Mayors of Louisville : records, 1870-1909.

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Mayors of Louisville : records, 1870-1909.

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Collection of papers of Louisville mayors during the period 1870-1909. The papers are primarily composed of correspondence received by the mayors, concerning employment, complaints about municipal services, information requests, charity requests, letters from other city officials, local businessmen, commercial organizations, Ky. political figures, Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 visit to Louisville, and the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia. Also included are papers relating to such matters as city contracts and ordinances, petitions, construction proposals and bids, requisitions, payroll lists, receipts, and General Council resolutions. Louisville mayors represented are John G. Baxter, Charles D. Jacob, Paul Reed, William L. Lyons, Henry S. Tyler, George D. Todd, Charles P. Weaver, Charles F. Grainger, and James F. Grinstead. Prominent correspondents include John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, Robert Worth Bingham, Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, Luke Pryor Blackburn, Simon Bolivar Buckner, William Joseph Deboe, Reuben T. Durrett, Samuel Insull, Harvey Samuel Irwin, Tom Loftin Johnson, James B. McCreary, Edgar Young Mullins, Thomas H. Paynter, Joseph Swager Sherley, South Trimble, and Henry Watterson.

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