Filson Club lectures, 1887-1992.

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850

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Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1830-1848. From the description of [Invitation] 1840 oct. 8 [to] comte Abrial / Louis Philippe. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259486814 Louis-Philippe est le fils aîné de Louis Philippe Joseph, duc de Bourgogne (dit Philippe Egalité) et d’Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, elle-même descendante du comte de Toulouse (fils légitimé de Louis XIV et de la marquise de Montespan). Ainsi, il est également le cousin des rois Lo...

Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850

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Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780 – November 19, 1850) was a politician and the ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. He is the only vice president elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; he began and ended his political career in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Johnson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1806 in the...

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Filson Club

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Historical society and independent research library in Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Scrapbook, ca. 1890. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49221709 Historical society and independent research library of Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Tornado of 1890 accounts, 1890. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49221710 Historical society and independent research library. From the des...

Boone, Squire, 1744-1815

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Squire Boone was the brother of Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky explorer and settler. Squire Boone helped to blaze the Wilderness Trail, and was one of the settlers at Boonesborough, the operator of a gristmill and sawmill, and an ordained Baptist minister. From the description of Papers 1787-1813. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28189399 Squire Boone was born in 1744, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married Jane Van Cleave in 1765 and had five childre...

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

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Born in Thurso, Scotland, 1734, o.s. ; studied medicine in Edinburgh; served in the British Army in America, 1757-1762; surveyor of Cumberland, 1770; colonel of Pennsylvania militia, 1775; brigadier general, 1777 to the close of the Revolution; commander of the Army, 1791-1792; delegate to the Constitutional Congress, 1785-1787, and president, 1787; governor of Northwest Territory, 1789-1802; died in Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1818. (Bio. Cong. Dir., 1928 ed. ; Dic. Am.Biog. --gives b. date, 17...

Morton, David, 1833-1898

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Minister of Russellville, Ky. From the description of Collection, 1818-1855. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49264059 ...

Pollard, Joseph P. (Joseph Percival), 1898-

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Speed, Joshua F. (Joshua Fry), 1814-1882

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From Kentucky, came to Springfield, Illinois where he became a good friend of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Papers, 1841-1853. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768305 Abraham Lincoln's most intimate friend from his days in Springfield. He was a partner in a general store, a farmer and real estate investor. His brother James Speed became Lincoln's second attorney general. His sister Eliza lived in Kentucky. From the descript...

Daviess, Joseph Hamilton, 1774-1811.

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Kentucky lawyer and soldier. From the description of Joseph Hamilton Daviess : papers, 1780-1856. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49241698 ...

Richardson, T. G. 1827-1892.

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Lewis, Lucy Jefferson, 1752-1811

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White, John, 1822-1902.

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Humphrey, Edward P. (Edward Porter), 1809-1887

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Daughters of the American Revolution. Lexington Chapter (Lexington, Ky.)

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Sanders, George Nicholas, 1812-1873

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Financier, lobbyist, and Confederate agent in Europe. From the description of Papers of George Nicholas Sanders, 1833-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81297780 From the description of Papers of George Nicholas Sanders, 1854-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069304 ...

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

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Anthony Wayne was a soldier and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1780. From the description of Receipt book, 1785-1792. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122540852 Wayne was one of the great generals in the Revolutionary War. Here he was an Indian fighter. From the description of DS, 1795 November 16 : Greenville. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 14283513 U.S. representative from Geor...

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the twelfth president of the United States. In 1841, he was appointed to the command of the Sourthern Division of the United States. In the spring of 1845, Taylor appointed to command the Army of Occupation stationed in Corpus Christi. In May 1846, Taylor led his army into north Mexico. Following the battle of Monterey, Taylor was ordered to join General Winfield Scott at the siege of Veracruz. Taylor's victory at at the Battle of Buena Vista made him a national hero....

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...

Stanton, Henry T. (Henry Thompson), 1834-1898

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Kentucky lawyer, editor, and poet. From the description of Letter, 1874 Nov. 19. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49336644 Henry T. Stanton, a native of Virginia, moved to Maysville as a young child. He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, attaining the rank of major. Following the war, he practiced law and worked as a Maysville newspaper editor. Stanton also worked in Kentucky state go...

Sue Bennett College

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Sue Bennett Memorial School opened on January 2, 1897, as an elementary school, high school, normal school, and teacher preparatory institution. The original idea for the school was the Reverend J. J. Dickey's, who appealed to the Kentucky Conference Society for assistance. The society's secretary, Sue Bennett, worked hard for the school's establishment, but died before her dreams were realized. Her sister, Belle Harris Bennett, with the help of the society, the Reverend Dickey and ...

