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Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Maupin, Richard A. 

Title:  Papers, 1843-1852 

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 M452 

Scope and Content Note 

Papers include a family record of Maupin’s relative, William Aylett Booth; a phrenological chart made by J. G. Forman in 1843; a letter from George Robertson of Lexington introducing Maupin to John Chambers, governor of Iowa, 1844 Sept. 21; letters from Dr. William L. Booth, assistant surgeon, 10th Infantry, U.S. Army, during his service in the Mexican War and in California, 1845-1849; letters from his sisters, Mildred and Maria and their husbands, 1848-1850. Accompanied by two letters from Isaac Hilliard to his brother, Dr. Robert Carter Hilliard, 1850-1852. 

Biographical Note 

Richard A. Maupin, lawyer of Louisville, Ky., was a graduate of Transylvania Law School, who went to California during the gold rush. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 William Aylett Booth family record.

2Phrenologicalchart. 

3 Letter of introduction for Maupin to John Chambers, governor of Iowa, from George Robertson, 1844 Sept. 21.

4Correspondenceto Maupin from Dr. William L. Booth, 1845-1849. 

5 Correspondence to Maupin from his sisters, Maria and Mildred, 1848.

6 Correspondence to Maupin from his sisters, Maria and Mildred, and from Mildred’s husband, J. W. Henning, 1849.

7 Correspondence to Maupin from his sisters, Maria and Mildred, and from their husbands, J. W. Henning and John L. Ferguson, 1850.

8 Correspondence to Robert Carter Hilliard from his brother, Isaac Hilliard, 1850-1852.

9 Correspondence to Robert Carter Hilliard from his brother, Isaac Hilliard, 1850-1852.(photostats)

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Love, James Young, 1797-1876 and Thomas Love 

Title:  Papers, 1785-1820 

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 L897 

Scope and Content Note 

Includes the papers of James Young Love and his father, Thomas Love. 

Papers of Thomas Love include a pass, 1785 May 20, permitting Love to go from Cumberland County, Penn. to Halifax, N.C., to look after the effects of his deceased brother, Dr. David Love, a surgeon in the Continental Army; Love’s receipt book as paymaster general to the Kentucky Volunteers, 1795 May 1-Sept. 15; commission, 1799 Nov. 1, to Love from Governor James Garrard as adjutant of the 22nd Regiment of the Kentucky Militia. 

Also included are general orders and correspondence of Major General Charles Scott with General Anthony Wayne and others in 1793; letter from General Anthony Wayne to Governor Isaac Shelby, 1793 Sept. 26, ordering 1500 militia; statement of account of Mounted Volunteers of Kentucky, commanded by Major General Charles Scott, against the U.S. for $25,088 for supplies to the volunteers in 1794. 

Papers of James Young Love include a letter from him to Mrs. Eliza C. Tunstall, 1813 May 10, describing the battle of Fort Meigs; four letters, 1819-1820, from Alfred Beckley to James Young Love and George W. Love describing his life as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy; commission, 1822 Dec. 31, to James Y. Love from Governor James Adair as adjutant of the 22nd Regiment of the Ky. Militia; certificate, 1842 Apr. 14, of James Y. Love regarding William Buckner, a free black man; land grants, 1785-1786; and a circular letter from Representative John Fowler to his constituents, dated at Washington, D.C., 1895 Mar. 5. 

Biographical Note 

Thomas Love moved from Cumberland County, Penn. to Frankfort, Ky. He served as a paymaster of the Kentucky Volunteers in 1795. In 1799, he was commissioned adjutant of the 22nd Regiment of the Kentucky Militia by Governor James Garrard. His son, James Young Love (1797-1876), resided in Louisville, Ky. Like his father, he also served as adjutant of the 22nd Regiment of the Kentucky Militia. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Passes, correspondence, and commissions, 1785-1842.

2 Military correspondence, 1793.

3 Land grant from Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, to Bartholomew Dupuy, 1785.Copies of two Virginia land grants, 1781-1785. 

4 Correspondence from Alfred Beckley to James Young Love, 1819-1820.

5 Receipt book for the Kentucky Volunteers, 1795 May 1-Sept. 15.

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Louisville Female High School 

Title:  Records, 1867-1913 

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

Size of Collection:  35 volumes 

Location Number:  Mss. BI F331 

Scope and Content Note 

Attendance, grade, deportment and entrance examination records. 

