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Articles 961 - 990 of 8581
Full-Text Articles in United States History
Morgan, William Montrose, 1842-1926 (Sc 3104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, William Montrose, 1842-1926 (Sc 3104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3104. Letter, 12 January 1862, of Wisconsin volunteer Montrose Morgan to his sister and brother-in-law, Thomas and Orissa Harney. From Camp Wood in Kentucky, he writes of military forces in the area and the possibility of battle, the completion of a bridge across the Green River, and a recent meeting with Confederates under a flag of truce. He also refers to having Confederate major general Simon Bolivar Buckner “hop” (or “pop”) after an expected massing of Union forces.
Helm Store Collection - Hardin County, Kentucky (Mss 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm Store Collection - Hardin County, Kentucky (Mss 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 65. Journal of sales from 1814 to 1816 of the Helm & Green store and an 1828 account book of the John B. Helm & Company, Hardin County, Kentucky. An 1842 promissory note and constable’s summons pertaining to a debt are also included.
Huntsman, John Wesley B., 1842-1918 - Relating To (Sc 3103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Huntsman, John Wesley B., 1842-1918 - Relating To (Sc 3103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding and and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3103. Papers relating to an application by John W. B. Huntsman, Allen County, Kentucky, for an increase in his Civil War veteran’s pension. Includes affidavits detailing Huntsman’s three gunshot wounds suffered during his service in the Union Army, Ninth Kentucky Infantry, his resulting health problems, and notices of pension increases.
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 - Letter To (Sc 3099), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 - Letter To (Sc 3099), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3099. Letter, 9 October 1861, from Kentucky secessionists James W. Moore, J. M. Burns, and Nathaniel M. Menifee to Confederate president Jefferson Davis requesting an urgent meeting to discuss Kentucky’s political situation. Research notes relating to this letter and its circumstances, referencing The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, are also included.
Crossland, Edward, 1827-1881 (Sc 3097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crossland, Edward, 1827-1881 (Sc 3097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3097. Autobiographical sketch by Edward Crossland, Democratic Congressman from Kentucky, in which he provides details about his public and political career. The sketch omits any reference to his Confederate military service.
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Collector (Sc 3102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 - Collector (Sc 3102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3102. Letters chiefly sent to Frances Richards on miscellaneous topics, including the Bowling Green English Club, the 1960 Republican Party election campaign, and information on alumni from Western Kentucky University.
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883 (Sc 3098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883 (Sc 3098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3098. Letter, 26 July 1858, from Alexander H. Stephens, future vice president of the Confederacy, to friend George Bristow, in which he describes his travels through Kentucky and Tennessee. He also comments on landscapes and agriculture.
Bush, Velma, 1923-2016 (Sc 3101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bush, Velma, 1923-2016 (Sc 3101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3101. Correspondence about lay-offs and eventual termination information for Velma Bush from M. B. Manufacturing Company, Glasgow, Kentucky. M. B. Manufacturing Company supplied material to Chrysler Corporation. The lay offs and eventual termination were due to strikes at Chrysler and a slow down in business.
Gano, John Allen, 1805-1887 (Sc 3096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gano, John Allen, 1805-1887 (Sc 3096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding and and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3096. Letters from church leaders in the central Kentucky region to John Allen Gano, a Christian Church minister in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The letters reference the charisma of Gano’s sermons and solicit his visitation to various church meetings and services.
Bond, Thomas J. (Sc 3094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bond, Thomas J. (Sc 3094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 3094. Letter from Thomas Bond, Camp Wood [Munfordville], Hart County, Kentucky, to his parents, in which he relates a skirmish, including casualties, with Confederates near the Green River. He also mentions Simon Bolivar Buckner’s occupation of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and troop movements.
Fleming, Samuel, 1838-1916 (Sc 3095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fleming, Samuel, 1838-1916 (Sc 3095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3095. Letter from Union soldier Samuel Fleming, Camp Wood [Munfordville], Kentucky, to James C. Carnahan, in which he discusses a military engagement with Confederates at Green River, Kentucky. He mentions casualties for both sides. He also reports, by name, the death of a soldier from fever and soldiers sent to Louisville Hospital.
Western Lunatic Asylum - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 3093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Western Lunatic Asylum - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 3093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3093. Documents, chiefly 1854-1870, relating to the operation of the Western Lunatic Asylum, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Includes contracts and accounts for wood, coal, foodstuffs, laborers and employees, and repair and construction. Also includes legislation relating to appropriations and management, an 1855 inventory of movable property, a report to Governor Beriah Magoffin of an 1860 fire, and contracts and inventories relating to the subsequent rebuilding of the asylum.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Turpin, James, B. 1828? - Relating To (Sc 3092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Turpin, James, B. 1828? - Relating To (Sc 3092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3092. Record of proceedings in Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James Turpin, wherein the defendant was adjudged a lunatic and ordered taken to the asylum in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The record of the Garrard County, Kentucky court provides names of jurors as well as the circumstances contributing to Turpin’s condition, most notably his killing of a neighbor.
