Vertrees family collection, ca. 1854-ca. 1979 (bulk 1875-1915).

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Vantrees family. Vertrees family collection, ca. 1854-ca. 1979 (bulk 1875-1915).

Vertrees family collection, ca. 1854-ca. 1979 (bulk 1875-1915).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39976136

This collection consists of items created and collected by the Vertrees family of the Hardin County, Kentucky area and their allied families: Partee, Wrather, and Clarkson. Items, dated between ca. 1854 to ca. 1979, include books, family photographs, Georgetown College programs, letters, certificate of allegiance, receipts, invoices, ledgers, catalogs, yearbooks, sermon notebooks, Vertrees family bible, and autograph books. Names represented in this collection are Rev. James Quinton Partee, S.W. Wrather, W.W. Vertrees, Glovie Vertrees, Inez Vertrees Partee, Henry Vertrees, Bernice Shacklett, Ruben Clarkson, Ed Wrather, Mary and Henry Chelf, Hallie Wrather Chelf, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Richardson, Laura Clarkson Caldwell, Guy Ditto, and John Kohl. Corporate names include Georgetown College, Vine Grove Roller Mill, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance, Weavers Business College, Herring-Jenkins and Co., Sears, and Montgomery Ward. The books in this collection were written by Kentucky authors and/or concern Kentucky subjects. Authors include Harry Caudill, Jesse Stuart, Janice Holt Giles, and John Fox, Jr. Other items donated are located in the KHS museum.

2.5 cubic ft.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library