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James Parks Wilson Family Collection (Mss 755), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2023

James Parks Wilson Family Collection (Mss 755), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 755. Primarily genealogical research on the descendants of James Parks Wilson of Hart County, Kentucky. Includes biographical data and papers regarding the military service of his grandson, James Admiral Wilson.


Bewley, Stanley Clyde, 1915-1979 (Sc 3693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2023

Bewley, Stanley Clyde, 1915-1979 (Sc 3693), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3693. V-mail letter, 28 March 1945, from Army private Stanley Bewley to his sister Mrs. Glen Cole, Austin, Kentucky. He reports on his arrival in Belgium and his homesickness, and asks to be sent some soap and pipe tobacco.


Wolford, Hulda Belle (Murray), 1885-1959 (Sc 3692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Wolford, Hulda Belle (Murray), 1885-1959 (Sc 3692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3692. Two letters, 5 April 1931, of Hulda (Murray) Wolford, Indianapolis, Indiana, to her sister Mallie and niece Louise; letter, 21 June 1945, to Hulda from Louise in Belle Plaine, Kansas. The letters relate personal news and the activities of family and friends. Typescripts of the letters include annotations with family information.


Hitchcock, William, 1843-1913 (Sc 3689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Hitchcock, William, 1843-1913 (Sc 3689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3689. Letters of William Hitchcock, Sharon (Potter County), Pennsylvania to his wife during his service with the 136th New York Infantry. He writes primarily from North Carolina of victories at Fort Fisher and Fort Anderson, including the arrival of several African Americans seeking shelter at Fort Fisher. Includes an 1864 family letter fearing the military draft, and a letter from an Army surgeon to Hitchcock’s wife regarding his recovery from typhoid.


Peckham, L. H. (Sc 3690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Peckham, L. H. (Sc 3690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3690. Letter, 23 May 1862, to “Anson” from L. H. Peckham, in camp at Fredericksburg, Virginia. He describes the massing of Union troops in the area in anticipation of a march on Richmond, and the construction of railroad, plank and pontoon bridges. He also remarks on the recent visit of President Lincoln, whose “smiling countenance was met with many cheers by our Troops here, but with dismay by the citizens.”


Martin, Laforest John, 1844-1862 (Sc 3687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Martin, Laforest John, 1844-1862 (Sc 3687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3687. Letters, 1861-1862, of LaForest Martin, Oneida County, New York, written to his family while serving with the 26th New York Volunteers. He writes from Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland of his illness; drunkenness and desertion among the troops; and engagements with the Confederates, especially at Antietam. Includes an 1856 family letter; a subscription list of locals pledging to pay Martin's expenses to rejoin his regiment after his illness; and a letter to his father from a friend offering sympathy at the news of Martin’s death at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Some of …


Pike Tobacco Warehouse - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Pike Tobacco Warehouse - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3691. Trade card of James Kelly, with the Pike Tobacco Warehouse, Louisville, Kentucky.


Osborne Family Letters (Sc 3688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Osborne Family Letters (Sc 3688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3688. Letters, 1864, of Frank Osborne, Oneida County, New York, written during his Civil War service. Working in a quartermaster’s office in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he discusses the future with his father and urges him to seek business opportunities during the war; he also refers to his brother Galen’s work in the newspaper business. Includes an 1863 letter from his father to New York Governor Horatio Seymour asking for the discharge of his son “Benjamin Franklin Osborne” after he was mustered into service on a false certificate; and an 1861 letter from …


Prouty, Isaac Lothrop, 1831-1904 (Sc 3686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Prouty, Isaac Lothrop, 1831-1904 (Sc 3686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3686. Letters from merchants, 1848-1849, to Isaac Prouty, a boot manufacturer in Spencer, Massachusetts, submitting orders and inquiring about outstanding shipments. Includes an 1871 agreement by Prouty regarding payments on a mortgage of land in Spencer.


John Keating & Company (Sc 3685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

John Keating & Company (Sc 3685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3685. Memorandum of agreement, 12 April 1842, between John Keating, John S. Roulet, and E. M. Keating by their agent John King, and Jeremiah Dietz of Genesee (Potter County, Pennsylvania). King agrees to sell to Dietz 100 acres of land adjoining his father’s, “as soon as he shall have complied with the customary conditions of settlement.” The reverse shows receipts of payment on account, 1844-1853, from Cyrus Cooper, and an assignment by Cooper, 25 February 1864, of his rights under the contract to Nelson Peabody.