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 603. Manuscript books of sermons, religious, medical and other writings created by Benjamin McReynolds, a Butler County, Kentucky Methodist minister. Includes family history and records of schools operated by McReynolds.
Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 601. Minutes, membership lists, publications, press books, event programs, and other records of the Bowling Green Woman’s Club, a civic organization in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes some materials relating to its affiliation with the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Graham-Gary Bible Records (Sc 3090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Graham-Gary Bible Records (Sc 3090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3090. Genealogical records listing births from the Graham and Gary families, removed from the Graham-Gary Bible. Also includes news clippings of obituaries and local news events associated with the families.
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 (Mss 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 (Mss 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 544. Materials related to the construction of the Godey Quilt by Mildred Lissauer, Louisville, Kentucky in 1934. Includes graphic items gleaned from newspaper, magazines, and other paper ephemera, correspondence with the seamstress responsible for much of the sewing on the quilt, research correspondence of Sandra Statebell related to the quilt and an article that she wrote about it. News clippings and magazine articles about Lissauer’s penchant for interior decorating.
Dickey, Robert Wallace, 1933-2017 (Sc 3089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickey, Robert Wallace, 1933-2017 (Sc 3089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3089. Letter, 8 August 2016, from Bob Dickey, St. Augustine, Florida, to Bob & Cora Jane Spiller, Oakland, Kentucky, in which he discusses his recent activities and reminisces about his years in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bates, Georgia, 1916-1986 - Collector (Sc 3087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bates, Georgia, 1916-1986 - Collector (Sc 3087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection SC 3087. Correspondence, documents and news clippings relating to the Bates family of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Veitschegger, Rodney Dean, 1931-2013 (Mss 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Veitschegger, Rodney Dean, 1931-2013 (Mss 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 596. Genealogical correspondence of Rodney Dean Veitschegger, Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a number of individual across the country. Veitschegger was particularly interested in the following surnames from West Virginia: Mullins, Roberts, Caudill, Lee and Wallin.
Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3088. Correspondence of Janice Holt Giles related to the “White Caps,” the Brethren in Christ church, and collected by Michael R. Brown for a scholarly article he produced on the topic. Also includes a chronology of Giles’ life compiled by Brown as well as a copy of his completed article. Giles used the information she gleaned about the “White Caps” in one of her books, Tara’s Healing.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2017), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Jones, Thomas Laurens, 1819-1887 (Sc 3080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Thomas Laurens, 1819-1887 (Sc 3080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3080. Papers of Thomas L. Jones of Campbell County, Kentucky, a state representative and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Letters to him praise two of his speeches concerning the U.S. Centennial and the 1876 amnesty bill restoring citizenship to ex-Confederates. Fellow Democratic Party members write with invitations to various functions, to encourage him in seeking the gubernatorial nomination, and to discuss political matters. Friend Thomas B. Chaplin relates his fortunes in South Carolina during and after the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below). Includes a few letters and telegrams to wife …
Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3086. Letter, 2 September 1822, from Jemima and Romanus Emerson, Boston, Massachusetts, to Fanny Goodridge, Lexington, Kentucky, in which they express their concern about Goodridge’s move from Boston to Kentucky and her religious experience.
Edge, John Thomas, Jr., B. 1962 (Sc 3085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edge, John Thomas, Jr., B. 1962 (Sc 3085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3085. Letter from John Thomas Edge, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, to Cora Jane Spiller, Oakland, Kentucky, thanking her for her confidence in his writing and a former visit.
Lincoln Farm Association (Sc 3084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln Farm Association (Sc 3084), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3084. Certificates documenting membership for H.H. Seldomridge and Louis Hall Comstock in the Lincoln Farm Association. Certificates include an image of Lincoln’s bust, his birth place cabin, and the White House.
Kentucky Council For Community Education (Sc 3081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Council For Community Education (Sc 3081), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3081. Memos and agenda for a meeting to be held to discuss a statewide coalition to support community education.
Lane, Thomas Sylvester, 1858-1942 (Sc 3083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lane, Thomas Sylvester, 1858-1942 (Sc 3083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3083. Memo book containing information about singing schools[?] established in Edmonson and Warren counties in Kentucky. Includes a photograph of Thomas Sylvester Lane and his wife Ella Zade (Houchin) Lane.
Deeds - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Deeds - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3082. Deed, 1874, transferring "less than 30 acres" from Reuben and Mary Howell to John E. Howell in Warren County, Kentucky.