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Henning-Charette Family Papers – Van Stockum Collection, 1893-1950

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Henning-Charette Family

Title: Van Stockum Collection, Papers, 1893-1950

Creator: For information regarding the literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.

Size of Collection: 1.5 cubic feet

Locator Number: Mss./A/V217a

Biographical Note

Susanne Henning married Marquis Charles-Antoine de Charette in November 1909, against the will of her mother.  She lived in France and was in Paris during the First World War.  During that time she worked entertaining American troops while her husband served in the French Army in the tank corps. She gave birth to her daughter, Susanne in 1915. After the war she continued to live in France until the 1930’s when she moved to the United States and divorced her husband.  During the Second World War she worked as an air raid and fire warden and a fund raiser for war bonds and civilian relief. She also had a great interest in art and co-authored a book on art with artist and art critic Michel Georges-Michel.  Henning de Charette’s other great passion was fishing; she took many trips in New England and Canada in pursuit of this hobby.

Susan Thornton Henning was the mother of Susanne Henning de Charette. She owned Allen Dale Farm in Shelby County, Kentucky and was well known as a breeder of Jersey cattle. She opposed her daughter’s marriage and did not make peace with the Marquis de Charette until ten years after the marriage.

James Williamson Henning was the father of Susanne Henning de Charette. He was a businessman and stock broker in New York City who suffered a business failure in 1907. He was involved in the negotiation for the marriage contract of his daughter in 1909. He was also involved with Coleman du Pont in business deals.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of the papers of Susanne Henning de Charette and her parents, grandparents and other relatives. The records discuss her marriage to Marqis Charles-Antoine de Charette against the will of her mother, her life in France with Tony, their role in the First World War in France and her role in the Second World War in New York. Her father, James W. Henning also plays an important role in these papers with letters and other papers dealing with his business failure in 1907 and again in 1911. Other important correspondence includes that of Sue Henning, the Marquise’s mother and divorced wife of James Henning, Lulie Henning, Jame’s sister, and artist Herbert William Ross.  For General Van Stockum’s inventory and notes on the collection, please click here.

Folder List

Folder 1: Correspondence about Susanne and Tony’s relationship, 1907-1908.

Folder 2: Correspondence about Susanne and Tony’s engagement, March to August 1909.

Folder 3: Correspondence about Susanne and Tony’s engagement, and wedding with invitations and marriage contracts, September 1909 to December 1909.

Folder 4: Correspondence dealing with married life and the War in France, 1911-1917.

Folder 5: Correspondence dealing with the War in France and coming to Kentucky 1918-1920.

Folder 6: Correspondence and newspaper clippings, Sue Hennings, 1921-1933.

Folder 7: Wedding invitation and telegrams in French to Susanne Jr.’s marriage and transcript of interview with Suzanne Jr. from 1941.

Folder 8: Genealogy of the Allen Family. Essay by Sue Henning on Jersey Cattle, and interview about breeding cattle.

Folder 9: Letter to Sue Henning, 1900, recipe for mint julep.

Folder 10: Legal Papers for Allen Dale Farm – 1924-1949.

Folder 11: Correspondence and other papers in French, dealing with Basse Motte, the Charrette estate in Brittany.

Folder 12: Correspondence in French from Tony de Charette to Suzanne, 1930-1947.

Folder 13: Astrology correspondence for Marquise de Charette, 1944-1950.

Folder 14: Automobile rental documents, 1944-1950.

Folder 15: Correspondence and snapshots about Marquise de Charette’s fishing, 1941-1950.

Folder 16: Correspondence, mostly in French, dealing with the Marquise de Charette.

Folder 17: Personal papers – medical bills, investments and insurance policy for Marquise de Charette.

Folder 18: Correspondence in English and French, Marquise de Charette, 1938-1950.

Folder 19: Correspondence in English and French, 1938-1939, with some business papers from Marquise de Charette.

Folder 20: Correspondence with members of the Henning Family, 1932-1949.

Folder 21: Correspondence between Marquise de Charette and her Aunt Lulie, 1936-1948.

Folder 22: Correspondence 1939-1940 to Marquise de Charette while in Norton Hospital with broken arm.

Folder 23: Correspondence 1939 to Marquise de Charette.

Folder 24: Correspondence 1935-1948 with artist Georges-Michel.

Folder 25: Manuscript captions for the art book by Marquise de Charette and Michel Georges-Michel.

Folder 26: Correspondence, Gabriel Prinque, 1939-1949, in French.

Folder 27: Correspondence, Herbert William Ross, 1931-1939.

Folder 28: Correspondence and bills in French from Dr. Pierre Stauffer, 1931-1933.

Folder 29: World War II correspondence and news clippings.

Folder 30: World War II correspondence in English and French, war relief aid information.

Folder 31: World War II Air Warden Papers and Armband.

Folder 32: World War II French War Efforts correspondence in English and French.

Folder 33: World War II war bond papers.

Folder 34: Register of Merit Certificates from American Jersey Cattle Club, 1910-1925.

Folder 35: Correspondence Sue T. Henning, 1905-1907, dealing with Jersey cattle breeding and horse breeding.

Folder 36: Miscellaneous papers from Sue T. Henning, 1914-1928.

Folder 37: James W. Henning’s papers dealing with the marriage of his daughter Susanne to Tony de Charette, including contracts of marriage.

Folder 38: James W Henning Insurance Policies.

Folder 39: Correspondence between James W. Henning and Colman du Pont, 1911-1915.

Folder 40: Correspondence about Sam Henning’s failing health due to mental illness.

Folder 41: Correspondence dealing with Susanne’s marriage to Tony de Charette to her father.

