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Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Louisville Science Center  

Title:  Records, 1958-1985  

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

Size of Collection:  2 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. BI L888a 

Scope and Content Note 

A collection of files dealing with the movement of the Louisville Museum of Natural History from its site at Fifth and York to a new location. There are meeting minutes and other material as they consider a site near the Louisville Zoo before deciding upon the location on Main Street. The Filson Historical Society’s proposal to take over the museum in the early 1980’s is also found in the collection. Pamphlets and annual reports from many other similar museums in the United States are included in the collection.  

Biographical Note 

These records cover the period from when the museum was part of the public library at 4th and York to its new home on Main Street. The search for a new location and a new director is the main focus of these records.  

Folder List 

Box 1   

Folder 1: Museum Brochures from Dallas, Berea, Kansas, Health Museum, Wilderness Trail, Houston, Kansas, and Los Angeles.  

Folder 2: Museum Brochures and magazines.  

Folder 3: Museum brochures and pamphlets.  

Folder 4: Museum Magazines and Newsletters mid 1960s. 

Folder 5: Museum Magazines and newsletters early to mid 1960s.  

 Folder 6: Articles of Incorporation for the Louisville Museum of Natural History dated 1 September 1961, with copies of by-laws Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences from 1953, the by-laws from Dayton Society of Natural History from 1961 and Constitution of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History from 1934.  

Folder 7: Museum brochures - Dayton, Oregon.  

Folder 8: Museum brochures from across the nation.  

Folder 9: Correspondence and other material from museums in Cincinnat i, Dayton, Evansville and Oregon.  

Folder 10: Correspondence and photograph 1958.  

Folder 11: Natural Food and Farming Magazine, February 1957.  

Folder 12: Correspondence 1960-1965.  

Folder 13: Newspaper clippings 1961-62.  

Folder 14: Newspaper Clippings 1963.  

Folder 15: Newspaper Clippings 1964-65.  

Folder 16: Museum Registration Material 1965-66. Folder 17: Correspondence 1966.  

Folder 18: Louisville Museum of Natural History letterhead and envelopes with a 1966 cover letter from Catherine D. Strickler.  

Folder 19: Newspaper clippings 1966.  

Folder 20: Correspondence 1967.  

Folder 21: Newspaper clippings 1967.  

Folder 22: Newspaper Clippings 1968.  

Folder 23: Correspondence 1968-69.  

Folder 24: Cover letter and card from the Kentucky Historical Society-1969.  

Folder 25: Newspaper clippings 1969.  

Folder 26: Newspaper clippings 1970-71.  

Folder 27: Correspondence, 1970-1972.  

Folder 28: Copies of letters supporting the Museum site near the Louisville Zoo, 1971-72.  

Folder 29: Newspaper clippings 1972.  

Folder 30: Correspondence 1973.  

Folder 31: Newspaper clippings 1973.  

Folder 32: Correspondence and meeting minutes, 1974. Folder 33: Newspaper clippings 1974.  

Folder 34: Correspondence and meeting minutes dealing with the choice of the site for the Natural History Museum in Louisville.  

Folder 35: Newspaper clippings 1975.  

Folder 36: Newspaper clippings, invitations and mailings from the opening of the museum on Main Street.  

Folder 37: Death of ER Pohl of Horse Cave in 1976 and paper titled “Foraminiferal Evidence For Biostratigraphic Parallelism Between the Type Mississippian Region and Western Europe” dated 1975.  

Folder 38: Newspaper clippings 1976–77.  

Folder 39: Letters from 1977 about the donation of these papers to the Filson.  

Folder 40: List of Fauna spotted near Bellarmine University/Collings Estate by Michael Ryan of the Audubon Society. Undated - circa 1970.  

Folder 41: Correspondence, 1979-1981 .  

Folder 42: Newspaper Clippings 1985.  

Folder 43: Newspaper clippings about the new director Gail R. Becker. Folder 44: Director search minutes 1966.  

Folder 45: Directorship application – Stephen Schmidt. Box 2  

Folder 46: Directorship application - Dale Reed. Folder 47: Directorship application - Leslie C. Drew.  

