Henry Perviance Peers papers for , A complete gazetteer of thestate of Kentucky ca. 1842-1846.

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Henry Perviance Peers papers for , A complete gazetteer of thestate of Kentucky ca. 1842-1846.

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Papers, originally assembled by Henry Perviance Peers for the publication ofhis A complete gazetteer of the state of Kentucky, used by Lewis Collins to publish his1847 Historical sketches of Kentucky ...

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Peers, Henry Perviance, 1807-1846.

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Collins, Lewis

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Eastman, Harrison, approximately 1823-

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A. S. Mitchell

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Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870

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Henry Perviance Peers (1807-1846) of Maysville, Kentucky, was the younger brother of Benjamin O. Peers, president of Transylvania University. H.P. Peers attended Transylvania University, but did not graduate. He assembled materials for, and wrote a draft of, a planned publication A complete gazetteer of the state of Kentucky . Peers did not complete this work before he died in March of 1846. After his death, his brother-in-law, Lewis Collins (1797-1870, newspaper editor and judge of Mason County...