Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (MSS 114)

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Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (MSS 114)

1896-1970

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/299

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 114. Correspondence, business papers, and speeches of Monroe County, Kentucky native Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace. Includes materials concerning Republican National Committee and Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; civic, religious, political and professional organizations in Kentucky and Washington, D.C. Also includes some Cumberland County, Kentucky records.

84 boxes. 852 folders. 18,051 items.

eng, Latn

Western Kentucky University. Folklife Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6961536

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Pace, Pearl Carter, 1896-1970

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Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace was born in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky on January 25, 1896. From 1917 to 1918 she was a public school teacher in the Cumberland County community of Marrowbone. Pace married Stanley Dan Pace on December 24, 1917, and they resided in Burkesville, Kentucky most of their married life. They had three children. Pace began her business career as a bookkeeper in 1924. In 1938, Pace achieved an outstanding goal: being the first woman in Kentucky to be elected to a ...