Folder 48: Directorship application - James L. Whitehead. Folder 49: Directorship application - Samuel C. Grundy. Folder 50: Directorship application - Halsey W Miller.  

Folder 51: Directorship application -Allan Roberts.  

Folder 52: Directorship application - Robert J. Badaracco. Folder 53: Directorship application - Russell I Peithman.  

Folder 54: Directorship application - Howard Bruce Greene.  

Folder 55: Directorship application -William L Groth, Jr.  

Folder 56: Directorship application - F Wayne King.  

Folder 57: Directorship application - Nixon Wilson.  

Folder 58: Directorship application - John C McCain .  

Folder 59: Directorship application - Theodore P Banks.  

Folder 60: Directorship application - Elmer R Nelson.  

Folder 61: Directorship application - Lawrence Thurman.  

Folder 62: Directorship application - W Eugene Atkinson. Letter from Senator Robert P Griffin.  

Folder 63: Directorship application - Hans Elias.  

Folder 64: Directorship application - Edward T Boardman.  

Folder 65: Directorship application -Allen S Liss.  

Folder 66: Directorship application - Thomas G Baker.  

Folder 67: Correspondence and site plans for the Museum 1966-1973.  

Folder 68: Articles of Incorporation, By-laws Friends of the Museum, Other correspondence, 1980-81.  

Folder 69: Material dealing with the Friends of the Museum and the lease of space from the Museum on natural History and Science.  

Folder 70: Slide show dealing with the natural history of the Falls of the Ohio River.  

Folder 71: Certificates of membership to the American Association of Museums, 1968-1969.  

Folder 72: Meeting minutes and suggested plans for the museum in 1982-1983.  

Folder 73: 1982-1983 meeting notes and budget sheets for Friends of the Museum, Inc. 

Folder 74: Blinder with museum exhibit plans for 1982-1983 and letters proposing the Filson Club taking over the museum and running it as their new headquar ter s.  

Folder 75: Audio tapes (cassettes and real-to-real tapes) of museum meetings/speakers.  

Publications not associated with specific correspondence: 

Financing Solid Waste services, 1972  

Solid Waste Management Handbook, 1971  

Developing Local Solid Waste Service Systems, 1972  

Rural Collection System Requirements  

Sanitary Landfill Operations, 1971  

Locating Sanitary Landfill Sites, 1972  

Solid Waste Service System Administration,1972  

Industrial Solid Waste Management Program For Kent u cky, 1971  

Conservation Education Unlimited: The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, By William H. Carr, 1968  

Liver Morphology, 1954.  

The Desert Speaks, 1969  

Acta Hepatologica, 1955  

Functional Morphology of the Liver, 1953  

Series of Anatomical and Pathological Transparencies: No. 5- The Adrenal Glands and Kidneys  

Foreign Visitor Programs at Carnegie Museum  

So You Want A Good Museum, 1957  

Der Magen: ein Beitrag zur funktionellen Histologie Von Hans Elias, Professor der Anatomie an der Chicago Medical School.  

Bulletin of the Jefferson County Medical Society, Jan. 1974  

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, 1963.  

Annual Report of the Dayton Museum of Natural History, 1961  

Denver Museum of Natural History, Annual Report 1962  

Denver Museum of Natural History, Annual Report 1963  

Denver Museum of Natural History, Annual Report 1964  

The Oregon Museum of Science & industry 1964 Annual Report  

Museum News, October 1968  

Museum Graphic, Fall 1968  

Museum Graphic, Summer 1969  

Museum News, December 1967  

10 Years at Science Park 1951-1961: Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts  

Los Angeles County Museum, Biennial Report, 1961-62, 1962-63  

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Biennial Report, 1963-64, 1964-65  

Museum Graphic, Summer 1967  

Our Heritage: Kentucky’s Land, Water, Forest, Mineral Resources, March 1967  

Museum Graphic, Winter 1968  

Museum Graphic, Fall 1967  

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: A Plan for Its Further Development, 1969  

Louisville magazine article on Natural history museum, Oct. 1966.  

