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Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 414. Photocopies of Baptist minister Jacob Tol Miller’s original journal, as well as an annotated typescript. The journal details many aspects of a minister’s life during the period of camp meeting revivalism in the antebellum west from 1856-1887.


Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 453. Letter, 9 February 1868, from Howell and John Edmonds, South Union, Kentucky, to their parents, in Tennessee, regarding their welfare. Howell and John were both enrolled at the school at South Union. Also a note informing the parents of the death of John, age 15, of spotted fever.


Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 447. Letter from Walter Shepherd, Mount Lebanon, New York, to Roy G. Cooksey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in reply to inquiry. Shepherd is sending materials about the Shakers for Cooksey’s use in preparing a talk on them, and also, he expresses his views on various aspects of Shakerism.


First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 629. Associational letter sent by the First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to the Warren Association of Baptists, containing the following lists: representatives at council meeting, ministers, membership, officers, Sunday School records, and financial table.


Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of representative sample (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 618. Record book of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Hartford Baptist Church of Ohio County, Kentucky, which contains the constitution, by-laws and amendments, treasurer’s records, lists of members, and minutes. Also includes letters from ministers’ wives, 1899, 1929 (2), and Sunday School lessons printed in Chinese, 1929 (2).


Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 631. Photocopies of legal papers pertaining to lawsuit brought by Sally Boles in which she sought and obtained a divorce from her husband William, who united with the Shakers in 1808 and left her and their three children to join the Shaker settlement at South Union, Kentucky, in 1811. The case was first tried in Logan County, then in Barren County.


Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 644. Photocopies of notes compiled by Milton L. Baughn while writing his book A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, which was published in 1972. The notes concern the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (African American) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Kentucky Baptist Centennial Memorial Roll Book (Sc 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Kentucky Baptist Centennial Memorial Roll Book (Sc 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 614. A book of certificates which were sold for one dollar each to raise money for the Kentucky Baptist
Centennial Memorial Fund. The buyers were members of the Providence Knob Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Many unsold certificates are in the book.


Bay's Fork Association Of The Baptist Church - Kentucky (Sc 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Bay's Fork Association Of The Baptist Church - Kentucky (Sc 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 615. Index to minutes of Bay's Fork Association of the Baptist Church.


Rapp, Ernest William, B. 1941 (Sc 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Rapp, Ernest William, B. 1941 (Sc 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 605. Photocopy of paper by Ernest W. Rapp, titled, “A Memorial to John G. Durham,” which was written for a history course at Western Kentucky University. The John Durham Collection (MSS 9) in the Manuscripts Division of the WKU Special Collections Library was used in writing this paper.


Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 544. Carbon copies of two 1967 letters written to Brother Thomas Whitaker, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky, by Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey, relating information concerning the history of the Gasper River Presbyterian Church in Logan County.


Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 542. Paper entitled “History of the Auburn Baptist Church, 1866-1957,” a holographic copy by Nellie Childress, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the paper written to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library.


Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 546. Letter to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library, from Helen E. (Garvin) Rouse, concerning records from the minutes of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, that relate to the Garvin and Irvin families and an accompanying statement related to the two families.


Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 525. Photocopy of an incomplete typescript memoir entitled “The First Fifty Years of Judson Slade Taylor,” a Baptist minister born in Ohio County, Kentucky; and a letter, 20 August 1971, from J.B. Taylor, a relative, to Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, related to the memoir.


St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 468. Typescript paper relating the history of the Catholic Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky written in 1951, guest register used for Centennial Reception, and telegram received from the Vatican noting the occasion, 1959.


Shannon Family Papers (Sc 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Shannon Family Papers (Sc 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 391. Warren County deeds of Shannon and Reid families, 1821-1872 (6); land lease of Samuel Reid, 1824; agreement for making bricks and erecting a building between Samuel Shannon, Sr. and his son, 1824; deed and miscellaneous papers of the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church near Rockfield, Warren County, 1839-1882 (5); will of James Shannon, 1846; and miscellaneous receipts, 1843-1882 (3)—one for school tuition, 1844.


Union Grove Society Of The Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Union Grove Society Of The Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 409. Notice of Union Grove Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church’s formation at Shiloh meeting house, Warren County, Kentucky, which was sent to the moderator and members of the Logan Presbytery, requesting to be under their care. Signed by O.C. Carson, J.S. McCormick, and H.W. Stagner.


