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Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Pettus-Speiden Family 

Title:  Papers, 1838-1971 

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

Size of Collection:  1.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A P499 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection materials span 1838-1971 and consist of correspondence, diaries, and miscellaneous items that relate to the Pettus and Speiden families. It is contained in four boxes. The correspondence and diaries of primary importance. Topics include the Pettus family, the Speiden family, friends, marriages, deaths, faith, First Christian Church of Louisville, Ky., Highland Baptist Church of Louisville, Ky., Walnut Street Baptist Church of Louisville, Ky., missionary work in Japan, Lancaster, Ky., Oakford, Ky., the 1916 United States Presidential election, the Ballard School of Louisville, Ky., and its students, Hollins College, and travels abroad. Miscellaneous items of interest include an 1862 Centre College Commencement Program, an 1896 Walnut Street Baptist Church Resolution, a Louisville Girls High School Memory Book from 1916, other programs, invitations, announcements, recipes, speeches, a partial short story, newspaper clippings, and genealogy notes. 

Biographical Note 

The Pettus family is from Lancaster, Ky., in Garrard County and the surrounding area, and the Speiden family is from Louisville, Ky. Joseph Pettus moved to Louisville shortly after the Civil War. It is daughter, Harriet Pettus, who married Fillison Speiden in 19104. The Speidens moved to Atlanta, Ga., in 1931 and their daughter, Marian Mauzy Speiden returned to Louisville in 1935, and taught at the Ballard School. 

Folder List 

Box 1: 

1: Correspondence, 1838-1865

2: Correspondence, 1866

3: Correspondence, 1867

4: Correspondence, 1868

5: Correspondence, 1869

6: Correspondence, 1870

7: Correspondence, 1873-1895

8: Correspondence, 2 October 1896-5 October 1896

9: Correspondence, 6 October 1896-November 1896

 

Box 2: 

10: Correspondence, 1897-1901

11: Correspondence, 1902

12: Correspondence, 1903

13: Correspondence, 1904-1912

14: Correspondence, 1915-1916

15: Correspondence, 1917

16: Correspondence, 1918

17: Correspondence, 1919-1958

18: Correspondence, no dates

 

Box 3: 

19: HattiePettus1894 Diary, includes Shirley Gill Pettus 1906 Dairy 

20: Marian Mauzy Speiden 1928-1932 Diary 

21: Marian Mauzy Speiden 1933-1937 Diary 

22: Marian Mauzy Speiden 1938-1942 Diary 

23: Marian Mauzy Speiden 1939 Travel Diary 

24: Marian Mauzy Speiden 1949 Travel Diary 

25: Marian Mauzy Speiden 1950 Travel Diary 

26: Marian Mauzy Speiden 1967 Travel Diary, includes entries from 1970-1971 

27: Shirley GillPettus1967 Travel Diary 

 

Box 4: 

28: Programs, Invitations, Announcements, 1862-1949, no date

29: Resolution, 1896; Copy of ThomasPettus1779 will, no date 

30: Speeches, partial Short Story, no date

31: Receipts, 1867-1950

32: Report Cards, 1894-1907

33: Highland Mother’s Club Yearbooks, 1936-1939

34: Sorosis Club Yearbooks, 1935-1938; Program, 1937 

35: Louisville Girls High School Memory Book, 1916

36: Recipe Book

36a: Recipes

37: Newspaper Clippings, 1904-1968, no date

38: Genealogy Notes, 1894, 1904, no date

39: Miscellaneous, 1935-1936, no date

40: Miscellaneous, 1902-1940, no date

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Page, Percy Sherman, 1897-1918 

Title:  Papers, 1899-1941 

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 P132 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection is contained in six folders in one box. Letters from 1918-1919 are of primary importance and illustrate Percy Sherman Page’s duty as a U.S. Marine during World War I. Those from January-April 1918 recall his basic training at Parris Island, S.C., and Quantico, Va., and show his love of Army life. Those from May-June 1918 characterize his impressions of France, his gratitude towards the Red Cross and YMCA, his braggadocio at overcoming the “Huns,” and his faith in surviving the war. Letters from July 1918-May 1918 from his fellow soldiers describe Page’s death at Soissons, relate his last words, and tell about the impact of his death on his friends. Newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and certificates of appreciation also recall Page’s tour of duty. Newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and a letter from the Gold Star Mothers’ pilgrimage to France in 1930 to visit the graves of the war dead are also of interest. They describe the American Cemetery at Oise-Aisne, the war memorial at the Foret de Compiegne, and the emotional impact of the trip upon the participants. 

