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Graham, Edward J., 1869-1953 (Sc 2338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Graham, Edward J., 1869-1953 (Sc 2338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2338. Five-year diary of Edward J. Graham, of Warren County and McLean County, Kentucky, containing notes of events, biographical information, and family data. Includes Graham's obituary.
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2329. Ten letters of Joseph Rogers Underwood to Thomas S. Jesup regarding his management of Jesup's land holdings in Kentucky and Jesup's involvement in the Second Seminole War in Florida; also one letter (1853) to John M. Clayton regarding Congressional matters. The originals are held in the Library of Congress.
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2328. Typescript of a diary kept by Joseph Rogers Underwood, 1834-1850, in which he records everyday occurrences at home in Bowling Green, Kentucky and in Washington, D.C., where he served in the U.S. House of Representatives,1835-1843, and the U.S. Senate, 1847-1853. Interspersed throughout are comments by his second wife, Elizabeth (Cox) Underwood. Also includes a document containing information about Thomas Rogers and an “Account of the Escape of Prisoners from Fort Warren, Boston Harbor” written by Douglas Gordon.
Van Meter, Jacob, 1788-1874 (Sc 2333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Van Meter, Jacob, 1788-1874 (Sc 2333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2333. Report of commissioners to Warren Circuit Court, Warren County, Kentucky, regarding the division of lands of Jacob Van Meter, deceased, among his heirs. Includes description and sketches of lands, but does not name the heirs.
Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 2331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2331. Letter written by John Cox Underwood, Chicago, Illinois, as a representative of the United Confederate Veterans, to Bertha Honore Palmer, Chicago, Illinois, asking her to receive Varina Howell Davis and her daughter Winnie during the Columbian Exposition. He asked that they be showed "such courtesies as they would naturally receive in London or Paris or any other large city."
Sumpter, Virginia Carter (Ward), 1866-1933 (Sc 2335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, Virginia Carter (Ward), 1866-1933 (Sc 2335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2335. Paper: "[Warren County, Kentucky History]" written by Virginia Carter (Ward) Sumpter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for a literary club program.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 225. Correspondence, chiefly of the Covington family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, particularly that of Dr. Albert G. and Josephine (Wells) Covington. Also includes reference letters written to Jane (Hines) Morningstar about local history topics, including steamboats and the Hobson House Association.
Strehl, Oscar, 1889-1956 (Sc 2325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strehl, Oscar, 1889-1956 (Sc 2325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2325. Letter, 11 July 1929, of Reverend Oscar Strehl, written to Mary K. Vogel, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Rome, Italy about his activities and travel. The letter also describes the activities of Pope Pius XI, including his expected emergence from the Vatican following recognition of his sovereignty, and his sympathy for the poor.
Strange, Tubal Early, 1795-1848 (Sc 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange, Tubal Early, 1795-1848 (Sc 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 322. Master Mason certificate of Tubal Early Strange, issued by Lodge No. 76, Greensboro, North Carolina. Inlcudes notations regarding dues payment and Strange's departure from the city. Also includes notes on the Strange family.
Pearl, Dorothy K. (Waite), 1896-1991 (Sc 2324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearl, Dorothy K. (Waite), 1896-1991 (Sc 2324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2324. Letter, 10 October 1961, with enclosures from Dorothy W. Pearl, Washington, D.C. to Sarah Richardson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing civil preparedness in the event of an atomic bomb explosion.
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2310. Sundry papers, including letters written by Albert L. Stevens from a military hospital in Russellville, Kentucky, to his brother William J. Stevens during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans and typescripts). The bulk of the collection consists of deeds and indentures of various Stevens family members, particularly William J., Robert W., and William W. Stevens of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes fifty Bowling Green, Kentucky city operational licenses for the Broadway Roller Mills, 1923-1974.
Rorie, Wendell H. (Sc 2322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rorie, Wendell H. (Sc 2322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2322. Paper by Wendell H. Rorie titled "The Diary: My Legal Journey with Herman Southall" and presented to the Athenaeum Society in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The paper describes Rorie's personal and professional relationship with Southall, a Hopkinsville attorney, and includes anecdotes about other local attorneys and legal matters.
Mcchord, William Caldwell, 1850-1928 (Sc 2323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcchord, William Caldwell, 1850-1928 (Sc 2323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
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
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
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
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
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
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 1821-1896 (Sc 2300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
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
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
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.
Smith, Rebecca M. (Sc 2304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Rebecca M. (Sc 2304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2304. Paper by Rebecca M. Smith, “Informational Outline of Simpson County Schools,” written for a Kentucky History class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. The paper includes data on various nineteenth-century educational institutions in the county.