Flanery family papers, 1883-1972.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Morehead State University

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Established in 1887 as Morehead Normal School, under control of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions, by Frank C. Button and his mother Phebe Phelps Button; came under state control in 1922, name changed to Morehead State Normal School; name changed to Morehead State Normal School and Teachers College in 1926, Morehead State Teachers College in 1930, and Morehead State College in 1948; gained university status along with other state-supported regional colleges in 1966. From the de...

Democratic Party (Ky.)

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Campaign officials In 1920 Mrs. Mary Shelby Wilson chaired the Kentucky Women's Democratic Convention and was president of the National Democratic Victory Club of Lexington. Judge Samuel M. Wilson began his political career supporting William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson, but he was most active in the elections of 1920 and 1924 as state campaign chairman. Subsequently he was less active in the campaigns of Al Smith and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the...

Flanery, William Harvey, d. 1941.

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Kentucky. General Assembly. House of Representatives

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The House of Representatives for Kentucky meets in Frankfort, Ky. From the description of Broadside, 1827 January 23. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49244577 The second session of the First Assembly of the State of Kentucky House of Representatives met from November 5, 1792-December 22, 1792 in Lexington, Kentucky. The first session of the Third General Assembly of the State of Kentucky House of Representatives met from November 3, 1794-De...

Flanery, Mary Elliott, 1867-1933.

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Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, 1872-1920

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Suffragist, social reformer. Madeline McDowell was born at Woodlake, Franklin County, Ky., May 20, 1872. She married Desha Breckinridge on November 17, 1898. Mrs. Breckinridge was president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1912-1915, and again in 1919. She was second vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1913-1914. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fayette County Tuberculosis Sanitarium; was a director of the Fayet...

Flanery family.

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Mary Elliott Flanery, born into an important political family in Eastern Kentucky, for whom Elliott county was named, was the first woman legislator elected south of the Mason-Dixon line. After attending Barbourville (W.Va.) College and the University of Kentucky, Mary Elliott began to teach in 1892. The next year, she married William Harvey Flanery, a lawyer. He established a law practice in Pikeville in 1895; they moved to Catlettsburg in 1912. In 1904 Mary Flanery became associat...

Stewart, Cora Wilson, 1875-1958

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Educator, author. Born in Rowan County, Ky., Cora Wilson Stewart was educated at Morehead Normal School, the National Normal University and the University of Kentucky. In 1911, while serving as superintendent of Rowan County Schools, she established an adult education program aimed at eliminating illiteracy known as the "Moonlight Schools." Her pioneering efforts on behalf of illiteracy gained her a national reputation as an education reformist. In 1914 she was appointed...

Democratic Woman's Club of Kentucky.

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Parker, Dawn Flanery.

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Howerton, Merle Flanery, d. 1957.

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Elliott family.

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