Green Store - Falls Of Rough, Kentucky (Mss 754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2023

Green Store - Falls Of Rough, Kentucky (Mss 754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 754. Day book (1831-1832) and ledger (1829-1832) of the Green store, Falls of Rough, Kentucky; a paper analyzing the contents of the volumes; and miscellaneous Green family papers.


Perkins, John Casey, 1918-2010 (Mss 753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2023

Perkins, John Casey, 1918-2010 (Mss 753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 753. Reports of the operations of the U.S. Army, Third Infantry Division in Italy, Sicily, France and Germany during World War II. Includes reports relating to the service of Lieutenant Colonel John C. Perkins of Bowling Green, Kentucky in the Third Signal Company. Also includes memoranda of surrender written by Nazi SS officer Otto Skorzeny, taken into custody by Perkins in Austria in May 1945 (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans).


Neely, John W., 1836-1916 (Sc 737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2023

Neely, John W., 1836-1916 (Sc 737), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 737. Amnesty oath of John W. Neely, Simpson County, Kentucky, a member of Terry’s Texas Rangers, signed in Fort Bend County, Texas, 1866, and a page from The Dallas Morning News, 16 December 1892, about the Terry’s Texas Rangers' reunion.


Hobson, William Edward, 1844-1909 (Sc 3684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Hobson, William Edward, 1844-1909 (Sc 3684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3684. Treasury Department and Post Office Department correspondence and appointments relating to William E. Hobson’s service as a Claims Agent, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Third Collection District of Kentucky, and Postmaster at Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Elmwood Cemetery - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Elmwood Cemetery - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below for Manuscripts Small Collection 3683. Listing of graves in Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Kentucky. Data consists of name, dates, and in some cases a brief description of the grave monument and/or its maker.


Warren Circuit Court - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Warren Circuit Court - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3682. Images of two seals of the Warren County (Kentucky) Circuit Court, one affixed to documents dated 1825 and 1839, and the other to a document dated 1860, together with a letter from the Court Administrator with historical background. Also includes a paper by an unknown author describing the Warren County Court of Quarter Sessions and a few early indictments.


Spurlock, John Howard, 1939-2023 (Sc 3680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Spurlock, John Howard, 1939-2023 (Sc 3680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3680. Notes of an interview, 6 December 1986, by WKU professor John H. Spurlock with James Stuart, the brother of author Jesse Stuart. They discuss Jesse Stuart’s columns for the Greenup (Ky.) News and his editorship of the Greenup County Citizen; local and school board politics; and a physical attack on Jesse Stuart following his criticism of the local member of Congress.


Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1906-1984 (Sc 3681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1906-1984 (Sc 3681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 3681. Various items relating to the work of author Jesse Stuart: inscribed poems and articles; a 1975 commencement speech delivered at Ball State University; highlights of the first year of the Jesse Stuart Foundation; and the Jesse Stuart Land Management and Promotion Plan. Also includes (digital format only - click on "Additional Files" below for scans) a card index of magazine and newspaper articles by and concerning Stuart located by scholar John H. Spurlock in repositories at Murray State University, Morehead State University, and Marshall University.


Farmer Family Papers (Mss 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Farmer Family Papers (Mss 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 751. Letters and papers of the Farmer family of Henderson County, Kentucky. Includes items from associated families, especially the Yeaman family of Colorado. Also includes some genealogical data.


Smith Family Papers (Sc 3679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Smith Family Papers (Sc 3679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3679. Two items relating to the Smith family of Warren County, Kentucky: a letter, 18 November 1852, from Amanda M. F. Withers, Dripping Spring, Edmonson County, Kentucky, to Sarah Hampton in Warren County; having recently moved, she describes her labors setting up housekeeping, gives regards to her friends and Sarah’s family, advises Sarah to be careful in choosing a husband, and asks to be sent some plant cuttings. Also, a codicil to the will of Sarah’s future father-in-law Daniel C. Smith, 1868.