Note of Separation: 

Photographs of Page have been transferred to the Filson Club Photographs and Prints Department. Page’s medals and those medals from Daisy Page’s trip to France as a Gold Star Mother have been transferred to the Filson Club Museum. 

Biographical Note 

Percy Sherman Page was born on 10 March 1897 to Thomas Luella Page (1863-1935) and Daisy Elizabeth Gunn Page (1874-1941) in Clark’s Station, Ky., in extreme eastern Jefferson County. He and his sister, Gladys Thomas Page Benard (1899-), grew up on the family farm, Brookdale, which straddled the Jefferson County and Shelby County line. Page attended Fisherville School, and, later, Manuel High School in Louisville, Ky. Because of a lack of help on the family farm, Page was unable to complete high school. Later, he and a friend moved to Detroit, Mich., to work at Ford Motors. Returning to Kentucky in 1916, his father helped Page to finance his own business, a garage, in Fisherville. 

On 21 January 1918 Page enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He completed his basic training at Parris Island, S.C., and later, at Quantico, Va. While at Parris Island Page won a sharpshooter’s medal. On 7 May 1918 he landed in France as part of the 146th Company, 3rd Replacement Battalion. He was transferred to the 83rd Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Regiment, 2nd Division on 11 June 1918 and joined it during the Battle of Belleau Wood. In July Page’s regiment was ordered to Soissons, where he was killed in action on 19 July 1918. For its actions at Belleau Wood, Soissons, and Champagne (after Page’s death) the 6th Regiment was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm from the French Army and regiment members were given Fourrageres in red and green, the colors of the Croix de Guerre. Page was also awarded a Victory medal with ribbon, battle clasps and stars. He is buried in the American Cemetery at Oise-Aisne in France. 

Folder List 

1: Correspondence, 1918-1921

2: Photographs and Postcards, 1918

3: Certificates, 1913-1919

4: Gold Star Mothers’ Pilgrimage, 1930 correspondence, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, passport, menus, passenger list

5: Newspaper Clippings, 1918-19119; 1941

6: Miscellaneous, 1899-1935; no date songs, photograph, genealogical material

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Ohio River Valley Business 

Title:  Collection, 1788-1961 

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

Size of Collection:  20 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. BB O36 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection regards trusts held by the Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company for local and regional businesses and individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Examples of documents in these files are leases, deeds, land surveys, estate records, and financial and business records for realty companies, railroads, manufacturers, farms, and individuals. The collection also contains 11 company minute books, 1889-1944. See inventory for folder list and outline of folder contents. 

Historical Note 

The Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company dates back to the Fidelity Trust Company founded in 1882. Two years later, the Fidelity Trust Co. merged with the Louisville Safety Vault Company and formed the Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Company. The Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Co. was the first company in Louisville to act as trustee and agents for trusts and wills. 

In 1912, the Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Co. merged with the Columbia Trust Company and formed the Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company. The Fidelity and Columbia continued to service the Louisville area in banking and trust needs. In 1944, Fidelity and Columbia merged with the Citizens Union National Bank creating the Citizens Fidelity Bank and Trust Company. In 1987, PNC Financial Corporation took control of Citizens Fidelity Bank. 

Added Entries 

Agriculture – Indiana. 

Agriculture – Kentucky. 

Agua Pura (Las Vegas, N.M.) 

Anderson, Mary, 1859-1940. 

B.F. Avery & Sons. 

BancoKentucky (Louisville, Ky.) 

Banks and banking – Kentucky. 

Barrett family. 

Belknap family. 

Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Bernheim family. 

Bingham family. 

Bloom family. 

Bloom Realty Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Bonnie, William O., d. 1923. 

Brandeis, Florence – Estate. 

Bridges – Illinois – Cairo. 

Bridges – Kentucky – Owensboro. 

Buses. 

Business enterprises. 

Caperton, John Hayes, 1857-1923 – Estate. 

Castleman, John Breckinridge, 1841-1918 – Estate. 

Cave Hill Cemetery Company. 

Charities. 

Clark family. 

Columbia Finance and Trust Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Cox family. 

