, 1849; letters of recommendations for judicial appointments, 1853-1879 (7); Civil War notes and letters, 1861-1864 (4); and miscellaneous items. Selected items have been typescripted.


Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 254. Photocopies of sketch written about Preston Hopkins Leslie in 1910, and a letter, 16 August 1969, written by Mary (Leslie) Ford, Helena, Montana, to Tim Cantrell, Henderson, Kentucky, related to Cantrell’s interest in writing a book about Preston Hopkins Leslie, Ford’s grandfather. Leslie was governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875, and governor of Montana from 1887 to 1889.