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Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS 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.
Peckham, L. H. (Sc 3690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peckham, L. H. (Sc 3690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3690. Letter, 23 May 1862, to “Anson” from L. H. Peckham, in camp at Fredericksburg, Virginia. He describes the massing of Union troops in the area in anticipation of a march on Richmond, and the construction of railroad, plank and pontoon bridges. He also remarks on the recent visit of President Lincoln, whose “smiling countenance was met with many cheers by our Troops here, but with dismay by the citizens.”
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).
Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975 (Mss 682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975 (Mss 682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 682. Writings and supporting materials of Willard Rouse Jillson, State Geologist of Kentucky, author and historian. Includes manuscripts, page proofs, photographic negatives, and promotional pamphlets for his books.
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perry Collection (Mss 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 676. Letters, papers, photographs and scrapbooks of the Perry family, principally Gideon Babcock Perry, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, Kentucky and his children, Reverend Henry G. Perry, Chicago, Illinois, and Emily B. Perry, Hopkinsville.
Harding, Aaron, 1805-1875 (Sc 3466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harding, Aaron, 1805-1875 (Sc 3466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3466. Letter, 13 February 1863, of Aaron Harding, Washington, D.C., to Dr. Archibald S. Lewis, Greensburg, Kentucky. Serving in Congress as a representative from Kentucky, Harding reports on his efforts to obtain a promotion to brigadier general for Colonel Edward H. Hobson, including his appeal to President Abraham Lincoln in a “private interview.” He fears that Hobson’s nomination will nevertheless be passed over by the “radicals” in the U.S. Senate, who he criticizes for “sinking themselves and the country lower and lower.” He also refers to a …
Green Family Papers (Mss 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green Family Papers (Mss 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 674. Business and personal correspondence, as well as business records (chiefly invoices and statements from Louisville suppliers) for the Green family at Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky. Green operated a number of businesses, including saw mills, a grist mill, woolen mill, and a general store. He also operated a large farm raising tobacco and livestock, as well as a herd of Shetland ponies. Although his businesses are covered extensively in the correspondence and records, politics and local economic development is also discussed.
Newcomb, Horatio Dalton, 1809-1874 (Sc 3437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Newcomb, Horatio Dalton, 1809-1874 (Sc 3437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3437. Letter, 9 March 1863, from H. D. Newcomb, Louisville, Kentucky, to Sumner(?) Wells, Chicopee, Massachusetts, asking for help in locating a suitable house for his sister in nearby Springfield. Newcomb also offers his thoughts on the Civil War: his proximity to its “desolating influences” in contrast to New England; the disunion perpetrated by the “imbecile abolitionists” of the Lincoln Administration; the corruption of the government; the financial perils of the war; and the necessity for a negotiated peace with the Confederacy.
Coleman, John Winston, Jr., 1898-1983 (Sc 3369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coleman, John Winston, Jr., 1898-1983 (Sc 3369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3369. Letters to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from author, historian and Kentuckiana collector J. Winston Coleman, Jr., primarily regarding his books. Includes book notices, biographical and publication data, and a speech of Coleman’s on Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Cox, Hilda-Gay (Fa 1239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cox, Hilda-Gay (Fa 1239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1239. Student folk studies project titled “Sequent Occupance of the Main Business District of Hodgenville, Kentucky,” which includes a list of illustrations with brief descriptions of residents and buildings in the main business district of Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky. List entries may include a brief description of building, resident, location, donor, and photo.
Blotner, Joseph Leo, 1923-2012 (Mss 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blotner, Joseph Leo, 1923-2012 (Mss 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 200. Research material collected by Joseph Leo Blotner for his literary biography of Robert Penn Warren. Includes Warren’s correspondence (photocopies from various repositories), interview transcripts, notes, news clippings, critical essays, and other documentation about Warren. Also includes drafts, galley proofs, and permissions related to the biography.
