Collection, ca. 1905-ca. 1980.

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Collection, ca. 1905-ca. 1980.

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An artificial collection, consisting of newspaper articles chiefly about Cassius M. Clay and White Hall, his estate in Richmond, Kentucky. Includes biographical magazine and journal articles, brochures about White Hall, and two letters to Brutus J. Clay (1808-1878) from David Jayne Hill (1905) and Jno. W. Kern (1916?). Includes 56 photographs of White Hall during the pre-restoration years.

2 boxes.

Lincoln Memorial University Library, Carnegie-Vincent Library

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Lincoln Memorial University Library, Carnegie-Vincent Library

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Hill, David Jayne, 1850-1932

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Diplomat and historian. From the description of Letters of David Jayne Hill, 1908-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450897 Educator, diplomat and historian born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was president of Bucknell University (1879-1888), University of Rochester(1888-1896), Assistant Secretary of State (1898-1903), Minister to Switzerland (1903-1905), Minister to the Netherlands (1905-1908) and Ambassador to Germany (1908-1911). Active in the peace movement during his...

Clay, Brutus Junius, 1808-1878

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U. S. Congressman, Agriculturalist The second son of General Green Clay, Brutus was born in Madison County, Kentucky in 1808. He attended Centre College in Danville. After the death of his older brother Sidney in 1834, Brutus became the head of the family, assuming responsibility for the estate left by his father, who had died six years earlier. This included much aid and supervision of the financial affairs of his brother Cassius, the famous emancipationist, who was fre...

White Hall (Ky.)

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Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903

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Cassius Marcellus Clay was born to Sally Lewis and Green Clay, one of the wealthiest planters and slaveholders in Kentucky, who became a prominent politician. He was one of six children who survived to adulthood, of seven born. Clay was a member of a large and influential political family. His older brother Brutus J. Clay became a politician at the state and federal levels. They were cousins of both Kentucky politician Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay. Cassius' sister Elizab...