Folder 42: Correspondence from James. W. Henning’s first failure on Wall Street in 1907.

Folder 43: Correspondence and papers from 1907 dealing with expenses of J W Henning.

Subject Headings

Allen Dale Farm (Shelby County, Ky.)

Allen family

Art – Louisville

Artists

Arts Club (Louisville, Ky.)

Astrology

Basse Motte (France)

Bullitt, William Marshall, 1873-1957

Charette de la Contrie, Athanase-Charles-Marie de, 1832-1911

Charette, Antoinette Van Leer Polk de, 1847-1919

Charette, Charles-Antoine de, 1880-1947

Charette, Susanne Henning de, 1888-1964

Civil defense – United States

Communism – History

Communism and motion pictures

Depressions

Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930

Farms – Kentucky – Shelbyville

Fishing

France – Economic conditions

G. Washington Coffee Refining Co

Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970

Georges-Michel, Michel, 1883-1985

Gilbert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1882-1939

Henning, Henrietta Hunt, 1893-1964

Henning, James Williamson, 1863-1925

Henning, Julia Duke, 1901-1996

Henning, Lulie Cowan, 1860-1965

Henning, Samuel Cowan, 1865-1913

Henning, Susan Thornton, 1865-1933

Henning-Charette family

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

Insurance

Ireland – Politics and government – 20th century

Italy – Description and travel

Jersey cattle – Kentucky

League of Nations

Lusitania (Steamship)

Marriage – Parental consent

Marriage customs and rites

Marriage law – France

Mint juleps

Pius X, Pope, 1835-1914

Polk, Frank L. (Frank Lyon), 1871-1943

Polk, Rebecca, b. 1858

Prinque, Gabriel-Louis

Private schools – Switzerland

Ross, Herbert William, 1895-1989

Savings bonds – United States

Tariff on silverwork – France

Van Stockum, Susanne Meriwether de Charette, 1915-2000

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 – Evacuation of civilians

World War, 1914-1918 – France

World War, 1914-1918 – Tank warfare

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 – Civilian relief – France

World War, 1939-1945 – Civilian relief – Russia

World War, 1939-1945 – Economic aspects

World War, 1939-1945 – Finance – United States

World War, 1939-1945 – Motion pictures and the war

World War, 1939-1945 – Underground movements

World War, 1939-1945 – War work – New York

World War, 1939-1945 – Women – New York

Hession, Patrick (1859-1931) Papers, 1884-1960

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Patrick Hession, 1859-1931

Title: Papers, 1884-1960

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

Size of Collection: 0.33 cubic feet

Location Number: Mss./A/H587

Scope and Content Note

The Hession Papers consist of correspondence and paperwork related to Patrick Hession’s role as a Louisville police officer during the early twentieth century. In addition, the collection includes deeds to Hession’s properties, property taxes receipts for 1904-1930, and receipts for personal and property insurance. The collection also contains various receipts for purchases including whiskey, cigars, hired labor, membership fees, and food products.

Biographical Note

Patrick Hession, born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1859, was the son of Irish immigrants. According to the 1880 census, Hession served as a brakeman on a railroad for an unknown period of time. By the early twentieth century, Hession was a Louisville city police officer. Based on numerous receipts in his papers, he may have also operated a bar or pub. Hession was married and had at least five children. He died on 10 October 1931.

Folder List

Folder 1: Correspondence – Louisville Police Department

Folder 2: Property Deeds

Folder 3: Receipts – Property Taxes

Folder 4: Receipts – Liquor Purchases

Folder 5: Receipts – Insurance Payments and Claims

Folder 6: Receipts and Contracts – Miscellaneous

Folder 7: Miscellaneous

Folder 8: Notebooks

Subject Headings

Crime – Kentucky – Louisville

Hession, Patrick, 1859-1931

Local elections – Kentucky – Louisville

Police – Kentucky – Louisville

Property tax – Kentucky – Louisville

Voting registers – Kentucky – Louisville

Warrants (Law) – Kentucky – Louisville

Whiskey industry – Kentucky

Harrison, William Benjamin (1889-1948) Scrapbook, 1931

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: William Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1948

Title: Scrapbook, 1931

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

Size of Collection: 1 volume (1 cubic foot)

Locator Number: Mss./A/H323

Biographical Note

William Benjamin Harrison was born in Louisville in1889. He was educated at Louisville Male High School and the University of Virginia, graduating with a law degree in 1910. He served as a Captain in the army during World War I and returned to Louisville work for Kentucky Refrigerating Company and Foundry Products Co. In 1927 he was elected to a two year term as Mayor of Louisville after the Kentucky Court of Appeals threw out the election of Republican Arthur A Wills. He was elected to a full term in 1929 and served as Mayor until 1933. During his administration he arranged funding for the municipal bridge across the Ohio River, the Clark Memorial Bridge.

Harrison was the Republican candidate for governor of Kentucky in 1931. He was defeated by the Democratic candidate, Ruby Laffoon. After his term as Mayor ended, he became the President of the Louisville Industrial Foundation. He served as President for 14 years before retiring. He died of lung cancer in 1948 and is buried at Cave Hill Cemetery.

Scope and Content Note

A large scrapbook of newspaper clippings collected by the Harrison campaign in his 1931 bid for Governor of Kentucky on the Republican ticket. The race included Harrison and John C. Worsham on the Republican ticket and Ruby Laffoon and Happy Chandler on the Democratic ticket. The scrapbook has clippings discussing the issues of the day such as the Highway Commission scandal and the fraud in the Louisville DMV. There are also political cartoons and editorial articles discussing both candidates and articles about women’s political clubs for both parties.