Four series, thirty-five volumes. Series I (v. 1-5) contains attendance, deportment, and grade records for academic years, 1867-1868 through 1885-1886. Series II (v. 6) contains admission examination results with pupil names, ages, states of birth, ward schools, and examination grades for the years 1876-1881. Series III (v. 7-27) contains attendance, deportment, and grade records for the academic years 1886-1887 through 1910-1911. Series IV (v. 28-35) contains attendance, deportment, and grade records for the academic years 1911-1912 and 1912-1913. 

Folder List 

vol. 1 All classes, 1867-1871. 

vol. 2 All classes, 1870-1874. 

vol. 3 All classes, 1874-1878. 

vol. 4 All classes, 1878-1883. 

vol. 5 All classes, 1883-1886. 

vol. 6 Entrance exam results, 1876-1881. 

vol. 7 Senior class, 1886-1897. 

vol. 8 Senior class, 1896-1909. 

vol. 9 Senior class, 1905-1911. 

vol. 10 Senior class, 1909-1911. 

vol. 11 Junior class, 1886-1897. 

vol. 12 Junior class, 1896-1906. 

vol. 13 Junior class, 1906-1911. 

vol. 14 Second year class, 1886-1897. 

vol. 15 Second year class, 1896-1904. 

vol. 16 Second year class, 1904-1909. 

vol. 17 Second year class, 1908-1911. 

vol. 18 Second year class, 1903-1909. 

vol. 19 Second year class, 1908-1911. 

vol. 20 First year class, 1886-1895. 

vol. 21 First year class, 1895-1896. 

vol. 22 First year class, 1896-1897. 

vol. 23 First year class, 1896-1901. 

vol. 24 First year class, 1902-1907. 

vol. 25 First year class, 1906-1911. 

vol. 26 First year class, 1901-1906. 

vol. 27 First year class, 1906-1910. 

vol. 28 English unit 1, 1911-1913. 

vol. 29 English unit 2, 1911-1913. 

vol. 30 English unit 3, 1911-1913. 

vol. 31 English unit 4, 1911-1913. 

vol. 32 English unit 5, 1911-1913. 

vol. 33 English unit 6, 1911-1913. 

vol. 34 English unit 7, 1911-1913. 

vol. 35 English unit 8, 1911-1913. 

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Lillard Family 

Title:  Papers, 1801-1925 

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

Size of Collection:  0.66 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A L729 

Scope and Content Note  

Papers include correspondence, 1821-1925; land papers, 1803-1859; receipts, 1801-1901; account book, 1843-1845; list of property given to his children by General Lillard, 1846; inventory and appraisal of General Lillard’s estate; General Lillard’s commissions in the Kentucky militia, 1816-1832; resolutions passed by the Kentucky Military Institute on the death of Robert M. Lillard, son of C. M. Lillard, in 1866; rolls of Companies F and H, 5th Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A., and Company G, 6th Kentucky Infantry, C.S.A., and subscription list for the Confederate monument in Lawrenceburg, Ky.; military papers concerning the 5th and 6th brigades of the Ky. militia in 1814 and certificate giving the service of Jefferson Hayden, a black soldier, in the Union Army, 1866; genealogical notes on the Lillard and related families; broadsides and invitations; newspaper clippings about Anderson County and the Lillard-Ripy family; and recipes. The a portion of this collection has been digitized. To view PDF scans, click on the links provided in the folder list below.

Correspondence discusses personal and family matters; John H. Lillard’s service in the Mexican War and his life in Mo. after the war; Robert Lillard’s career at Georgetown College and as associate editor of The Western Baptist Review; James P. Ripy’s service in the Confederate Army and his business interests after the war; land and financial transactions; and the sale and purchase of slaves. 

Receipts contain material on merchants in Lawrenceburg and Louisville, and costs at Georgetown College in the 1840s. Information on distilling in post Civil War Ky. is also included. 

