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Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 54. Copy of deed, 22 December 1862, conveying land in Warren County, Kentucky, from George [sic] Ann Davenport, William Davenport and Mary Benton to Henrietta Benton as part of a division of lands under the will of James Ford.


Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Whitaker, Matilda Lucretia, 1841-1892 (Mss 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 434. Photocopies of the Civil War diaries of Matilda Lucretia Whitaker, Grove Spring, Logan County, Kentucky. Whitaker sympathized with the South and noted the activities of Confederate troops in Russellville. Poetry and songs are also included.


Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2012

Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring athletics.


Twitchell, Jacob Paul, 1909-1971 (Mss 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Twitchell, Jacob Paul, 1909-1971 (Mss 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 433. Correspondence, news clippings, photographs, and publications including prose and poetry of Jacob Paul Twitchell, a native of Paducah. Includes World War II correspondence with his wife, Camille, and letters to family, friends, as well as with editors and publishers.


Breckinridge Family Correspondence (Sc 46), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Breckinridge Family Correspondence (Sc 46), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 46. Photostats of correspondence of John and Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Lexington, Kentucky, with Thomas Jefferson, 1793-1821 (29 items); a letter to James Monroe, 1804, and correspondence containing comments on the Revolution in Virginia, 1781 (1), and on activities at the Breckinridge’s farm, Cabell’s Dale. Also photocopy of published article based on the papers, 1968.


Hardin Family Papers (Sc 2626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Hardin Family Papers (Sc 2626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2626. Deeds, chiefly related to the W. O. Hardin farm in Meade County, Kentucky, and estate papers for W.O. Hardin; genealogical information for the Chandler, Hendrick, Campbell and Strother families; letters from Albert B. “Happy” Chandler to his Cousin Norman Henry Hardin related to family affairs; and letters (2) sent to William L. and Ann Lewis, Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky, in the 1840s by P.H. and Ann D.L. Hodges of Bloomfield, County, Kentucky.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2012

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - Basketball Preview, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2012

Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - Basketball Preview, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring athletics.


Thomas, James (Sc 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Thomas, James (Sc 41), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 41. Certificate of James Thomas, Steam Port, Kentucky, for one share of stock of the Henderson & Nashville Railroad Company, 1852, and current price sheet from Pickett’s New Tobacco Warehouse, Louisville, Kentucky, 1853.


Whitehouse, Austin (Sc 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Whitehouse, Austin (Sc 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 43. Deed of land in Boyle County, Kentucky, of Addison Minor and other heirs of William Minor, to Austin Whitehouse, 1856, and Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company tax receipt, Marion County, Kentucky, of Whitehouse, 1887. Also land rental agreement made by Milton Conder with Thomas Edwards and Wilber Sinkhorn (no place given), 1860.


Preserving Our Cemeteries_ Action Steps To Making It Happen.Jpg, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel Nov 2012

Preserving Our Cemeteries_ Action Steps To Making It Happen.Jpg, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications

This article resulted from attending Preservation Kentucky's "Our History Rests Here: Preservation and Restoration of Historic Cemeteries" workshop. As a member of the Warren County Cemetery Board, the author gives 15 practical steps for cemetery enthusiasts, property owners and family members. It informs its readers how to get in touch with the author and encourages local citizens to get involved.


Wallingford, Hiram L., 1811-1888 (Sc 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Wallingford, Hiram L., 1811-1888 (Sc 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 44. Bill of sale for a slave girl named Emily, who was sold for $1000 to P. S. Dudley by Hiram Wallingford, Fleming County, Kentucky, and a letter concerning the bill of sale, 1951.


Landmark Report (Vol. 30, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections Nov 2012

Landmark Report (Vol. 30, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.


Guthrie, James, 1792-1869 (Sc 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2012

Guthrie, James, 1792-1869 (Sc 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 42. An application which was made to James Guthrie, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, by A. Gelin & Co., for admittance of merchandise imported from Havre on the ship “Mercury” that was approved and signed by Guthrie and Redfield, Collector of Customs, New York.


Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 426. Correspondence and genealogical research collected by Marietta Mansfield, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, and a Methodist minister that served various churches in Kentucky. The bulk of the collection relates to the Mansfield and Osborn(e) families of Kentucky and West Virginia. Includes letters written by Mansfield while serving as a missionary in India during the 1950s. Click on "Additional Files" below for various Mansfield notes on her hospitalization in India after she contracted polio.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2012

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Tevis, Henry Lloyd, 1820-1853 (Sc 2642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Tevis, Henry Lloyd, 1820-1853 (Sc 2642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2642. Letter of Henry Lloyd Tevis, Fayette County, Kentucky, 11 January 1849, to Andrew Jackson Downing requesting a subscription to Downing’s magazine, The Horticulturist. Tevis praises the publication and its influence on his decision to move to a rural setting.


Cole, George P., B. 1829 (Sc 606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Cole, George P., B. 1829 (Sc 606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 606. Letter, 4 February 1883, of George P. Cole of Grant’s Lick, Campbell County, Kentucky, to the families of P. D. and J. R. Cole (probably brothers Peter D. Cole and James R. Cole). Family news, weather and crop conditions, and mention of smallpox raging in Newport are the main topics of the letter.


Stevenson Family Papers (Sc 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Stevenson Family Papers (Sc 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans, including two surveys (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 604. Legal papers including surveys, 1807, 1826 (2 items), deeds, (1871, 1874, 1896) (3), notes, etc., pertaining to land in Logan County, Kentucky.


Stahl Family Papers (Sc 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Stahl Family Papers (Sc 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 602. Civil War letters, 1861-1865 (5 items), pertaining to activities in Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas Territory; letters of the Stahl family of Warren County, Kentucky, 1861-1863 (2); Warren County tax receipts, 1865-1898 (10); deeds and legal papers pertaining to the Stahl family place, 1863-1954 (17); and letters concerning the collection, 1973 (2).


Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 607. Photocopies of Civil War papers of James Willis Wood of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, which include his enlistment papers, letters, 1864 (9 items), written while in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and his discharge papers, 1864.


Mcreynolds, John Vernon (Sc 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Mcreynolds, John Vernon (Sc 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 533. Excerpts from McReynolds family history written by Benjamin McReynolds, Methodist minister and school teacher, Butler County, Kentucky. Also, additions to the history by John Vernon McReynolds, Lewisburg, Logan County, Kentucky.


Fulkerson, David Lee (Sc 2641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Fulkerson, David Lee (Sc 2641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2641. Typescript genealogy titled “Kin Folks: A History of the Paris (Parris) Family of Grayson County, Kentucky,” by David Lee Fulkerson.


Hines Family Papers (Sc 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Hines Family Papers (Sc 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 523. Incoming letters, 1879-1899, to Edward Ludlow Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Civil War experiences of said Hines and James M. Hines as recorded by Edward Ludlow Hines; and reminiscences of Green River by John P. Hines, Bowling Green, as dictated to his wife in 1942.


Allen County, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Allen County, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 600. Advertisements of school sessions of Allen Male and Female College, Scottsville, Kentucky, 1888, and Literary and Business School, Stony Point School House, Allen County, 1891. Faculty, rates of tuition, subjects, etc., are listed.


Craig, Garland, 1883-1924 (Sc 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Craig, Garland, 1883-1924 (Sc 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 601. Letter written by Garland Craig, to his father, James H. Craig, Cave City, Arkansas, from Kodiakanal, India, which describes life in India where Craig was servings as a missionary. The Craigs were originally from Greenville, Kentucky.


Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan Presbytery - Kentucky (Mss 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan Presbytery - Kentucky (Mss 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Minute book of the Logan Presbytery, Kentucky, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 31 August 1813 to 10 October 1845 (bound typescript) with accompanying index, an original minute book from 2 October 1869 to 2 May 1887, and printed copies (2) of minutes which were not recorded in the book, 5 April 1878, and 14 May 1886.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2012

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


Murphy, William Burl, 1912-1984 (Mss 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Murphy, William Burl, 1912-1984 (Mss 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 424. Five World War II diaries written by William Burl Murphy of Monroe County, Kentucky, who served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945. The diaries contain details of military life surrounding the war in Europe, particularly Italy.


Paschal, Mabel Fayette (Thompson), 1905-1936 (Sc 2640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Paschal, Mabel Fayette (Thompson), 1905-1936 (Sc 2640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2640. Typescript copy of paper titled “Dr. John Milton Harney,” by Mrs. C. R. Paschal, written for a class at Western Kentucky State Teachers’ College. The paper gives details about Harney’s poetry, and includes a few excerpts.