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Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan of one document only (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 734. Minutes kept by the Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee composed of ladies' auxiliaries from the Kentucky counties of Logan, Simpson and Warren.
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2608. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 718. Memoir of Learner B. Davison, a Methodist clergyman, originally of Grayson County, Kentucky, taken from the minutes of the 1898 Louisville Annual Conference; and a photocopy of a letter he wrote to a relative on the day he was killed by a train in Louisville, Kentucky, 29 June 1898.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2594. Miscellaneous letters to Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and to family members. Includes notecards and a postcard with Shaker themes. Also includes a letter to Jane Helm from a friend regarding rooming together in college, and a speech by Margie Helm on the early history of the Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Dewitt, Marcus Bearden, 1835-1901 (Sc 2589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dewitt, Marcus Bearden, 1835-1901 (Sc 2589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2589. Typescript copy (prepared in 1911) of Marcus Bearden DeWitt’s pocket memorandum book from March-June 1863 and May 1865. A chaplain with the 8th Tennessee Infantry (C.S.A), DeWitt chronicles conditions during the Civil War, including camp life, travel, family visits, and religion. Also includes “A Sketch of My Life," a short autobiography written by DeWitt, and a memorial written by one of his children.
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 406. Correspondence, research notes and manuscript articles of Francis J. “Thomas” Whitaker, a Benedictine monk who lived and worked at St. Maur’s Priory, formerly the South Union Shaker Village in Logan County, Kentucky, from 1954-1988. He amassed a large collection of photocopied research material on the South Union community as well as other Shaker villages and museums in the United States. Also includes his research on various Catholic topics.
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.
Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham
Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book The Late, Great Planet Earth. LGPE sold more copies than any other non-fiction book in the 1970s and greatly aided the mainstreaming of “end-times” ideas like the Antichrist, nuclear holocaust, the Rapture, and various other concepts connected with popular end-times thought. These ideas stem from a specific strain of late-nineteenth century Biblical interpretation known as dispensational premillennialism, which …
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 - Collector (Sc 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 - Collector (Sc 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 490. Butler County tax receipts, 1887, 1890 (2); Presbyterial treasurer’s receipts of Concord Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Logan Presbytery, 1899, 1901 (2); and postcard relating that Kentucky Synod will meet in Madisonville instead of Greenville due to an epidemic in Greenville, 17 September 1900.
Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 476. Letters, 1926-1952 (3), sermons and speeches (15), commencement program, 1913, memo books, 1920-1923 (2) of Baxter W. Napier, Sr., Methodist minister, 1882(?)-1971; Masonic tribute and receipt, 1895 (2) of I. S. Napier; and miscellaneous items, 1842, 1951 (8).
Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 477. Minute book of the Building Committee of the Reformed Church [Christian], Danville, Kentucky. Fire destroyed the building on 22 February 1860, and the minutes detail an account of the transactions, contributions, and expenses incurred in rebuilding.
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 455. Emancipation agreement made between Thomas McClean and the trustees of the United Society of Shakers, South Union, Kentucky, regarding the manumission of a black family (Joseph, Chloe, and George).
Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 414. Photocopies of Baptist minister Jacob Tol Miller’s original journal, as well as an annotated typescript. The journal details many aspects of a minister’s life during the period of camp meeting revivalism in the antebellum west from 1856-1887.
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 453. Letter, 9 February 1868, from Howell and John Edmonds, South Union, Kentucky, to their parents, in Tennessee, regarding their welfare. Howell and John were both enrolled at the school at South Union. Also a note informing the parents of the death of John, age 15, of spotted fever.
Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 447. Letter from Walter Shepherd, Mount Lebanon, New York, to Roy G. Cooksey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in reply to inquiry. Shepherd is sending materials about the Shakers for Cooksey’s use in preparing a talk on them, and also, he expresses his views on various aspects of Shakerism.
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 618. Record book of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Hartford Baptist Church of Ohio County, Kentucky, which contains the constitution, by-laws and amendments, treasurer’s records, lists of members, and minutes. Also includes letters from ministers’ wives, 1899, 1929 (2), and Sunday School lessons printed in Chinese, 1929 (2).
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 629. Associational letter sent by the First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to the Warren Association of Baptists, containing the following lists: representatives at council meeting, ministers, membership, officers, Sunday School records, and financial table.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 631. Photocopies of legal papers pertaining to lawsuit brought by Sally Boles in which she sought and obtained a divorce from her husband William, who united with the Shakers in 1808 and left her and their three children to join the Shaker settlement at South Union, Kentucky, in 1811. The case was first tried in Logan County, then in Barren County.
Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 644. Photocopies of notes compiled by Milton L. Baughn while writing his book A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, which was published in 1972. The notes concern the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (African American) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.
Bay's Fork Association Of The Baptist Church - Kentucky (Sc 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bay's Fork Association Of The Baptist Church - Kentucky (Sc 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 615. Index to minutes of Bay's Fork Association of the Baptist Church.
Kentucky Baptist Centennial Memorial Roll Book (Sc 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Baptist Centennial Memorial Roll Book (Sc 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 614. A book of certificates which were sold for one dollar each to raise money for the Kentucky Baptist
Centennial Memorial Fund. The buyers were members of the Providence Knob Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Many unsold certificates are in the book.
Rapp, Ernest William, B. 1941 (Sc 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rapp, Ernest William, B. 1941 (Sc 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 605. Photocopy of paper by Ernest W. Rapp, titled, “A Memorial to John G. Durham,” which was written for a history course at Western Kentucky University. The John Durham Collection (MSS 9) in the Manuscripts Division of the WKU Special Collections Library was used in writing this paper.
Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 542. Paper entitled “History of the Auburn Baptist Church, 1866-1957,” a holographic copy by Nellie Childress, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the paper written to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library.
Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 546. Letter to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library, from Helen E. (Garvin) Rouse, concerning records from the minutes of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, that relate to the Garvin and Irvin families and an accompanying statement related to the two families.
Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 544. Carbon copies of two 1967 letters written to Brother Thomas Whitaker, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky, by Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey, relating information concerning the history of the Gasper River Presbyterian Church in Logan County.
Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 525. Photocopy of an incomplete typescript memoir entitled “The First Fifty Years of Judson Slade Taylor,” a Baptist minister born in Ohio County, Kentucky; and a letter, 20 August 1971, from J.B. Taylor, a relative, to Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, related to the memoir.
St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 468. Typescript paper relating the history of the Catholic Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky written in 1951, guest register used for Centennial Reception, and telegram received from the Vatican noting the occasion, 1959.
Shannon Family Papers (Sc 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shannon Family Papers (Sc 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 391. Warren County deeds of Shannon and Reid families, 1821-1872 (6); land lease of Samuel Reid, 1824; agreement for making bricks and erecting a building between Samuel Shannon, Sr. and his son, 1824; deed and miscellaneous papers of the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church near Rockfield, Warren County, 1839-1882 (5); will of James Shannon, 1846; and miscellaneous receipts, 1843-1882 (3)—one for school tuition, 1844.
Union Grove Society Of The Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Union Grove Society Of The Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 409. Notice of Union Grove Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church’s formation at Shiloh meeting house, Warren County, Kentucky, which was sent to the moderator and members of the Logan Presbytery, requesting to be under their care. Signed by O.C. Carson, J.S. McCormick, and H.W. Stagner.