Beckner family collection, 1801-1956.

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Beckner family. Beckner family collection, 1801-1956.

Beckner family collection, 1801-1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39376196

This collection consists of 34 items associated with the Beckner family of Clark County, Kentucky. Many of the items deal with various family genealogies such as the Beckner, Kittrell, Carter, Cabell, Strode, Lander, Fauntleroy, Boswell, Hazelrigg, and Fletcher families of Virginia and Kentucky. Also included is a 1941 certificate of baptism for Lucien Kittrell; a notebook of marriages from 1781-1822 and some early wills ca. 1674; a 1906 announcement of the opening of the Beckner and Beckner law firm in Winchester, Kentucky; Beckner family correspondence; essays dated 1841-1842 by Nancy Hickman of Winchester; Clark County Court motion to close a road; three telegrams dated June 23, 1928, congratulating Marie Warren Beckner on her marriage; other Beckner family correspondence; newspaper and magazine clippings from 1883-1942; a mayor's proclamation concerning the Pastime Theatre tragedy in Winchester, Ky., March, 1918; two Winchester Telephone Company share certificates; a photograph of Samuel R. Moseley at Hyde Park and a photograph of John Taliaferro Beckner of Winchester; a 1924 Telephone Almanac; a 1923 booklet entitled "Things Worth Knowing About the Telephone"; a booklet concerning the Husband and Wife Statue of 1894, an address given before the Woman's Club of Louisville by Rozel Weissinger, May 15, 1894; an October, 1906, Kentucky University Transylvanian yearbook; a partial 1910 Winchester phonebook; a 1913 publication by Louis Pilcher called "The Story of Hazard, Ky.; Pearl of the Mountains; an 1881-82 catalog to Kentucky Wesleyan College in Millersburg; a 1913 booklet by J.A. Edge called "Fayette Home Telephone Company and Others Against The People: A Statement of Facts for the People"; a 1926 University of Kentucky commencement program; a publication about the 1956 session of the Kentucky Senate; a 1909 Bluegrass Fair program; an 1899 power of attorney to O.D. Curry for the Elizabeth Quisenberry descendents of Kentucky; menu and guest list for the Queen of Roumania in Bardstown, Nov. 18, 1926; a poem by Marie Beckner; an 1801 survey notice from Ohio County, Ky., signed by Samuel McDowell, Jr. for John Holt; an index and notes on the William Hickman charge book dated 1830-1856; notes on the seige of Strode Station in Clark County, Kentucky; a biographical sketch of John Strode Lander; and a humorous diploma created by Lucien Beckner, May, 1930, entitled "Diploma of the Pithecanthropean University."

34 items.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library