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Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Tevis, Julia A. (Julia Ann), 1799-1880

Title: Papers, 1841-1884

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the collections department at gro.l1747844804aciro1747844804tsihn1747844804oslif1747844804@hcra1747844804eser1747844804

Size of Collection: 0.33 cubic foot

Location number: Mss. A T353

Biographical Note

Julia Ann Hieronymus was born in Clark County, Kentucky, to Pendleton Hieronymus (ca. 1775-1820) and Mary “Polly” Bush (1778-1833). When she was a child, her family moved to Washington, D.C., in search of better educational opportunities for her and her siblings. Her father had trouble finding work and took a job as an Indian agent in Missouri, where he died in 1820.

After her father’s death, Tevis became her family’s breadwinner and supported her mother and younger siblings with her salary earned as a school teacher. She eventually took a teaching job in Abingdon, Virginia, where she met Rev. John Tevis (1792-1861), a Methodist minister from Kentucky. The two married in March 1824.

A year later, in March 1825, Tevis opened Science Hill Female Academy in Shelbyville, Kentucky, with just 18-20 pupils, though by 1852, there were 250 students in attendance. Tevis and her husband ran the school together until his death in 1860, and she continued running it alone until 1879, when she sold it to Dr. Wiley Taul Poynter. The Poynter family ran the school until it closed in 1939.

Tevis had at least four children:

• Benjamin Pendleton Tevis (1824-1899): Married Sarah Belle Bayles (1823-1901) and had three children: Arabella Thurston Tevis Hubbell, John Tevis, and Sallie Hamilton Tevis
• Mary Smith Tevis (1827-1828): Died in infancy
• Belle Tevis Speed (1835-1916): Married John James Speed (1816-1885)
• Robert Crowe Tevis (1829-1910)

In 1878, Tevis published a memoir of her life, Sixty Years in a School-Room, which provides information about her and her husband’s life and can be read for free online through Google Books.

References:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90541170/julia-ann-tevis?_gl=1*1n5hlo*_ga*MTc1NDY4ODI5Ny4xNjM0NjY3MDcy*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY2Njg4NTAyOC4yMC4xLjE2NjY4ODg5ODguNjAuMC4w

https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/exhibits/show/women-at-work/teaching-women/julia-tevis

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sixty_Years_in_a_School_room/hkIFAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

 

Scope and Content Note

A small collection of personal and professional papers related to Julia Tevis and her work running Science Hill Female Academy.

Folders 1-2 contain correspondence mostly to or from Julia Tevis. Several of the letters are to or from her children Ben, Robert, and Belle. Other letters are from Science Hill students or the parents/guardians of students/prospective students.

Folder 3 contains undated handwritten papers that seem to have been written by Julia Tevis about her family and teaching experiences, many of which are likely discarded drafts from Tevis’s 1878 autobiography.

Folder 4 contains miscellaneous writings and school assignments, presumably from Science Hill students. The folder includes a set of bound papers from what seems to be a Science Hill student literary society called “The Attic Bee.” The bound papers include poems, stories, essays, jokes, and undated minutes/news about society members and other matters.

Folder 5 contains Science Hill-related publications, including a pamphlet from the 1884 memorial service for Julia Tevis.

Folder 6 contains miscellaneous material, including a partial list of names and a small book of writing by Miss Nannie (?) Shelby of Anchorage, Kentucky.

 

CONDITION NOTE: Most records from the Tevis years at Science Hill were either lost or destroyed. These papers were found stuffed up the chimney of the old Tevis house on the Science Hill grounds, now part of the Wakefield-Scearce Gallery. The papers have been cleaned as much as possible, but some soot residue remains. Many of the papers may be partially illegible from the damage.

 

Related Collections:

Poynter Family papers, 1895-1910 [Mss. A P892]

Poynter Family added papers, 1887-1992 [Mss. A P892a]

Science Hill Female Academy papers, 1825-1975 [Mss. BI S416]

Science Hill Female Academy photograph collection [021PC54]

Shelby County Public Library Collection on Science Hill Female Academy, 1852-2004 [Mss. BI S544]

 

Folder List

 

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1841-1882

Folder 2: Correspondence, undated

Folder 3: Tevis autobiographical writings / autobiography drafts, undated

Folder 4: Creative writing, school assignments, “The Attic Bee” literary society material, 1868 and undated

Folder 5: Science Hill-related publications, 1884 and undated

Folder 6: Miscellaneous material, 1884 and undated

 

Subject Headings

 

German Americans

Immigrants – United States – History – 19th century

Literature – Societies, etc.

School enrollment – Kentucky

Science Hill Female Academy (Shelbyville, Ky.)

Speed, Belle, 1835-1916

Student activities

Student publications

Tevis, Benjamin Pendleton, 1824-1899

Tevis, Robert Crowe, 1829-1910

Women – Education

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Ballantine, Beverley, 1937-

Title: Research Collection on Farmington Historic Plantation, 1757-2006

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for this collection, contact the Collections Department at gro.l1747844804aciro1747844804tsihn1747844804oslif1747844804@hcra1747844804eser1747844804

Size of Collection: 3 cubic feet

Location Number: Mss. A B188

Biographical and Historical Notes

Beverley Ballantine served as Chairperson of the Farmington Historic Home Board of Regents from 1994 to September 1997, when her husband, John Ballantine, became chair.

Beverley Jo Hackley Ballantine was born on 1937 to Mattie Joe Russell Hackley and Forrest L. Hackley, Sr. in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her family lived in Louisville, Kentucky, by 1950. In 1956, she married her first husband, U.S. Army Private Robert Richard Weilacher, and moved to his station in Germany. The couple moved back to Louisville by 1959. They separated in the 1960s. Beverley married attorney John Tilden Ballantine (1931-2019) on December 8, 1967.

Sources:

Alfred-Sikes, Colette. “Robert Richard ‘Bob’ Weilacher (2 Dec 1936–30 Apr 2019).” Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201180680/robert-richard-weilacher. Accessed 14 September 14, 2022.

Burnett, Helen. “The Social Side.” The Courier-Journal (morning issue, July 31, 1936): Section 1, page 15.

The Courier-Journal, December 28, 1967, page A 25.

Indiana State Board of Health. Birth certificate #20306. 1937, roll 009. Indiana Archives and Records Administration. Accessed through Ancestry.com. (See finding aid folder)

“John Tilden “Jack” Ballantine.” The Courier-Journal (April 12, 2019): 16A, page E1.

“Marriage Licenses.” The Courier-Journal (February 5, 1956): Section 2, page 9.

United States Bureau of the Census. Seventeenth Census of the United States. 1950. Jefferson County, Kentucky, Roll 2125, Sheet Number 79, Enumeration District 122-255. Accessed through Ancestry.com.

Farmington Historic Plantation

Farmington Historic Plantation is a non-profit, historic site in Louisville, Kentucky, that was the center of a 552-acre hemp farm owned by the couple John Speed (1762-1840) and Lucy Speed (1788-1874). The Speeds had a Federal-style, brick home constructed from 1815 to 1816. The Speeds and their allied families enslaved Black people at Farmington and at other family homes in Virginia and Kentucky. People enslaved by the Speeds included Fortune Smith, Cinderella Greathouse Smith (d. 1885), Morocco, Martha Haynes, Martha Spencer (b. 1840), David Spencer (b. 1820), Diana Thompson (1818-1895), Dinnie Thompson (1857-1939), Spencer Thompson, and Phyllis Thurston.

By 1865, Peachy Speed Peay sold off the last parcels of Speed-owned Farmington land. Other white families that lived on the property after the Speeds included the Dreschers, Bischoffs, Smiths, and Thompsons. Porter Smith and Violet F. Smith purchased the mansion in 1949. By the early 1950s, the Smiths opened their home to private tours. Barbara Anderson’s play, The Tall Kentuckian, written and produced to commemorate Abraham Lincoln for the 175^th anniversary of Kentucky’s statehood in 1953, contributed to the increased public interest in Farmington as a historic site.

Around 1955-1956, Louisville landscape architect Anne Bruce Haldeman reached out to the Smiths to gauge their interest in selling their property to become a museum. The Smiths agreed and Haldeman worked to form the Historic Homes Foundation, Incorporated, to raise funding for the purchase. The Foundation purchased the property for preservation in January 1958. The initial purchase consisted of the mansion, a barn, garage, ice house, and over 3 acres of land. The Foundation’s intent was to furnish the house with early 1800s furniture and décor and use the house and grounds as a gathering place for local clubs and community events. The Foundation formally opened and dedicated Farmington Historic Home in April 1959. The Foundation’s early interpretation of the property focused on the architecture, that the mansion plans were based on Thomas Jefferson’s architectural designs, and the relationship between the Speed family and Abraham Lincoln, including that Lincoln stayed in the home in 1841. By 1962, the Historic Homes Foundation approved the creation of a Board of Regents for Farmington.

Deborah Spearing served as Executive Director of Farmington Historic Home during Beverley Ballantine’s term on the board. Spearing began her position in September 1994. She pushed for the reinterpretation of the property to include acknowledgement and stories of the people who the Speeds enslaved and the Speed women. In 1995, the board approved the creation of the African-American Consulting Committee to advise the reinterpretation project. Spearing, Beverley Ballantine, volunteer docent Juanita White, and Pen Bogert of the Filson Historical Society conducted research on the people who the Speeds enslaved in the mid to late 1990s. The board fired Spearing in September 1999 in response to public criticism of a new exhibit’s nostalgic interpretation of slavery. Multiple board members, staff members, and volunteers resigned in the wake of the controversy.