Jarvis, John Wesley, 1780-1840

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Albert Gallatin Worthington (1804-1834) was the fourth child of Ohio Governor Thomas Worthington and his wife Eleanor Swearingen Worthington. Portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) was born in England and moved to the United States as a child. He was the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. John Wesley Jarvis was trained as an artist by engraver Edward Savage and set up a portrait painting business with his contemporary Joseph Wood. From ...

Lytle, Elizabeth Edith

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Henning, Susanne Meriwether, b. 1888.

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Gilkey, John

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Weir, James, 1821-

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Oneida Baptist Institute

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James Anderson Burns founded Oneida Baptist Institute at Oneida, Clay County, Kentucky in 1900. Four teachers and 125 students were on hand for the first day of school, January 1 of that year. In addition to educational basics there were courses in domestic science and manual arts, and an emphasis on religious instruction. By 1916 the Institute was operating extension schools in nearby communities, and teaching night classes for working adults, and had made sizable physical plant expansions. For...

Ranck, George Washington, 1841-1900

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Biographical note: George Washington Ranck was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1841 and was raised in Shelbyville. He attended Shelby College and later Kentucky University in Harrodsburg. In 1865 he became principal of the academy at Kentucky University. He was a noted Kentucky historian who wrote HISTORY OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY (1872), based on oral reminiscences of settlers; THE TRAVELING CHURCH (1891), about the migration of Baptists to Kentucky; THE STORY OF BRYAN'S STATION (1896); and BOONES...

Tarascon, John D., 1765-1825.

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Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865

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Gordon, Harry, 1925 November 9-

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Journalist, sportswriter, author and historian. Combining a career as a war correspondent with sportswriter, Gordon went from reporting on the Korean War in 1950 and 1951, to the Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952, to the Rome Olympics in 1960. He helped plan for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and the Sydney 2000 Olympic torch relay. Gordon was chairman of Australian Associated Press, and served on the Council of the Australian War Memorial, the Australia-China ...

Russell family.

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Pusey, Henry K., b. 1827.

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Preston, William, 1816-1887

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Lawyer, soldier, Kentucky Whig legislator and congressman; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1858-1860; Confederate general; and Confederate Minister to Mexico. From the description of Letter, 12 Nov. 1858. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49299916 U.S. representative from Kentucky. From the description of Autograph : Washington, 1852 Dec. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618973 U.S. representative of Kentucky, C.S.A. diplomat, and army o...

Filson, John, approximately 1747-1788

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Frontiersman and surveyor who made the first map and wrote the first history of Kentucky and was one of the founders of the city of Cincinnati. From the description of Survey : AMsS, Lexington, Ky., 1788 Sept. 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591758 Historian, surveyor, and cartographer. From the description of John Filson : miscellaneous papers, 1788. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49221753 ...

Jackson, William, 1823-1890

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Galt, William H., 1827-1893.

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Anderson, Charles, 1814-1895

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Lawyer, lieutenant-governor of Ohio, founder of Kuttawa, Kentucky. From the description of The story of Soldier's Retreat : a memoir. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49419336 Born June 1, 1814, in Louisville, Kentucky. Graduated from Miami University in Ohio. Admitted to the bar in 1843, and elected to the Ohio State Senate in 1844. Settled in Texas in 1859 and established what later became the Argyle Hotel in San Antonio, where he bred cavalry horses f...

Marshall, Nancy, ca. 1781-1860.

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Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913

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Linn was an early settler of Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Extracts from the manuscripts of Col. R.T. Durrett concerning Col. William Linn : typescript copies, [ca. 1775]-[ca. 1781]. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52249400 Louisville, Kentucky lawyer, editor, author, and primary founder and first president of the Filson Club. From the description of Reuben T. Durrett miscellaneous papers, 1853-1909. (Filson Historical Society...

Jefferson family.

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Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825

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James Wilkinson was born in Maryland and served as an officer in the American Revolution. In 1783 he settled in Kentucky, where he engaged in politics, land speculation, and trade. In 1805 he was appointed governor of Upper Louisiana. Wilkinson's activities in the West implicated him in the Spanish Conspiracy and the Burr Conspiracy; he was acquitted by a court of inquiry during the Burr investigation and by a court martial in 1811. He served as a military commander in the West during the War of...

Speed, John, 1772-1840.

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McMeekin, Isabel McLennan, 1895-1973

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Louisville author. From the description of Isabel McLennan McMeekin : papers, 1960-1972. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252910 From the description of Isabel McLennan McMeekin : miscellaneous papers, 1951-1959. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252935 ...

