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Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 2230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 2230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2230. Letter, 2 April 1940, from Moore to C.H. Davidson, Jr., an attorney in Lexington, Virginia, setting out information known about early Bowling Green, Kentucky citizens and brothers Robert and George Moore, and asking for his help in conducting more research into their backgrounds and families.
Burnette, Isaac, Sr., 1801-1865 (Sc 2239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burnette, Isaac, Sr., 1801-1865 (Sc 2239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2239. Letter, 20 February 1835, from Isaac Burnett, Sr., a Trigg County, Kentucky physician, written from Frankfort, Kentucky to his wife Martha in Cadiz, Kentucky, while Burnett was serving in the General Assembly. He apologizes for an earlier, unkind letter and expresses his wish to see her and their children.
Mullin, Marsha A. (Sc 2238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mullin, Marsha A. (Sc 2238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2238. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER No. KY-18) for Mammoth Cave Saltpetre Works, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Marsha A. Mullin, Project Historian. Includes historical narrative, bibliography, and diagrams.
Moyer, Henry S., 1850-1930 (Sc 2236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moyer, Henry S., 1850-1930 (Sc 2236), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2236. Letter, 10 August 1896, from Moyer, Allentown, Pennsylvania, to his cousin Jacob Y. Moyer. He describes photographs (not included, sent under separate cover) of ancestral properties in Pennsylvania and gives some associated family history.
Goodson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Metcalfe County, Kentucky (Sc 1301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Metcalfe County, Kentucky (Sc 1301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1301. Membership lists of Goodson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. The church was later known as Summer Shade Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Cook, Paul Burton, B. 1933 (Sc 2228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cook, Paul Burton, B. 1933 (Sc 2228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2228. Correspondence, minutes and programs relating to Cook’s service on the Bowling Green-Warren County Hospital Commission Advisory Board and the board of the Bowling Green Free Enterprise Foundation, Inc. The materials concern the relocation of the hospital and the organization of the Free Enterprise Fair, an event sponsored jointly by Western Kentucky University and the Bowling Green-Warren County Chamber of Commerce. Includes a copy of the articles of incorporation of the Bowling Green Free Enterprise Foundation, Inc.
Anderson, Rhoda (Sc 2225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Anderson, Rhoda (Sc 2225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text holographic letter and typescript (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2225. Letter from Rhoda (Oliver) Anderson in Lexington, Kentucky, to her nephew Joseph O. Boggs, Spencer, Indiana. She writes of the pastors and converts involved in a four-day religious revival in the city, gives news of family and friends, and comments on the state gubernatorial election.
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Sc 2227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Sc 2227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2227. Letters from Guy Hess Herdman, Kentucky Attorney General's Office, to Robert L. Brashear, Bowling Green, Kentucky, summarizing legislation relating to the Louisville & Nashville Turnpike, including its original width.
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 316. Session books of the Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes session minutes and membership lists. An index of all members from 1819-1888 includes members of Bowling Green Cumberland Presbyterian Church from 1866-1884.
Dempsey, Joetta (Dorris), B. 1945 - Collector (Mss 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dempsey, Joetta (Dorris), B. 1945 - Collector (Mss 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 314. Materials collected by Dempsey related to the Kennerly and Simmons families of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Includes news clippings about the history of Dunmor and Penrod, Kentucky; genealogical information about the Kennerly, Penrod, Studebaker families; and photographs of the Kennerly family.
Tolle Family Papers (Sc 2211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Family Papers (Sc 2211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2211. Genealogical information related to the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes copies of Roger Tolle’s 1778 Fauquier County, Virginia will, William Tolle’s journal of his overland trip from Barren County to Clay County, Missouri in 1834, and an 1864 letter from William Mansfield serving with the 21st Kentucky Infantry (Union) to his wife Elizabeth (Tolle) Mansfield.
Page, Benjamin H., 1859-1916 - Letter To (Sc 2223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Page, Benjamin H., 1859-1916 - Letter To (Sc 2223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2223. Letter to Benjamin H. Page, in Mud Lick, Monroe County, Kentucky, from Lou Ann Nichols, Randolph, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. She discusses their individual living and economic situations in the absence of any firm decision to marry, and asks him to keep her letters confidential.
Ground Family - Deeds, 1800-1920 (Sc 2221), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ground Family - Deeds, 1800-1920 (Sc 2221), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2221. Deeds, chiefly for property owned by the Ground and Lowery families of Kentucky. Most the later deeds are for property owned by Robert Ground in Warren County, Kentucky.
Thomas-Stiles Families (Sc 2208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas-Stiles Families (Sc 2208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2208. Letters (1851-1946) of the Thomas and Stiles families of Nelson County and McLean County, Kentucky. They write of family news, illnesses and deaths, farm matters and local Civil War-related incidents, including guerrilla activity and the emancipation of their slaves. Includes a deed of gift for slaves. Also includes typescripts of the documents by John B. Thomas, Jr. with notes, annotations, maps, and other background information relating to the content and writers of the letters.