Carolyn Brooks succeeded Spearing as interim Executive Director and remained in the position until her resignation in 2007. Andrea Pridham became the next director, with Diane Young succeeding. Kathy Nichols, a former assistant director, became executive director in 2018.

By 2007, the historic site changed its name to Farmington Historic Plantation. As of 2022, Farmington continues to operate under the umbrella of the Historic Homes Foundation.

Sources:

Ayers, Nina. “Continuing exodus.” The Courier-Journal (February 20, 1999): The Forum section, page A8. (See finding aid folder)

Elson, Martha. “Farmington widens focus: Home highlighting African Americans.” The Courier-Journal (March 22, 1995): Neighborhoods/East County section, page 1. (See finding aid folder).

Elson, Martha. “Farmington pushes to highlight African Americans’ contributions.” The Courier-Journal (March 22, 1995): Neighborhoods/Mid-County section, page 2. (See finding aid folder)

Green, Nathaniel E. “Leadership change.” The Courier-Journal (February 20, 1999): The Forum section, page A8. (See finding aid folder)

“History of Farmington’s Ownership.” September 1996. (See folder 65)

Jennings, Michael. “Turmoil erupts after firing, slavery exhibit.” The Courier-Journal (December 28, 1998): page 1, A7. (See finding aid folder)

Kincaid, Robert L. “Farmington to Become a Historic Shrine.” Lincoln Herald (Winter 1957-58): page 12-17. (See folder 120)

“The Latchstring’s Out.” The Courier-Journal (April 26, 1953): Travel Section: Kentucky Your Vacation Land, page 31. (See finding aid folder)

Lincoln National Foundation. “The Tall Kentuckian.” Lincoln Lore no. 1261 (June 8, 1953).

“Past Regents of Farmington and Locust Grove.” 1976. In Mss. A H159c Haldeman, Anne Bruce, 1903-1993. Papers, ca. 1928-1993, Folder 329, Filson Historical Society.

Ries, Linda C., and Violet F. Smith. Farmington, The Fulfillment of a Dream. 1959. (See Pamphlet 976.9911 R559 or folder 20 for partial copy)

Walker, Janet Lowell. “Talk delivered on May 4, 1959 at Filson Club.” (See folder 14)

 

Scope and Content Note

This research collection consists of materials collected and created by Beverley Ballantine during her tenure (1994-1997) and her husband John Ballantine’s tenure (1997-circa early 2000s) on the Board of Regents of Farmington Historic Plantation (formerly Farmington Historic Home) in Louisville, Kentucky. Farmington was once the center of a 552-acre hemp plantation owned by John Speed (1762-1840) and Lucy Speed (1788-1874). The couple and their descendants enslaved people at Farmington and at other family homes in Virginia and Kentucky. Ballantine collected copies of material that had links to Farmington, the Speed and related families, and the people who the Speed and allied families enslaved. Most of the collection consists of photocopies of materials from many different repositories, which should be used for reference purposes only. The collection includes original legal documents (1782-1865) relating to salt works in Bullitt County, Kentucky, as well as original correspondence (1990s-2000s) about Ballantine’s research. The collection is useful for researching changes in historical and archaeological interpretation of a nineteenth century Kentucky hemp farm and house over time, the administration of historic house museums from the 1950s to the early 2000s, the lives of people who the Speed family enslaved in Louisville, genealogy of the Speed and related families, Abraham Lincoln’s relationship with the Speed family, and the connections between Louisville cultural institutions.

Ballantine arranged the collection according to the groupings and order described in an inventory she provided, which is housed in the collection’s finding aid folder. Ballantine grouped the material into the twelve categories described below and arranged the folders alphabetically by title. The processing archivist retained the core of Ballantine’s original folder titles and added supplemental information for clarity. The processing archivist assigned dates to folders based on the creation date of the contents. For photocopies or transcriptions of original materials, the archivist recorded the creation dates of the original materials.

Folders 1-9 relate to Farmington archaeology. Materials include copies of annotated archaeological reports, research drafts, a proposal, articles, and correspondence about research projects from the 1960s to the 1990s. Other significant items include notes and clippings on digs in 1958-1959 initiated by the Historic Homes Inc. Furnishings Committee (Folder 2). A subset of folders, 3-4, and 6-7, focus on the archaeology of enslaved Black people at Farmington. Drs. Joseph E. Granger and Yvonne V. Jones of the University of Louisville Department of Anthropology led a research project on the enslaved community, which is documented through notes, a news release, clipping, and presentation which date from 1997 to 1998. The folders also include a copy of a 1933 newspaper article from the Louisville Herald Post about a tombstone for the enslaved man Morocco and handwritten notes on the archaeology of enslaved people at Farmington.

Folders 10-16 contain copies of articles and clippings about Farmington and the Speed family, which date from 1855 to 2002. Many of the items have been annotated with highlighting or notes. Materials of note include the text of Janet Lowell Walker’s speech on the dedication of Farmington delivered at the Filson Club (now Filson Historical Society) in 1959 and copies of Evelyn C. Adams’s notes on Farmington gathered for a talk in 1948 that include highlighting of information on Black people that the Speeds enslaved.

Folders 17-20 consist of publications on Farmington, the Speeds, and other Kentucky historic house museums that date from 1958-circa 1990s. The Historic Homes Foundation, Inc. pamphlet (circa 1980s-1990s) highlights Farmington Historic Home, Locust Grove, the Thomas Edison House, and Whitehall in Louisville. Booklets on Farmington entitled “James Speed and the Indian,” “Farmington” (1981), and “Farmington: The House John Speed Build” (1958) were sold in the gift shop. Annotated copies of pages from “Farmington, The Fulfillment of a Dream” by Linda C. Ries and Violet F. Smith detail the uses of the smoke house at Farmington and the sale of the property to become a museum. The grouping also includes three brochures and booklets on historic homes Adsmore (circa 1970s-1980s), Locust Grove (1988), and Ashland (1996) in Kentucky.

Folder 21 contains copies of 1958 correspondence and notes on Farmington by Melville Otter Briney and Ludie Kincaid. Topics include Abraham Lincoln’s stay and the history of the Speed, Fry, and other families at Farmington.

Folders 22-31 relate to Farmington Historic Home’s museum collections. They include copies of correspondence, minutes, notes, and articles about artifacts, books, maps, and papers in Farmington’s possession; and photographic prints and negatives of artifacts. Materials date from 1868, 1958-1999.

Folders 32-50 relate to Farmington’s research on the Black people who the Speeds enslaved at Farmington and on other family property. The materials include copies of correspondence about the research project, notes, reports, and copies of original documents that name or describe members of the enslaved community. Copied original materials include advertisements (1853-1861), letters (1817-1863), pages from Louisville city directories (1870s-1890s), slave census schedules (1850, 1860), marriage records (1870), articles (1933-2005), lists of Eastern Cemetery burials, and an inventory of the people who the Croghan family enslaved at Locust Grove (1849). Enslaved and formerly enslaved individuals named in the documents include Fortune Smith, Cinderella Greathouse Smith (d. 1885), Morocco, Martha Haynes, Martha Spencer (b. 1840), David Spencer (b. 1820), Diana Thompson (1818-1895), Dinnie Thompson (1857-1939), Spencer Thompson, and Phyllis Thurston. See the subject headings list below and the Manuscript Database for more detailed indexing of the names of enslaved and free Black people in the documents.

Folders 51-64 concern the mansion and outbuildings of Farmington. Materials include copies of the construction proposal and bills for the mansion (1815-1816); correspondence, articles, and reports about extant and former structures on the property (1958- 1997); postcards, renderings, and photographs of structures (1889, circa 1960s); and documents related to the restoration of the property (1958-1995).

Folders 65-81 compile documents on the Speed family’s land use and legal ownership of Farmington. Files include copies of deeds, land grants, surveys, minute books, agricultural censuses, newspaper clippings, and correspondence from 1763-1860, 1926-2000.

Folders 82-99 consist of copies of Speed family correspondence, 1797-1894. They are grouped by the repository, auction house, or individual that held the original documents in the late 1990s. Items of note include copies and transcriptions of letters (1866, 1878-1879, circa 1880-1888, 1894) written by women of the Peay family to Emily Peay Hull (1857-1929) that Judith Kiley privately held in the 1990s.

Folders 100-127 focus on Abraham Lincoln and his connections to the Speed family. Materials include copies of letters, publications, lectures, and clippings which span 1841-1864, 1884-2005. Items of note include articles and Farmington publications on Lincoln’s visit with the Speed family at Farmington in 1841 (Folder 104). Folder 120 includes an article by Robert L. Kincaid in the Winter 1957-58 issue of the Lincoln Herald on the Historic Homes Foundation’s purchase of Farmington and plans for the museum.

Folder 128 contains copies of circa 1800s-1993 maps, surveys, and site plots of land owned by the Speeds in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Folders 129-135 contain 1990s photographic prints, slides, contact sheets, and negatives that relate to Farmington. The photographs are of the museum collection; interior and exterior of the mansion; programming for children, including an archaeological dig at Farmington with Anne Tobbe Bader circa 1996; and a 1998 Farmington exhibit at the Kentucky State Fair.

