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Stevenson Family Papers (Sc 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans, including two surveys (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 604. Legal papers including surveys, 1807, 1826 (2 items), deeds, (1871, 1874, 1896) (3), notes, etc., pertaining to land in Logan County, Kentucky.

Penn, Shadrach, Jr., 1790-1846 (Sc 759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 759. Oaths taken by Shadrach Penn, Jr., in Russellville, Kentucky, in 1810, when he was an apprentice on the Farmer’s Friend newspaper.

Dunn, Thomas Pearce, B. 1861 (Sc 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 751. Letter, 1 May 1914, written by Thomas Pearce Dunn, South Houston, Texas, to his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Pearce, Auburn, Kentucky, relating much information about Texas, especially concerning the land, weather, and fruit growing.

Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 746. Ciphering book containing problems using the British pound system, which also contains accounts of John Hannum, Jr., and Richard Hannum, and writings of Penelope Hannum, Logan County, Kentucky. Also clippings, chiefly from newspapers of Russellville, Kentucky, 1820-1860.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 731. Letter concerning a debt owed to the Shakers, 1839; indenture binding Eli McLean to teach the spinning trade to Eliza Janes, age 12, 1842; and letters pertaining to the Shakers' seed trade, 1861, 1878.

Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of one document only (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 734. Minutes kept by the Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee composed of ladies' auxiliaries from the Kentucky counties of Logan, Simpson and Warren.

Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2608. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.

Logan County, Kentucky - Surveys And Surveying (Sc 722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 722. Photocopies of survey taken for 666 2/3 acres for George Washington in 1785 in Logan County, Kentucky, which he never claimed, and survey done for 1500 acres for one of his relatives, Burgess Ball, in 1796.

Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 406. Correspondence, research notes and manuscript articles of Frances J. “Thomas” Whitaker, a Benedictine monk who lived and worked at St. Maur’s Priory, formerly the South Union Shaker Village in Logan County, Kentucky, from 1954-1988. He amassed a large collection of photocopied research material on the South Union community as well as other Shaker villages and museums in the United States. Also includes his research on various Catholic topics.

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.

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.

Browning, George Strother, 1789-1849 (Sc 598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 598. Memorandum book of George Strother Browning, Russellville, Kentucky, pertaining to the estate of John Duncan, of which Browning was administrator, 1825-1834; listing of property Browning gave to Duncan’s children, 1831-1847; and various receipts.

Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 544. Carbon copies of two 1967 letters written to Brother Thomas Whitaker, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky, by Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey, relating information concerning the history of the Gasper River Presbyterian Church in Logan County.

Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 542. Paper entitled “History of the Auburn Baptist Church, 1866-1957,” a holographic copy by Nellie Childress, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the paper written to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library.

Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 525. Photocopy of an incomplete typescript memoir entitled “The First Fifty Years of Judson Slade Taylor,” a Baptist minister born in Ohio County, Kentucky; and a letter, 20 August 1971, from J.B. Taylor, a relative, to Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, related to the memoir.

Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.

Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Mss 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 387. Radio scripts, correspondence, research notes, and newspaper clippings of Kentucky Building director, Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore. Moore served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1931 to 1956. Also includes articles and speeches written by Moore.

Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 323. Typed copy of “The History of the Logan Presbyterial [sic] Missionary Auxiliary Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1796-1955,” written by Mrs. Joseph Rogers and Mrs. Henry A. Reeder; and of auxiliary notes compiled by Margaret Hampton for 1955-1958.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 317. Miscellaneous business papers of the Shakers, including letters, 1884, 1915 (2);an agreement with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the location of a depot at South Union, 1860; deeds, 1883, 1893 (2); bond, 1883; and receipts, 1884, 1906 (2).

Auburn Seminary - Auburn, Kentucky (Sc 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 314. Shares of stock, 1885 (2); letters concerning Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Kentucky, 1900-1968 (3); teacher’s contract, 1907; 1956 histories of seminary (2); and letters and article about the Auburn Seminary Alumni Association, 1963-1966 (3).

Kentucky - Anniversary, 175th (Sc 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 379. Commonwealth anniversary speeches (3). Speeches of Gov. Breathitt (2) dealing with the rededication of the Jefferson Davis Monument, Fairview, and of the John Breathitt Marker, Russellville, and speech of J. Granville Clark, Russellville, concerning history of Logan County with accompanying letter (2).

Mcgready, James, 1758-1817 (Sc 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 370. Letters (2), Henderson County, Kentucky, to Archibald Cameron, Shelby County, Kentucky. Concerns matters relative to the Presbyterian Church of which they were ministers and especially discusses the influence of Shakerism in Logan County, Kentucky.

Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 358. Typed copy of letter written by Urban E. Johns, South Union, Kentucky, to Honorable McLean, Washington, D.C., regarding sheep husbandry in Logan County and South Union; a hymn (with words and music); reward certificates given to deserving pupils by teachers; and a list of members of the Brick House and the Square House, Union Village, Ohio, during the 1837-1867 period.

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 355. An incident related by Margie Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding her grandfather, Churchill H. Blakey, and the boyhood experience he had while selling Bibles in Logan County, Kentucky, with friends, David Morton and Eckstein (Ex) Norton.

Mcreynolds Store (Sc 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 290. Account book, 1883-1888, of a general store at Lewisburg, Logan County, Kentucky. Some pages have been used as a scrapbook and include clippings of poems and essays, and colored cards.

Craig, James Harvey, 1842-1929 (Sc 240), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 240. Photocopy of autobiography written by James H. Craig, possibly in 1917. He was a native of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, although he was an Arkansas resident for several years. The autobiography contains much Craig family data. In addition, there is a photocopy of Craig's essay denouncing the evils of alcohol, possibly to be delivered as a speech

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Auburn High School Board Of Managers (Sc 286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 286. Minutes of the meetings of the Auburn High School Board of Managers, Logan County Kentucky, 1874-1884. Includes list of tuition paid, lease, 1883 school board election results, and miscellaneous loose items.

Baker, L. Alleyne, 1858-1916 (Sc 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 234. Two letters written to L. Alleyne Baker, a school teacher In Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky. An 1898 letter, from a cousin, contains family news; a 1907 letter pertains to educational matters. Also includes an undated essay by a female high school student entitled, “Woman’s Sphere.”