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United States History

Western Kentucky University

Series

2017

Mental Illness

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Embric, E. P. - Relating To (Sc 3107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2017

Embric, E. P. - Relating To (Sc 3107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3107. Finding signed by 12 jurors on letterhead of a Lebanon, Kentucky law firm adjudging E. P. Embric to be a lunatic. The finding states that Embric exhibited the first symptoms of an unsound mind on 21 April 1880, that his place of birth, residence and parents are unknown, and that he is incapable of laboring for his support.


Purdy, James K., 1857-1929 - Relating To (Sc 3106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2017

Purdy, James K., 1857-1929 - Relating To (Sc 3106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3106. Finding signed by 12 jurors adjudging James Purdy of Marion County, Kentucky to be a lunatic. The finding states that Purdy became of unsound mind two years earlier, “supposed to be from self abuse,” that his mother resides in the county, and that he is incapable of laboring for his support.