Tardiveau, Pierre, 1971 -....

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Thixton, Marie M.

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Ballard, Bland W., 1761-1853.

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Rogers, Joseph M., 1742-1834

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Solomon, William King, 1775-1854.

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Cumberland College (Princeton, Ky.)

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Miller, Christopher, approximately 1768-

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Blackburn, Luke Pryor, 1816-1887

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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 ...

Chappell, James A., 1823-1893.

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White, Levi, b. 1803.

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Louisville printer and soldier. From the description of Levi White : papers, 1819-1846. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49377360 ...

Kentucky. Militia

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Historical note: In 1792 the Kentucky General Assembly established the Kentucky Militia. The act required that all white males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five be enrolled in the militia, form companies, and participate in several musters each year. These companies could be called to active duty by the governor in case of war, insurrection, or danger to public safety. In 1860 the militia was reorganized into the State Guard, the Enrolled Militia, and the Militia of the Reserve. ...

Chenault, William, 1835-1901.

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Brown, Richard Jones, 1819-1892.

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Berea College

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Although the sources of photographs are not always indicated, the bulk was apparently generated in the Berea College Publicity Department and the College News Bureau. In addition, portions of the photographs were donated by individuals, most of whom have some connection with the College. Chief among these is Roy N. Walters who was dean of the Berea College Foundation School from 1943 to 1968. Walters established the College Publicity Department in 1933 and was an unofficial campus photographer t...

Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

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William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover, Ohio in 1837. He came to Kansas as a young man, and taught school for a while before he became active in the border wars, between free state and pro-slavery forces in the fight for Kansas statehood. He fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, participating in guerrilla warfare. His most infamous act as a guerrilla chief was the sack of Lawrence in the early morning of August 21, 1863. Quantrill died two years after the raid in a milit...

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

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The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company was a railroad that served the southeastern part of the United States. From the description of Employee Pass, 1899 March 4. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49251564 Chartered in 1850 and also known as the L & N Railroad and Old Reliable. It was a small regional railroad until after the Civil War when it underwent expansion into a major Midwestern and Southern area railroad stretching from Louisville, to ...

Buckner, James Francis, 1813-1889.

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Martin, Eliza Gathright, 1847-1929.

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Taggart, John D., 1822-1898.

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Morton family.

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Bethel Academy (Jessamine County, Ky.)

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Wood, William F.

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Charette de la Contrie, Antoine, marquis de.

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Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830

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Anderson family.

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Ritchie, John, 1752-1814.

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Centre College (Danville, Ky.)

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The literary societies at Centre College began with the formation in 1828 of the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society, named in honor of the College's first President, Rev. Jeremiah Chamberlain. The Society apparently died out around 1927, but then was revived around 1939 for only two years.The Deinologian Literary Society was founded in 1835 by students who were dismayed with the Chamberlain Society, and continued in existence until about 1940. The Athenaean Literary Society was an of...

Taylor family.

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Price, Samuel Woodson, 1828-1918

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Soldier, painter. Price was born in Nicholasville, Ky. He studied painting and portraiture under Oliver Frazer. During much of the Civil War, Price served as a colonel in the Union Army, commanding the 21st Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers. He was wounded in the battle of Kennesaw Mountain in 1864, and in 1865 was promoted to brevet brigadier general. After the war he achieved prominence as a portrait painter. From the description of Samuel Woodson Price papers,...

Lair family.

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Tarascon, Louis Anastasius, 1759-

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Collins, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1824-1888

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Lawyer and journalist from Kentucky. Wrote on the history of Kentucky. From the description of Papers, 1761-1873. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246331 Lawyer, historian, editor, and a founding member of the Filson Club. From the description of Richard Henry Collins Letterbook, 1878-1880. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49200259 ...

Harney, Will Wallace, 1832-1912.

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Innes, Harry, 1752-1816

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Harry Innes was involved, at the time this letter was written, in what is now termed the Spanish Conspiracy. The conspiracy involved Kentucky petitioning to become an independent state and then entering into an alliance with Spain. This would be benificial to Kentucky economically while protecting Spain's valuable colony, Mexico. This alliance plan failed after the defeat of the Jay-Gardoqui Treaty. The treaty would have forbidden United States navigation of the Mississippi River for twenty-five...

Hindman Settlement School

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Earl Palmer, a Bell County, Kentucky native, worked extensively in the Appalachian region, portraying scenery and traditional culture in his photographs. From the description of Earl Palmer Photographs, ca. 1950-ca. 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191916829 Elizabeth Watts came to Hindman from New York in 1909, intending to stay only one year. Instead, she served successively as teacher, principal, and director for forty-seven years, and was on the School's governing bo...