Subject Headings

Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956

Chandler, Happy, 1898-1991

Democratic Party (Ky.)

Governors – Elections

Harrison, William Benjamin, 1889-1948

Johnson, Ben

Kentucky – Politics and government – 1865-1950

Laffoon, Ruby, 1869-1941

Mayors – Kentucky – Louisville

Morrow, Edwin Porch, 1877-1935

Political cartoons

Republican Party (Ky.)

Roads – Kentucky

Sampson, Flemon Davis, 1875-1967

Scandals – Kentucky – Louisville

Socialist Labor Party

Women in politics – Kentucky

Worsham, John C., 1879-1939

Haldeman, Anne Bruce (1903-1993) Landscape Design Records, 1929-1986

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Anne Bruce Haldeman, 1903-1993

Title: Landscape Design Records, 1929-1986 (bulk c. 1950-1975)

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for this collection, contact the Curator of Special Collections.

Size of Collection: 3.5 cubic feet

Locator Number: Mss./AR/H159

Biographical Note

Anne Bruce Haldeman was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1903 to the Haldeman family, prominent newspaper publishers. Haldeman lived to be 90 years old and left a legacy as one of the earliest and most pre-eminent female landscape architects in Kentucky. After graduating from Bennett College in New York State, she noted that her career in landscape architecture started ‘accidentally’ while her parents were designing a country home in Glenview, KY. She eventually enrolled in the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, which is now part of Harvard University. Graduating in 1931, Haldeman, along with her classmate and partner Louise Leland (1902-1956), returned to Louisville in 1934 and founded the landscape architectural firm of Haldeman & Leland. The office was located in the Francis Building at 606 S. 4th Street. Haldeman and Leland resided in Glenview, KY near the Haldeman family property. Following the early death of Leland in 1956, the firm dissolved. Haldeman continued to work in landscape design for the remainder of her life.

While Anne Bruce Haldeman designed numerous gardens and landscapes throughout the region, she is best remembered for her role in the historically-informed gardens at My Old Kentucky Home State Park, in Bardstown, KY, Farmington Historic Plantation, in Louisville, KY, and as a consultant for Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Mercer Co., KY. Haldeman was a member of the group who spearheaded the movement to rescue the historically significant home and gardens of Farmington, the plantation originally built from 1815-1816 by John and Lucy Fry Speed. She helped to found the Historic Homes Foundation Inc., a local organization created to protect the integrity of historic homes. Throughout the late 1960s and 70s, Haldeman researched the Speed family, the home, as well as the time period, to create as historically accurate gardens as possible. In 1973 Haldeman was awarded the Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne Medal for outstanding achievement in Garden Design from the Garden Club of America. She was also one of the first women to join the American Society of Landscape Architects. Anne Bruce Haldeman died in 1993.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of landscape architectural drawings created by Anne Bruce Haldeman as well as record-keeping notes related to residential projects and clients, detailed information on plants and landscaping materials, and a small amount of business correspondence and records related to Haldeman’s work at My Old Kentucky Home. Haldeman had a life-long career in landscape design working both independently as well as in partnership with Louise Leland from 1934-1956 in the firm Haldeman & Leland. Haldeman designed landscapes that were historically informed and based upon eighteenth and early-nineteenth century gardens, as well as gardens that were of a more contemporary nature. Several of Haldeman’s landscape design projects are of local and state significance, mainly: Farmington Historic Plantation, My Old Kentucky Home State Park (also known as Federal Hill), the Shakertown Bypass and the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (where Haldeman served as a consultant), and the pool and fountain next to the Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library on the campus of the University of Louisville. The landscape design drawings in the collection are for both residential and public spaces, the majority dating approximately 1950 to 1975. Multiple projects contain detailed plant lists and when applicable these lists remain with the specific project drawings (please refer to the Project Index for projects that contain plant lists). Also included in the collection are several projects designed before 1956, when Haldeman worked as a partner with Louise Leland in the firm Haldeman & Leland. From this time period, the collection includes three small boxes of index cards: the first box of index cards (1932-1958) reflect project numbers and client names related to projects undertaken by the firm Haldeman and Leland; the second box contains alphabetized cards on trees, shrubs, plants, and bulbs, with Haldeman’s notes and information on each specimen; the last box contains miscellanea such as pencil sketches of garden plans and notes on garden designs. Notes found among the collection material indicate that sometime in 1950 many of the Haldeman & Leland business records and drawings were purged from their office. This may account for the dearth of pre-1950 material.

Separation Note

The collection contained a large amount of photographs, glass slides, and negatives which have been transferred to the Filson Photograph Collection.

Folder List

Roll 1: Bahnson Jr., Mr. & Mrs. A. H., terraces, Reynolda, NC, 8 December 1952

Roll 2: Bateman, Mrs. E., garden, Washington Square, Louisville, KY, 27 June 1973

Roll 3: Bingham, Mrs. Barry, garden, Glenview, KY, 5 October 1970

Roll 4: Chatham, Mr. & Mrs. Hugh, gardens & entrance to “Klondike,” Elkin, NC, 1951-1952

Roll 5: Chatham, Mrs. Thurmond, garden, “Prospect House,” 3508 Prospect Ave., Washington, D. C., 1951-1952

Roll 6: Church of the Ascension, garden, Frankfort, KY, 14 July 1955

Roll 7: Davidson, Dr. & Mrs. L., tool house, Fox Hollow, 15 October 1949

Roll 8: Farmington Historic Plantation, gardens & tool house, Louisville, KY, 1958-1962

Roll 9: Griffith, Mr. & Mrs. Theodore, garden, 5580 Washington Blvd., Indianapolis, IN, 1 August 1952