Obenchain, Lida Calvert, 1856-1935 (Sc 3678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2023

Obenchain, Lida Calvert, 1856-1935 (Sc 3678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3678. Two letters of Lida Calvert Obenchain (pen name “Eliza Calvert Hall”) Dallas, Texas, to “Max” and “Frances.” The first, dated 13 April 1932, thanks Max for a gift of lead pencils; the second, dated 19 July 1933, mentions the couple’s young son Kearney, gives family news, and mourns the effects of the Depression on the likelihood of publishing three books she has completed. She also recommends the reading of biography over fiction and lists her own recent reading.


Farmer, Eugenia (Berniaud), 1835-1924 (Sc 3677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Farmer, Eugenia (Berniaud), 1835-1924 (Sc 3677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3677. Biographical data on Eugenia B. Farmer, who worked for woman suffrage in Covington, Kentucky before moving to St. Paul, Minnesota. Includes Farmer’s address, “A Voice from the Civil War,” read at the 1918 Minnesota Woman Suffrage Convention; clippings from St. Paul newspapers; and a 2016 article from the Northern Kentucky Tribune. Also includes death certificates for Farmer and her husband.


Obenchain, Lida Calvert, 1856-1935 (Sc 3676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Obenchain, Lida Calvert, 1856-1935 (Sc 3676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3676. Items related to the literary career of Bowling Green, Kentucky native Lida Calvert Obenchain (“Eliza Calvert Hall”): a letter from President Theodore Roosevelt regarding her book Aunt Jane of Kentucky; her correspondence with H. L. Mencken and Theodore Dreiser; notes about her family; photographs of her gravestone and Bowling Green house; and a clipping and program regarding the dedication of a historical marker in Bowling Green.


Hodge, James H., 1843?-1924 (Sc 3675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Hodge, James H., 1843?-1924 (Sc 3675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3675. Letters (3), written by James Hodge to his mother in Warren County, Kentucky, while serving with the 11th Kentucky Infantry, U.S.A. Writing from Tennessee just before the Battle of Bean’s Station, and from Kentucky and Georgia, he tells of engaging the enemy at Knoxville, of enduring "hard times" and reduced rations, and of his wish to return home to see her. Includes his 1924 obituary.


Kirby Family Papers (Mss 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Kirby Family Papers (Mss 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 749. Papers of the Kirby family of Warren County, Kentucky, especially Sarah Jane “Jennie” Kirby, her son Percy Warren Kirby, and his grandson Joseph W. Harris. Includes some genealogical data collected by Jennie.


Unions - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Unions - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3673. By-Laws and Trade Rules of Union Local No. 2156, Bowling Green, Kentucky, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.


Kirby, Sarah Jane "Jennie" (Whalen), 1863-1918 (Sc 3674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Kirby, Sarah Jane "Jennie" (Whalen), 1863-1918 (Sc 3674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3674. Memoranda by Jennie Kirby, Warren County, Kentucky, of local deaths from 1899-1916. Using a blank Poll Book, she inscribes names, date of death, and in most cases the cause of death. African Americans and whites are included. Records of births, 1910-1911, are at the back of the book.


Ingram, James Maurice, 1905-1976 (Sc 3672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Ingram, James Maurice, 1905-1976 (Sc 3672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3672. Photographs (black & white, one color) of churches, schools, a library, a residence, and a business complex, presumably all designed by Louisville, Kentucky architect James Maurice Ingram. The residence and some of the church photographs are unidentified.


Graven Family Papers (Sc 3671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Graven Family Papers (Sc 3671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3671. Records relating to the Boyd, Upton, Graven and Leslie families of Hart, Larue, and Monroe counties in Kentucky. Includes church minutes, tax receipts, marriage bond, family reminiscences, clippings, and a genealogy tracing the Upton family back to the Powhatan Nation of Virginia. Also includes photographs of the dedication of a new grave marker for War of 1812 veteran James Boyd.


Garrott, June Rose, 1932-2024 (Sc 3670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2023

Garrott, June Rose, 1932-2024 (Sc 3670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3670. Letters and papers of June Rose Garrott, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes family information; letters from Japan, where she taught English; Christmas letters; an account of a trip to China; and a list of her writing and scholarly activities.