Folders 136-138 focus on salt licks and salt works in Kentucky. They include original records of suits over Salt River/Bullitt’s Lick (1782-1821) and legal documents relating to salt works in Bullitt County (1800-1865) given to Ballentine by collector Wade Hall; and copies of original documents, transcripts, and notes on Mann’s Lick salt works (1780s-2002), which was owned by James Speed.

Folders 139-187 document the Speed and related families. Documents include copies of notes, legal records, wills, estate settlement and inventory records, ads for Black people who escaped enslavement, city directories, census records, memoirs, articles, correspondence. Materials date from 1754 to 2003. Topics include Speed family genealogy, enslavement and resistance of Black people, interpretations of the family’s history, and burial locations. Most of the materials are foldered by the individual’s or couple’s names.

 

Related Collections:

Mss. A B613a 100 Bingham, George Barry, 1906-1988. Papers, 1861-1989

Mss. A B937c Bullitt Family. Papers – Oxmoor Collection

Mss. A H159c Haldeman, Anne Bruce, 1903-1993. Papers, ca. 1928-1993

Mss. A P826 Pope, William, 1775-1844. Papers, 1783-1864

Mss. A S742c Speed family. Papers-Farmington Collection. 1816-1961

Mss. A S742e Speed family. Papers – Farmington Collection. 1816-1961

Mss. A S742f Speed family. Papers, 1813-1981

Mss. A S742j Speed, John S., 1927-2016, Collection on Historic Homes Foundation, Inc. and Farmington Historic Plantation, 1810-2000 (Bulk: 1950-2000)

Mss. AR H159 Haldeman, Anne Bruce, 1903-1993. Landscape design records, 1929-1986

Mss. AR T Tyler, C. Jr. Farmington blueprints, 1946

 

 

Folder List

Box 1

Archaeology

Folder 1: Reports and surveys, 1958, 1972, 1982, 1992, 1996-1998

Folder 2: Early archaeological digs and Watterson Expressway, 1958-1959, 1973

Folder 3: Enslaved people, 1997-1998

Folder 4: Enslaved cemetery location, circa 1990s

Folder 5: Kelly, Stanley comments on Farmington archaeology, 1995

Folder 6: Morocco’s tombstone, 1933

Folder 7: Ottesen, Ann article on Farmington, 1985

Folder 8: Quaker meeting house, circa 1990s

Folder 9: Stonebreakers (ha-ha wall), 1997

 

Articles and clippings

Folder 10: Colonial Homes, March 1998

Folder 11: “Eighteen Years: A Reminiscence of Kentucky” by Rev. Samuel Osgood, 1855

Folder 12: Peachy Speed Peay letter about Jenny Lind concert, circa 1950s-1970s

Folder 13: Lecture – Evelyn C. Adams, history of Farmington notes, 1948

Folder 14: Lecture – Janet Lowell Walker, dedication of Farmington, 1959

Folder 15: News clippings, 1934, 1948, 1958-1960, 1965, 1967, 1974, 2002

Folder 16: “Victorian Mourning Jewelry” by Suzanne Spencer, circa 1990s

 

Booklets

Folder 17: Historic Homes Foundation brochure (3 copies), circa 1980s-1990s

Folder 18: Booklets sold in gift shop, 1958, circa 1950s-1960s, 1981

Folder 19: Kentucky historic homes – Adsmore (circa 1970s-1980s), Locust Grove (1988), and Ashland (1996)

Folder 20: Farmington, the Fulfillment of a Dream, 1959, 1999

 

Briney-Kincaid notes

Folder 21: Briney-Kincaid notes about Farmington, 1958

 

Collection

Folder 22: Books, 1868, 1958-1998

Folder 23: Artifact donations and loans, 1959-1999

Folder 24: Collection held at Filson, 1997-1998

Folder 25: Cradle, 1964, undated

Folder 26: Dolls, 1974-1990s

Folder 27: Grigg, Wood, and Browne Architects’ report, 1976

Folder 28: Lincoln bust, 1978, 1996

Folder 29: Mirror, chest, chairs, kitchen items, and photographs, 1998-1999

Folder 30: General collection management and English land lease, 1960-1998

Folder 31: Nixon cup news article, 1969

 

Enslaved Black people

Folder 32: Ads for people enslaved and sold by the Speeds, 1853, 1855, 1861, 2001

Folder 33: Bogert research on the Speed family’s enslavement of people, 1996-1997, 2000-2001 [Click here for PDF of the entire folder contents]

Folder 34: City directories, 1872-1887, circa 1990s

Folder 35: Louisville newspaper articles, 1978-2005

Folder 36: Eastern Cemetery burials, 1997

Folder 37: Fortune Smith and Cinderella Greathouse, 1870, circa 1997-1998

Folder 38: Inventory of people that John Croghan enslaved at Locust Grove, August 1849

Folder 39: Morocco, 1821, 1933, circa 1997-1998

Folder 40: Named in letters, circa 1817-1840, 1996-1997

Folder 41: Newburg neighborhood articles, 1939, 1995

Folder 42: Pin of Martha Haynes, circa 1950s-1970s

Folder 43: Reports on people who the Speeds enslaved at Farmington, 1997-1998

Folder 44: Enslaver census schedules for Peay and Speed families, 1850, 1860

Folder 45: Enslaved people memorial dedication event, 2003

Folder 46: Speeds on slavery, 1843, 1863, circa 1990s

Folder 47: Spencer, David and Martha Spencer, 1870, 1978, circa 1990s

Folder 48: Thompson, Diana and Dinnie Thompson, 1840-1939, 1952-1961, 1996-1998

Folder 49: Thompson, Spencer, 1814, 1817, 1872, circa 1990s

Folder 50: United States Colored Troops from Kentucky, circa 1990s

 

House and outbuildings

Folder 51: Barn, July 1964

Folder 52: Bricks, 1815, circa 1990s

Folder 53: Construction contract and bills of work for Farmington mansion, 1815-1816

Folder 54: Construction costs for Farmington mansion, September 27, 1816

Folder 55: Kelly, Stanley – restoration of Farmington mansion, February 1988

Folder 56: Kelly, Stanley – partial transcript of interview about Farmington architecture and restoration, 1995

Folder 57: Kindcaid – correspondence and notes about Lincoln bedroom, 1958

Folder 58: Kimball – correspondence about Jefferson as architect, 1958

Folder 59: Log cabin, 1962

Folder 60: Nicholson, Robert – pattern maker, and Skidmore, Paul – contractor, circa 1990s

Folder 61: Postcards of Farmington mansion and log cabin, circa 1960s

Folder 62: Report to the Membership – drainage, barn, log cabin, employees, events, 1965

Folder 63: Renderings and photograph of the spring house and mansion from Life of Lincoln, 1889, circa 1990s

Folder 64: World War II at Farmington mansion – Thompson family, October 6, 1997

 

Land use

Folder 65: Agriculture census of 1850 and 1860, with 1996 history of property ownership

Folder 66: Bray Place, southeast of Farmington, 1832, 1834, 1940, circa 1980s-1990s

Folder 67: Deed search by Neal Hammon and changes in museum interpretation, circa 1980s-1990s

Folder 68: Deeds – Southall and Charlton survey from the Pope collection at Filson, 1809-1843

Folder 69: Deeds – John Speed and James Speed for Mays Entries, Pond Creek, Mill Creek, 1783-1846

Folder 70: Deeds – Speed, Pope and Ropewalk section, Peay to Goldsmith, 1810-1858, 1996, undated

Folder 71: Deeds, county blocks, and surveys of Southall and Charlton Lands, 1763-1824, circa 1990s-2001

Folder 72: Deeds and plats – Speed, Ward, and Pope from Commonwealth Land Title Company records at Filson, 1824

Folder 73: Distillery (Phillip Speed and Davis) at Harrods Creek and Peay’s Still, 2000

Folder 74: Hemp farming at Farmington and New Harmony, Indiana, circa 1990s

Folder 75: Notes on land use, 1807-1810, circa 1990s

Folder 76: Road work and salt works from Jefferson County Court minute books, 1801-1815

Folder 77: Ropewalks – Louisville, Kentucky, 1816-1817, 1845, 1926, 1942, undated

Folder 78: Speed, James Sr. land grants and surveys 1779-1786

Folder 79: Surveys – Henning’s property, 1779-1840

Folder 80: Ward’s Mill – Cherokee Park, 1984

Folder 81: Wetlands and “Wetwoods” – Peay family, 1858, 1999

 

Letters

Folder 82: Bullitt/Chenoweth Collection at Filson – correspondence about, notes, and copies, 1999

Folder 83: Bullitt/Chenoweth Collection at Filson – Mildred Fry letters, 1814-1817

 

Box 2

Letters continued

Folder 84: Bullitt/Chenoweth Collection at Filson – John C. Bullitt letters with references to Speed and related families, 1839-1850

Folder 85: Bullitt/Chenoweth Collection at Filson – Letter from W. H. Jones to J. C. Bullitt with sexual references, 1840

Folder 86: Bullitt/Chenoweth Collection at Filson – Materials with references to Speed and related families of Farmington, 1795-1864

Folder 87: Dartmouth College – Speed letters, 1818-1860, 2000

Folder 88: Peay family letters possessed by Judith Kiley, 1866-1879, 1894, 1990-1991