Roll 10: H. C. Memorial Hospital & Doctor’s Building, brick walkway & gardens, Elkin, NC, 18 August 1972

Roll 11: Hanes, Mrs. Ralph, gardens for 2 residences in North Carolina, 1929-1972

Roll 12: Heritage House, gardens, Wapping Street, Frankfort, KY, 12 April 1974

Roll 13: Hickman, Mrs. B. G., garden for the ‘River Farm,’ Goshen, KY, 22 April 1968

Roll 14: Hollister, Mr. & Mrs. J., planting plan for bulbs, 1831 Keys Crescent, Cincinnati, OH, October 1963

Roll 15: Kelley III, Mrs. F. J., garden 855 E. Westminster, Lake Forrest, IL, 1 December 1966

Roll 16: Lassiter, Mrs. Frederick H., gardens, The Hagen House, Old Salem, NC, 14 December 1966

Roll 17: Long, Mrs. Irving D., entrance court, 2112 River Bluff Rd., Louisville, KY, July 1966

Roll 18: Miller, Mr. & Mrs. S. G., garden, Twinbrook Rd., city not listed, 10 February 1954

Roll 19: My Old Kentucky Home, gardens, Bardstown, KY, 2 January1967

Roll 20: Norman, Mr. & Mrs. John C., garden, Washington Square, Louisville, KY, January 1974

Roll 21: Norton Jr., Mrs. George W., terrace, Murphy Lane, Louisville, KY, 1966

Roll 22: Ormsby, Mrs. Henry, terrace, Washington Square, Louisville, KY, June 1973

Roll 23: Seiler, Mr. & Mrs. L. P., garden, 221 St. Matthews Ave., Louisville, KY, July 1975

Roll 24: Shakertown Bypass (State Highway), trees and plantings, Mercer Co., KY, May 1967

Roll 25: Springer, Mrs. F. C., garden, Second Presbyterian Church, Meridian Hills, IN, January 1961

Roll 26: Sturgill, Mr. & Mrs. Charles, tool/garden shed, John Alden Rd., Lexington, KY, 28 July 1958

Roll 27: Twin City Garden Club, orchard & garden, Timothy Vogler, Old Salem, NC, Oct. 1961

Roll 28: Unidentified garden plan, location, date & client not listed

Roll 29: University of Louisville, fountain & pool, Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library, Louisville, KY, January 1964

Roll 30: Wells, Mrs. John W., garden, 262 Market St., Lexington, KY, February 1965

Roll 31: Wright, Mrs. F. H., tool house, Bryan’s Sta. Pike, Lexington, KY, 3/21/1953

Roll 32: Ballard, Mr. & Mrs. G. B., Residence, Glenview, KY, April 1956

Roll 33: Bonnefont Cloister (map of cloister gardens), Fort Tyron Park, NY, 1941

Roll 34: Crowley Residence, Richmond Road at Chinoe, Lexington, KY, June 1986

Roll 35: Garden Club of America, cartoon map of Annapolis, MD, 5/08/1940

Roll 36: Hubbard, Dr. & Mrs., Residence, location not listed, 2/27/1985

Folder 37: My Old Kentucky Home, records & correspondence, 1967

Index Card Records, Drawer 1 (38): Index of landscape plants, trees, bulbs, etc. & Haldeman’s library index, undated

Index Card Records, Drawer 2 (39): Index of client names, addresses & contact information, 1932-1958

Index Card Records, Drawer 3 (40): Miscellaneous items including notes & sketches, undated

Subject Headings

Architecture, Domestic – Kentucky

Farmington (Ky.: Estate) – Gardens

Garden Club of America

Garden Structures

Gardens – Designs – Kentucky

Gardens – Designs – North Carolina

Gardens – Specifications

Haldeman & Leland (Louisville, Ky.)

Historic agricultural landscapes – Kentucky

Historic gardens – Kentucky

Historic Preservation – Kentucky

Historic sites – Conservation and restoration – Kentucky

Landscape architecture – Kentucky

Landscape architectural firms – Kentucky

Landscape architectural drawing – United States

Landscape plants

Landscaping industry – Kentucky

Lesbian businesswomen – Kentucky

Louise Leland (1902-1956)

My Old Kentucky Home (Bardstown, Ky.) – Gardens

Patios

Planting design

Plants, Ornamental – Kentucky

Pleasant Hill (Pleasant Hill, Ky.)

Roadside improvement – Kentucky

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (Pleasant Hill, Ky.) – Gardens

Shakertown Bypass (Mercer Co., Ky.) – landscape design

Tourism – Maps

Water in landscape architecture

Women landscape architects – Kentucky

Women-owned landscape architectural firms – Kentucky

Hardy, Marshall B., Jr. (1918-2010) Added Papers, 1938-1978

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Marshall B. Hardy, Jr., (1918-2010)

Title: Added Papers, 1938-1978

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

Size of Collection: 0.33 Cubic Feet

Location Number: Mss./A/H268a

Scope and Content Note

The Marshall B. Hardy, Jr. Added Papers consist of Lieutenant Colonel Hardy’s personal copy of his military 201 file, or military personnel file, a folder of documents maintained by the military for each service member. The 201 file is a record of military service and contains documents that are important for proving military service (such as orders, promotions, evaluations, transcripts, awards, etc.). Service members are requested to maintain a complete 201 file in case of the lost of all or a portion of the official version.  This is an excellent example of a personal 201 file spanning an almost 40-year military career.

