Joshua Soule Smith papers, 1865-1903.

Hart, Joel T. (Joel Tanner), 1810-1877

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Joel Tanner Hart was born in Clark County, Kentucky, February 10, 1810 to Josiah and Judith Tanner Hart. As a young man, he built stone walls and chimneys for a living and by the age of twenty-one was working in Pruden's marble yard in Lexington, Kentucky carving headstones and monuments. Hart began his career in sculpture when Shobal Vail Clevenger, a young sculptor from Cincinnati, encouraged him to sculpt a marble bust of Cassius Marcellus Clay. From then on, Hart received commissions to make...

Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky

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Hays, Will S.

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Louisville journalist, poet, songwriter, and steamboat pilot. From the description of Diary and scrapbook, ca. 1861. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49279811 Will S. Hays (his more familiar name) was a song writer, newspaper columnist, and steamboat captain. A Louisville native, he wrote as many as five hundred songs including "Mollie Darling," which was said to have sold three million copies. From the description of Photograph collection, c...

Louisville, Ky. Southern Exposition (1886)

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Sherley, Douglass, 1857-

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Wilson, Robert Burns, 1850-1916

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Kentucky poet and artist. From the description of Poem, 1894 July. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49479323 Artist and author. From the description of Robert Burns Wilson papers, 1885-1888. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981392 Wilson pursued an artistic and literary career in Kentucky for many years in the nineteenth century. An established portraitist, Wilson's literary output included three books of poetry, and the words to "Re...

United States. President (1897-1901 : McKinley)

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Clay, Cassius M. (Cassius Marcellus), 1846-1913.

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Smith, Joshua Soule, 1848-

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Journalist, Attorney. Joshua Soule Smith was born in northern Florida. At the age of fifteen, Smith joined the Confederate Army and was held prisoner in Maryland. In 1866 he moved to Kentucky with an aunt. After graduating from the law school at Transylvania University in 1872, he was appointed a law lecturer there. He later held positions of Fayette County Attorney and judge of the Recorder Court. He also wrote for various newspapers in the area, including: the Lexingto...