Collection, 1780-1897.

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Collection, 1780-1897.

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Collection of autograph letters, commissions, deeds, minutes of meetings, and miscellaneous documents. Included are letters and documents from the collections of Bennett H. Young and Samuel M. Duncan, relating chiefly to Jessamine County, Ky., and its citizens; letters, 1890-1897, of Samuel M. Duncan to General Young describing letters, documents, and books sent to him by Young; miscellaneous documents, 1780-1822, relating to Louisville, Ky.; Clark family papers, 1790-1814; letters from Robert J. Breckinridge, James Garrard, Leslie Combs, John J. Crittenden, Jefferson Davis, Edward Everett, James Harlan, and Richard Mentor Johnson; records, 1790-1848, of Mercer County, Ky., including marriage records, 1827-1828; constitution, by-laws, and minutes of meetings of the Young Men's Literary Society of Nicholasville, Ky., 1847-1849. Also includes a letter from Jefferson Davis to Governor John Letcher of Virginia, introducing Alexander H. Stephens as special commissioner of the Confederate States to the government of Virginia, 1861.

0.33 cubic ft.

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The Filson Historical Society

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Hickman, Richard Baylor, Collector, 1865-1949.

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Collector. From the description of Collection, 1780-1897. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49242401 ...

Young Men's Literary Society of Nicholasville (Nicholasville, Ky.)

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Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

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Former vice-president of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Letter, 1866 Dec. 26, Crawfordville, Georgia, to Henry Bradley Plant. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 260819402 Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Alexander H. Stephens papers, 1844-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476996 Lawyer, journalist, governor of Geo...

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818

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Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century. From the description of Documents, 1778-1818. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287330 American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue ...

Duncan, Samuel M., b. 1830.

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Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871

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Presbyterian minister, educator, Kentucky superintendent of public instruction. From the description of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge : miscellaneous papers, 1822-1864. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46729086 ...

Young, Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919

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Confederate officer, lawyer, and businessman of Louisville, Ky. From the description of Bennett Henderson Young papers, 1879-1912. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49479569 Bennett Henderson Young and Franklin P. Straus were delegates to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1890-1891. From the description of Autograph albums from the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, 1890-1891. (University of Kentucky Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13...

Bullitt, Alexander Scott, 1761-1816

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