Lewis Collins papers, 1830-1871.

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Lewis Collins papers, 1830-1871.

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Personal papers of Lewis and Richard Collins, prominent early Kentucky historians, including three indentures for land in Maysville, Kentucky; a prayer book belonging Mary Eleanor Peers Collins; a letter from James Chamberlayne Pickett dated 13, January, 1830; and a blank copy of an 1871 printed survey.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Collins, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1824-1888

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Lawyer and journalist from Kentucky. Wrote on the history of Kentucky. From the description of Papers, 1761-1873. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246331 Lawyer, historian, editor, and a founding member of the Filson Club. From the description of Richard Henry Collins Letterbook, 1878-1880. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49200259 ...

Pickett, James Chamberlayne.

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Armstrong, James Sinclair, 1915-

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J. Sinclair Armstrong earned an A.B. from Harvard College (1938) and LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1941). From the description of Recollections of the faculty 1938-1941, February 2000. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 777411843 Government official. From the description of Reminiscences of James Sinclair Armstrong : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619541 ...

Collins, Mary Eleanor Peers.

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Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870

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Henry Perviance Peers (1807-1846) of Maysville, Kentucky, was the younger brother of Benjamin O. Peers, president of Transylvania University. H.P. Peers attended Transylvania University, but did not graduate. He assembled materials for, and wrote a draft of, a planned publication A complete gazetteer of the state of Kentucky . Peers did not complete this work before he died in March of 1846. After his death, his brother-in-law, Lewis Collins (1797-1870, newspaper editor and judge of Mason County...

Lee, Richard Henry, 1794-1865

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Richard Henry Lee (1794-1865) of Leesburg, Virginia was a lawyer, professor and minister. He was the grandson of Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), Westmoreland County, Virginia, a member of the Continental Congress (1774-1779, 1784-1785 and 1787) and the State House of Delegates (1777, 1780, 1785), U.S. Senator (1789-1792) and signer of the Declaration of Independence; grandnephew of Arthur Lee (1740-1792), who was also a member of the Continental Congress (1782-1784) and the State House of Delegat...