Edwin Porch Morrow papers, 1913-1940, 1913-1935 (bulk dates).

Morrow, Edwin Porch, 1877-1935.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65r4gjf (person)

Kentucky governor, U.S. District Attorney. Morrow, a native of Somerset, Kentucky, was a member of a Republican family which included another elected governor of Kentucky (William O. Bradley, Morrow's uncle, who served from 1895 to 1899) and an unsucessful gubernatorial candidate (Morrow's father, Thomas, who lost in 1883 to J. Proctor Knott). Morrow graduated from Centre College and received a law degree from the universities of Cincinnati and Kentucky. He was also a ve...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n40kzp (person)

Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m0wbf (person)

Willard Rouse Jillson, geologist, was born in Syracuse, New York, May 28, 1890. He moved to Kentucky in 1917 and served as the state geologist from 1919-1932. Known as a prolific writer, he wrote on such subjects as paleontology, mining, regional history, biography, and history of Kentucky literature. He produced over sixty books and over 500 articles, brochures, and pamphlets. Jillson died Oct. 5, 1975, and was buried in Frankfort Cemetery in Kentucky. From the description of Willar...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz44c1 (person)

Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Republican Party (Ky.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6km3fnb (corporateBody)

United States. National Mediation Board

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gb5zfx (corporateBody)

These are 15 cases which have come up through the grievance procedure of the railroads and have been deadlocked in the appropriate division of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, a committee of three representatives from management and three from the union. This is the fifth step in the grievance procedure, and if it deadlocks a neutral referee is appointed by the National Mediation Board to sit with the Adjustment Board and resolve the disputes. Cases in this dispute were deadlocked on Dece...

United States Railroad Labor Board

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ff8mtk (corporateBody)

United States. Congress

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb6wc6 (corporateBody)

Bills of the 96th Congress to provide for temporary increases in the public debt limit, and for other purposes. From the description of Public debt legislation, 96th Congress : legislative history of public debt legislation, 1979-1980. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243776779 Bill of the 96th Congress to impose a windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and for other purposes. From the description of Crude oil windfall profit tax act of 1980 ...

Morrow, Thomas

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t73wpj (person)