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Porter Et Al. V. Mccormack Et Al. - Warren Circuit Court (Sc 3717), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3717. Case file for L.R. Porter and Lizzie Porter v J. N. McCormack, John H. Blackburn, Henry James and Tom Potter (Warren County, Kentucky Circuit Court) relating to a restraining order secured by Luther R. Porter of Bowling Green to block the removal of his smallpox-infected daughter and the rest of the family to the local pest house. Includes affidavits of physicians, public health officials and locals familiar with the pest house. The restraining order was subsequently lifted by a Louisville judge. Also includes a 1902 Courier-Journal …

Johnson, John T., 1820-1875 (Sc 3699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3699. Case file for T. T. Melburn v. John T. Johnson, U.S. District Court for the District of Kentucky, filed 26 May 1870. Petitioner Melburn, a carpenter and stair builder of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sought an accounting for transactions during his 1869-1870 partnership with Johnson, also a carpenter, of Woodburn, Kentucky, claiming that Johnson had misappropriated assets of the firm and had committed an act of insolvency by transferring land to a relative. The inquiry, conducted by Warner Underwood as Register in Bankruptcy, included depositions from …

Logan, Leland Hallowell, 1905-1980 (Mss 744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 744. Correspondence and papers of Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney Leland H. Logan. Includes some personal material regarding his law practice and draft status, diaries for 1944 and 1945, and a small group of files representing his legal work, especially for the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation.

Loving, Hector Voltaire, 1839-1913 (Sc 3123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3123. Letter, 31 July 1862, of Hector V. Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Harlan P. Lloyd, Angelica, New York. He tells his former schoolmate of his law study and practice since graduation from New York’s Hamilton College, and particularly describes the uproar in his home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War: secessionist “treason,” the Confederate occupation, and the rebuilding of the city afterward. He also refers to their classmate and law student Daniel Webster Wright as a “violent” secessionist.

Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Mss 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 539. This small collection contains material related to legislative matters of interest to Kentucky legislator and jurist Walter A. Baker, Glasgow, Kentucky. Also includes files about several trips abroad and family material.

Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2850. Resolution of sympathy of a committee of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of James P. Bates on 30 November 1877. Includes a sketch of Bates’s life.

Beauchamp, Hiram Jett, 1833-1881 - Relating To (Sc 2849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2849. Resolution of sympathy, 5 January 1881, by officers and members of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of Hiram J. Beauchamp on 1 January 1881. Includes a sketch of Beauchamp’s life.

Skiles, Henry Hamilton, 1832-1889 (Sc 2688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2688. Correspondence and other professional papers of Henry Hamilton Skiles, an attorney of Warren County, Kentucky, relating mainly to Civil War claims, courts martial, and applications for release of prisoners of war. Other letters relate to an impressment of a slave to work on the fortifications at Bowling Green, Kentucky, a slave’s travel in Kentucky with a Michigan regiment, and compensation claims for the loss of slaves in Warren County, Kentucky.

Bowling Green Railway Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 703. Records from Warren County Circuit Court Case #2043 pertaining to a lawsuit filed against the Bowling Green Railway Company after a thirteen-year-old boy, Herman Lewis, died on 31 October 1910 when a street railway car ran over him.

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Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 343. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records and sundry other documents related to Eugene Scott Brown and his father-in-law, Gilbert Marshall Mulligan, attorneys of Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Also includes stray Allen County court records, research notes related to the Civil War, and records about early telephone service in Allen County.

Ua5/1 University Attorney - Property File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Unprocessed property files created by the University Attorney. This record group is unprocessed and must be reviewed for potential restricted materials before access is granted. Please contact the University Archivist prior to your visit.

Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 219. This collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Moore, Mulligan, Brown and Johns families, who are interrelated. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters and events occurring in Trigg County, Kentucky and Allen County, Kentucky.

Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1334. Lawyers' combined collection record book and docket book kept by the law firm of Hines and Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Compilation Of Smith's Index To Littell's Laws Of Kentucky Which Relate To Barren County And Selected Areas, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Abstracted information from A COMPLETE INDEX TO THE NAMES OF PERSONS, PLACES AND SUBJECTS MENTIONED IN LITTELL'S LAWS OF KENTUCKY A GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL GUIDE PREPARED BY W. T. SMITH that includes personal acts approved by the state of Kentucky with information from the following sessions relating to Barren, Monroe, Cumberland, Allen and Warren Counties: 1792 June Session 1 59-114 1792 November Session 1 115-172 1793 November Session 1 173-221 1794 November Session 1 222-274 1795 November Session 1 275-360 1796 November Session 1 361-604 1797 February Session 1 605-696 1797 November Session 1 697-698 1798 January Session 2 1-183 …