Diary, 1893.

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Diary, 1893.

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This is a diary kept by Jennie Chinn Morton from August 1 to December 31, 1893. It includes descriptions of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, information about the election of the state librarian, and discussions of the possible whereabouts and pardon of former state treasurer James W. "Honest Dick" Tate, who embezzled $350,000 in state funds during his twenty-year tenure before disappearing in 1888. There is also personal and family information.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Tate, James W., b. 1831.

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Morton, Jennie C. (Jennie Chinn), 1838-1920

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Jennie Chinn Morton was born in Franklin County, Kentucky in 1838. Soon widowed after her marriage to John C. Morton of Hartford, Kentucky in 1860, she turned her time and attention to literary pursuits. Morton was a member of the Lyceum, a Frankfort literary society which was the progenitor of the revived Kentucky State Historical Society (now the Kentucky Historical Society). She served as Secretary-Treasurer and Regent of the Society and was the founder and original editor of the Society's jo...