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Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1512. Telegram sent by the Bowling Green Public Library Board refusing the resignation of Jane (Hines) Morningstar from the Board.


Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Mss 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Strahm, Victor Herbert, 1897-1957 (Mss 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 27. Correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc., covering Bowling Green native Victor Herbert Strahm's U.S. Air Force career. There are over 100 letters written to his parents in Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing his World War I activities and 27 letters to his mother detailing his participation in the early days of World War II.


Calvert-Obenchain-Younglove Collection (Mss 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Calvert-Obenchain-Younglove Collection (Mss 30), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 30. Correspondence, diaries, writings, business papers, scrapbooks, clippings, genealogical notes, weather records, and photographs of the Calvert, Obenchain, and Younglove families of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Selected items from the collection can be viewed in full text by clicking on the "Additional Files" links below.


Procter-Pendleton Papers (Mss 26), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Procter-Pendleton Papers (Mss 26), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 26. Correspondence and legal papers, 1894-1941, of B.F. Procter, 1848-1944, a Bowling Green lawyer; and correspondence, 1899-1932, speeches, diaries, and Stockton genealogy of Lila Pendleton Procter, 1850-1932. Correspondence, sermons, 1866-1889, journal, and notebook of J.M. Pendleton, 1811-1891, a minister of the First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, from 1837-1857. Includes a 1932 affidavit detailing the history of Bowling Green's sewerage system (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Cron, Robert D., B. 1940 (Sc 1309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Cron, Robert D., B. 1940 (Sc 1309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1309. Writings by Robert D. Cron, Roundhill, Kentucky, about the Honaker family and the Warren County, Kentucky community of Naker. Includes a copy of a published article about the family and community, 2001; a Naker postmaster's certificate, 1936; and photocopy of a photograph.


Causey, Robert Lewis, B. 1927 (Sc 1316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Causey, Robert Lewis, B. 1927 (Sc 1316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1316. Comments written by Causey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the proposed industrial Trimodal Transpark that would be located near Smiths Grove, Kentucky, if approved.


Dulaney, Elise, 1894-1966 (Mss 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Dulaney, Elise, 1894-1966 (Mss 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Collection 24. "Recollections of Bowling Green, Kentucky", written by Elise Dulaney in 1961 with emphasis on the Covington, Dulaney, and Wells families, various individuals, Christ Episcopal Church, and local schools. Also cemetery deed, 1881; Warren County tax receipt, 1882; letters, 1953-1962 (6); and miscellaneous items.


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 1541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 1541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1541. Typescript of Helm's letter to Charles Pressler, Galveston, Texas, 6 May 1936, regarding the stonework done by Charles Ott on the Warren County, Kentucky courthouse.


Oakland, Kentucky - Incorporation (Sc 1537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Oakland, Kentucky - Incorporation (Sc 1537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1537. Motion and judgment, Warren Circuit Court, to incorporate the City of Oakland, Kentucky. Includes a petition listing the names of those requesting the incorporation, a metes and bounds description of the corporate limits, and a sketch map. Also includes correspondence identifying the documents.


Young, Asher Leon (Mss 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Young, Asher Leon (Mss 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 19. Genealogical material collected by Asher Leon Young, a Warren County, Kentucky, native. Especially noted are the Phipps, Simpson, and Young families of the Richardsville area of Warren County, Kentucky.


Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 5. Center Street Elementary School (Bowling Green, Kentucky) grade books and various club records kept by Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett, a Warren County, Kentucky native. Includes a large group of records related to the Sue Young Sewing Circle of Bowling Green's State Street Methodist Church, 1915-1948. Full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) have been made of the material related to the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary (Box 1, Folder 7).


Warren County - Historic Houses (Sc 1324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Warren County - Historic Houses (Sc 1324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1324. Listing of thread colors used in a handwoven carpet woven for use in the Merritt-Hardin house located on 31-W near Woodburn in Warren County, Kentucky. Also data about the house from Irene Moss Sumpter’s Our Heritage: An Album of Early Warren County Kentucky Land Marks.


Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Larmon, Henry, 1809-1882 (Mss 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 183. Collection consists chiefly of financial records related to Henry Larmon of Warren County, Kentucky. Many of the items relate to timber purchases, land transactions, and purchases of sundry household goods. Larmon owned a saw and grist mill on Trammel Creek in southern Warren County.


Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.


Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Rich Pond, Kentucky (Sc 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Rich Pond, Kentucky (Sc 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1349. Church register kept for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rich Pond, Kentucky, 1874-1935.


Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1348. Church register kept for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Woodburn, Kentucky, 1864-1935.


Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1497. Letter from Emily J. Read, Rich Pond, Kentucky, to an unnamed friend. she discusses peoplein the neighboring region and her husband's mercantile operation in Rich Pond.


Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1347. Legal response of those charged by the sheriff of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to appraise land owned by the Green River Coal, Iron & Manufacturing Company as ordered by the Warren County Circuit Court, to satisfy a judgment against the company in favor of Mary P. Martin.


Taylor Collection (Mss 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Taylor Collection (Mss 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 81. Incoming family and courtship letters of Dee Taylor of Butler and Warren Counties, 1880-1888 (38), and her daughter, Dixie Dee Taylor of Warren County, 1903-1913 (48). Also letters and receipt received by other family members and a Warren County rent bond, [1883?].


Moulder, Valentine, 1836-1906 (Sc 1489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2007

Moulder, Valentine, 1836-1906 (Sc 1489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1489. Chiefly incoming business and personal letters to Valentine Moulder, a Warren County, Kentucky magistrate. Of particular interest are letters from Moulder's brother, Elijah Evans Moulder, that discuss the Oklahoma Territory in the 1890s and matters related to Valentine's son, George W. Moulder.


Bradley, Robert Michael, 1947-2006 (Mss 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2007

Bradley, Robert Michael, 1947-2006 (Mss 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 138. Vietnam War letters written by Robert Michael Bradley to his parents Sue and Henry Bradley, Jr., of Bowling Green, Kentucky documenting his tour in Vietnam, July 6, 1968-July 5, 1969. Includes information about 1st Cavalry Division, Agent Orange, MIA/POW's, veterans issues, and Gerard-Gerard funeral home, 1860-1950.


Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 1468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2007

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 1468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1468. "Memoranda from the Records in the Warren County Circuit Court Clerk's Office" copied by Judge John B. Rodes. Includes notes on the establishment and evolution of Kentucky county courts.


Thomas, Richard Curd Pope, 1872-1939 (Sc 1486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2007

Thomas, Richard Curd Pope, 1872-1939 (Sc 1486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1486. Speeches made throughout Kentucky by Richard Curd Pope Thomas at various fraternal, civic, educational, and religious events. Also includes several poems written by John A. Logan. A patriotic speech given during the Spanish-American War is available as a full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company (Sc 1467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2007

Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company (Sc 1467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1467. Minute book, 1886-1899, for the Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company, Warren County, Kentucky. The last two pages contain a plat and a listing of expenses for the Plano Church Cemetery, 1905-1909.


Cooke-Crump - Smiths Grove, Kentucky - Account Books (Sc 1484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2007

Cooke-Crump - Smiths Grove, Kentucky - Account Books (Sc 1484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1484. Account books for a mercantile store in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Included are long lists of horses and mules that were bought and sold by William Crump.


Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2007

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1470. Chiefly incoming letters to William P. Stamps, Jr., while he served in the Air Force during World War II. Included are report cards, sympathy letters written to Stamps on the death of his aunt and guardian, Sallie Hills, letters from friends serving in World War II, and a small notebook of flower orders kept by Stamps while in the Air Force.


Love Family Papers (Mss 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2007

Love Family Papers (Mss 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 164. Correspondence of George Matthew Love and Nora (Sullivan) Love of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and their children: Ruel, Margaret, and George Marshall Love, Sr. The bulk of the letters date from 1922 to 1949 and contain information about the family and local happenings in Bowling Green.


Dulaney Family (Sc 1466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2007

Dulaney Family (Sc 1466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1466. Letter, December 1855, written from Annie E. Dulaney to her brother, William L. Dulaney, in which she discusses her schoolwork and the approaching Christmas holiday. Also included (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan) is a sketch (1909) of Hiram W. Dulaney's service in the 9th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A) during the Civil War.


Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2007, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2007

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2007, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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