Folder 89: Speed at Filson – John Speed to William Pope, in Pope papers (Mss. A P826a/1), August 13, 1809

Folder 90: Speed at Filson – Sam Brown to Dr. James Speed, in Joseph Daviess Papers (Mss. A D246/1), January 5, 1800

Folder 91: Speed at Filson – James Speed to sons John and Thomas Speed, in Speed miscellaneous papers, 1797

Folder 92: Speed at Filson – John S. Speed – Farmington collection donation, June 12, 1998

Folder 93: Rail Splitter – Joshua F. Speed Christmas letter to Lucy Fry Speed, 1840, 2000

Folder 94: Speed at Filson – John Speed to Joshua Fry Speed in miscellaneous papers, 1835

Folder 95: University of Louisville Archives – additional Speed letters, 1816-1872, 1959, 1961

Folder 96: University of Louisville Archives – additional Speed letters and provenance, 1816-1866, 1959-1962, circa 1980s

Folder 97: University of Louisville Archives – Clarke letters to Eliza Speed, 1840-1854

Folder 98: University of Louisville Archives – death of John Speed, 1840

Folder 99: University of Louisville Archives – Speed, to be transcribed, 1828-1850

 

Abraham Lincoln

Folder 100: Basler’s Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln and Speed letters, 1841-1864, 1953, 2000

Folder 101: Bixby letter controversy, 2000

Folder 102: Durrett Collection at University of Chicago, 1864, 1996, undated

Folder 103: Exhibit, Lincoln – 1842 letter to Joshua Fry Speed, 1993

Folder 104: Farmington, Lincoln at – articles and booklets, 1948, 1950, circa 1959, 1966, 1991

Folder 105: Funeral – postcard and articles, 1908, 1965, 1994

Folder 106: “Fatal First” January 1841 Lincoln letter published in Honor’s Voice, 1998

Folder 107: Guinnip, Lyman – Court records and Lincoln to Speed letter about the case, 1862-1863, 1953, 1994-1996

Folder 108: Harrogate, Tennessee – Lincoln Museum and Lincoln letters about Speeds, 1862, 1864, 1994

Folder 109: Legal work, 1993-1997

Folder 110: News clippings – Lincoln, 1909, 1938, 1977, 1991, 2002, undated

Folder 111: News clippings – Lincoln letters, 1921, 1952, 1964, 1971, 1996

Folder 112: Parents of Lincoln – Legitimacy proof, from University of Chicago Durrett Collection, 1884, 1996

Folder 113: Particular friend – references to John Speed in letter from George Morrison to William Pope Jr., undated

Folder 114: Photographs – Lincoln, circa 1863-1864

Folder 115: Portrait of Lincoln by Wilson – Fraud? (contents focus on the Kaplan portrait), 1998

Folder 116: Presidency – Letter from Joshua Fry Speed to Lincoln (1860), provenance, and news clippings, 1960

Folder 117: Shenk, Joshua Wolf – Lincoln article in July 4, 2005 TIME Special Issue

Folder 118: Presidential letters – Sotheby’s auction catalog and sale result – Guinnip case letter to Joshua Speed, 1863, 1994

Folder 119: Speed, Joshua F. – Letter to J.G. Holland about Lincoln, 1865, 2001

Folder 120: Speed, Joshua F. – Lincoln Herald articles on, 1953, 1957, 1995

Folder 121: Speed, Joshua F. – Lincoln and Speed relationship by Robert L. Kincaid, 1943, 1955, circa 1990s

Folder 122: Speed, Joshua F. – Lincoln visits Joshua’s in Washington, from Anchorage, 1959

Folder 123: Speed, Joshua F. – “Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln”, 1884

Folder 124: Speed, Mary – “Bread and Butter letter” from Lincoln, 1841

Folder 125: Speed Museum – Lincoln collection at, circa 1990s

Folder 126: Speed Museum – Lincoln portrait inscribed to Lucy Speed, Sold, 1993

Folder 127: Herndon-Weik collection of Lincoln documents and manuscripts catalog record, circa 1990s

 

Maps and plats

Folder 128: Maps, surveys, and site plots, circa 1800s-1993

 

Photographs

Folder 129: Archaeology/Bader dig photographs, circa 1996

Folder 130: Slides, negatives and contact sheets of dresses at Farmington, March 1998

Folder 131: Hayden slides and photographs of Farmington, 1997

Folder 132: Interior and exterior of Farmington, photographs and slides of, circa 1990s

 

Box 3

Photographs continued

Folder 133: John and Lucy Fry Speed portraits, photographs of, circa 1990s

Folder 134: John Nation slides of Farmington, 1997

Folder 135: Kentucky State Fair exhibit photographs and negatives, 1998

 

Salt licks and salt works

Folder 136: Bullitt’s Lick suits, 1782-1821

Folder 137: Mann’s Lick, 1780s-2002

Folder 138: Salt works in Bullitt County, 1800-1865

 

Speed and allied families

Folder 139: Adams, Martha Bell Speed and Thomas Adams, 1858-1862

Folder 140: “Kentucky Girl’s recollections” by Eliza Peay Ward, circa 1880

Folder 141: “The Speeds” by Henry Watterson, Courier-Journal, 1915

Folder 142: Audubon, John James, 1967, circa 1990s

Folder 143: Bustard, John, 1801-1842, circa 1990s

Folder 144: Cave Hill reinternments, circa 1990s

Folder 145: Correspondence about Shenk’s interpretation of Speed family mental health, January 2006

Folder 146: Correspondence about Speed family papers, 2000-2001

Folder 147: Correspondence with David Herbert Donald, 2002-2003

Folder 148: Davis, Susan Speed – Home for Friendless Women, 1995-1997

Folder 149: Durrett Collection at University of Chicago – Thomas Speed’s manuscript for Records and memorials of the Speed Family, 1889

Folder 150: Divers – Farmington, Charlottesville VA, circa 1980s

Folder 151: Doup and cemetery, circa 1980s-1990s

Folder 152: Fry family of Harrodsburg, 1811, 1825, circa 1990s

Folder 153: Fry, Joshua and Mary Micou Fry – estate papers, 1754-1759, 1772-1774, and genealogy from Robert Rose diary

Folder 154: Fry, Joshua – letters at Virginia Historical Society, 1799-1802

Folder 155: Fry, Joshua – letters at the Filson, 1808

Folder 156: Heinrich, Anthony Philip, composer with music at Farmington, circa 2000s

Folder 157: Jefferson, Peter – 1757 will

Folder 158: Jefferson, Thomas – deposition for John Fry case in Greenup Circuit Court, 1821

Folder 159: Keats-Speed-Crutcher genealogies, 1990s

Folder 160: LeMaster, Charles B. – John Speed guardian of, 1809, circa 1990s

Folder 161: Peay, Austin Lightfoot and Peachy Walker Speed – genealogy, 2001

Folder 162: Peay, Austin Lightfoot and Peachy Walker Speed – estate records and enslavement, 1849, 2001 [Click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 163: Speed family picnic on July 4, 1881, June 1981

Folder 164: Pope – land records and notes, 1847-1848, 1999

Folder 165: Reference materials – census (1800-1860) and city directories (1832-1877) for Speed and Peay families, 1988-1990s

Folder 166: Reference materials – grantor and grantee deed book indices for Speed, Ward, Pope, Peay, circa 1700s-1800s

Folder 167: Reference materials – will, estate inventories, and settlement book indices for Adams, Breckinridge, Davis, Peay, Speed, 1800s

Folder 168: Reference materials – Speed catalog cards at Filson Historical Society, circa 1990s

Folder 169: Reference materials – will and settlement book index for James Speed (1773) and Mary Speed (1778) in Virginia, 2000

Folder 170: Ridgeway, home of Helen Bullitt Massie Martin Key (includes 1997 photographic prints and negatives), circa 1990s

Folder 171: Speed and Fry family genealogy, circa 1990s-2003

Folder 172: Speed houses, circa 1990s-2000

Folder 173: Speed, Capt. James and Mary Spencer Speed – estate and enslaved people, 1811-1812, 1825

Folder 174: Speed, James, MD – brief biography of, 1892

Folder 175: Speed, Attorney General James – genealogy and letters, 1833, 1850, 1882, circa 1961, circa 1990s

Folder 176: Speed, Judge John – will and estate settlement, 1840-1841, 1996 [Click here for PDF of the entire folder contents]

Folder 177: Speed, Judge John – Heywood, Rev. John H. talk “Judge John Speed and his Family,” 1894

Folder 178: Speed, Judge John – Taylor, James Jr. and Speed – Justices of the Peace, 1800

Folder 179: Speed, John of Mecklenburg, Virginia – genealogy and ad for Will, a person who escaped enslavement, 1773, 1990s-2000s

Folder 180: Speed, Joshua Fry and Fanny Henning – Fanny’s wills, 1897-1902

Folder 181: Speed, Joshua Fry and Fanny Henning – first farm, circa 1990s-2000

Folder 182: Speed, Joshua Fry and Fanny Henning – General Sherman letter and profile of Joshua, 1861, circa 1990s

Folder 183: Speed, Joshua Fry and Fanny Henning – references in Irwin-Hilliard collection, 1871-1884

Folder 184: Speed, Joshua Fry and Fanny Henning – obituaries and will of Joshua, 1881-1882, 1886

Folder 185: Speed, Mary LeMaster – poetry about diagnosis of blindness and impending death, 1877

Folder 186: Speed, Mary Spencer – will, 1825

Folder 187: Speed family portrait by Morton, circa 1990s

 

Subject Headings

Aaron (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Abram (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Actresses, Black – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Adams, Evelyn C., b. 1884

Adams, Martha Speed, 1822-1903

Adams, Thomas, 1816-1858

Administration of estates – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Administration of estates – Kentucky – Mercer County

Administration of estates – Virginia

Adsmore Museum (Princeton, Ky.)

