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Helms, Benjamin (Lg 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Helms, Benjamin (Lg 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 175. Copy of a land grant, 10 June 1799, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Helms and Thomas McIntire, assignees of Richard Harrison, by his attorney John Harrison for one moiety, and to Richard Harrison for the other moiety, 560 acres in Hardin County, Kentucky.

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Hampton, Benjamin (Lg 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Hampton, Benjamin (Lg 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 177. Original land grant, 13 May 1797, by, which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Hampton 92 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

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Payne, William (Lg 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Payne, William (Lg 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 171. Original land grant, 22 April 1800, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Payne 200 acres in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2015, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2015, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Harrell, Robert (Lg 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Harrell, Robert (Lg 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 167. Original land grant, 11 June 1797, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Harrell 200 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

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Mobberly, Charles (Lg 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Mobberly, Charles (Lg 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 166. Original land grant, 20 December 1831, by which Thomas Metcalfe, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Charles Mobberly 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Walker, John (Lg 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Walker, John (Lg 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 164. Copy of a land grant, 15 December 1820, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to the heirs and representatives of John Walker 1000 acres in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (surveyed Dec. 7, 1783).

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Mitchell, Moses (Lg 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Mitchell, Moses (Lg 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 165. Original land grant, 4 June 1829, by which Thomas Metcalfe, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Moses Mitchell 25 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Lucas, Samuel (Lg 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Lucas, Samuel (Lg 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 161. Original land grant, 14 December 1804, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Samuel Lucas 200 acres on Little Muddy Creek, Kentucky.

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Parker, Alexander (Lg 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Parker, Alexander (Lg 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 159. Copy of a land grant, 23 June 1808, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Alexander Parker 1500 acres on Big Barren River, Kentucky.

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Lain, Joseph (Lg 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Lain, Joseph (Lg 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 162. Original land grant, 6 May 1821, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Joseph Lain 50 acres in Green County, Kentucky.

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Cox, Samuel (Lg 168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Cox, Samuel (Lg 168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 168. Original land grant, 30 May 1798, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Samuel Cox, 120 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

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Walker, John (Lg 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Walker, John (Lg 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 163. Copy of a land grant, 1820, December 15, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to the heirs and representatives of John Walker 1000 acres in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (surveyed Dec. 10, 1783).

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Elmore, Donald Ray, B. 1938 (Sc 2891), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Elmore, Donald Ray, B. 1938 (Sc 2891), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of memoir (click on "Additional Files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 2891. Biographical memoir, well illustrated, of Donald R. Elmore, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native, describing his family, childhood, career in the U.S. Army, which included tours in Germany and Vietnam, and post-military life in California. A DVD contains images of Elmore’s drawings, craft work, military photographs, and miscellaneous biographical data on his jobs, travels, etc.

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Ruter, Charles Melton (Sc 2893), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Ruter, Charles Melton (Sc 2893), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2893. Correspondence chiefly related to Charles Melton Ruter's induction into various national, state and local sports halls of fame. Also includes biographical information about his lifelong involvement in sports and work as a sports official.

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Payne, Selden H., 1841-1926 (Sc 2890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Payne, Selden H., 1841-1926 (Sc 2890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2890. Letter of Selden H. Payne, 18 January 1863, written from Camp Nelson, Kentucky to his sister Mary Hills in Eagleville, Ohio. He describes the troops, Confederate prisoners and wounded of the camp and recounts his travels, including nights spent at the Louisville depot, a “Negro prison” in Lexington, and the court house in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He also describes the injury and death of a comrade at the Louisville depot after he fell under the troop rail car, originally used to transport hogs.

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Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2888. Portion of a letter, 25 December 1865, written from Morganfield, Kentucky, by a Presbyterian clergyman to his father. After a two-year lapse in communication, he updates his father on his teaching duties at a male academy and his preaching at two churches. He also mourns social ills such as crime and intemperance, and contrasts the irreligion of the North with the growth of evangelical churches in the South.

