Stephen Collins Foster papers, 1856-1946, 1931-1946 (bulk dates)

Welch, Marion Foster.

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Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977

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Epithet: philanthropist and pharmacologist, President Eli Lilly and Company British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000837.0x00033f Eli Lilly was an Indianapolis pharmaceutical heir and magnate, philanthropist, and avocational archaeologist and historian. From the description of Papers, 1937-1961. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 27350174 Lilly was an Indianapo...

Townsend, John Wilson, 1885-1968

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Biographical note: John Wilson Townsend, a native of Fayette County, Kentucky, was a graduate of Transylvania University and the author of "Kentucky in American Literature" (1915) and numerous other works on Kentucky history. He was employed variously as a teacher, librarian, and editor, but known chiefly as a bookseller and collector of first editions, having operated the Graceland Book Shop and the Blue Grass Book Shop in Lexington. During his lifetime sizable collections of books assembled by...

Foster, Stephen Collins

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Stephen Collins foster was born in Pittsburgh in 1826. He wasnaturally inclined to music and he wrote over one hundred and seventy songs in his short life. He traveled to New Orleans and New York to compose music but still came back to Pittsburgh, where he died in 1864. From the description of Stephen Foster Collins collection 1931-1932 [typescripts]. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48010401 Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchest...

My Old Kentucky Home State Park.

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Wilson, Samuel M.

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The Dudley Oil and Gas Company was first incorporated in 1903 with its main headquarters located in Wilmington, Delaware. According to its minutes, the company's purpose was to transact business "...relating to the production and sale of oil land or leases, petroleum oil or gas..." Within Kentucky, Dudley Oil and Gas focused much of its activity in Lee County and established an office in the city of Lexington. Judge Samuel M. Wilson of Lexington served as secretary to the company and collected t...

Christy's Ministrels.

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Rowan family.

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Lilly, Josiah Kirby, 1893-1966

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Josiah K. Lilly, Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Ind. in 1893. He joined the family buiness, Eli Lilly and Co., in 1914. In 1944, he became president of the newly formed Eli Lilly International Corporation, and in 1948, president of the Eli Lilly Company. He was an avid collector of miniature soldiers, coins, postage stamps, and firearms among other things. From the description of Josiah K. Lilly, Jr. collections photographs [graphic], May 1966. (Indiana Historical Society Library). Wo...

Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932

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Writer, editor, poet, insurance executive of Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Young Ewing Allison : papers, 1878-1943. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49419335 Young Ewing Allison was born in Henderson, Kentucky and began his journalism career there at age nineteen by founding the county's first daily newspaper, the HENDERSON CHRONICLE. He later served as city editor of the EVANSVILLE JOURNAL and the LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL. After 1901 h...

Christy, Edwin Pearce, 1815-1862

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