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Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Allen, James Lane, 1848-1925 (Sc 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files) below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 442. Letters from James Lane Allen, Atlantic City, New Jersey, summer 1906, and New York City, 30 September 1906, to cousin Helen inquiring as to the illness of her father, his uncle John, and expressing sorrow at his death.

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Perry, George Brown, 1854-1936 (Sc 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Perry, George Brown, 1854-1936 (Sc 448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 448. Letters from George Brown Perry, Waurika, Oklahoma, to H.F. Mount, Bowling Green, Kentucky, giving historical data of Lynnland College, Hardin County, Kentucky. His father, General William Flank Perry, was the first president of the college, 1867-1879, and George was the last president, 1912-1914.

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Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.

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Wininger, Charles Richard, 1912-2000 (Mss 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Wininger, Charles Richard, 1912-2000 (Mss 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 421. This collection contains War of 1812 correspondence between James A. Hall and his wife Prudence (Stockton) Hall (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans), as well as World War II correspondence between Charles and Novella (Tillery) Wininger, all of Barren County, Kentucky. Some letters with other correspondents, as well as family photos and genealogical information about the Hall, Stockton, and Wininger families is included.

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Weber, William (Sc 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Weber, William (Sc 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 439. Letter written by Civil War soldier, William Weber, Bardstown, Kentucky, to his brother, Martin Weber, Cincinnati, Ohio. Weber describes time spent in Louisville and their march to Bardstown. Also envelope with Civil War imprint.

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Henry, Jefferson, 1849-1927 (Sc 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Henry, Jefferson, 1849-1927 (Sc 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 440. Letter, from Jefferson Henry, Greensburg, Kentucky, to friend John, (place unknown), asking for the name of a company that employs James Dowdy.

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Murphey, G. N. (Sc 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Murphey, G. N. (Sc 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 441. Copy of application, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for a license to practice medicine in Kentucky.

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Burchfield, Alonzo R., 1854-1927 (Sc 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Burchfield, Alonzo R., 1854-1927 (Sc 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 436. Teacher’s certificate, 19 August 1880, Butler County, Kentucky, for second grade, second class, and two certificates for membership in the Woodbury Lodge, Butler County, 28 March 1896.

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Redmon, Chester Calvin, 1921-2012 (Mss 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Redmon, Chester Calvin, 1921-2012 (Mss 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 417. Items chiefly relating to the high schools that Chester Calvin Redmon served at as principal. This includes information about Hopkinsville (Kentucky) High School class reunions, Louisville Male High School, and Vine Grove (Kentucky) High School. Also includes diaries and miscellaneous material relating to Chester Calvin Redmon’s life.

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Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 379. Personal and family correspondence, papers, and genealogical research materials of Nora (Young) Ferguson, a native of Richardsville, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes original land, estate and guardianship records, and other early county records which Mrs. Ferguson was permitted to remove from the Warren County Courthouse for microfilming prior to its renovation in 1957. Click on "Additional Files" below to see receipts from the Warren County "Poor House."

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U.S. Circuit Courts - Kentucky District, Bowling Green (Sc 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

U.S. Circuit Courts - Kentucky District, Bowling Green (Sc 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 434. Warrant issued to the marshal to apprehend William Davis, Edmonson County, Kentucky, for engaging in illegal liquor traffic, and subpoena issued for two witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff. Signed by M.T. Roberts, Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States, Kentucky District.

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Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 431. Title bond to be used before 25 December 1873. Document explains that John Quincy Burnam, Warren County, Kentucky, sold about 202 acres of land to Thomas H. Gaines, Logan County, Kentucky.

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Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 430. Teacher’s certificate for Joseph T. Cherry, Warren County, Kentucky, issued for first class, first grade. Renewed 8 October 1880.

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Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Tolle Collection (Sc 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 432. Papers regarding the Patrons of Husbandry, Siloam Grange, Number 1372, Barren County, Kentucky, 1874-1875. Papers include applications and recommendations for membership, chiefly signed or approved by William Daniel Tolle, J. J. Pursley, J. Nichols, and C. G. Ellis.