African American cemeteries – Kentucky – Louisville

Agatha (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Aggy (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1825

Agriculture – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Albert (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Alfred (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Allen (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

American bison – Kentucky – Louisville

Anderson (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Andy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), 1854-1855

Angel Mounds State Historic Site (Ind.)

Ann (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Annis (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1825

Anthony (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Archaeology – Kentucky – Louisville

Architecture, Domestic – Kentucky – Louisville

Art museums – Collection management

Arterburn Family

Arterburn, Jordan, 1817-1875

Arterburn, Tarlton (d. 1883)

Ashland (Lexington, Ky.)

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851

Autobiographies – Kentucky – Louisville

Ayars, Robert, 1804-1882

Bader, Anne Tobbe

Barbary (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Bartlett (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Becky (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Bereavement

Big Bone Lick State Park (Ky.)

Bills of sale for enslaved persons – Kentucky

Billy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Black enslavers – Kentucky – Fayette County

Black enslavers – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Black people – Colonization – Liberia

Black people – Dwellings – Kentucky – Louisville

Black people – Genealogy – Kentucky – Louisville

Black people – Genealogy – North Carolina

Black people – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Black people – Kentucky – Mercer County

Black people – Segregation – Kentucky – Louisville

Black people – Virginia

Blind women – Kentucky – Louisville

Blindness – Kentucky – Louisville

Bogert, Pen

Boswell (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1812

Braxton (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), b. 1856

Bray, Nancy Lyle, d. 1860

Bray, Samuel E., d. 1845

Breckinridge, Lucy Speed, 1811-1893

Briney, Melville Wortham Otter, 1899-1986

Brooks, Carolyn

Buck (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Kentucky), active 1830

Buck (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Buildings – Natural disaster effects – Kentucky – Louisville

Bullitt family

Bullitt, Thomas Walker, 1914-1991

Bullitt’s Lick (Bullitt County, Ky.)

Bush, Erma Jean, b. 1951

Business enterprises – Kentucky – Bullitt County

Business enterprises – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Bustard, John

Caroline (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), b. 1856

Cato (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.)

Celia (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), 1840-1841

Cemeteries – Kentucky – Louisville

Chandler, Lelia E.

Charities – Kentucky – Louisville

Charles (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Charles (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Charles (Enslaved person in Kentucky)

Child care – Kentucky – Louisville

Child slaves – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Children – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Children, Black – Death – Kentucky – Louisville

Children, Black – Kentucky – Louisville

Children, White – Kentucky – Louisville

Children’s literature, American

Cholera – Kentucky – Louisville

Christian children – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Christians – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Cinderella (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Cinthia (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Civil War – Soldiers

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Clothing and dress

Courtenay, Ellen W.

Croghan, John, 1790-1849

Crutcher, Ella Keats Speed, 1850-1878

Crutcher, Thomas Baber, 1846-1870

David (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Davis, Susan Speed, 1817-1888

Davy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849-1853

Death

Diseases – Kentucky – Louisville

Distilleries – Kentucky

Dock (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009

Dorsey, Jeffrey Fry

Douglass (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Drinking of alcoholic beverages

Duffy, William M., 1953-

Easter (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Eastern Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.)

Edwin (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Eliza (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Kentucky), d. 1855

Eliza (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1825

Ellen (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Enslaved people – Emancipation – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Enslaved people – Kentucky

Enslaved women – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Enslaved women – Kentucky – Oldham County

Enslaved women – Violence against – Kentucky – Oldham County

Enslavers – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Enslavers – Kentucky – Mercer County

Enslavers – Kentucky – Oldham County

Enslavers – Virginia

Express highways – Kentucky – Louisville

Families, Black – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Family reunions – Kentucky – Louisville

Fanny (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Farmington Historic Plantation (Louisville, Ky.)

Filson Historical Society

Flora (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Flora (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Fourth of July celebrations – Kentucky – Louisville

Free Black people – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Fry family

Fry, Joshua, ca. 1760-1839

Fry, Mary Micou Hill, 1716-1772

Fugitive slaves – Kentucky – Louisville

Fugitive slaves – Virginia

Funeral rites and ceremonies – Kentucky – Louisville

Gabriel (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Gender and society

Geofrey (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

George (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Gibson (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Goodwin, Nelson D., 1906-1991

Grace (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Granger, Joseph E.

Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871

Green, Ed

Green, Nathaniel E., 1938-

Hannah (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Hannah (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Hannah (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Hannah (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Harrison (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), d. 1855

Harrod (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1812

Hartwell, Alice Peay, 1864-1947

Hartwell, Samuel, 1864-1926

Hayes, Abram, 1823-1904

Hayes, Rosanna, b. 1825

Haynes, Martha

Heinrich, Anthony Philip, 1781-1861

Hemp industry – Indiana – New Harmony

Hemp industry – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Henning and Speed (Louisville, Ky.)

Henry (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Henson (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Herrod (Enslaved person in Kentucky)

Heywood, John Healey, 1818-1902

Historic buildings – Kentucky

Historic Homes Foundation (Louisville, Ky.)

Historic house museums – Collection management – Kentucky – Louisville

Historic house museums – Interpretive programs – Kentucky – Louisville

Historic house museums – Kentucky

Historic New Harmony, Inc.

Historic preservation – Kentucky – Louisville

Historic sites – Indiana

Homosexuality – Political aspects – United States

Honor – Kentucky

Hope (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1822

House furnishings – Kentucky

Household employees – Kentucky – Louisville

Humphrey (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Indigenous peoples – United States

Infants – Death – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Isaac (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

J.B. Speed Art Museum

Jackson (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Jacob (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Jacob (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Jacob (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), b. 1852

James (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

James (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

James (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1825

Jesse (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1825

Jim (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1825

Joe (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

John (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Johnston (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Johnston (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Jonathan (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Jones, Yvonne V.

Jordan (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Julia (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Julia (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), b. 1852

Julia Ann (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Julia Ann (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Key, Helen Bullitt Massie Martin, 1790-1871

Kraft, Freda Drescher (1894-1993)

Labor – Indiana

Labor – Kentucky

Laws, Peter

Lee, Caroline, b. 1812

Lee, Isaac, b. 1809

Leo (Enslaved person in Kentucky), active 1829

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Little Theater Company (Louisville, Ky.)

Livestock – Kentucky – Louisville

Locust Grove (Louisville, Ky. : Estate)

Lot (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Louisa (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Louisa (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Louisville Beautification League (Louisville, Ky.)

Lucy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Lucy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849-1853

Lucy (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1812

Lucy (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Lydia (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Lydia (Enslaved person in Kentucky)

Mann’s Lick (Jefferson County, Ky.)

Margaret (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849-1853

Maria (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Maria (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1825

Marriage records – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Martin (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Mary (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Mary (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Mary (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Maryan (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Melinda (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Memorials – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Men, Black – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Methodists – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Midwest Cherokee Alliance, Inc.

Minor (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Mobile (Enslaved person), active 1858

Morocco (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.)

Morocco (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1821-1840

Moses (Enslaved person in Kentucky), active 1811

Museum objects – Kentucky – Louisville

Museums – Collection management – Kentucky – Louisville

Nancy (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1812

Nancy (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1812

Nancy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Nancy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Nanny (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Natural disasters – Kentucky – Louisville

Ned (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Newburg (Jefferson County, Ky.)

Newton (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Nicholas (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Nostalgia – Kentucky

Oz (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Patriotism – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Patsey (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Peay family

Peay, Austin Lightfoot, 1803-1849

Peay, Ella Keats, 1835-1888

Peay, George Nicholas, 1833-

Peay, John Speed, 1836-1889

Peay, Peachy Speed, 1813-1881

Peggy (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1824

People with disabilities – Kentucky – Jefferson County

People with disabilities – Kentucky – Mercer County

People with visual disabilities – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Peter (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Peter (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Peter (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Peter (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812-1825

Petersburg (Jefferson County, Ky)

Pope family

Postcards – Kentucky – Louisville

Presidents – Assassination

Protestants – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Rachel (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Racism against Black people – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Racism against indigenous peoples – Kentucky

Rape – Kentucky – Oldham County

Religion

Rheuben (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Ridgeway (Louisville, Ky.)

Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing (Louisville, Ky.)

Roads – Kentucky – Louisville

Robbin (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1835-1840

Rosanna (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Rose (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1836-1840

Rose (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Rowan (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Russell, Anderson

Russell, Julia B., b. 1836

Russell, Robert

Salley (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Sally (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840-1845

Salt industry and trade – Kentucky

Sam (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Sam (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

Sarah (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Kentucky), d. 1840

Sarah (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Shenk, Joshua Wolf

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Silvia (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Simon (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Single men – Kentucky – Louisville

Sipe (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Sipe (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Sisters of the Mysterious Ten (Louisville, Ky.)