Hardy’s military personnel file covers his military career from his honorable discharge from the National Guard in Kentucky (dated 24 February 1938, while he was attending the Virginia Military Institute) through his official notice of retirement from the United States Army Reserves (dated 21 July 1978).  The file documents Hardy’s military activity while on reserve duty, in training, and on active duty through: orders; certificates of training and performance; applications, reassignments, appointments and promotions; and qualification and physical condition records.  Some records, notably qualification records (folder 6) also detail Hardy’s education and career outside of the military.  The majority of Hardy’s military career takes place in Kentucky, at Fort Knox and Bowman Field, although he served in northern Africa and Italy during World War II and was briefly stationed at or trained in other locations throughout the United States.  

Researchers should be aware that much of the documentation in the file uses military acronyms and abbreviations, which may pose difficulties for deciphering specific locations and duties carried out by Lt. Col. Hardy.

For a more personal documentation of Hardy’s service, particularly during World War II, see the Marshall B. Hardy, Jr. Papers, 1939-1984 (Mss. A/H268).

Biographical Note

Marshall Burwell Hardy, Jr. was born 28 September 1918 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Marshall B. Hardy and Amanda Fitch Hardy, of Flemingsburg, Kentucky.  In 1936 he graduated cum laude with a specialty in Math from the Louisville Male High School, where he was an R.O.T.C. Captain.  He completed his higher education at the Virginia Military Institute, graduating with distinction in 1940 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

Hardy was commissioned a second lieutenant of field artillery in the reserves after his VMI graduation in May 1940.  While awaiting assignment, he was employed by the Construction Division of E. I. DuPont de Nemours as Chief Expediter in Southeastern United States for the Charlestown Ordnance project.  In December 1940, he entered the United States Army active service, assigned to the First Armored Division.  During World War II, he served in campaigns in North Africa and Italy.  At the end of 1944, Hardy was assigned to the Armored School at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and was an instructor there throughout 1945.

After his service in World War II, Hardy studied law, receiving his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1948. He then entered his father’s firm of Hardy and Logan, from which he retired in 1982.

Hardy continued his military service after World War II, serving with the 100th Division.  He held both staff and command positions in the U. S. Army Reserve.  He retired as a lieutenant colonel from command of the 100th training Division in 1978.

Hardy was a trustee of the Patton Museum Development Fund at Ft. Knox for 30 years, served on several committees of the Louisville Bar Association (of which he was a member), and was a lifelong active member of Calvary Episcopal Church.  Hardy was also a member of the Kentucky Bar Association, 1st Armored Division Association, Military Order of World Wars, American Legion (Post 15), Reserve Officers Association, Society of the Colonial Wars, Hereditary Descendents of Colonial Governors, and the Louisville Country Club.

Hardy married Whitney Knowles in 1948, and they had three sons, Marshall III, Henry and Tabb, and three daughters Whitney, Anne, and Katherine.  Hardy passed away on 2 November 2010 in Louisville, Kentucky.

–Taken from the obituary of Marshall Burwell Hardy Jr. published in the Louisville Courier-Journal 3 November 2010.

Folder List

Within each file, materials are generally in chronological order (with the exception of folder 2, which is in reverse chronological order) and have been kept in the groupings maintained by Lt. Col. Hardy.

Folder 1: Pre-World War II Materials, 1938-1941

Folder 2: World War II 201 File, 1940-1945

Folder 3: World War II Additional Files, 1940-1946

Folder 4: Post World War II File, Part A: 1947-1954

Folder 5: Post World War II File, Part B, 1955-1978

Folder 6: Qualification and Retirement Point Records, circa 1940s-1960s

Subject Headings

Armored Force School (U.S.)

Armored School (U.S.)

Bowman Field (Ky.)

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry

Fort Knox (Ky.)

Kentucky. National Guard.

Medical records

Military education – United States

Military orders

Military retirements

United States. Army – Appointments and retirements

United States. Army – Military life

United States. Army – Promotions

United States. Army Reserve.

United States. Army Reserve. Division (Institutional Training), 100th

United States – Armed Forces – Pay, allowances, etc.

United States – Armed Forces – Reserves 

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Virginia Military Institute. Dept. of Civil Engineering

Vision

World War, 1939-1945 – Artillery operations, American

Helm, John L. (1915-2008) Papers, 1925-2002

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Helm, John L., 1915-2008

Title: Papers, 1925-2002

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

Size of Collection: 1 cubic foot

Location Number: Mss./A/H478

Scope and Content Note

The John L. Helm IV Papers include correspondence, charts, photographs, and notes regarding Helm’s genealogy. The collection was created and assembled by Mr. John L. Helm IV who arranged the material into family-based binders. The collection also contains genealogy material for the Pope, Botts, Bohannons, McGowans, McCarroll, Hardin, and LaRue families. Additionally, collection materials provide an overview of Helm’s life and achievements. Letters, clippings, and notes document Helm’s civic engagement and detail the establishment of a permanent endowment by Helm and his wife to the Community Foundation of Louisville, Inc. (formerly Louisville Community Foundation, Inc.).

Biographical Note

John LaRue Helm IV, the son of John L. Helm III and Anne Elizabeth Botts, was born in Louisville, Kentucky on 10 July 1915. After serving in the Air Force during the Second World War he began a career in the life insurance profession and married Julia (Judy) F. McClure. John and Judy Helm had two children, Mark Botts and Elizabeth Lee.

In 1983, Helm formed the firm, Helm, Creznic, & Ward, Inc. with colleagues. Helm received many professional distinctions but is best known for his civic engagement and charitable contributions. He served on the Louisville Junior Chamber of Commerce and was integral to the establishment of a war memorial on 5th and Jefferson Streets. In 1994 John and Judy Helm set up a permanent endowment with the Community Foundation of Louisville, Inc. (formerly Louisville Community Foundation, Inc.). Their endowment funds the Starfish Flinger Award, which is distributed by the Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, Inc, and recognizes teachers, junior achievement consultants, and others who make a difference in education. John L. Helm died at home on February 17, 2008 at the age of 92.