Ridgely, Frederick, 1757-1824

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McDowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830

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Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851

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Laborer and father of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Collection concerning Thomas Lincoln, 1796-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015074 ...

Speed family.

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Taylor, Richard, 1758-1827

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Langdon, Josiah.

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Porter, James D., 1810-1859.

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Lewis family.

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Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794

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Virginia state legislator. From the description of Letter to Reuben Lindsay [manuscript], 1775 December 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647857784 ...

Todd, Lyman Beecher, 1831-1902.

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Baker, Alpheus, 1821-1891.

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Chenoweth family.

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Long Run Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.)

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Hudson family.

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Louisville Cement Company.

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Mercer, S. C. (Samuel C.)

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Rivers, R. H. 1814-1894.

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Walter, Lewis Allwhyn, 1868-1951.

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Louisville real estate developer, antiquarian collector, and president of the George Rogers Clark Memorial Association. From the description of Lewis Allwhyn Walter : additional papers, 1891-1941. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49377344 From the description of Lewis Allawhyn Walter : papers, 1887-1940. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49377325 ...

Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898

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Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813

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Tecumseh (born circa 1768, present-day Ohio – died October 5, 1813, Moraviantown, Upper Canada), Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the War of 1812, he became an iconic folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular hi...

Bank of Kentucky

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The Bank of Kentucky was chartered in 1806 by the state legislature as part of a compromise that ended the controversy over private banking. It was modeled on the Bank of the United States and was governed by a president and a twelve-member board of directors. Robert Alexander of Versailles was elected president in 1807 and served for fourteen years during which the bank was sound, profitable, and conservatively administered. The bank's charter was repealed in 1822 by a hard-money legislature af...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1744-1786

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Transylvania University

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Historical note: The principal responsibility of the Dean of Students at Transylvania University has been the coordination of offices and programs directly related to non-academic activities of students and student organizations. From the description of Dean of students records, 1930-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191917646 Historical note: Administration of student admissions and the recording of scholastic records has at various times been the responsibility of the T...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Buckner Family.

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Danville Political Club (Danville, Ky.)

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McHenry, John H., 1832-1893.

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Clay family.

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Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916

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Basil Wilson Duke was a Confederate cavalry brigadier general. From the guide to the Basil Wilson Duke Papers, ., 1862-1865; 1914, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Lawyer, Confederate soldier, Kentucky state legislator, and a founder of the Filson Club. From the description of Basil Wilson Duke : miscellaneous papers, 1864-1870. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49217954 Lawyer an...

Rowley, William

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Epithet: Admiral; KB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x0003c6 Epithet: of Add MS 35761 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x0003be Epithet: Major-General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x0003bd Epithet: Actor Br...

Lynn, Benjamin, 1750-1814.

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Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836

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Kentucky and Ohio frontiersman, pioneer, and settler. From the description of Simon Kenton : miscellaneous papers, 1798-1818. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49244572 Simon Kenton, a pioneer settler of Kentucky, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, April 3, 1755. In the spring of 1775, Kenton and Thomas Williams explored the area of Mason County, Kentucky, where they set up camp. Kenton moved on to Boonesborough in the fall of that year and became a f...

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820

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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was a pioneer land settler, Indian fighter and he served in military and political positions in Kentucky. At the time this letter was written, he was on the verge of losing his many tracts of land because the titles were improperly entered. From the description of Letter : to Charles Yanc[e]y, Luecy [i.e. Louisa] County, 1785 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122602570 Indian fighter and scout. From the description of Daniel Boone pa...

Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.)

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Pine Mountain Settlement School was incorporated by Katherine Pettit and Ethel DeLong in 1913 and operated as a boarding school until 1949. In addition to regular academic subjects, students were involved in traditional music and dance activities, and a labor program that helped run the school and develop useful skills. In the 1930s the curriculum was refocused towards trade professions and skills for rural community living. During the 1940s, the school temporarily came under the administration ...

Gilbert, R. B.

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Craddock, Robert

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Des Cognets, Anna Russell, d. 1902.

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Haldeman, Walter Newman, 1821-1902

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Born in Maysville, KY, in 1821, Walter N. Haldeman was educated at Maysville Academy. When he was sixteen years old, he moved to Louisville and by the time he was twenty-two he had purchased a failing newspaper called the Daily Dime which he transformed into the Morning Courier. Under Haldeman's supervision, the newspaper became quite successful, and though his pro-Confederate views compelled him to leave the state during the Civil War, he returned afterwards and became one of the most important...