Museum News, November 1967  

Museum Graphic, Winter 1969  

Trustees Handbook, Charlotte Nature Museum, 1967  

Museum Talk, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Summer 1966  

Museum Talk, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Fall 1966  

Atomic Energy How?  

The ASDM Newsletter Summer/Fall 1974  

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Annual Report, 1973  

Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, 1968  

Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Search & Learn Guidelines, Grades 4-10  

Museum Graphic, Spring 1969  

Museum Graphic, Spring 1967  

Museum News, June 1969  

The Natural Science Museum: Where Learning is Fun, 1968-1969 Activities  

Annual Report of the Dayton Museum of Natural History, 1962  

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science  

Association of Science-Technology Centers Memorandum, 1974  

Museum of Medical Science, Houston, Texas, Catalog of Exhibit s.  

Museum Graphic, Winter 1970  

Museum Graphic, Spring 1968 Museum Graphic, Summer 1968  

American Institute for Exploration, 1954 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Brown-Ewell Family 

Title:  Papers, 1781-1984 

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

Size of Collection:  6.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A B877a 

Scope and Content Note 

The Brown-Ewell papers contain materials relating to this prominent family of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. This collection includes papers of George Washington Campbell, the Polk family, Brown family, Plunket family, and Richard S. Ewell. The majority of the collection contains correspondence, but also features land indentures, diaries, miscellaneous items, and genealogical information about these interconnected families.  

The correspondence section includes family letters relating to activities and experiences of these allied families in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Of particular interest are the antebellum political and Civil War military papers of the families.  

The earliest papers are from George Washington Campbell (1769-1848). Many reflect his early work as an attorney specializing in land claims, chiefly in Tennessee. The collection also includes correspondence between Elizabeth McKay [Lizinka] Campbell Brown (1820-1872), her husband Confederate Gen. Richard S. Ewell and her two children George Campbell and Harriot Stoddert Brown during and after the Civil War.  

The papers continue through the lifetime of Percy Brown (1874-1934) a son of Campbell Brown and Susan Rebecca Polk (1847-1922). Percy married Gertrude Margarete Plunket (1883-1936) and this collection includes a voluminous Plunket and Brown correspondence. Also, correspondence from their children, Percy (1912-1964) and Gertrude Polk Brown Albrecht concerns the Brown-Foreman distillery and twentieth century culture.  

The other sections contain land indentures, diaries from various Brown family members, miscellaneous materials, and genealogical information on each of the families.  

Biographical Note 

George Washington Campbell (1769-1848), lawyer, senator, secretary of the treasury, diplomat, born in Scotland.  Campbell  was also U.S. ambassador  to Russia and member of the U.S. Commission assigned to carry into effect the claim convention signed with France in 1831. For a full biographical sketch see Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1929), III:452.  

William Polk (1758-1834), Revolutionary soldier, North Carolina businessman  and legislator. Son of Thomas Polk. Unsuccessful Federalist gubernatorial candidate in several elections, who later supported Andrew Jackson. For a full biographical  sketch see Dictionary of American Biography (New York:  Charles Scribner’s  Sons,  1935), XV:43- 44 .  

Elizabeth McKay [Lizinka] Campbell Brown (1820-1872),  daughter  of George Washington Campbell. Married first James Percy Brown, and second her cousin Richard Stoddert Ewell (1817-1872) in 1863.  

Richard Stoddert Ewell (1817-1872), Confederate General and son of Thomas Ewell. Graduated West Point, 1840 and served in the Mexican and Civil Wars . For a full biographical sketch see Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1931), VI:229-30.  

George Campbell Brown (1840-1893), son ofLizinka Brown Ewell, served on the staff of Gen. Richard Ewell (stepfather) during the Civil War. After the war settled in Tennessee. 

Percy Brown (1874-1934), a son of Campbell Brown and Susan Rebecca Polk (1847- 1922). Percy married Gertrude Margarete Plunket, daughter of James Dace and Jennie Swope Plunket.  