Slave bills of sale – Kentucky – Mercer County

Slave insurrections – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Slave trade – Kentucky

Slave trade – Kentucky – Louisville

Slave trade – Kentucky – Oldham County

Slave traders – Kentucky – Louisville

Slavery – Kentucky

Slavery – Virginia

Smith, Cinderella Greathouse, d. 1885

Smith, Fortune

Soldiers, Black – Kentucky

Sophia (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), b. 1854

Spearing, Deborah

Speed family

Speed family – Homes and haunts – Kentucky

Speed, Eliza Julia, 1805-1886

Speed, Emma Keats, 1823-1883

Speed, Fanny Henning, 1820-1902

Speed, George Keats, d. 1887

Speed, James Breckinridge, 1844-1912

Speed, James, 1739-1811

Speed, James, 1774-1812

Speed, James, 1812-1887

Speed, Jane Cochran, d. 1888

Speed, Jane Ewing, 1848-1932

Speed, Jessie St. John Adams, 1858-1894

Speed, John James, 1816-1885

Speed, John S., 1927-2016

Speed, John Smith, 1821-1886

Speed, John, 1713-1785

Speed, John, 1762-1840

Speed, John, 1842-1920

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

Speed, Lucy Gilmer Fry, 1788-1874

Speed, Mary LeMaster, 1802-1884

Speed, Mary McElroy, 1777-1843

Speed, Mary Spencer, 1742-1829

Speed, Philip, 1819-1882

Speed, Susan Philips, 1829-1895

Speed, Thomas

Speed, Thomas S.

Speed, Thomas, 1768-1842

Speed, Thomas, 1841-1905

Speed, William Pope, 1816-1863

Spencer (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849-1853

Spencer, David, b. 1820

Spencer, Martha, b. 1840

Spencer, Mary

Spencer, Merrett

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Suckey (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Susan (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Susan (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Susan (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1853

Susan Speed Davis Home (Louisville, Ky.)

Sydney (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), 1854-1855

Tamar (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Tarleton, Ralph, d. 1868

Temperance – Societies, etc. – Kentucky – Bardstown

Terrell, Edna Earle (Hikes), 1902-1994

Tevis, Eliza Curtis Hundley, ca. 1800-1890

Tevis, Henry (d. 1869)

Thomas Adams (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Thomas Edison House (Louisville, Ky.)

Thompson, Diana, 1818-1895

Thompson, Dinnie, 1857-1939

Thompson, Merritt

Thompson, Spencer

Thornton (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849-1855

Thurston, Phyllis

Tom (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Kentucky)

Tom (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Tom (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Tom (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1810-1825

United States Colored Troops

Upper class families – Dwellings – Kentucky – Louisville

Upper class families – Kentucky – Louisville

Upper class women – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Walker, Judy, d. 1896

Ward, David L.

Ward, Eliza Peay, 1842-1906

Washington (Enslaved person in Mercer County, Ky.), active 1812

White, Juanita

Whitehall (Louisville, Ky.)

Whiting, Mildred Peay, 1862-1937

Will (Enslaved person in Warwick County, Va.), active 1773

William (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1836

William (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1849

Wills – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Wills – Kentucky – Mercer County

Wills – Virginia – Albemarle County

Wilson, Elizabeth Arterburn, 1902-2000

Winny (Enslaved person in Jefferson County, Ky.), active 1840

Women – Institutional care – Kentucky – Louisville

Women enslavers – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Women enslavers – Kentucky – Mercer County

Women in charitable work – Kentucky – Louisville

Women with disabilities – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Women with disabilities – Kentucky – Mercer County

Women, Black – Kentucky

Women, Black – Violence against – Kentucky – Oldham County

Women, White – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Women, White – Kentucky – Mercer County

World War, 1939-1945 – Kentucky – Louisville

Wounds and injuries – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Held by the Filson Historical Society

Creator: Morrow, Col. Charles H., 1877-1935

Title: Papers, 1917-1960 (bulk: 1918-1935)

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department at gro.l1747844804aciro1747844804tsihn1747844804oslif1747844804@hcra1747844804eser1747844804

Size of Collection: 0.72 cu. ft. (in 1 cu. ft. box) and 1 ovsz. vol.

Location Number: Mss. A M872

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of papers that belonged to, were authored by, concerned with, or pertained to the interests of Charles Haskell Morrow. Morrow was a United States Army colonel originally from Somerset, Kentucky. Most of the collection concerns his roles as the commander of the 27^th U.S. Infantry and the Lake Baikal Sector in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and the commandant of the United States Army Post at Fort Niagara in Western New York. The bulk of the documents are from 1918-1921 and 1930-1935. Additionally, there is a large section of political and patriotic speeches that fall within and between these two periods. The types of documents in this collection consist mainly of military reports, correspondence in the form of telegrams, and speeches. The collection also includes a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings from Morrow’s time at Fort Niagara and shortly after his death in 1935. This collection provides insight into the American Expeditionary Forces, the Provisional All-Russian Government under Alexander Kolchak, the White movement and White Army, prisoner of war camps, and White Terror genocide in Siberia.

Folders 1-8 contain correspondence, primarily telegrams, relating to Morrow’s service in the Russian Civil War and wartime events. These documents range in date from 1918 to 1960. Two telegrams postdate his death in 1935 and were addressed to his wife, Eugenia Morrow. Most of the correspondence was sent to or by Morrow, though several documents were not addressed to him but would have been of interest to him. Common topics of conversation include Morrow’s dispute with Ataman Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (Semienoff) regarding Semyonov’s misconduct toward fellow Allied soldiers, Morrow’s administration of a prisoner of war camp in Krasnaya Rechka, the drinking habit of James Murray (Secretary of the Knights of Columbus) during his work with the 27^th Infantry in Siberia, and post-war interest in the Russian Civil War. Also included in this section are military orders, memos, proclamations, and exhibits from reports that were addressed to groups of people such as Russian civilians, regiments, and Allied commanders. Additionally, there are telegrams typed in Russian, some of which have accompanying English translations.

Folders 9-11 contain calling cards written in French, Czech, Japanese, and English as well as wartime letters from Japanese generals inviting Morrow to a luncheon and dinner. The calling cards are undated but most likely date between 1918, the beginning of Morrow’s service in Siberia, and 1935, the year of his death. There are also envelopes containing undated documents written in Japanese. It is unclear whether these documents relate to the Russian Civil War or to the events to which the Japanese generals invited Morrow. Additionally, there is a photograph of a Japanese commander standing in a street as well as a 1920 envelope containing photographic negatives of people. There is also a 1920 letter of appreciation from a man named “Billy” to Morrow.

Folders 12-14 consist of miscellaneous correspondence unrelated to Morrow’s service in the Russian Civil War or his role as the camp commandant of the United States Army Post at Fort Niagara. This includes a letter from Edwin Morrow to Charles Morrow discussing how they are going to pay off some expenditure (1933), letters pertaining to the War Department’s termination of Captain Gordon W. Ellis’ service in the Army (1922), and condolence letters (1935-1936) to Eugenia Morrow offering her sympathy after Charles Morrow’s death on December 21, 1935. Captain Ellis’s relation to Morrow is unclear. Also included in this folder are documents concerning the life insurance policy of Thomas R. Fetter (1920-1928), Eugenia Morrow’s brother; and documents relating to the unveiling of a memorial to Charles Morrow at Fort Niagara (1937).

Folders 15-17 include 1918-1920 correspondence and testimonies from Russian civilians and Allied soldiers during the Russian Civil War. Correspondence includes letters of commendation from residents of the Zai-Baikal District in Siberia and Allied commanders to Morrow (1918-1920). Correspondence in this section also consists of a series of 1919-1920 petitions made by Russian villagers in the Zai-Baikal and addressed to Morrow which protest the war, detail their brutal treatment at the hands of Cossack and Japanese soldiers, and call for American intercession. Additionally, there is a compilation of 1919 testimonies made by Cossack soldiers which describe the brutal conduct of Ataman Kalmykov and the soldiers under his command and provide reasons for the January 1919 mutiny among Kalmykov’s forces.

Folders 18-23 contain reports and exhibits from 1918-1920 reports on the operations of the 27^th U.S. Infantry during the Russian Civil War as well as military-related subjects that would have concerned Morrow and the 27^th U.S. Infantry. Includes general reports on the operations of the 27^th U.S. Infantry during spans of time such as from August to October of 1918 and from May 1919 to January 1920. Also contains reports on more specific topics such as the work done by civilian employees to renovate and maintain barracks in which 27^th Infantry troops stayed (1919) as well as Morrow and the 27^th Infantry’s efforts to renovate and beautify a prisoner of war camp at Krasnaya Rechka (1920), which they were responsible for guarding. Additionally, there is a 1919 report on wartime atrocities committed by Ataman Ivan Kalmykov, commander of the Ussuri Cossacks, and the January 1919 mutiny among his forces. Contains statement and letter by Charles Morrow to the Krug (a Cossack administrative assembly), as Kalmykov had accused American troops of fomenting dissent. Several reports were sent by Morrow to the Adjutant General of the United States Army and the report on civilian employees was sent to Commanding General of the A.E.F. in Siberia, General William Graves. It is unclear whether Morrow authored the reports besides the report on the civilian employees and the prison camp.

