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Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3631. Record book, April 1903 November 1906, of Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and April 1907-March 1916, of Old Union Presbyterian Church. Includes minutes, members registers, and remarks concerning a 1903 fire that destroyed earlier records of the church, said to be organized about 1814.


Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3632. Record book, March 1870- March 1895, of Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church, located on Three Springs Road, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, registers of members, baptisms and marriages, and reports to the Presbytery. Also includes two certificates of dismissal, 1903, 1905.


Greenwood Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Greenwood Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3630. Record book, 1 September 1880-March 1884, of Greenwood Presbyterian Church, located near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes organizing and session minutes.


Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3633. Record book, March 1905-1906, of Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and 1906-March 1932, of Corinth Presbyterian Church. Includes minutes, registers of members, pastors and baptisms, and reports to Presbytery.


Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3634. Record book, March 1868 February 1896, of Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, register of members, and reports to Presbytery. Also includes a 1902 minute and a 1915 letter regarding dismissal of a member.


Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 171. Correspondence and papers of Harry L. Jackson, a Warren County, Kentucky native and Cleveland, Ohio executive. Includes his World War II correspondence, genealogical research, and papers of his wife Evelyn’s family, the Minshalls of Ohio. A sampling of Jackson's World War II letters to sisters Sallie and Bernice can be viewed under "Additional Files" below.


Conjugal Relation: The Shakers'question For Frontier Kentucky, Peter Hawes Mar 2022

Conjugal Relation: The Shakers'question For Frontier Kentucky, Peter Hawes

James W. Jackson Award for Excellence in Library Research in the Social Sciences

At its heart, this is a case fraught with pain and loss that is not unique to this particular period in frontier Kentucky. Although the presence of the Shakers, and a community’s reaction to them, imbue this case with meaning historically, this divorce also speaks to unchanging questions about the nature of conjugal relation in the face of an uncertain eternity. This is a case that reveals something about broader anti-Shakerism, but it also demonstrates that for many, the broader contexts of religious change and budding institutions were not perceptible factors in their experience of life on the frontier. With …


Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 735. Correspondence and papers of the family of Captain Charles Ward of Plymouth, New Hampshire, including descendants in the Sumpter family of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Warren County, Kentucky - Roads (Sc 3629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2022

Warren County, Kentucky - Roads (Sc 3629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3629. “A list of hands to be allotted on the road from Wm R Paynes mill to the Nashville Road at Abner Evins’s on a direction to Warren Court House.” The February 1812 document lists the names of 37 citizens assigned to the work, with an “order to warn all such persons as are not on this list who are living within two miles of sd Road and not allotted on other Roads.”


Progress In The Bluegrass: An Analysis Of Grassroots Organizing In Kentucky Post 1970, Brooklyn Lile Jan 2022

Progress In The Bluegrass: An Analysis Of Grassroots Organizing In Kentucky Post 1970, Brooklyn Lile

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

While historians and other scholars have explored grassroots organizing in Kentucky, most historiography on this topic is limited to the 1930s through 1970s and focused on coal, labor, and the Civil Rights Movement. This paper fills a gap within the historiography by extending the discussion of grassroots organizing in Kentucky past the 1970s. Through the examination of organizational documents, membership newsletters, and oral histories, this paper explores the transformation of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) from 1981 to 2020. KFTC began as a small Eastern Kentucky organization focused predominantly on fair taxing practices in coal companies. Through efforts to diversify …


Does "Good" Mean White?: Understanding The Complexities Of Refugee Resettlement In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Molly Shaddix Jan 2022

Does "Good" Mean White?: Understanding The Complexities Of Refugee Resettlement In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Molly Shaddix

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Bowling Green, Kentucky is a relatively small town comparable to its counterparts across the South. However, Bowling Green has a significant population of refugee inhabitants that have resettled in waves since the late 1970s. This paper describes the lived experience of refugees resettling by analyzing community action and troubles faced while working for independence in their new homes. Some factors explored are access to affordable housing, language barriers, and trouble in education. In addition, this paper contextualizes their lived experiences with other resettlement communities across the United States to understand how Bowling Green fits into patterns of societal xenophobia, racism, …


Bernstadt: The Last Swiss Colony, Jan Sparkman Jan 2022

Bernstadt: The Last Swiss Colony, Jan Sparkman

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The final attempt by Swiss immigrants to develop an independent colony in the United States was made in Laurel County, Kentucky, in 1881. This settlement was the result of efforts on the part of Kentucky’s newly-formed Bureau of Immigration to compensate for the fact that the state had been all but ignored by European immigrants in the past. This endeavor was assisted by the active intervention of three men in Switzerland—Otto Brunner, Paul Schenk, and Karl Imobersteg—who were eager to capitalize on Kentucky’s deficiency.


Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2021

Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 734. Correspondence and papers of the Moulder, Campbell and related families of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data.


Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2021

Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 733. Journal, 1878-1880, of Mattie (Spangler) Gentry, Covington, Kentucky, chronicling her attendance at Lexington’s Hamilton Female College and at boarding school in Orléans, France; also her journal, 1889-1898, recording her life as a music teacher and her courtship and marriage. Includes photographs and a letter to Mattie in France from the president of Hamilton College (Click on "Additional Files" for typescript).


Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 732. Genealogical research, narratives, clippings, photographs, and local history pertaining to the Bennett, Hunt, Taylor and associated families of Kentucky, primarily Butler, McLean, Muhlenberg and Daviess counties.


Taylor Family Papers (Mss 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2021

Taylor Family Papers (Mss 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 730. Letters of Aaron H. Taylor and William B. Taylor, husband and son of Carrie Burnam Taylor of Bowling Green Kentucky, written to her daughter Louise (Taylor) Beckwith regarding Carrie Taylor's estate and the affairs of Taylor’s large dressmaking business, the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company. Also includes data on Louise Beckwith and miscellaneous papers.


Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Hines, Duncan, 1880-1959 (Mss 731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 731. Correspondence, biographical data, planning and publicity materials relating to Duncan Hines Week on 9-15 November 1986 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Hines’s guidebook Adventures in Good Eating, and material relating to subsequent annual events under the names Duncan Hines Celebration and Duncan Hines Festival.


Strode Family Collection (Mss 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Strode Family Collection (Mss 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 729. Papers, primarily land records, of the Strode family of Monroe County, Kentucky.


Kyrock Oral History Project (Fa 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Kyrock Oral History Project (Fa 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 167. Interviews conducted February April 1981 with Edmonson County, Kentucky, residents concerning the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company. Includes information on the Methodist church, schools, social life and customs, United Mine Workers of America Local #72, and working conditions.


Monroe, Thomas B. And Benjamin F. Pleasants (Lg 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Monroe, Thomas B. And Benjamin F. Pleasants (Lg 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding and and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 468. Original land grant, 21 February 1820, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas B. Monroe and Benjamin F. Pleasants 275 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.


Holloway, Grant (Lg 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Holloway, Grant (Lg 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 469. Original land grant, 12 December 1833, by which John Breathitt, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Grant Holloway, assignee of William H. Wilson, assignee of William Butler as agent for the Monroe County Court, 90 acres in Monroe County, Kentucky.


Page, Fleming Smith, 1803-1857 (Lg 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Page, Fleming Smith, 1803-1857 (Lg 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 466. Original land grant, 2 July 1849, by which John J. Crittenden, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to F. S. Page 25 acres in Monroe County, Kentucky.


Bushong, George (Lg 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Bushong, George (Lg 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 467. Original land grant, 6 December 1832, by which John Breathitt, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Bushong 250 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.


Helm, John Blakey, 1889-1979 (Sc 3619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Helm, John Blakey, 1889-1979 (Sc 3619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3619. Miscellaneous letters to John Blakey Helm, Louisville, Kentucky, relating to various civic matters. One asks his help in staffing a precinct with primarily African-American voters in a 1923 election; two refer to his participation in Constitution Week in Louisville; others acknowledge his views on political issues.


Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Wilk, Joseph Peter, 1926-1994 (Mss 728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 728. Printed matter, photographs, and correspondence relating to a small number of commissions executed by Bowling Green, Kentucky architect Joseph P. Wilk. Also includes some biographical data.


Bowling Green Woolen Mills - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Bowling Green Woolen Mills - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3616. Pages from a payroll ledger, March-July 1875, of the Bowling Green Woolen Mills, Bowling Green, Kentucky, listing employees’ names and wages paid. Includes data on scoured and unscoured jeans manufactured in 1874. Some data is incomplete due to damaged and mutilated pages. Also includes historical notes on the business collected in 1955 by WKU librarian Elizabeth Coombs.


Brown, James (Sc 3615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Brown, James (Sc 3615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3615. Notes written to Bowling Green, Kentucky merchant James Brown, mainly requests to supply goods to the bearer on account.


Moore, George, 1771-1812, And Robert Moore, D. 1819 (Sc 3614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2021

Moore, George, 1771-1812, And Robert Moore, D. 1819 (Sc 3614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3614. Warren County, Kentucky court documents pertaining to or signed by brothers George and Robert Moore, considered to be the founders of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes summons issued by George Moore as Justice of the Peace; receipts; settlements of accounts; and a bond given in connection with an attachment.


Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 726. Historic resource inventory (data sheets and photographs) of structures and sites along US Highway 31W in Warren County, Kentucky. The inventory and photos were prepared in 2000, but data sheets from earlier inventories and other supporting material may be included.


Southern Kentucky Fair - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Southern Kentucky Fair - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 725. Correspondence, planning documents, financial and other records of the Southern Kentucky Fair, Warren County, Kentucky. Much of the material relates to the procurement of equipment and arrangements for entertainment--rides, bands, circus and novelty acts, livestock shows, etc.--as well as for concession booths and exhibits.