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Forgy, James Newton, Sr., 1825-1923 (Sc 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Forgy, James Newton, Sr., 1825-1923 (Sc 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 123. Business papers, 1852-1919 (103 items), mainly receipts and chiefly of James Newton Forgy, Sr., a blacksmith of Butler County, Kentucky; a few family letters, primarily from his son, Thomas Jefferson Forgy, a Church of Christ minister of Texas, 1881-1899 (5); and Forgy biographical material.


Holcomb Family Papers (Sc 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Holcomb Family Papers (Sc 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 122. Receipts, promissory notes and other business papers, 1825-1867, of the Holcomb family, Caswell County, North Carolina and Butler County, Kentucky. Also notice for sale of slaves and items about slave trade in North Carolina, 1841-1845.


Walker Family Papers (Sc 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Walker Family Papers (Sc 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 158. Papers relating to U. S. Representative David Walker (1763-1820) of Logan County, Kentucky, including partial text of speeches, ca. 1804-1809 (3); 1816 broadside regarding his candidacy for Congress; plat of land on Drakes Creek in Allen County, Kentucky; and excerpts from published biographical sketches. Also includes wills of John, James and Lucy Hawkins, 1778-1835; Walker genealogy chart; published biographical sketches of Walker family members; and correspondence with Walker’s descendant concerning the papers, 1942-1953.


Hays, L. M. (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hays, L. M. (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 120. Slave bill of sale, 1822, and incoming letters, 1852, 1854 (2), of the Allen family of Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky; and letter and receipts, 1829, 1845 (3), of the Mallory family of Warren County, Kentucky.


Fennell-Disher Collection (Mss 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Fennell-Disher Collection (Mss 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 362.  Letters of Mary Whitlock (Fennell) Disher, a teacher from Harrison County, Kentucky, and Isaac Clinton Disher, an engineer from Mason County, Kentucky, written in the 1930s during their courtship and marriage.  Includes typescripts with family data, photos and other illustrative information.  Also includes miscellaneous Fennell family correspondence.


Hardcastle, Paul (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hardcastle, Paul (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 119. Listing of notes owed to estate of Robert Craddock, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1837, and survey for Mordecai Cole for 1 1/2 acres of land in Warren County, Kentucky, 1905.


Slinker Family Papers (Sc 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Slinker Family Papers (Sc 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 157. Papers relating mainly to the Slinker family of Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Includes Metcalfe County deeds, 1868-1905 (8) and survey, 1871; tax receipt, 1870; and mortgage of livestock, 1875. Also includes Hart County survey, 1821; request for deposition, 1819; minutes of trial testimony, 1880; three letters, 1881-1903; and an undated declaration against aliens and Catholics.


Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1080. Letter, 19 December 1862, from John W. Cuppy, serving in Bowling Green with an Illinois regiment, to Dr. Samuel Wiley in Earlville, Illinois. Cuppy writes of his illness and describes conditions in Bowling Green, particularly respecting hospitals and patients. He also comments on Confederate sympathies in the city and troop readiness for an attack. Includes a summary of another letter by Cuppy to Wiley dated 19 September 1862 describing his regiment’s activities near Louisville.


Siddens Family Collection (Sc 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Siddens Family Collection (Sc 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 156. Allen County, Kentucky tax receipts, 1872-1925 (26), chiefly of the Siddens and Long families; Bowling Green, Kentucky tax receipts, 1910, 1919 (2); Cumberland & Ohio Railroad tax receipts, 1878, 1880 (3); and receipt for coffin, 1899.


Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 116. Papers of Bettie Hagerman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, City Food Chairman of the Red Cross of Warren County, Kentucky, which relate to an endeavor to raise $10,000 by combining with the Fair Association and serving food contributed by donors.


Eubank, Frank - Letters To (Sc 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Eubank, Frank - Letters To (Sc 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 115. Letters to Frank and Nancy Eubank, Temple Hill, Barren County, Kentucky, from various relatives which contain chiefly family news.


Lewis Family Papers (Sc 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Lewis Family Papers (Sc 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 155. Memorandum of Waller Lewis, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, itemizing property given periodically to his children and to be taken into account upon division of his estate, 1790-1817; letter written by Sam Hill, Fincastle, Virginia to his wife, Nancy in Henrico County, Virginia, while traveling, 1810.


Reynolds Family Papers (Sc 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Reynolds Family Papers (Sc 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 154. Legal documents relating to the Reynolds and Wolford families of Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in Virginia, including land lease, 1777; deeds of trust, 1842; agreements, 1843-1844; deed, 1844; power of attorney, 1853; and promissory notes, 1855. Also includes deed to land in Texas, 1876.


Gingles, Mabel (Mercer), 1891-1970 - Collector (Sc 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Gingles, Mabel (Mercer), 1891-1970 - Collector (Sc 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 114. Chiefly letters written by William Harris to his wife, Louranah Harris, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he details his experiences as a California Gold Rush adventurer, 1850-1852 (9 items); other letters describe Texas in 1855 and Civil War activities at Corinth, Mississippi, 1862. Also Bowling Green Home Telephone Company stock certificate, 1913.