Ballew, William A., 1842-1915 (Sc 3277), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ballew, William A., 1842-1915 (Sc 3277), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3277. Letter, 12 November 1864, from William A. Ballew to Thomas Hopkins, Clinton County, Kentucky. Writing from Spring Hill, Tennessee, where he is serving with the 12th Kentucky Infantry, Ballew notes his regiment’s support of presidential candidate George B. McClellan (“little mack”). Although they were not yet enfranchised, he cites a mock election held by African Americans in Nashville as evidence for President Abraham Lincoln’s likely reelection. He notes the good health of his fellow soldiers, including Hopkins’ two sons, Lewis and Shelby.
Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 602. Correspondence, research notes, book manuscripts, promotional material, and editorials related to Hugh O. Potter’s career as a radio broadcaster and his interests in Kentucky history, specifically Owensboro and Daviess County, and Abraham Lincoln. Includes one box of original legal documents (1783-1953) related to the Massie family of Daviess County.
Lincoln Farm Association (Sc 3084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln Farm Association (Sc 3084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3084. Certificates documenting membership for H.H. Seldomridge and Louis Hall Comstock in the Lincoln Farm Association. Certificates include an image of Lincoln’s bust, his birth place cabin, and the White House.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
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.
Browning, Mary Carmel, 1896-1980 (Sc 2895), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Mary Carmel, 1896-1980 (Sc 2895), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2895. “Abe of the Ages,” a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sister Mary Carmel Browning, Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union (O.S.U.), Brescia College, Owensboro, Kentucky.
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2859. Correspondence, documents, and secondary sources collected by Price Kirkpatrick and related to the “real” birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Material speculates that Lincoln could have been born in Monroe or Cumberland counties in Kentucky.
Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only Manuscripts Collection 505. Correspondence, business and estate papers, deeds and miscellaneous records of the Alexander, Fontaine, Lucas, Graham and associated families, principally of Henry County, Virginia; Cumberland, Metcalfe and Warren counties in Kentucky; and Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Includes letters of Martha (Lucas) Graham written from Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 492. Correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, audiotapes, film and miscellaneous material relating primarily to the political career of Democrat Frank L. Chelf, who represented Kentucky’s Fourth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1944-1966. Includes Chelf’s voting record and bills, research and speeches related to his legislative interests.
Vanbuskirk, Michael Henry, 1840-1905 (Sc 1383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vanbuskirk, Michael Henry, 1840-1905 (Sc 1383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1383. Diary, 1862-1864, kept by Michael H. VanBuskirk, while serving with Co. F, 27th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteers. He was taken prisoner in Virginia on 25 May 1862, and released on 13 September 1862. He gives a good description of military life. Also includes an 1862 letter written in rhyme to his parents (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
Parker Family Papers (Mss 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parker Family Papers (Mss 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 118. A wide array of materials, chiefly correspondence, of the Liddell and Spencer families of Alabama and the Parker family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Of particular interest are Civil War letters written to Mary E. “Mollie” Liddell, items related to Howard College and Judson Institute in Marion, Alabama, letters to Lorena Parker from a missionary in Ethiopia, and a letter mentioning Texas politics in 1860.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 1223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1223. Civil War certificate signed by President Abraham Lincoln appointing Herbert M. Enos to the position of First Lieutenant in the regiment of mounted riflemen.
Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 477. Civil war diaries (1864-1865), service and pension records of James Pleasant Haynes of Warren County, Kentucky, who served with the 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.
Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Sc 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 666. Facsimiles of outgoing letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1848-1865; marriage license of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, 1842; speeches and notes of or pertaining to Lincoln, 1835-1873, including program for dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 1863. Explanatory information appears on the reverse of the letters.
Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Correspondence, deeds, legal and other personal papers of the Edmunds family of North Carolina and Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data and papers of associated families, primarily the Cameron family of North Carolina.
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 818), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 818), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 818. Facsimile of proclamation issued by Governor Thomas Elliott Bramlette to the people of Kentucky, to observe 4 May 1865 as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer because of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 427. Correspondence, photographs, and business and personal papers, primarily of Robert Rodes, Sr. of Danville, Kentucky, and John Barret Rodes of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robert Rodes's correspondence includes letters outlining his fear of an invasion of Bowling Green by Confederate forces, 1861 (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts). Also includes material related to Rodes ancestors and descendants, as well as to members of the Grider, Hines, Helm, Loving and associated families.