Folders 24-25 consist of post-war texts that discuss Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and provide historical context for the Russian Civil War. Includes a chapter of an unidentified and undated book that details the main historical events related to Russia’s involvement in the First World War and explains the circumstances surrounding Russia’s withdrawal from the war. Also contains a monograph (1923) entitled “The A.E.F. in Siberia” by Lieutenant Colonel Fred W. Bugbee. Explains the purpose of the American Expeditionary Forces’ involvement in the Russian Civil War and gives an account of major events relating to the A.E.F.’s service in Siberia. Published in “Monographs of the World War” in 1923 by the United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Folders 26-34 consist primarily of typed and handwritten addresses (circa 1919-1936) on a variety of subjects including American political elections, the celebration of patriotic holidays, American history, Irish history, the history of Fort Niagara, and an address commemorating Morrow following his death. Also includes addresses (circa 1919) delivered by Military Governor General Mejack and Colonel Morrow during the Russian Civil War. Additionally, there is an address (circa 1926) given by Morrow when presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to 1st Lieutenant Jesse Orin Creech, a poem commemorating Morrow (1936), and documents relating to the history of Fort Niagara (circa 1933-1934). Of these addresses, Morrow delivered one of the addresses from the Russian Civil War (1919); an Armistice Day address at Lexington, Kentucky (1924); a Flag Day address in Somerset, Kentucky (1928); an address labelled “Opening Address as Toastmaster” (undated), delivered at the Four-in-one National Defense Dinner in Louisville, Kentucky. It is unclear whether Morrow delivered any of the other addresses. One of the political addresses was delivered by Charles Morrow’s brother, Governor of Kentucky Edwin Morrow. Many of the addresses are undated and do not note who delivered them. Several of the typed addresses are copies of the handwritten addresses.

Folders 35-39 hold documents concerning Fort Niagara and Morrow’s role as the camp commandant of the U.S. Army post there. Documents range in date from 1929 to 1935. Includes a booklet (1929) published by the Old Fort Niagara Association which details the restoration plans for historic buildings at Fort Niagara, programs for military ceremonies held at Fort Niagara (1930-1935), and correspondence concerning Fort Niagara and Charles Morrow’s service there as well as correspondence sent to Charles and Eugenia Morrow while they were stationed at Fort Niagara (1930-1950). Also includes resolutions passed by the Niagara County Board of Supervisors (1934), a program for the Four-Nation Celebration at Old Fort Niagara (1934), a postcard showing a map of Fort Niagara (1932), and a booklet issued by the Common Council of the City of Buffalo, N.Y. in honor of Morrow following his death (1935).

Folder 40 consists of documents concerning Morrow’s service in China. In 1917, Morrow was second in command of the 15^th U.S. Infantry in Tianjin, China as well as the Executive Officer of an American Red Cross flood relief camp there. Documents range in date from 1917 to 1932. Includes a reprint of an article (1917) from the China Critic entitled “American Red-Cross Flood Relief Camp”, a letter (1932) from a man in Tianjin thanking Morrow for his work there, and a newspaper clipping of an undated article entitled “Lt. Col. C.H. Morrow Talks At Reserve Officer Meeting”.

Folder 41 holds newspaper clippings ranging in date from 1919 to 1950, though the majority of the clippings date to 1935. Topics include Charles Morrow’s accusations against Ataman Semienoff, Kentucky’s contributions to the war effort during World War I, Colonel Morrow receiving the command of a regiment at Fort Niagara, the construction of the Rush-Bagot Monument at Fort Niagara, Edwin Morrow’s death and funerary rites, auto accidents at Fort Niagara, Charles Morrow’s death and funerary rites, Robert Lee Bullard’s death, and an anecdote concerning Colonel Ben Johnson and Colonel Morrow. Newspapers include The Courier-Journal, The Somerset Journal, Commonwealth Journal, and Buffalo Courier-Express.

Folder 42 contains miscellaneous documents ranging in date from 1919-1947. Documents most relevant to Morrow include his application for The Empire State Society of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution (1935), an article entitled “Major Forces Square Deal for Prisoners” (1919), and a brief military-related biography of Charles Morrow written on an envelope (undated). Other noteworthy documents include a Kentucky Historical Society communique mentioning Eugenia Morrow (1947), “Report on Barges of Prisoners from Tobolsk and Tumen” (1919), one page of a report about the murder of Russian civilians by Russian soldiers during the Civil War (undated), and an article entitled “The Recognition of Russia” by Edwin Dickinson reprinted from the Michigan Law Review (1931).

Volume 43 is a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings from Morrow’s time as the camp commandant of the United States Army Post at Fort Niagara, New York. Clippings range in date from 1930 to 1935. The clippings describe work that Morrow did at Fort Niagara and newsworthy occurrences in the local area. Several clippings discuss Morrow’s death and funeral, so the scrapbook could not have been entirely assembled by him.

 

Related Collection:

021PC28 Morrow, Col. Charles H. Military Photographs

 

Biographical Note

Charles Haskell Morrow (1877-1935) was born on November 28, 1877, in Somerset, Kentucky. He was the twin of Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow (1877-1935), and the son of Colonel Thomas Z. Morrow (1835-1913) and Virginia “Jennie” Bradley Morrow (1842-1900). Colonel Morrow began his military career as a Second Lieutenant in the First Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Louisville Legion). Prior to the First World War, Morrow served as a member of the Miles Expedition to Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War, a lieutenant of volunteers during the Philippine Insurrection from 1899 to 1901, and a captain of Philippine Scouts from 1903 to 1909. During World War One, Morrow was stationed in the Philippines and later served as second in command of the 15^th U.S. Infantry in Tianjin, China. He was also the Executive Officer of an American Red Cross flood relief camp while in Tianjin. From 1918 to 1920, Morrow commanded the 27^th U.S. Infantry in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. In this period, Morrow helped capture the city of Khabarovsk, administered a prisoner of war camp in Krasnaya Rechka, and was responsible for guarding the Lake Baikal Sector. Colonel Morrow received the Distinguished Service Medal (United States), the Cross of Vladimir (Russia), the Croix de Guerre with Palm (France), and the Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan for his actions in Siberia. After the war, he returned to Kentucky and served as the Senior Instructor for the Kentucky National Guard until 1925. From 1925 to 1930, Morrow was the Senior Instructor for Kentucky’s organized reserves. He was the camp commandant of the United States Army Post at Fort Niagara, New York, and commanded the 28^th U.S. Infantry from 1930 to 1935. In this role he championed the large-scale restoration of Old Fort Niagara and the effort to make it a historic site. On December 21, 1935, Charles Morrow died of a heart attack at Fort Niagara. He was survived by his wife, Eugenia Fetter Morrow (1880-1970), whom he married in 1927.

References:

“Colonel Charles Haskell Morrow” by Major James W. Curtis. Article in The New York National Guardsman. (February 1936). Found in printout within collection and online at https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/research/NY_National_Guardsman/NYNG1936_02.pdf

“Col. Morrow.” Article in Buffalo Courier-Express. (December 23, 1935). Original document within collection.

 

Folder List

 

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, March 1918-September 1918 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 2: Correspondence, February 1919-December 1919 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 3: Correspondence, January 1920-December 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 4: Correspondence, April 1921-Oct. 1921 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 5: Correspondence, circa 1922-1960 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 6: Military orders and memos, April 1919-January 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 7: Exhibits “A” through “H”: Proclamation, reports, correspondence, April 1919-January 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 8: Correspondence and military orders in Russian with English translations, September 1919-January 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 9: Envelopes and documents with Japanese writing, circa 1918-1921

Folder 10: Calling cards, correspondence, and photographs, circa August 1920-November 1920

Folder 11: French calling cards, circa 1918-1935

Folder 12: Life insurance documents and financial correspondence to Morrow, 1920-1933

Folder 13: Captain Gordon Ellis correspondence, August 1922

Folder 14: Condolence letters to Eugenia Morrow and documents about Charles Morrow’s memorialization, December 1935-July 1937

Folder 15: Commendations from Zai-Baikal District to Morrow and the American Command, September 1918-January 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 16: Testimonies of Cossack mutineers at Krasnaya Rechka, circa 1919 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 17: Petitions received from villagers in the Zai-Baikal, Siberia, 1919-1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 18: Reports on the operations of the 27^th U.S. Infantry from August-October 1918 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 19: Report on the operations of the 27th U. S. Infantry from May 2, 1919, to January 29, 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 20: Exhibits from reports about Morrow and the 27th U.S. Infantry, June 1919-February 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 21: Report on Ataman Kalmykov’s atrocities and mutiny among his forces, November 1919 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 22: “Report on Civilian Employees at Beresovka” by Morrow, December 1919 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 23: Morrow’s report on operations of Krasnaya Rechka prisoner of war camp, February 1920 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 24: Chapter one of a manuscript about Allied intervention in Russian Civil War, circa 1921-1939 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 25: “The A.E.F. in Siberia” monograph by Lieutenant Colonel Fred W. Bugbee, Infantry, 1923 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 26: Russian Civil War addresses, circa 1919 [click here for PDF of contents]

Folder 27: Political addresses, circa 1919-1932

Folder 28: Patriotic holidays addresses, 1924-1932

Folder 29: General patriotic addresses and Distinguished Service Cross address, circa 1926-1932

Folder 30: Fort Niagara addresses, history, map, letter, circa 1933-1934

Folder 31: W.H. Price address to the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, Toronto, March 1934

Folder 32: Address and poem about Morrow, circa December 1935-September1936

Folder 33: Handwritten addresses, circa 1928-1932

Folder 34: Handwritten addresses, circa 1926-1927

Folder 35: Old Fort Niagara Association’s “The Castle” booklet, 1929

Folder 36: Military ceremonies programs, 1930-1935

Folder 37: Fort Niagara correspondence and attached documents, 1930-1950

Folder 38: Other Fort Niagara documents, January 1934-January 1935

Folder 39: “In Memoriam” booklet for Morrow, circa December 1935

Folder 40: Documents concerning Morrow’s service in China, 1917-1932

Folder 41: Clippings, 1919-1950

Folder 42: Miscellaneous, 1919-1947

 

Oversize

Volume 43 (wrapped): Newspaper scrapbook, 1930-1935

 

Subject Headings

Baikal, Lake, Region (Russia)

Civil war – Russia – 20th century

Cossacks

Genocide – Siberia (Russia)

Kentucky – Politics and government – 20th century

Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasiliyevich, 1873-1920

Morrow, Eugenia, 1880-1970

Niagara Frontier (N.Y.)

