Minute book, 1846-1847.

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Minute book, 1846-1847.

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Minutes of the meetings of the organization, and its constitution and by-laws. Written in the book is the diary, 1848-1862, of Lemuel C. Porter, physician and surgeon of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The diary describes the health of his patients and of the community; the cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854; the temperance movement; the Know Nothing Party and Bloody Monday in Louisville; his thoughts on the future of slavery; political and economic conditions in Kentucky during the Civil War; and Simon B. Buckner's occupation of Bowling Green.

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