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Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1678. Letter to Dr. A. S. Walker, Allen County, Kentucky, 9 November 1862, from Samuel James Read relating to military supplies during the Civil War.
Hunter, Whiteside Godfrey, 1841-1917 (Sc 1765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hunter, Whiteside Godfrey, 1841-1917 (Sc 1765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1765. Letters from Whiteside Godfrey Hunter, former state legislator and U.S. Congressman, to E. Scott Brown, attorney, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, requesting his support for Republican candidates. He also indicates he has requested Sidney P. Hardcastle be appointed postmaster at Settle, Allen County, Kentucky.
Moore Collection (Sc 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore Collection (Sc 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 37. Copy of the will of Samuel Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written 29 September 1846 and recorded 6 December 1850 in Hickman County Court, and an incomplete, undated and unsigned deed for land in Allen County, Kentucky, conveying land to David A. Porter by Robert Moore.
Courtship Letters (Sc 1704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Courtship Letters (Sc 1704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1704. Two 1910 letters to Lucy Ann Boucher of Settle, Allen County, Kentucky from two admirers. One is in answer to a personal ad.
Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1682. Three letters to Ford, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, from John H. Blue, Brunswick, Missouri, related to land owned there by ancestor John Bright, and a letter of information from Bright’s daughter in Texas. Also, the answer of defendants to a petition filed in Barren County, Kentucky Circuit Court by C. C. Stark, administrator of James Stark, disputing the value of three slaves stated to have been mortgaged to James Stark by Ford on 4 May 1865. With respect to one enslaved woman, the defendants claim …
Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1688. Four letters of dismissal in good standing for members from three Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky. Three of the letters are signed by minister Mordecai F. Ham.
Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 226. Chiefly courtship correspondence between Robert Yancy Price, Rockfield, Kentucky and his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Eva Dalton, Scottsville, Kentucky. Also includes information about Price's death and subsequent letters sent to Virginia by friends and family members.
Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1608. Deed for sale of Green Brackin's Allen County, Kentucky land to G.B. Woodcock, dated 30 August 1859.
Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 194. Scrapbooks (3) of manuscript music, chiefly gospel music, written and composed by Arlis Odell Harmon, of Allen County, Kentucky.
Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 9. Correspondence, diaries, receipts books, tax receipts, licenses receipts, church membership certificates, and miscellaneous receipts of John G. Durham, a Baptist minister of Warren County, Kentucky. Also legal papers of Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Correspondents include A. Broaddus, Samuel Howard Ford, George W. Robertson, and Orson Holland Morrow.