Old Fort Niagara (N.Y.)

Old Fort Niagara Association

Prisoner-of-war camps – Russia (Federation) – Siberia

Russia (Federation) – Revolution, 1917-1921

Russia (Federation) – War crimes

Semenov, G. (Grigoriĭ), 1890-1946

Siberia (Russia) – Politics and government – 20th century

United States – Armed Forces – Officers

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 27th (1901-1957)

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator:  Union Gospel Mission (Louisville, Ky.)

Title:  Records, 1886-1944

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection:  .5 cubic foot (in 1 cubic foot box)

Location Number:  Mss. BJ U58

Historical Note

Located at 114 E. Jefferson Street in Louisville, Kentucky, the Union Gospel Mission provided religious and social welfare services from 1886 to 1943. It grew out of the evangelical ministry of Rev. Steve P. Holcombe, a gambler turned Christian convert. Set up in a vacant store on Jefferson Street and supported by the Walnut Street Methodist Church, the Holcombe Mission went on to open an industrial school for boys, a kindergarten for children between the ages of three and five, and a “Wayfarer’s Rest” for men needing work, food, and lodging.

In 1885-1886, the Holcombe Mission was expanded and put under the control of a board of directors from the Evangelical Churches of Louisville, forming the Union Gospel Mission. The Union Gospel Mission purchased a 3-story, 21-room mansion that had been built around 1839-1842 and owned by Benjamin Smith. Its constitution outlined its purpose “to do general Gospel City Mission work, to teach the masses, and to provide for the want of those who need Christian encouragement and instruction.” Holcombe resigned as pastor from Union Gospel Mission in 1889 but returned as superintendent from 1895 to 1905.

Over the years, Union Gospel Mission conducted nightly gospel meetings, a Sunday school, educational classes, a job-finding service, a daily free medical clinic, and a Daily Vacation Bible School in the summer. Elizabeth Montgomery Cardwell became superintendent in 1906 after taking on the position of Holcombe’s assistant at Union Gospel Mission in 1903, a few years after the death of her husband. During her 26 years as superintendent, Cardwell shifted the focus of the Union Gospel Mission from rescue work for men to a Christian settlement for women and children. The Mission provided lodging and work for “stranded women and children,” a day nursery (started in 1907), a boarding home for “working girls” (started in 1917 at 103 E. Jefferson Street and closed in 1933), a Mother’s Club, and a large outdoor playground. Maude M. Abner took over superintendent after Caldwell’s resignation in 1932.

From 1917 through 1939, Union Gospel Mission received funding from the Community Chest and its predecessors the Louisville Federation of Social Agencies and the Welfare League. When Union Gospel Mission was dropped as a member agency of the Community Chest at the end of 1939, the Mission began looking for other forms of organizational support and funding. In 1943, the Union Gospel Mission transferred its property to the Long Run Baptist Association.

Sources:

Maude M. Abner, The Story of the Union Gospel Mission, 1944.

Adam Garland Winters, Steve P. Holcombe and the Heritage of the Louisville Rescue Mission, 2016.

 

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of records of Louisville’s Union Gospel Mission, an evangelical institution providing religious and social welfare services at 114 East Jefferson Street from 1886 to 1944. Records include board minutes, correspondence, legal documents, reports, financial records, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and paper photographic images.

Folders 1-3 contain legal documents and historical information relating to Union Gospel Mission. Legal documents for Union Gospel Mission include acts of incorporation, bylaws, and constitution from 1886, and a bill of sale between Union Gospel Mission and the Long Run Association of Baptists in 1943. There are copies of the 1936 will of Elizabeth M. Cardwell, former superintendent of Union Gospel Mission, and a 1937 inventory of her personal property. Historical materials include information about the mansion that later housed Union Gospel Mansion and the owners Benjamin and Irene Smith, as well as historical sketches of Union Gospel Mission written in the 1930s.

Folders 4-17 contain copies of board minutes, correspondence, and other administrative records. According to a historical note, board minutes from 1896 to 1906 are missing. Topics addressed by the board minutes and administrative records are funding and financial management of Union Gospel Mission, the provision of a wide range of religious and social services, the Mission’s status as a member agency of the Community Chest from the 1910s until 1940, and the transference of the Mission’s property to the Long Run Baptist Association in 1943.

Folders 18-20 contain published annual reports and pamphlets from 1900-1941 and miscellaneous materials and images. Publications provide information and images about the history, services, and staff of Union Gospel Mission. Miscellaneous materials relating to Union Gospel Mission include a 1919 advertisement for a revival at Union Gospel Mission, information about the Mission’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1935 and other events in the late 1930s-1940, newspaper clippings about the Mission, and an account of a woman named Polly who found help at the Mission and became its housekeeper. Also of note is a Jefferson County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) pamphlet, ca. 1930s.

Related collections:

Union Gospel Mission Photograph Collection, small groups file [999PC33]; subject photograph [CHW-57].

Maude M. Abner, The Story of the Union Gospel Mission, 1944 [266.6 A153].

Scrapbook of clippings on history, etc. of the Union Gospel Mission, Louisville, Kentucky [Mss. SB U58a].

Union Gospel Mission, An Interdenominational Institution for Gospel City Mission Work [Rare Pamphlet 266 U58 1925].

Union Gospel Mission, Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Services of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Caldwell, Superintendent [Rare Pamphlet 266 U58t 1928].

Adam Garland Winters, Steve P. Holcombe and the Heritage of the Louisville Rescue Mission, 2016 [266.6 W788].

 

Folder List

Box 1

Folder 1: Legal documents, 1886-1943

Folder 2: Histories and historical materials, ca. 1920s-1930s

Folder 3: Historical information copied in 1939

Folder 4: Board minutes, 1885-1896

Folder 5: Board minutes and correspondence, 1903, 1907-1909

Folder 6: Board minutes and correspondence, 1910-1914

Folder 7: Board minutes and correspondence, 1915-1919

Folder 8: Board minutes and correspondence, 1920-1926

Folder 9: Board minutes and correspondence, 1927-1930

Folder 10: Board minutes and correspondence, 1931-1933

Folder 11: Board minutes and correspondence, 1934-1935

Folder 12: Board minutes and correspondence, 1936-1938

Folder 13: Board minutes and correspondence, 1939

Folder 14: Board minutes and correspondence, 1940

Folder 15: Board minutes and correspondence, 1941-1942

Folder 16: Board minutes and correspondence, 1943-1944

Folder 17: Administrative reports and records, ca. 1908-1936

Folder 18: Published annual reports and pamphlets, ca. 1908-1938

Folder 19: Miscellaneous event and publicity materials, ca. 1919, 1934-1940

Folder 20: Miscellaneous photographic images and news clippings, ca. 1900-1941

 

Subject Headings

Cardwell, Elizabeth Montgomery, 1861-1937.

Charities – Kentucky – Louisville.

Children – Services for – Kentucky – Louisville.

Christianity – Relations – Judaism.

Community Chest (Louisville, Ky.)

Community health services – Kentucky – Louisville.

Depressions – 1929 – Kentucky – Louisville.

Evangelical church – Missions.

Evangelicalism – Kentucky – Louisville.

Faith-based human services – Kentucky – Louisville.

Family services – Kentucky – Louisville.

Flags – United States.

Flood damage – Kentucky – Louisville.

Floods – Ohio River Valley – History – 20^th century.

Food banks – Kentucky – Louisville.

Fund raising – Kentucky – Louisville.

Historic buildings – Kentucky – Louisville.

Holcombe, Steve P., 1835-1916.

Juvenile delinquency.

Kindergarten – Kentucky.

Long Run Baptist Association.

Louisville (Ky.) – History.

Nursery schools – Kentucky – Louisville.

Sewing schools – Kentucky – Louisville.

Slavery – Mississippi.

Social settlements – Kentucky – Louisville.

Social work with children – Kentucky – Louisville.

Soup kitchens – Kentucky – Louisville.

Sunday schools – Kentucky – Louisville.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

Women – Services for – Kentucky – Louisville.

Young Women – Services for – Kentucky – Louisville.