Folder List

Folder 1: Helm Family Genealogy Binder, Vol. I, 1987-1995

Folder 2: Helm Family Genealogy Binder, Vol. II, 1972- 2002

Folder 3: Helm Family Genealogy, 1932-1985

Folder 4: Hardin Family Genealogy Binder, 1981-1995

Folder 5: Botts Family Genealogy Binder, 1925-1990

Folder 6: LaRue Family Genealogy Binder, 1996-1999

Folder 7: Pope Family Genealogy Binder, 1971-1992

Subject Headings

Botts family

Community Foundation of Louisville – Endowment

Endowments

Hardin family

Helm, John Larue. 1915-2008

LaRue family

Pope family

Harrison Family Papers, ca. 1930-1990

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Harrison Family

Title: Papers, ca. 1930s – 1990 (bulk 1941-1945)

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

Size of Collection: 1 cubic foot

Locator Number: Mss./A/ H318

Biographical Note

William B. Harrison (1889-1948) was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1927 until 1933. He was elected to a two-year term as mayor after the Kentucky Court of Appeals threw out the election of Republican Arthur A. Will. When his term as mayor ended, Harrison became president of the Louisville Industrial Foundation. Harrison married Margaret W. Allis in 1912. Together they had five children: William H. Harrison (1913-1990), Winston P. Harrison (1914-?), Margaret Harrison (1921- ), Penelope Harrison (?), and Dorothy Harrison (1925- ).

Both Winston and William H. Harrison served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. William H. “Bill” Harrison, a graduate of Princeton University, served as Battery Commander of Battery C of the 27 th Field Artillery Battalion. He was deployed to the European theatre in May of 1942, and achieved the rank of Captain while overseas. On December 6, 1942, Harrison and 33 other men were captured by the Germans near Tabouba, Tunisia. Harrison was taken to German prison camp #21 at Chieti, Italy. He escaped in the fall of 1943, as the Germans were moving prisoners to Germany. In May of 1945, Harrison was again sent overseas to India where he served through the remainder of the war.

William H. Harrison married Louise Taylor with whom he had four children. Louise T. Harrison (1940- ), William H. Harrison, Jr. (1946- ), Phillip T. Harrison (1948- ), and David W. Harrison (1958- ).

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists primarily of correspondence between members of the Harrison family of Louisville, Kentucky. Most of the correspondence is between William H. Harrison (“Bill”) and his wife Louise Taylor Harrison (“Wege”) during William’s deployment overseas during World War II. The collection also includes correspondence with other members of the Harrison and Taylor families. The majority of the collection concerns the periods of Bill’s deployment overseas between 1942 and 1945. Letters describe Bill’s training period in Northern Ireland, his capture by the Germans in Tunisia in December of 1942, and his internment in a prison camp in Italy between December of 1942 and the fall of 1943. Later correspondence concerns his deployment to India in 1945.

Folder List

Folder 1: Correspondence, ca.1930s – 1941

Folder 2: Correspondence, April 1 – 15, 1942

Folder 3: Correspondence, April 16-30, 1942

Folder 4: Correspondence, May 1-20, 1942

Folder 5: Correspondence, May 21-31, 1942

Folder 6: Correspondence, June 1-10, 1942

Folder 7: Correspondence, June 11-20, 1942

Folder 8: Correspondence, June 21-30, 1942

Folder 9: Correspondence, July 1-15, 1942

Folder 10: Correspondence, July 16-31, 1942

Folder 11: Correspondence, August 1-10, 1942

Folder 12: Correspondence, August 11-19, 1942

Folder 13: Correspondence, August 20-31, 1942

Folder 14: Correspondence, September 1942

Folder 15: Correspondence, October 1942-March 1943

Folder 16: Correspondence, April – October 1943

Folder 17: Correspondence, November – December 1943

Folder 18: Correspondence, 1944

Folder 19: Correspondence, May – June 1945

Folder 20: Correspondence, July 1-20, 1945

Folder 21: Correspondence, July 21 – September 1945

Folder 22: Correspondence, ca. 1940s -1990; undated

Folder 23: Newspaper clippings

Folder 24: Misc.

Subject Headings

Fort Dix (N.J.)

Harrison family

Louisiana – Description and travel

Louisville (Ky.) – Social life and customs

Michigan, Lake – Description and travel

United States. Army – Military life

United States. Army. Artillery Regiment, 27th

V-mail

World War, 1939-1945 – India

World War, 1939-1945 – Italy

World War, 1939-1945 – Northern Ireland

World War, 1939-1945 – Prisoners and prisons

World War, 1939-1945 – Women – United States

Harrison Family Added Papers, 1915-1954

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Harrison Family

Title: Added Papers, 1915-1954

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

Size of Collection: 1 cubic foot

Locator Number: Mss./A/ H318a

Biographical Note

William B. Harrison (1889-1948) was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1927 until 1933. He was elected to a two-year term as mayor after the Kentucky Court of Appeals threw out the election of Republican Arthur A. Will. When his term as mayor ended, Harrison became president of the Louisville Industrial Foundation. Harrison married Margaret W. Allis in 1912. Together they had five children: William H. Harrison (1913-1990), Winston P. Harrison (1914-1982), Margaret Harrison (1921- ), Penelope Harrison (1917-), and Dorothy Harrison (1925- ).