Folder List 

Box 1 

Introductory materials  

Folder 1: Campbell, George Washington, Correspondence, 1799-1806  

Folder 2: Campbell, George Washington, Retained Letterbook Drafts, 1807- 1821  

Folder 3: Russian Period, 1817-1819, Letter re. land to Wm. Polk, 1818  

Folder 4: Polk Family Papers, 1820-1824  

Folder 5: Polk Family Papers, 1825-1829  

Folder 6: Van Buren, Martin, Correspondence with Miss Eastin, 1829-n.d. [c.1831]  

Folder 7: Polk Family Papers, 1830-1835  

Folder 8: Polk Family Papers, 1844-1849  

Folder 9: Brown Family Correspondence, 1850-1857  

Folder 10: Brown Family Correspondence, 1860  

Folder 11: Brown Family Correspondence, 1861  

Folder 12: Brown-Ewell Correspondence, 1861-1864 

Box 2 

Folder 13: Brown and Ewell family correspondence, April 20 through May 31, 1865. Ewell and G. C. Brown write from Fort Warren prison in Boston Harbor.  

Folder 14: Brown-Ewell Family Correspondence 1865  

Folder 15: Brown and Ewell Family Correspondence, July-Sept 1865  

Folder 16: Correspondence, 1866-1869  

Folder 17: Correspondence, 1870-1875  

Folder 18: Correspondence, 1882-1888  

Folder 19: Correspondence, 1891-1898  

Folder 20: Correspondence, n.d.  

Box3  

Folder 21: Correspondence, 1889-1898, between some of the members of the family of Geo. Campbell Brown [1840-1893] and Susan Rebecca Polk [1847-1922].  

Folder 22: Correspondence between members of Gertrude and Percy Brown’s family, 1905-1919.  

Folder 23: Correspondence, Dec 1920-June 1922  

Folder 24: Correspondence, July-Dec 1922  

Folder 25: Correspondence, 1923-1924  

Folder 26: Correspondence, 1925-Aug 1926  

Folder 27: Correspondence, Sept-Oct 1926  

Folder 28: Correspondence, Nov-Dec 1926  

Box 4  

Folder 29: Correspondence, 1927  

Folder 30: Correspondence, Feb 1927  

Folder 31: Correspondence, March 1927  

Folder 32: Correspondence, April 1927  

Folder 33: Correspondence, May-Sept 1927  

Folder 34: Correspondence, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec 1927  

Box 5  

Folder 35: Correspondence, Jan-Sept 1928  

Folder 36: Correspondence, Oct 1-14, 1928  

Folder 37: Correspondence, Oct 17-23, 1928  

Folder 38: Correspondence, Oct 25-31, 1928  

Folder 39: Correspondence, Nov-Dec 1928  

Folder 40: Correspondence, Jan-April 1929  

Box 6  

Folder 41: Correspondence, May-August 1929  

Folder 42: Correspondence, Sept-Dec 1929  

Folder 43: Correspondence, 1930  

Folder 44: Correspondence, March 1932-Dec 1933  

Folder 45: Correspondence, 1940s  

Folder 46: Correspondence, 1950s  

Folder 47: Correspondence, June 1965-1977  

Folder 48: Correspondence, 1980s  

Folder 49: Correspondence, n.d.  

Folder 50: Correspondence to Percy Brown, Jr., n.d.  

Folder 51: Correspondence, General, n.d.  

Box 7  

Folder 52: Percy Brown, Jr., Receipts and Bills  

Folder 53: Percy Brown, Jr., Report Cards, 1926-1928  

Folder 54: Percy Brown, 1874-1934, Family Papers, Misc., 1894-1934  

Folder 55: Percy Brown, 1912-1964, Misc. Papers, 1918-1939  

Folder 56: Correspondence to Gertrude Polk Brown, 1913-1983, Jan-March 1932  

Folder 57: Correspondence to Gertrude Polk Brown, 1913-1983, April-July 1932  

Box 8  

Folder 58: Gertrude Polk Brown, 1913-1983, Materials from her New Orleans Debut, 1932-1933  

Folder 59: Correspondence to Gertrude Polk Brown from her family, Jan-Dec 1933  

Folder 60: Misc. papers of Percy Brown, Jr., 1912-1964. Papers dated 1933- 1964  

Folder 61: Brown Family Correspondence to Gertrude Polk Brown, 1913- 1983  

Folder 62: Correspondence to Gertrude Polk Brown, 1935  

Folder 63: Correspondence between Gertrude Polk and Gertrude Brown, n.d.  