DeHaven, Samuel E., 1825?-1893.

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Estill, Monk.

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Bell, Theodore S. (Theodore Stout), 1807-1884

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Gano, John, 1727-1804

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Baptist minister. From the description of John Gano sermon outline, 1752. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 54314290 ...

Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956

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Collector and historian. From the description of Harry Innes collection, 1924-1925. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49309643 Poet and author of Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Madison Julius Cawein : additional papers, 1888-1929. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49309705 From the description of Madison Julius Cawein : Papers, 1886-1928. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49309746...

Pirtle, Alfred, 1837-

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Soldier, Louisville businessman, and Ky. historian. From the description of Alfred Pirtle Papers, 1847-1924. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49313678 ...

Fink, Albert, 1827-1897

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Railway construction engineer, railroad executive, and architect. From the description of Albert Fink papers, 1850-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82785985 ...

Menefee, Richard J., 1837-1893.

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Shelby, Evan, 1719-1794

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Evan Shelby, a native of Wales, immigrated to America with his family when he was fourteen or fifteen and settled in Pennsylvania. His family moved to Maryland a few years later. Shelby acquired nearly 24,000 acres of land in that state and engaged in the Indian fur trade as well. He entered the militia in Maryland and fought in the French and Indian War. Following the war, Shelby served as a justice of the peace for a number of years. In 1773, having lost most of his Maryland land to settle deb...

Broadus, John Albert, 1827-1895

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Southern Baptist clergyman and long time professor of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. From the description of Day book, [microform] 1857-1894 (Hudson Valley Community College). WorldCat record id: 39049413 1859-1895, professor, 1889-1895, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. From the description of [Correspondence to John A. Broadus, 1843-1894]. [1843-1894] (SBTS Library). WorldCat record id: 44478445 1858, Bro...

Wintersmith, Richard C., 1822-1902.

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Bledsoe, Emma K.

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Emma K. Bledsoe was the wife of State Senator William H. Bledsoe, leader in the effort to get Texas Technological College located in Lubbock. From the description of Papers, 1905-1983. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 25424568 ...

Davie, George M., 1848-1900.

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Gallagher, William D. (William Davis), 1808-1894

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American journalist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cincinnati, to Lewis J. Cist, 1840 July 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269567247 Gallagher was an author and critic. He served as editor of, The Cincinnati Mirror in 1831 and editor of, The Western Literary Journal in 1836. He also wrote poems for children. From the description of Our early days: holograph poem, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594360 ...

Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914

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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Louisville, to Miss Greene, 1914 Nov. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129671 From the description of The Vikings : autograph poem signed, 1886 Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135829 Poet and author of Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Madison Julius Cawein : miscellaneous papers, 1889-1916. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46764382 ...

Bowmar, Daniel Mayes, 1843-1890.

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Tates Creek Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.)

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Waring, John U., 1790-1846?

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Dickey, John Jay, 1842-1934

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John Jay Dickey, Methodist minister and educator, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky. He helped found the Jackson Academy in Jackson, Breathitt County, Ky., and served as its principal until 1891. At that time, the Academy was taken over by Central University of Danville, Ky., some time after which it became Lees Junior College. In 1888, Dickey was elected president of the Breathitt County Teachers Association. In 1895, he helped establish Sue Bennett College in Laurel County, Ky. This is a ma...

Shane, John Dabney, 1812-1864

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John Dabney Shane, Presbyterian minister and collector of material on Presbyterian history and pioneer life in Kentucky and the Mississippi Valley, was born in 1812 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died there on February 7, 1864. He attended Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, graduating in 1834. He also studied theology in the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Following licensure in 1842, by the Presbytery of Cincinnati, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., he went to Kentucky where ...

Bullitt, Thomas James, 1763-1840.

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Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903

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Cassius Marcellus Clay was born to Sally Lewis and Green Clay, one of the wealthiest planters and slaveholders in Kentucky, who became a prominent politician. He was one of six children who survived to adulthood, of seven born. Clay was a member of a large and influential political family. His older brother Brutus J. Clay became a politician at the state and federal levels. They were cousins of both Kentucky politician Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay. Cassius' sister Elizab...

Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853

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Physician. He developed Transylvania University's medical school into one of the nation's strongest and was co-founder of the Louisville Medical Institute. From the description of Letter, 1820 Dec. 9. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46763925 Philadelphia physician. From the description of ALS : to James Ewell, 1816 Aug. 13. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122490275 Surgeon and professor of medicine. ...