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Turney, Michael (Lg 92), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Turney, Michael (Lg 92), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 92. Copy of land grant, 3 February 1818, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lt. Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Michael Turney, 25 acres in Warren County, Kentucky. Signed by Gabriel Slaughter.


Temple, Benjamin (Lg 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Temple, Benjamin (Lg 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 66. Original land grant, 31 March 1813, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Temple, assignee of Edward Rumsey, who was assignee of William Matthews, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.


Owen, Colvin Jacob (Sc 1270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Owen, Colvin Jacob (Sc 1270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1270. Research project done by WKU student Colvin Owen, Lexington, Kentucky, relating to the restoration needs of a Bowling Green, Kentucky house at 6487 Louisville Road known as “Rose Villa.”


Diddle, John A., 1863-1942 (Sc 1271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Diddle, John A., 1863-1942 (Sc 1271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection. General store account book, 1891, kept by John A. Diddle, Gradyville, Adair County, Kentucky. Also loose receipts, 1898-1903 of Diddle and J.J. Hunter, and photos of store, which was also a post office.


H-Diplo Roundtable On Paul Thomas Chamberlin. The Global Offensive: The United States, The Palestine Liberation Organization And The Making Of The Post-Cold War Order, Douglas Little, Jeffrey James Byrne, Craig Daigle, William B. Quandt, Brad Simpson, Paul Chamberlin 2014 Clark University

H-Diplo Roundtable On Paul Thomas Chamberlin. The Global Offensive: The United States, The Palestine Liberation Organization And The Making Of The Post-Cold War Order, Douglas Little, Jeffrey James Byrne, Craig Daigle, William B. Quandt, Brad Simpson, Paul Chamberlin

History Faculty Publications

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Hendricks, John (Lg 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Hendricks, John (Lg 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 57. Original land grant, 28 September 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to the heirs of John Hendricks 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.


Perkins, William (Lg 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Perkins, William (Lg 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 60. Original land grant, 7 October 1812, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Perkins, assignee of Adam Douglass, 50 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.


Mccombs, Jesse (Lg 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Mccombs, Jesse (Lg 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 59. Original land grant, 11 December 1812, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Jesse McCombs, assignee of Michael Finley, 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky


Mitchell, Asa T. (Lg 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Mitchell, Asa T. (Lg 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 58. Original land grant, 17 October 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Asa T. Mitchell, assignee of John King, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.


Good, Robert (Lg 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Good, Robert (Lg 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 56. Original land grant, 24 December 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Good, assignee of James Ligget, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.


Revivals - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Revivals - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1232. Instructional letter sent to crusade choir members that planned to participate in Celebration ’97, a Ralph Bell/Billy Graham Crusade in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (Sc 1231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (Sc 1231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1231. Certificate, 28 May 1902, appointing W. Lawrence Hazard to be notary public for the District of Columbia. Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt.


Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1233. Letters written to Elizabeth Coombs, of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, answering her inquiries about the Bowling Green Academy, a school for African Americans sponsored by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.


French, Heather Renee, B. 1974 (Sc 2804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

French, Heather Renee, B. 1974 (Sc 2804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2804. Letter of Heather R. French, Miss America 2000, to a Mr. Leeds, expressing concern for his son Danny and responding to his request to send something to the boy. The letter was written after French had completed her term as Miss America.


Hughes, George Henry, 1843-1916 (Sc 1220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Hughes, George Henry, 1843-1916 (Sc 1220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1220. Civil War letters written to his future wife Sarah Catherine Prose by George Henry Hughes, while he was serving with an Ohio infantry regiment. He describes military life and battles, particularly in Tennessee and Alabama.


Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Roberts, Edwin T., 1920-1998 (Sc 1229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1229. Legal papers removed from genealogy notebooks compiled by Edwin T. Roberts, including a Mississippi deed, 1867, and documents relating to Richardella Ragland’s estate, partially in Warren County, Kentucky.


Myers, Jacob (Lg 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Myers, Jacob (Lg 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 54. Original land grant, 2 February 1785, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Jacob Myers, 3,000 acres in Jefferson County, Virginia.


Vertrees, John (Lg 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Vertrees, John (Lg 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 53. Original land grant, 2 December 1785, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to John Vertrees, 400 acres in Jefferson County on Cave Creek.


Moody, Guy Chester, 1881-1898 (Sc 1310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Moody, Guy Chester, 1881-1898 (Sc 1310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1310. Condolence letter to Guy Moody’s parents and manuscript memorial certificate with photograph of Moody, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes photocopies of carved inscriptions on wooden pointer (or cane) that were done by Guy in 1897, and of other memorials written about Moody.


Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787-1863 (Sc 1302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Crittenden, John Jordan, 1787-1863 (Sc 1302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 1302. Letter written by John Jordan Crittenden, U.S. Senate, to Hon. A. Beatty, evidently of Rhode Island, in response to Beatty's concern about the impeding tariff legislation.


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