Box 9  

Folder 64: Diary of Campbell Brown, 1850s-1860s.  

Folder 65: Diary of Gen. Richard S. Ewell, 1866  

Folder 66: Diary of Gertrude Plunket Brown, 1911-1915  

Folder 67: Christmas Diary of Gertrude P. Brown, 1907-1926  

Folder 68: Diary, [1922?]  

Folder 69: Diary of Percy Brown, 1923  

Folder 70: Diary, n.d.  

Folder 71: Diary of Percy Brown, Jr., 1922  

Folder 72: Diary of Gertrude P. Brown, 1932  

Folder 73: Travel Diary of Gertrude P. Brown, n.d. fl. 74 Travel Dairy of Gertrude P. Brown, 1964 fl. 75 Address book of Gertrude P. Brown,  

Folder 76: Travel Diary of Gertrude P. Brown, 1969  

Folder 77: Travel Diary of Gertrude P. Brown, n.d.  

Box 10  

Folder 78: Percy Brown, 1874-1934, Business Correspondence, 1913-1917  

Folder 79: Percy Brown, 1874-1934, Business Correspondence, 1918  

Folder 80: Percy Brown, 1874-1934, Business Correspondence, 1919  

Folder 81: Percy Brown, 1874-1934, Business Correspondence, 1920-1924  

Folder 82: Polk Family, Business Papers, 1836-1878  

Folder 83: Richard Stoddert Ewell, 1817-1872, Checks, 1870-1871  

Folder 84: Brown Family Legal Papers, 1822-1866 fl. 85 Brown Family Legal Papers, 1891-1924  

Folder 86: Plunket vs. Brawn, 1919-1922  

Box 11 

Folder 87: Land indentures, 1813, 1817, 1823, 1828, 1834 for the Polk family, Ewell Family, Mary Eastin and David Hubbard, for land in Tennessee, North Carolina, Washington City, New Orleans, La., and Alabama 

Folder 88: Land Grants 

Folder 89: Military Commission, 1861 

Folder 90: Autographs 

Folder 91: Autograph Book 

Folder 92: Civil War Memoirs of Major Campbell Brown, Vol. I 

Folder 93: Civil War Memoirs of Major Campbell Brown, Vol. II 

Folder 94: Typescript copies of letters from George Washington, Andrew Jackson, et. al.; also a typescript copy of Mary Catherine Rogers’s 1860 diary 

Box 12  

Folder 95: Memoirs and Stories by Percy Brown [1874-1934]  

Folder 96: Misc. Papers of Gertrude Plunket Brown: Poetry, notebooks, etc.  

Folder 97: Gertrude Plunket Brown: Misc. poetry and notes.  

Folder 98: Writings, Anonymous  

Folder 99: Letters of Rebecca Stoddert, 1799-1811; also a plat of Ewell Farm.  

Box 13  

Folder 100: Newspaper Fragments  

Folder 101: Plunket Correspondence, Feb 9, 1834-Nov 17, 1848  

Folder 102: Plunket Correspondence, May 1, 1851-Dec 6, 1854  

Folder 103: Plunket Correspondence, July 14, 1855-Dec 26, 1859  

Folder 104: Plunket Correspondence, Jan 1860-1863  

Folder 105: Plunket Correspondence, 1864-1866  

Folder 106: Plunket Correspondence, Jan 20, 1867, 1868, 1870-1875  

Folder 107: Plunket Correspondence, 1876-1880, 1883, 1923  

Folder 108: Plunket Correspondence, n.d.  

