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Mcchord, William Caldwell, 1850-1928 (Sc 2323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2323. Paper by William Caldwell McChord titled "Memoirs of William Caldwell McChord, Springfield, Kentucky." The paper details McChord's upbringing, education, experience in the Civil War, and legal and political career in Washington County, Kentucky. Includes an account of the claim that Washington County was Abraham Lincoln's true birthplace. Also includes genealogical information on the McChords and related families.

The Struggle To Transcend Differences And Conflicts Among Early American Jewry, Eli Faber

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Exploration of two contrary tendencies among colonial American Jews to achieve consensus within their religious fellowship. In one case, they relied upon European precedent by attempting to recreate the kehilla in America, while in the other they rejected European precedents that forbade commonality among Ashkenazim and Sepharadim. The outcome was a new kind of community: the voluntary one.

This presentation is for the following text(s):

• Minute Book of the Congregation Shearith Israel in New York (1730-1760)

Interview With Opal Cline Crabb Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Opal Cline Crabb conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Crabb discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County, Kentucky, education, her teaching experience in a one-room school, food preservation at home including hog butchering and meat processing, the introduction of radios and televisions, the Green River and steamboats.

World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 330. Letters written to parents, friends, faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University by students during their service in Word War II. Includes some press releases, newspaper articles and photos. Also includes a history and travel log of the USS Stevens.

Underwood Family Papers, 1878-1980 (Sc 2327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2327. Certificate for the 1878 marriage of Mary Underwood and Samuel Poyntz; 1880 letter to Mary Underwood Poyntz, Maysville, Kentucky, from her mother Lucy Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Underwood family history compiled by Frances Underwood Grider (39 pp.); Lee family genealogy (4 pp.); also includes miscellaneous correspondence and genealogical notes.

Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2299. Chiefly incoming letters which concern an estate settlement for Abraham Smith and family news. Civil War-era letters written by William Riley Smith (Click on "Additional Files" below) contain comments about the war and contain expressions of his attitudes toward African Americans. Also includes a church letter of transfer for Furman Smith and his wife and a small amount of genealogical information about the Smith family.

Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys (Sc 2321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2321. Memorandum, 22 June 1866, of Johnson & Hardin, Attorneys, explaining the procedure for bringing an indictment against three men for "outrages committed on persons of color" in Nelson County, Kentucky.

Summers, Hollis Spurgeon, 1916-1987 (Sc 2316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Mansuscripts Small Collection 2316. Letters from Hollis Spurgeon Summers and his wife, Laura, in Athens, Ohio, to Jefferson Caskey, a professor in the Department of Library Science at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green. The letters mention Summers' work, health, and a forthcoming sabbatical, and discuss arrangements for a speaking engagement in Bowling Green. Includes a program for two lectures Summers delivered in Bowling Green on 18 October 1979, and Christmas greetings.

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.

Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2302. Chiefly letters from Barnett Smith, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Alabama to his mother in Hadley, Warren County, Kentucky, 1898. He describes his military training and ponders being shipped to Cuba. Also includes (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) an 1865 letter from Union soldier James W. Howard of Butler County, Kentucky, Howard’s discharge certificate, an 1863 slavery bill of sale, and an 1873 receipt for a coffin.

Stewart, J. A. (Sc 2311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2311. Partial enrollment and grade book kept by teacher [J.A. Stewart] from October 1895 to February 1896. Item found in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky.

Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2318. Chemistry notebook of Ward Cullin Sumpter, probably kept about 1930 while he was a doctoral student at Yale University. Includes other miscellaneous documents: a tribute to a church's departing pastor, a draft petition in support of an anti-cigarette law, and a poem relating to the 1928 presidential election.

Stith, Mary Emma, 1892-1979 (Sc 2312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2312. Photocopy of household furnishings inventory done by Mary Emma Stith when she resided at 533 East Main Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2308. Brief World War I letters from Wilson Sprowl to family members in Monroe County, Kentucky while he was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky and Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan. Also, a welcoming letter from King George V to American troops, and a billet for a bunk on the U.S.S. Florida that includes instructions for troop conduct.

Snell, Commodore Perry, 1821-1881 (Sc 2307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2307. Divorce decree for Commodore Perry Snell and Ellen A. Snell, granted 13 February 1866 in Warren County, Kentucky. The certified copy was made from Warren Circuit Court Record Book 23.

Interview With Alice Triplett (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Alice Triplett conducted by Genie Sullivan for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Triplett discusses her life and times, including information about her life in Ohio County, Kentucky, and her teaching experience. The original tape does not have good sound quality, thus the transcription is spotty.

Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 1821-1896 (Sc 2300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2300. Book flyleaf inscribed by Gustavus Woodson Smith, a major-general in the Confederate Army, to Clarence Clough Buel, an editor and writer. Includes photo of Smith and biographical information.

Summers, Hollis Spurgeon, 1916-1987 (Sc 2317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2317. Letter from Hollis Spurgeon Summers, in Athens, Ohio to Charles and Vera Guthrie, Bowling Green, Kentucky, expressing appreciation for hosting him during a recent visit to Bowling Green.

Smith, Harriett (Sc 2301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2301. Master Commissioner's deed of lands in Warren County, Kentucky, conveyed on behalf of Junius Frances Jones, J. W. Petty and M.A. Petty to Lanes Hendrick and William Hendrick pursuant to an order of partition of the lands of Betsy Lancaster made in the case of Harriett Smith, et al. v. W. B. Smith, et al.

Cooke, Bess Miller, 1889-1977 (Sc 2305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2305. Paper: "The History of Smiths Grove Baptist Church, 1812-1972" by Bess Miller Cooke. Includes typewritten and handwritten drafts.