Thomas P. Taylor, Jr. (1890-1953) was son of the founder of the T.P. Taylor Co. chain of drug stores in Louisville, Kentucky. After a period of ownership by the Whelan Drug Co. of New York, T.P. Taylor, Jr. reincorporated the Taylor drug store chain in 1932.

William H. Harrison served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. William H. “Bill” Harrison, a graduate of Princeton University, served as Battery Commander of Battery C of the 27 th Field Artillery Battalion. He was deployed to the European theatre in May of 1942, and achieved the rank of Captain while overseas. Harrison earned both a Silver Star for his bravery in battle at Oran, Tunisia and also a Distinguished Service Cross after having been captured in Tabouba, Tunisia and taken as a POW by the Italian government.

On December 6, 1942, Harrison and 33 other men were captured by the Germans near Tabouba, Tunisia. Harrison was taken to German prison camp #21 at Chieti, Italy. He escaped in the fall of 1943, as the Germans were moving prisoners to Germany. In May of 1945, Harrison was again sent overseas to India where he served through the remainder of the war.

William H. Harrison married Louise “Wege” Taylor with whom he had four children. Louise T. Harrison (1940- ), William H. Harrison, Jr. (1946- ), Phillip T. Harrison (1948- ), and David W. Harrison (1958- ).

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains military records of former Louisville mayor William B. Harrison (1889-1948), Thomas Pickett (T.P.) Taylor, Jr. (1890-1953), and William H. Harrison (1913-1990). The papers of William B. Harrison and Thomas P. Taylor, Jr., primarily correspondence copies of orders, cover their military service during World War I. The remainder of the collection consists of materials gathered by Louise “Wege” Taylor during her husband William H. Harrison’s military service during World War II. These papers are primarily made up of three disbound scrapbooks in which Mrs. Harrison gathered correspondence, photographs, clippings, ephemera, typescripts of radio programs detailing her husband’s service and capture in North Africa in December 1942 and his time as a prisoner of war in Cheti, Italy. Other materials in the collection include a small notebook of William H. Harrison’s notes from field artillery school, and a hand-drawn map of Italy presumably used during Mr. Harrison’s escape from the prison camp in 1943.

Folder List

Folder 1: William Benjamin Harrison (1889-1948), Military records, 1917-1934

Folder 2: Thomas Pickett Taylor, Jr. (1890-1953), Military records, 1918-1920

Folder 3: William Heyward Harrison, (1913-1990), Military records, 1943-1945

Folder 4: William H. Harrison, Correspondence and military records, 1945-1954

Folder 5: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 1-14

Folder 6: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 15-16

Folder 7: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 17-26

Folder 8: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 27-28

Folder 9: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 29-38

Folder 10: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 39-40

Folder 11: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 41-42

Folder 12: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 43-44

Folder 13: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 45-46

Folder 14: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 47-48

Folder 15: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 49-50

Folder 16: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 51-52

Folder 17: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 53-56

Folder 18: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 57-58

Folder 19: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 59-64

Folder 20: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 65-76

Folder 21: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 77-86

Folder 22: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 87-88

Folder 23: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 89-92

Folder 24: Scrapbook, volume 1, p. 93-100

Folder 25: Scrapbook, volume 2, p. 1-4

Folder 26: Scrapbook, volume 2, p. 5-9

Folder 27: Scrapbook, volume 2, p. 10-11

Folder 28: Scrapbook, volume 2, p. 12-14

Folder 29: Scrapbook, volume 2, p. 15-28

Folder 30: Scrapbook, volume 3, field notes and photocopied correspondence

Folder 31: Scrapbook, volume 3, correspondence

Folder 32: Scrapbook, volume 3, correspondence

Folder 33: Scrapbook, volume 3, clippings

Folder 34: Map (oversized)

Subject Headings

Families of military personnel – United States

Harrison family

Harrison, William B. (William Benjamin), 1889-1948

Harrison, William H. (William Heyward), 1913-1990

Military spouses – United States

Prisoner of war

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 – Campaigns & battles – Africa, North

World War, 1939-1945 – Maps

Henry-Bacon Family Papers, 1785-1988

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Henry-Bacon Family

Title: Papers, 1785-1988

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

Size of Collection: 2.66 Cubic Feet

Location Number: Mss./A/H521b

Scope and Content Note

The papers of General William Henry and his descendants in the Henry and Bacon families.  Correspondence and land and financial papers trace the family’s eighteenth-century migration from Virginia to Kentucky, first in the Bluegrass region and then in Christian County.  Numerous letters from the 1810s discuss the settlement of the area around Hopkinsville, Ky. and Clarksville, Tenn. and describe agriculture and slavery in the region.  Letters, certificates and an order book detail Henry family service in the War of 1812, and correspondence to Dr. John F. Henry concerns his service in the United States House of Representatives in the 1820s.  Other material in the collection addresses the family’s relocation to Iowa in the 1840s and journeys to California in the early 1860s.  Letters, diaries, and military papers document John F. Henry, Jr.’s service in the Confederate army during the Civil War.  Material from the twentieth century details family matters, social life, travel in the U.S. and abroad, politics, and other topics.

Related Collections

The Filson has an additional collection of Henry Family Papers (Mss./A/H521) and the University of North Carolina’s Southern Historical Collection has the Gustavus A. Henry Papers (Mss. #1431).

Separation Note

Photographs and published material have been transferred to The Filson’s Photograph Collection and Library, respectively.