That Other Club, 1966-2010 (Sc 2222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
That Other Club, 1966-2010 (Sc 2222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2222. Minutes, brief history by James D. Harris, Jr., and sundry correspondence related to That Other Club, a men's literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1966. Minutes are brief and generally include those in attendance and the program topic.
Page, J. C. (Sc 2224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Page, J. C. (Sc 2224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2224. Letter, 15 April 1928, to J. C. Page, in Bloomington, Indiana, from Raymond Propes, Glasgow, Kentucky. He writes of work and of his interest in a young lady, and asks to be sent some "cowboy books."
Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Sc 2213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Sc 2213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2213. Letter, 15 December 1975, from Anne Pence Davis to Dorothy Edwards Townsend responding to her request for biographical material, probably for inclusion in Kentucky in American Letters, vol. III, 1913-1975. Includes two news clippings about Davis' novel The Top Hand of Lone Tree Ranch.
Toomey, Lawrence Otto, 1903-1992 (Sc 2212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Toomey, Lawrence Otto, 1903-1992 (Sc 2212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2212. Lawrence Otto Toomey's memoir titled "Duty in the Medical Corps Reserves, May 11, 1942-January 30, 1966," dealing chiefly with his service in the Pacific during World War II. Also includes a copy of his obituary.
Thompson, John Quincy, 1831-1927 (Sc 2209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thompson, John Quincy, 1831-1927 (Sc 2209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan, and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2209. Letter, 9 June 1924, from J. Q. Thompson, Troy, Texas, to Hattie B. Hale, Nashville, Arkansas. He relates the names of several officers and volunteers in an Arkansas Civil War regiment organized in 1862 and in which he and Dr. Andrew Hale served.
Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 2215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tyler, Sara Elizabeth, 1910-2001 (Sc 2215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2215. Paper: "Pleasant J. Potter College for Young Ladies" written for a journalism class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College; also a reminiscence about Bowling Green's First Christian Church as well as Tyler's obituary.
United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Louisville, Kentucky (Mss 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
United Daughters Of The Confederacy - Louisville, Kentucky (Mss 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 315. Minute book and membership roster of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Louisville, Kentucky, 18 June 1897 to 9 May 1899.
Thornton, Theresa Boyd (Sc 2210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thornton, Theresa Boyd (Sc 2210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2210. Paper: "A Church of Their Own", a history of Cecilia Memorial Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes a photograph of the church and notes from Thornton's interviews.
Traughber, John, 1793-1867 - Letters To (Sc 2214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Traughber, John, 1793-1867 - Letters To (Sc 2214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2214. Three letters from family members in Lincoln County, North Carolina to John Traughber and his wife in Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. The writers discuss the health of family members, crop prices, the discovery of gold, and, in a 17 March 1861 letter, the possibility of war.
Ground Family Graveyard - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ground Family Graveyard - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2203. Record book listing burials of Ground and related family members in Ground family graveyard, Three Forks, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes diagram of graveyard and genealogical material about those buried within.
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2206. Correspondence relating to the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green, Kentucky dressmaking firm. Includes letters from customers and a measurement questionnaire. A letter by an unidentified writer recommends the wages paid by Mrs. Taylor. Includes transcriptions of the letters made by Western Kentucky University student Theresa L. Jureka for her 1983 thesis on Taylor, and one unrelated letter from a father to his son.
Tate, W. (Sc 2204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tate, W. (Sc 2204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2204. Letter, 15 December 1809, from W. Tate of Abingdon, Virginia, to Ignatius Hazel, Greensburg, Kentucky. He instructs Hazel on the terms and conditions for negotiating the sale of his books.
Christ Episcopal Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Christ Episcopal Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2219. Records of Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes lists of members 1867-1914, baptisms 1861-1917, confirmations 1861-1919, marriages and burials 1864-1919. Also includes lists of Russellville members 1880-1886, baptisms 1873-1885, confirmations 1876-1886, and deaths 1877-1885; and lists of Glasgow members 1880, 1893, confirmations and baptisms 1890-1899. Also includes historical notes and extracts from church convention proceedings 1831-1859 that relate to the Bowling Green church.
Trinity Episcopal Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trinity Episcopal Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2220. Record book of Trinity Episcopal Church, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes lists of baptisms 1882-1909, confirmations 1876-1909, marriages 1868-1910, deaths 1877-1908, and parishioners 1886-1896. Also includes annual reports 1885-1902, and miscellaneous financial and statistical information 1889-1903.
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2205. Payroll book of the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green dressmaking firm, listing names of employees, number of days worked per week, and pay rates. Includes a 1992 letter advising of the death of the donor of the book.
Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 2218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 2218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2218. Church register of Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes register of pastors, baptisms and members. Also includes minutes of Church Conference of Chapel Hill, 1924-1925.