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Brite, Henry Dearing, 1906-1976 (Mss 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Brite, Henry Dearing, 1906-1976 (Mss 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Collections 532. Letters, programs, invitations, photographs and other political and social mementoes of Elizabeth Brite and her husband Henry, collected primarily during their years in Washington, D.C. when Elizabeth was secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s press secretary, Jonathan W. Daniels.

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Clark, Karen (Sc 2887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Clark, Karen (Sc 2887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2887. “History of the Nursing School at Bowling Green City-County Hospital,” a paper written by Karen Clark for a Western Kentucky University nursing class.

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Warden, Buel F., Iii (Sc 2886), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Warden, Buel F., Iii (Sc 2886), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2886. “Philip & Rachel Warden, Early Kentucky Settlers,” by Buel F. Warden III, a narrative about this Logan County, Kentucky family and their descendants. Includes a cover letter from the Logan County Genealogical Society regarding the author.

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Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Milliken, Rena Edna, 1909-1998 (Mss 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 529. Chiefly transcriptions of oral history interviews conducted by Rena Edna Milliken with Logan County, Kentucky residents about local history and genealogy. Also includes speeches and newspaper articles about local history topics and genealogy by Milliken and two Daughters of the American Revolution scrapbooks about the same topics.

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Gossom, Magnolia (Rone), 1866-1948 (Sc 2885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Gossom, Magnolia (Rone), 1866-1948 (Sc 2885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2885. Applications and membership certificates of Magnolia (Rone) Gossom and her daughter Grayce (Gossom) Bell in the Bowling Green, Kentucky chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; membership certificate of Grayce (Gossom) Bell in the Samuel Davies Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

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Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 531. Correspondence, research, historical and archaeological reports, contracts, budgets and other documents relating to the 1970s excavation and restoration of Fort Williams, a Civil War fortification at Glasgow, Kentucky.

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Rentfro, Travis (Lg 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Rentfro, Travis (Lg 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 414. Copy of land grant, 28 December 1854, by which Lazarus W. Powell, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Travis Rentfro, 100 acres in Crittenden County, Kentucky.

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Ewing, Ephraim M. (Lg 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Ewing, Ephraim M. (Lg 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 417. Original land grant, 7 June 1821, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Ephraim M. Ewing 145 acres in Caldwell County, Kentucky.

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Kirby, Carlisle Wilkins, 1890-1968 (Mss 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Kirby, Carlisle Wilkins, 1890-1968 (Mss 530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 530. Note cards, memoranda, and grave registration forms compiled by Carlisle W. Kirby and others for the Veterans’ Graves Registration Project in Warren County, Kentucky, a project created by the Works Progress Administration to identify the graves of war veterans from the American Revolution through World War I. Included are names, service data, and the name of the cemetery, where known. Also includes clippings from the (Bowling Green, Kentucky) Park City Daily News about local soldiers serving in the Korean War.

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Wilson, John (Lg 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Wilson, John (Lg 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 160. Copy of a land grant, 14 December 1805, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Wilson 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Harper Family Papers (Sc 1546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Harper Family Papers (Sc 1546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1546. Wartime correspondence between Private Alfred Harper and his wife Elizabeth W. (Montgomery) Harper. Harper, from Columbia, Kentucky was serving as a machine gunner with the 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division when he was killed in Belgium 25 November 1944. Includes telegrams and letters to his wife related to his death.

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Carpenter Collection (Mss 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Carpenter Collection (Mss 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 525. Correspondence, business and farm records, and genealogical data of the Carpenter family of Warren County, Kentucky, primarily Jonathan T. Carpenter, his son Luther M. Carpenter, and Luther’s children. Includes some correspondence and papers of members of the Tucker and Hardcastle families.

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Briggs, James A., 1831-1900 (Sc 1504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Briggs, James A., 1831-1900 (Sc 1504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1503. Dissertation titled "Medical topography and diseases of Warren County, Ky." written by James A. Briggs at the University of Nashville in 1851. He describes his belief in the causes of malaria, and discusses cholera and other maladies that struck Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky prior to 1850.

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