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Barret, Thomas Lowry, 1878-1939 (Sc 2552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Barret, Thomas Lowry, 1878-1939 (Sc 2552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2552. Correspondence between Thomas L. Barret of Barret Boats Inc. and Jefferson County, Kentucky officials regarding the condition and sale of one of Barret's boats. The conversation turns to Barret's description of a previous owner of the boat as "a Jew." Subsequent correspondence relates to this comment.

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Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Davis, Samuel Thomas, 1838-1908 (Sc 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 626. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Samuel Thomas Davis of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was in the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. The journal relates his experiences in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama with the dates of his stay in Kentucky being 21 October 1861-28 February 1862 and 13 September 1862-23 October 1862 and described on pages 1-5 and 16-21.

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Carver, Gayle Raymond, 1913-2005 (Sc 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Carver, Gayle Raymond, 1913-2005 (Sc 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 634. Working copy of outline of “An Illustrated History of Kentucky” by Thomas Dionysius Clark, associate editor. The book was published in 1971 under the title, Kentucky: A Pictorial History. Penciled notes by Gayle Carver, curator of the Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 618. Record book of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Hartford Baptist Church of Ohio County, Kentucky, which contains the constitution, by-laws and amendments, treasurer’s records, lists of members, and minutes. Also includes letters from ministers’ wives, 1899, 1929 (2), and Sunday School lessons printed in Chinese, 1929 (2).

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First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 629. Associational letter sent by the First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to the Warren Association of Baptists, containing the following lists: representatives at council meeting, ministers, membership, officers, Sunday School records, and financial table.

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Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., 1886-1945 (Sc 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 628. Correspondence of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., of Munfordville, Kentucky, with Mary Leiper Moore, librarian of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, while he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II in Alaska and Okinawa.

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Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Ward, Williamson Dixon, 1841-1917 (Sc 627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 627. Photocopy of Civil War journal of Williamson Dixon Ward of Deer Creek, Indiana, who was in the 8th Indiana Cavalry Regiment, Company D. The journal relates his experiences of camp life in Indiana and Kentucky, with the majority of his time being spent in Kentucky – 22 September 1861 to 7 February 1862 and described on pages 8-60.

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Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 631. Photocopies of legal papers pertaining to lawsuit brought by Sally Boles in which she sought and obtained a divorce from her husband William, who united with the Shakers in 1808 and left her and their three children to join the Shaker settlement at South Union, Kentucky, in 1811. The case was first tried in Logan County, then in Barren County.

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Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 644. Photocopies of notes compiled by Milton L. Baughn while writing his book A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, which was published in 1972. The notes concern the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (African American) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Pain, William (Sc 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Pain, William (Sc 425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 425. Original and typescript copy of a ballad, “Lovly Molie,” composed by William Pain, Logan County, Kentucky.

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Mcdowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830 - Relating To (Sc 2551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Mcdowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830 - Relating To (Sc 2551), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2551. First day of issue cover for stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first successful ovariotomy, performed by Ephraim McDowell. Includes a brief printed history of the surgery, as well as a printed letter from the Danville, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce announcing the commemorative stamp.

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Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Henderson, Wallace W. (Sc 2645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2645. Bound typescript copy of “Christian County, Kentucky Sketches,” by Wallace W. Henderson, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, tracing the history of Christian County. Includes sub-categories such as the Civil War, the Robert Hollowell Case, and notable Christian County figures.

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Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Greathouse Family Papers (Sc 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts 635. Papers of the Greathouse family of Hancock County, Kentucky. The papers include surveys, deeds, receipts, wills, business letters, etc., 1825-1869, and are chiefly of R.B., Susan, John, and William. Includes some papers of the Lewis family, 1823-1847.

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Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.

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Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Muir, John Wakefield, 1909-1991 (Sc 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and sample of correspondence for Manuscripts Small Collection 633. Correspondence of John Wakefield Muir, Bardstown, Kentucky, and Mary (Taylor) Moore, Librarian of the Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which contains much information about
the history of Bardstown and Nelson County.

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Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letter - Union Soldier (Sc 2550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letter - Union Soldier (Sc 2550), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2550. Holographic letter from Union soldier named “Hank” at Camp Wood, Hart County, Kentucky, written to his brother and sister. Discusses his living conditions and asks about people he knows. Includes a printed image of General George B. McClellan.

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