Jennie Chinn Morton diary, 1893.

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Jennie Chinn Morton diary, 1893.

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Diary kept by Jennie Chinn Morton from August 1 to December 31, 1893. It includes descriptions of the World's Fair held in Chicago (Columbian Exposition), the election of the state librarian, the pardon of former state treasurer James W. "Honest Dick" Tate, as well as personal and family information. Collection also includes 2 copies of "A Rhyme of the Women of Frankfort", by Jennie C. Morton, 1886; a letter from Lizzie Hunt to Aunt Sappie dated 8 August 1893 concerning the World's Fair in Chicago; and a loose diary entry by Jennie Chinn Morton dated 8 July 1882.

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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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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, Jas W.

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Tate was born in Franklin County January 2, 1831. At age seventeen, Tate served as a clerk in the Frankfort post office. He served as assistant secretary of state in 1854-1855 and 1859-1863. From 1865 to 1867 he held the post of assistant clerk to the Kentucky House of Representatives. Tate won election as a Democrat to the position of state treasurer in 1867 and was elected every two years for the next twenty years. Tate married Lucy J. Hawkins in 1856. The Tates had two children, a boy who onl...

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...