Box 14  

Folder 109: Plunket, James Dace, Autobiographical Reminiscences, 1839-1920  

Folder 110: Papers of James Dace and Eliza Jane Plunket, 1910-1934  

Folder 111: Plunket, Joseph Munro Compositions, poetry  

Folder 112: Plunket Family Misc. Papers, 1837-1918  

Folder 113: Plunket, James Dace, Account Book, 1918-1923  

Box 15  

Folder 114: Skipped  

Folder 115: Skipped  

Folder 116: George Garvin Brown Family Letters, 1910  

Folder 117: George Garvin Brown Family Letters, 1920s  

Folder 118: George Garvin Brown Family Correspondence, 1932 

Folder 119: George Garvin Brown Family Correspondence, 1933  

Folder 120: George Garvin Brown Family Correspondence, 1940s  

Folder 121: Brown Family Correspondence, 1939-1945  

Folder 122: Brown Family Correspondence, 1952-1954  

Folder 123: George Garvin Brown Family Correspondence, 1950s  

Folder 124: Brown Family Correspondence, 1956-1957  

Folder 125: Brown Family Correspondence, 1960-1967  

Folder 126: George Garvin Brown Family Correspondence, 1969  

Folder 127: Brown Family Correspondence, 1971-1972  

Folder 128: Brown Family Correspondence, 1978  

Folder 129: Brown Family Correspondence, 1983-1984  

Box 16  

Folder 130: Brown Family Correspondence, n.d.  

Folder 131: Brown Family Papers, Lyons and Clay Correspondence, 1863-1911  

Folder 132: George Garvin Brown Papers, Misc., Business papers, pictures 1950s-1960s  

Folder 133: Photo of James Brown Journal, 1780 Clark Expedition  

Folder 134: George Garvin Brown Papers, Misc. 1969-1978  

Folder 135: Misc., Christmas cards, etc.  

Folder 136: Brown Family Papers, Architect Drawings of Brown Foreman Distillery  

Box 17  

Folder 137: Gertrude P. Brown, Misc.  

Folder 138: Brown Family Papers, Legal papers  

Folder 139: Brown Family Papers, Orient Trip, 1969, Receipts, cards, brochures  

Box 18  

Folder 140: Civil War Newspapers  

Folder 141: Brown Family Newspaper Clippings  

Folder 142: Envelopes  

Folder 143: Misc. Cards, Invitations  

Folder 144: Misc.  

Folder 145: Gertrude P. Brown Christmas Book, 1940-1982  

Folder 146: Brown Family Genealogy  

Box 19  

Folder 147: Genealogy: Brown, Owsley, Bodley, Temple Families  

Folder 148: Genealogy: Brown, Plunket, Swope Families  

Folder 149: Genealogy: Brown, Hawkins, Polk Families. Estate records, clippings  

Folder 150: Genealogy: Brown Family fl. 151 Genealogy: Brown Family  

Folder 152: Genealogy: Hunton Family  

Oversized 

Folder 153: Gertrude Margaret Plunket diploma, DAR certificate, Cemetery headstone sketch – Percy Brown, Sr. and Gertrude Plunket Brown 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Yellowstone Distillery, Inc.  

Title:  Architectural drawings, 1928-1983 

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

Size of Collection:  3 ovsz. folders 

Location Number:  Mss. AR Y43 

Scope and Content Note 

These drawings include plats, surveys, floor plans, elevations, technical drawings, flow diagrams, and correspondence related to the Yellowstone Distillery in Shively, Kentucky, 1928-1933.  

Folder 1 contains surveys and plats of the Yellowstone Distillery, 1928-1983, along with correspondence relating to the acquisition of property from the Illinois Central Railroad, 1949-1957.  

Folder 2 contains floor plans and elevations of Yellowstone Distillery buildings, including warehouses, a bottling house, a fermenting house, a research and development laboratory, and a receiving and shipping building, 1941-1978.  

Folder 3 contains technical drawings and flow diagrams of distillery equipment, along with correspondence relating to the installation of steam drying equipment and a tank to be connected to a beer still slop line, 1945-1979. Two drawings depicting Jack Daniel cookers from 1978 are also included.  

Historical Note 

Located at 3000 7th Street Road in Shively, the Yellowstone Distillery opened soon after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. It was built by vice president J. Bernard Dant and his six sons: president and distiller Michael J.; secretary J. Walter; vice president Samuel J.; Felix R., J. Rudolph and Paul R.; and treasurer James Patrick Kearnes Jr., a nephew. The “Yellowstone” brand was first produced by J. Bernard Dant’s former company, the Cold Springs Distillery, which merged with Louisville distributor Taylor & Williams and was renamed the Yellowstone Distillery in 1912. It closed in 1920 after Prohibition began.   