Darby family. 

Distilleries – Kentucky. 

Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Finance – Kentucky. 

Fink, Albert, 1827-1897 – Estate. 

First Unitarian Church (Louisville, Ky.) 

Fort Knox (Ky.) 

Gaulbert, J. William. 

Gaulbert Realty Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Gheens, C. Edwin, 1878-1961. 

Grainger, Charles, 1854-1923. 

Green family. 

Guthrie, James, 1792-1869. 

Helm, John Larue, 1802-1867 – Estate. 

Henning family. 

Henry family. 

Heyburn, William, 1861-1934. 

Heyburn Building (Louisville, Ky.) 

Hilliard, John James Byron – Will. 

Home for Friendless Women (Louisville, Ky.) 

Home of the Innocents (Louisville, Ky.) 

Immigrants – Kentucky. 

Industries – Kentucky. 

Kentucky Hotel Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Kentucky Military Institute (1845-1971) 

Lincoln Institute of Kentucky. 

Louisville Gas and Electric Company. 

Louisville Railway Transit Company. 

Majestic Theater (Louisville, Ky.) 

Mechanics Bank and Trust Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Miller family. 

Mines and mineral resources – Colorado. 

Mockingbird Valley (Ky.) 

Morgan Packing Company (Austin, Ind.) 

Norton, Eckstein, 1831-1893. 

Owen County (Ky.) 

Pirtle, James B. – Estate. 

Railroads – Kentucky. 

Railroads – Louisiana. 

Real estate business – Kentucky – Louisville. 

Real estate development – Kentucky – Louisville. 

Religious institutions. 

1. Zorn and Company (Louisville, Ky.)

Sackett, Frederic Moseley, 1868-1941. 

Speed family. 

Springfield Railway and Light Company. 

Susan Speed Davis Home (Louisville, Ky.) 

Trust companies – Kentucky – Louisville. 

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865. 

United States. Army of the Cumberland. 

Universities and colleges – Kentucky. 

University of Louisville. 

Vertes, Alexandre, d. 1935 – Estate. 

Walnut Street Land Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Warren family. 

Wasco Realty (Louisville, Ky.) 

Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921 – Estate. 

Weissinger, Henry, 1843-1915 – Estate. 

Weissinger-Gaulbert Realty Company (Louisville, Ky.) 

Westholme (Louisville, Ky.) 

Whallen, James P., 1856-1930 – Will. 

Willow Terrace Apartments (Louisville, Ky.) 

World War, 1939-1945 – Food supply. 

Yandell, Enid – Estate. 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Green, Norvin, 1818-1893 

Title:  Papers, 1839-1892 

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

Size of Collection:  4 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A G797 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence to Joseph Green, 1841-1842.

2 Correspondence, 1839-1845.

3 Correspondence, 1846-1847.

4 Correspondence, 1848.

5 Correspondence, 1849-1850.

6 Correspondence, 1851 Jan.-June.

7 Correspondence, 1851 July-Dec.

8 Correspondence, 1852.

9 Correspondence, 1853 Jan.-June.

10 Correspondence, 1853 July-Dec.

 

Box 2 

11 Correspondence, 1854.

12 Correspondence, 1855

13 Correspondence, 1856.

14 Correspondence, 1857.

15 Correspondence, 1858.

16 Correspondence, 1859 Jan.-June.

17 Correspondence, 1859 July-Dec.

18 Correspondence, 1860-1864.

19 Correspondence, 1868.

20 Correspondence, 1870.

21 Correspondence, 1877.

 

Box 3 

22 Joseph Green accounts, 1833-1840.

23 Joseph Green accounts, 1841-1846.

24 Green and Overall accounts, 1841-1842.

24a Neville Green receipts, 1841-1848.