Biographical Note 

General Christopher Lillard (1795-1855), was a general in the Kentucky militia. He had three sons, Christopher Marion Lillard (1819-1910), John Horre Lillard (1821-1855), and the Reverend Robert Rodes Lillard (1826-1849). John H. Lillard served in the Mexican War and moved Missouri after the war. His brother, Robert, was the editor of The Western Baptist Review. James Porter Ripy (1844-1922), the son-in-law of Christopher Marion Lillard, served in the Confederate Army. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Correspondence, 1821. (click to access PDF)

2 Correspondence, 1842. (click to access PDF)

3 Correspondence, 1843.

4 Correspondence, 1844. 

5 Correspondence, 1846.

6 Correspondence, 1847. 

7 Correspondence, 1848.

8 Correspondence, 1849. (click to access PDF)

9 Correspondence, 1850. (click to access PDF)

10 Correspondence, 1851. (click to access PDF)

11 Correspondence, 1852. (click to access PDF)

12 Correspondence, 1854. (click to access PDF)

13 Correspondence, 1855. (click to access PDF)

14 Correspondence, 1869-1892. (click to access PDF)

15 Correspondence, 1901-1925.

16 Correspondence, n.d. (click to access PDF)

Box 2 

17 Land papers, 1803-1859. (click to access PDF)

18 Receipts, 1801-1849. (click to access PDF)

19 Receipts, 1850-1859.

20 Receipts, 1861-1869.

21 Receipts, 1870.

22 Receipts, 1871-1878.

23 Receipts, 1880-1886.

24 Receipts, 1890-1901 and n.d.

25 Account book, 1843-1845. (click to access PDF)

26 Account book, 1843-1845; Memorandum book of property given to his children by General Lillard, 1846. (click below to access PDFs)

• Folder 26, part 1: Lillard Estate Division 1846
• Folder 26, part 2: Lillard account book, 1850s and 1860s

27 Inventory and appraisal of the estate of General Lillard, 1855;Settlement made with C. M. Lillard, guardian of Sarah, Minerva, and Alma; Lillard, 1858. (click to access PDF)

28 Ky. militia commissions of General Lillard, 1816-1832.

29 Resolutions on the death of Robert M. Lillard, 1866.

30 Roll of companies F and H, 5th Ky. Cavalry, C.S.A. and Co. G, 6th Ky. Inf., C.S.A..; Subscription list for the Confederate monument in Lawrenceburg, Ky. 

31 Military papers, 1814-1866.

32 Genealogical notes.

33 Broadsides and invitations.

34 Newspaper clippings.

35 Recipes.

36 Miscellaneous.

37 Miscellaneous.

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Leavy Family 

Title:  Papers, 1838-1932 

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 L439 

Scope and Content Note 

Included are papers, 1838-1868, of William A. Leavy regarding his service as treasurer of the Lexington, Harrodsburg, and Perryville Turnpike Road Co., 1838-1841; farm accounts; deed, 1853, to lots in the Lexington Cemetery; and correspondence in 1868 with members of the Trotter family on that family’s history. Papers of Samuel T. and Lizzie J. Leavy include notes on Stoneman’s Raid and the Jug Tavern fight in 1864, and Confederate Lt. Samuel Leavy’s Civil War record. 

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Samuel Leavy letters to his wife, 1892-1904. 

2 Application to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for a Confederate Cross of Honor, 1903 May 6;Application to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for a Confederate Cross of Honor, 1904. 

3 Samuel Leavy: notes on Stoneman’s Raid and the Jug Tavern fight in 1864. 

4 Mrs. Samuel Leavy: letter to her from John A. Lewis about the war record of her husband, 1911 Jan. 10. 

5 Mrs. Samuel Leavy: letter to her from the Lexington Granite Co., 1923 Jan. 15.

6 William A. Leavy: papers about the Lexington, Harrodsburg, and Perryville Turnpike Road Co., 1838-1841. 

7 William A. Leavy: farm account, 1853.

8 William A. Leavy: deed to lots 42 and 43, section H of the Lexington Cemetery,1853 Mar. 5. 

9 William A. Leavy: Letter to J. M. Trotter, on the history of the Trotter family,1868 June 29. 

10 William A. Leavy: letter from A. W. Trotter on the history of the Trotter family,1868 July 2. 

11 William A. Leavy: biographical notes on Reverend John H. Brown, Presbyterian clergyman. 

12 William A. Leavy: memoranda of books bequeathed to him by the Lexington Library Co. and to members of his family. 

13 William A. Leavy photograph. (Photocopy, original removed to Photographs and Prints Dept.). 

14 Mary Leavy: certificate of sale given by S. E. Porter to Mary Leavy for property in Midway, Ky. known as the E. W. Taylor place, 1899 Aug. 14. 

15 George Leavy: certificates of stock in Tx. oil companies, 1910-1921. 

16 Ella Gayle Leavy: certificates of stock, 1923-1932.