In 1933, following the end of Prohibition, J. Bernard Dant and his family incorporated and built the new Yellowstone Distillery. In addition to the Yellowstone brand, the company produced “Paul Dant,” “Old Trump,” “Coon Range,” “Five Stripe,” “Rich Hill,” “Honey Dew,” and “Big Horn.” In 1944, the distillery was purchased by Glenmore Distilling Company of Owensboro, which operated the plant until it closed in 1991.  

References:  

Zoeller, Chester. Bourbon in Kentucky: A History of Distilleries in Kentucky. 3rd ed. Louisville: Butler Books, 2015.  

“31 Distilleries Get Charters in State.” Louisville Courier-Journal. August 2, 1933.  

“Coon Range.” Louisville Courier-Journal. December 7, 1935.  

Folder List 

Oversize Folders  

1.  Correspondence, surveys, and plats, 1928-1983  
2. Architectural drawings, 1941-1978 
3. Technical drawings and flow diagrams, 1945-1979

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Reade, Philip Hildreth, 1844-1919 

Title:  Papers, 1915-1919 

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

Size of Collection:  0.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A R285a 

Scope and Content Note 

Correspondence of Philip H. Reade with R. C. Ballard Thruston concerning Reade’s study of General Anthony Wayne and the officers and men in his Legion of the United States. This research was facilitated by Thruston and by materials at the Filson Club. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence, 1915 Aug.

2 Correspondence, 1916 Feb.-Mar.

3 Correspondence, 1916 Apr.-May.

4 Correspondence, 1916 June-Oct.

5 Correspondence, 1916 Oct.-Nov.

6 Correspondence, 1917 Jan.

7 Correspondence, 1917 Feb.

8 Correspondence, 1917 Mar.

9 Correspondence, 1917 Apr.-Oct.

10 Correspondence, 1919.

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Young, Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919 

Title:  Papers, 1879-1912 

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

Size of Collection:  0.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A Y68 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection consists of letters of Young, 1912; notes on the constitutional convention, 1849 Oct. 1; report of Young, Regent and Financial Manager of the Bellewood Female Seminary and Presbyterian Normal School; diploma of Varina D. Hanna from Bellewood Female Seminary, 1879 June 20; biographical sketch of George Nicholas; autobiographical sketch of Samuel Davies Boggs; manuscript of a pamphlet written on the completion of the Louisville and Southern Railroad, by Henry W. Cleveland; memoirs, 1848-1850, by Micah Taul; Gowns and gownsmen, by and unknown author. Folders 1 and 5 of this collection has been digitized. To view the PDF scans, click on the links provided in the folder list below.

Biographical Note 

Bennett Henderson Young was born in Kentucky in 1843. He graduated from Centre College in Danville. In 1863, he enlisted in John Hunt Morgan’s cavalry unit. In 1864, he lead a raid across the Canadian border into St. Alban’s, Vt. After the war he married Mattie R. Robinson, daughter of Louisville clergyman Stuart Robinson, while still in exile in Canada. He continued his education in exile at Queen’s University in Ireland and at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 1868, he returned to Louisville where he was a successful lawyer and businessman. He also wrote several books and articles on Kentucky history. In 1895, he married Eliza T. Sharp. Young died in 1919 and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence from Young to General Marcus J. Wright, 1912, about his services to the C.S.A. The letter of 1912 July 5 contains a typed autobiographical sketch. (click to access PDF)

2 Notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1849.

3 Report of Young as Regent and Financial Manager of the Bellewood Female Seminary and Presbyterian Normal School. 

4 Diploma of Varina Hanna from Bellewood Female Seminary, 1879 June 20. 

5 Biographical sketch of George Nicholas by Matilda Nicholas Barrett, 1887. (click to access PDF)

6 Autobiographical sketch of Samuel Davies Boggs.

7 Manuscript of a pamphlet about the completion of the Louisville and Southern Railroad, 1888.

8 Micah Taul memoirs, 1848-1850. 

9 Gowns and gownsmen by an unknown author, 1894.