25 Accounts, 1841-1846.

26 Accounts, 1847.

27 Accounts, 1848.

28 Accounts, 1849.

29 Accounts, 1850.

30 Accounts, 1851.

31 Accounts, 1852.

32 Accounts, 1853.

33 Accounts, 1854.

34 Accounts, 1855.

35 Accounts, 1856.

36 Accounts, 1857.

37 Accounts, 1858.

38 Accounts, 1859.

39 Accounts, 1860.

40 Accounts, 1861.

41 Accounts, 1862.

42 Accounts, 1863.

43 Accounts, 1867-1868.

44 Accounts, 1873-1876.

45 Canceled checks, 1854-1877.

 

Box 4 

46 Tax receipts, 1840-1877.

47 Slavery papers: bills of sale, notes given in payment, receipts for hire, and enlistment in the U.S. Army, 1847-1864.

48 Hotel bills, 1856-1861.

49 Steamboat bills and bills of lading, 1853-1868.

50 Receipts for house rent and coal showing places of residence of Norvin Green, 1853-1856. 

51 Bills for newspaper subscriptions, 1849-1859.

52 Bills for tuition of his sons, 1850-1865.

53 German bills of his son, Pinckney F. Green, while a student at the University of Heidelberg, 1865-1866.

54 Notes, 1834-1840.

55 Notes, 1841.

56 Notes, 1842.

57 Notes, 1843-1844.

58 Notes, 1845.

59 Notes, 1846.

60 Notes, 1847.

61 Notes, 1848.

62 Notes, 1849.

63 Notes, 1850-1854.

64 Notes, 1855-1862.

 

Box 5 

65 Notebook/account book, 1836-1838.Notebook/account book, 1839-1850.

66 Medical accounts, 1842-1851.Statement of account against Green for medical advice and attendance, 1863.

67 Address before a medical society, n.d.

68 Charter of the Port Royal Seminary, 1845?School Papers as commissioner of the public schools for Henry County, Ky.,1849-1850. 

68a Remittance of judgment against John Heaton for $225, 1851 Nov. 7.

69Twonotebooks of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad Co. containing lists of subscribers to stock, 1852. 

70 Louisville and Newport Branch Railroad Co. papers, 1854.

71 New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Lessees checks or telegraph warrants, 1855.

72 New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Lessees checks or telegraph warrants, 1855.

73 New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Lessees checks or telegraph warrants, 1855.

74NorvinGreen and Turner Smith record of sales of tobacco, 1861-1865. 

75 Big Paint Creek Oil Co. stock certificate issued to Sarah Baker, 1865 Aug. 29.

76 Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad Co. stock contract with George Hays, 1876 Oct. 7.

77 Fincastle Club bonds, 1894 July 2.

 

Box 6 

78 Union County, Ky. land papers, 1802.

79 Land papers, 1839-1854.pkg. 80 Patent deeds issued to Phineas M. Kent and Thomas L. Smith for land in Jasper County, Ind. 

 

Box 7 

81 Susa Thornton Green: newspaper clippings containing biographical material.

82 Susa Thornton Green correspondence, 1849-1860.

83 Susa Thornton Green correspondence, 1875-1880.

84 Susa Thornton Green statements of account against her father, Norvin Green, for her books and tuition, 1853-1859. 

85 Susa Thornton Green compositions while a student at Kentucky Female Institute and at Presbyterian Female School, 1854-1858.

86 Susa Thornton Green compositions while a student at New Liberty Female Academy, 1857-1858?

87 Susa Thornton Green diploma from New Liberty Female Academy, 1858 June11.

88TheParterre or Blossoms of Intellect, 1856 Apr. 

89 Susa Thornton Green composition and notebook, 1855-1859.

90 Susa Thornton Green passport, 1866 Mar. 1.

 

Box 8 

91 Letter from Yuan Tsu Tang, Consul for China, to Warren Green, 1885 Nov. 23. 

92 Correspondence to Warren Green from Japanese officials and consuls on his appointment as U.S. Consul-General to Japan, 1885 June-July.

93 Report of Warren Green, to the Dept. of State on Japanese tobacco, 1886, May24.

 

Box 9 

94 Photographs.

95 Miscellaneous.

96 Miscellaneous.

97 Miscellaneous.

 

Box 10 

98 Newspaper clippings, etc.

99 Newspapers.

100 Newspaper clippings.

 

Box 11 

101 Pinckney Frank Green photograph album of fellow students and associates at the University of Heidelberg, 1865-1866. Corps colors.  

 

Letterpress books. 

Vol. 1 1873 Jan. 27-1881 July 9.

Vol. 2 1881 July 10-1885 Jan. 3.

Vol. 3 1885 Jan. 7-1886 Nov. 11.

Vol. 4 1886 Nov. 13-1889 May 17.

Vol. 5 1889 May 17-1891 Dec. 17.

Vol. 6 1891 Dec. 17-1892 Dec. 29.