Papers, 1837-1881.

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Papers, 1837-1881.

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Contains correspondence to and from Hart, poems, copy of will, geneaological material, and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include neices Dian and Mary Weaver, Hart's pupil George H. Saul, and others.

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Centre College, Grace Doherty Library

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Centre College, Grace Doherty Library

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Weaver, Diana

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Saul, George H.

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Weaver, Mary

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Hart, Joel T. (Joel Tanner), 1810-1877

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Joel Tanner Hart was born in Clark County, Kentucky, February 10, 1810 to Josiah and Judith Tanner Hart. As a young man, he built stone walls and chimneys for a living and by the age of twenty-one was working in Pruden's marble yard in Lexington, Kentucky carving headstones and monuments. Hart began his career in sculpture when Shobal Vail Clevenger, a young sculptor from Cincinnati, encouraged him to sculpt a marble bust of Cassius Marcellus Clay. From then on, Hart received commissions to make...