Fisk, Robert (Sc 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Fisk, Robert (Sc 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 403. License, Whitley County, to perform marriages as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


Twelfth Street Church Of Christ - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Twelfth Street Church Of Christ - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 408. Directories, programs, newsletters, news clippings, and land records of the Twelfth Street Church of Christ, Bowling Green, Kentucky (known after 2002 as Lost River Church of Christ). Also includes information about other Churches of Christ in Warren County, Kentucky, as well as Potter Bible College and Potter Orphan Home in Bowling Green.


Cochran, Mary (Sc 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Cochran, Mary (Sc 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 4. Certification of membership and good character signed by the ruling elders of a church in Concord, Campbell County, Virginia.


Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.


The Origins Of Christian Society In Ancient India, Crista Nalani Anderson May 2012

The Origins Of Christian Society In Ancient India, Crista Nalani Anderson

Honors Scholar Theses

Approximately 2.4% of the Indian population identify themselves as Christians[1]. As the number of followers grows, it is only natural to question how this religion came to India. The Syrian Christians of Kerala have taken great pride for countless centuries in the fact that their church was personally founded by the apostle Thomas. However, does this legend accurately portray the historical reality? Numerous scholars claim that Christianity was brought to the continent by merchants, other evangelists, or Jewish settlers. This study seeks to identify the evidence behind these claims by comparing the existing primary source documents and observable …


Dismemberment And Devotion: Anatomical Votive Dedication In Italian Popular Religion, Lindsay R. Morehouse May 2012

Dismemberment And Devotion: Anatomical Votive Dedication In Italian Popular Religion, Lindsay R. Morehouse

Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects

Anatomical votives are religious offerings that are made to look like body parts and are dedicated in exchange for healing. In many cases, they are dedicated to intermediary figures as a way to bridge the worlds of human and divine. There is evidence that Anatomical votives have been offered in Italy from the middle of the first millennia BCE to the present. This paper examines Etruscan, Greco-Roman, and Christian cults in order to explore continuity and change in this practice over time within Italy.


Defined By What We Are Not: The Role Of Anti-Catholicism In The Formation Of Early American Identity, Brandi Hatfield Marchant May 2012

Defined By What We Are Not: The Role Of Anti-Catholicism In The Formation Of Early American Identity, Brandi Hatfield Marchant

Masters Theses

From the colonial era through the mid-nineteenth century, anti-Catholicism colored key points of development in America's early history. Amidst the English colonial experience, the Revolution and establishment of the republic, and the educational reform efforts of the nineteenth-century, anti-Catholicism emerged as a fundamental factor in the development of America's characteristically Protestant political and religious identity. While many studies of early American anti-Catholicism focus on one region or time period, drawing connections across geographic boundaries and constructed historical periods attests to the sentiment's pervasive and enduring influence. While this sentiment varied in intensity throughout America over time, its presence profoundly shaped …


The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Bible, The Revolution, And The Debate Over Slavery In The American South, Kevin Simon May 2012

The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Bible, The Revolution, And The Debate Over Slavery In The American South, Kevin Simon

Masters Theses

Before the slavery debate pushed a divided American nation to the brink of civil war, the argument divided the family of God. By the time cannon fire erupted at Fort Sumter, Christians had already staked out positions based on sophisticated lines of argument they used to justify or condemn chattel slavery. The generation coming of age during the Civil War era witnessed a debate more intense and contentious than their ancestors had seen, but in terms of the arguments employed, it broke very little fresh ground. Contrary to the assumption that antebellum apologists in the South invented the defense of …


Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 323. Typed copy of “The History of the Logan Presbyterial [sic] Missionary Auxiliary Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1796-1955,” written by Mrs. Joseph Rogers and Mrs. Henry A. Reeder; and of auxiliary notes compiled by Margaret Hampton for 1955-1958.


Rupard, William, 1825-1904 (Sc 2518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Rupard, William, 1825-1904 (Sc 2518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2518. Letter, 21 March 1883, from William Rupard, postmarked Hedges, Clark County, Kentucky, to W. W. Thomas, Harrisburg, Indiana. He reports on the health of mutual friends, “Brother” and “Sister” Lampton, and mentions his preaching activities.


Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 316. Letter written by Lucy Manire, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, to Lucy Shannon, South Union, Kentucky, expressing thanks for hospitality extended to her.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 317. Miscellaneous business papers of the Shakers, including letters, 1884, 1915 (2);an agreement with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the location of a depot at South Union, 1860; deeds, 1883, 1893 (2); bond, 1883; and receipts, 1884, 1906 (2).