Beckwith, Louise (Taylor), 1882-1959 (Sc 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Beckwith, Louise (Taylor), 1882-1959 (Sc 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 200. Letter, 10 September 1941, from Louise Beckwith, Pasadena, California, to Camilla Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating information about Beckwith's mother, Carrie (Burnam) Taylor, who had a well-known dress-making establishment in Bowling Green from 1878 until her death in 1917. Also includes copy of a 1914 newspaper article about Mrs. Taylor and her business.


Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 199. Copy of John Helm's appointment as an ensign in the Bedford County, Virginia militia. Signed, 17 November 1775, in Williamsburg, Virginia by members of the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.


Wright, George H. (Sc 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Wright, George H. (Sc 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 196. Oath of allegiance to the United States taken 12 June 1865 by Confederate soldier George H. Wright of McLean County, Kentucky, upon his release from the Union prison at Fort Delaware, Delaware.


Simpson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1820 (Sc 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Simpson County, Kentucky - Legal Papers, 1820 (Sc 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 197. Photocopy and typescript of agreement between Simpson County commissioners and Micajah Clark, Jr., Abraham North, and Micajah Clark, Sr. for the construction of a county clerk's office. The document provides specifications for the building, including location, dimensions, and materials.


Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 198. Copy of marriage bond issued to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks in Washington County, Kentucky, and the minister’s return of the marriage. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks are the parents of President Abraham Lincoln.


Fox, Henry J., 1812-1899 (Sc 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Fox, Henry J., 1812-1899 (Sc 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 113. A typed manuscript entitled "Recollections of Henry Fox, Aged 86" that was given orally by Fox, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to friends in 1898 and which chiefly pertains to the history of Bowling Green.


Long, Juliette Blanche (Underwood) Western, 1835-1909 (Mss 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Long, Juliette Blanche (Underwood) Western, 1835-1909 (Mss 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 361. “‘Betwixt,’ or A Story of the War, by a Kentucky Woman,” an unpublished memoir (290 pp.) by Bowling Green native Juliette Blanche (Underwood) Western Long of her experiences during the Civil War. The daughter of a Unionist family, Juliette married a supporter of the South who served in the Confederate Army.


Mcgoodwin, Henry Kerr, 1871-1927 (Sc 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Mcgoodwin, Henry Kerr, 1871-1927 (Sc 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 153. Letter to Florence Ragland from Henry Kerr McGoodwin, a Boston, Massachusetts architect and Bowling Green, Kentucky native, praising her and women in general. Includes a manuscript booklet compiled by McGoodwin consisting of verses of published sons with his remarks.


Maddox, Larry (Sc 2429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Maddox, Larry (Sc 2429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2429.  A typed manuscript titled "Walton's Creek Baptist Church" which is a history of that Ohio County, Kentucky church.  Includes footnotes and references.


Pulliam Collection (Sc 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Pulliam Collection (Sc 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 152. School tuition invoices to James D. Pulliam, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, 1865-1869; letter written on behalf of the Baptist Church in Petersburg, Illinois, 1867, regarding preacher Moses Akin's commerce in whiskey; and dry goods receipt, 1856.


Puckett, William - Collector (Sc 151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Puckett, William - Collector (Sc 151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 151. Deeds for land in Hart County, Kentucky, 1852, 1859 (2), and notary public commission of Thomas W. Cobb for Green and Hart Counites, signed by Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner, 1890. An image of the commission can be seen by clicking on "Additional Files" below.


Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 360.  Minutes and yearbooks of the Severance Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Baker, Samuel, 1812-1888 (Sc 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Baker, Samuel, 1812-1888 (Sc 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 195. Letters and certificates of Samuel Baker, a Baptist minister who came to America from England in 1834, eventually holding pastorates in Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, Indiana, and Illinois . He was instrumental in establishing Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, and Bethel Female College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The materials from the 18th century and early 19th century are facsimiles.


Calloway County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Calloway County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 150. Docket book, April 1831-August 1837; miscellaneous documents including promissory note, surety bond, receipts, and writs of execution, 1832-1837.


Murphy, Robert Lee, 1870-1942 - Collector (Sc 147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Murphy, Robert Lee, 1870-1942 - Collector (Sc 147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 147. Surveys for lands in Kentucky (Fayette, Jefferson and Kentucky County), 1780-1785; land entries, 1780-1783; and U.S. Circuit Court summons, 1822.


Page, Auguston Alvin, 1899-1981- Collector (Sc 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Page, Auguston Alvin, 1899-1981- Collector (Sc 149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 149. Papers evidently sent to the County Court Clerk, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Includes a letter from John C. Underwood regarding his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1874; a nominating certificate for John S. Rhea as Democratic candidate for Congress from Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District, 1898; a request for tobacco crop figures, 1898; letters and forms relating to delivery (1888) and printing (1898) of public documents; and statements relating to the free silver controversy, 1898.