Biographical Note

The Henry family was a prominent family in Virginia and Kentucky in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  General William Henry (1761-1824), the son of Rev. Robert Henry (d. 1767?), was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and immigrated to Kentucky in 1781.  He settled in the Bluegrass region before relocating to Christian County in the early-nineteenth century.  On October 12, 1786, he married Elizabeth Julia Flournoy (1767?-1813), the daughter of Matthews Flournoy (b. 1732) and Elizabeth Patsy Pryor Smith.  During the War of 1812, Henry was the commander of the 1st Division of the Kentucky militia.  Henry had numerous children.  Those featured prominently in the collection include sons Robert Pryor (1788-1826), John Flournoy (1793-1873), Patrick (1801-1864), and Gustavus Adolphus Henry (1804-1880).

John Flournoy Henry, a Representative from Kentucky; born at Henrys Mill, Scott County, Ky., on January 17, 1793; attended Georgetown Academy, Kentucky, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1817; served in the War of 1812 as surgeon’s mate of Kentucky troops; returned to Kentucky, working as a farmer and doctor; replaced his deceased brother in the House of Representatives, December 1826-March 1827, but was not reelected; professor in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1831; moved to Bloomington, Ill., in 1834 and in 1845, to Burlington, Iowa, where he resumed practicing medicine; died in Burlington, November 12, 1873 and buried at Aspen Grove Cemetery.  For more information on William and Elizabeth Henry’s other children, see John F. Henry’s The Henry Family, copies of which are located in folders 45, 47, and 49 of the collection.

John F. Henry, Jr. (1839-1899) was the son of John F. Henry.  He attended the Lebanon Law School, 1858-1860, but left before receiving his degree. He briefly lived in Colorado in 1860 but returned to Kentucky to enlist in the Confederate army.  He served from 1862 to 1865, primarily in the western theater, but at the close of the war, he was part of Jefferson Davis’s escort following the fall of Richmond.  Immediately after the Civil War, he lived in Augusta, Ga.  In 1869, he married Mary Churchill Richardson (1848-1938).  Their children included Lucy Ridgely Henry (1876-1969) and Violet F. Henry (b. 1880?).  Around 1902, Lucy Henry married Ernest Jennings Bacon (1874-1958).  In 1934, they relocated from Louisville to Los Angeles, where their daughter Frances Henry Bacon (1906-2003) worked in the animation department at Warner Bros. Studios.  After living in Los Angeles, Frances M. Bacon moved to Colorado and then back to Louisville, where she died.  Frances Bacon never married.

Folder List

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1785-1799

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1802-1819

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1820-1829

Folder 4: Correspondence, 1830-1839

Folder 5: Correspondence, 1840-1849

Folder 6: Correspondence, 1850-1859 (click to access PDF)

Folder 7: Correspondence, 1860-1863 (click to access PDF)

Folder 8: Correspondence, 1864-1869 (click to access PDF)

Folder 9: Mary Churchill Richardson Henry Correspondence, ca. 1865-1867

Folder 10: Correspondence, 1870-1879

Folder 11: Correspondence, 1882-1899

Folder 12: Correspondence, 1901-1929

Folder 13: Correspondence, 1930-1934

Folder 14: Correspondence, 1935-1944

Folder 15: Correspondence, 1945-1950

Folder 16: Correspondence, 1951-1964

Folder 17: Correspondence, 1965-1988

Folder 18: Correspondence, undated, 19th century

Folder 19: Correspondence, undated, 20th century

Folder 20: John F. Henry, Jr. Diary, 1862-1863

Folder 21: John F. Henry, Jr. Diary, 1864

Folder 22: John F. Henry, Jr. Diary, 1865

Folder 23: Financial papers, 1782-1869, 1948

Folder 24: Legal papers, 1780-1829

Folder 25: Military papers, 1813, 1861-1872

Folder 26: Order Book, 1813

Folder 27: John F. Henry, Jr. Autograph Book

Folder 28: John F. Henry, Jr. Lebanon Law School Photograph Album

Folder 29: Autograph Album

Folder 30: Violet F. Henry Autographs

Folder 31: Jack F. Henry New Testament

Folder 32: Henry Family Printed Material

Folder 33: Genealogy

Folder 34: Newspaper clippings

Folder 35: Miscellaneous

Folder 36: M.C. Henry Diary, 1919

Folder 37: Short-Wilkins Family Notebook

Folder 38: Scrapbook

Folder 39: Frances Bacon Cancelled Checks

Folder 40: Kenneth W. Rendell Appraisals

Folder 41: Henry Family

Folder 42: Short Family

Folder 43: Richardson Family

Folder 44: Genealogy (including Anna Symmes Harrison & John Cleves Symmes)

Folder 45: The Henry Family – Mrs. John F. Henry copy

Folder 46: Material from Mrs. John F. Henry’s copy of The Henry Family

Folder 47: The Henry Family – Mary C. Henry/Violet F. Henry copy

Folder 48: Material from M.C./V.F. Henry copy of The Henry Family

Folder 49: The Henry Family – Lucy R. Henry copy

Folder 50: Material from Lucy R. Henry copy of The Henry Family

Folder 51: A Chronological Record of the Families of Charles Wilkins Short and Mary Henry Churchill

Folder 52: A Chronological Record of the Families of Charles Wilkins Short and Mary Henry Churchill typescript

Folder 53: Daughters of the American Revolution Charts

Folder 54: Lucy Henry Bacon Stamps

Folder 55: Antiques notebook

Folder 56: Lucy Henry Bacon Clippings

Folder 57: Miscellaneous

Folder 58: Miscellaneous (2)

Oversize

Folder 59: Maps and Newspapers

Subject Headings

Abolitionists – Autographs

American Party – Iowa

Authors – Autographs

Christian County (Ky.) – history – 19th century

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Colorado – History – To 1876

Confederate States of America – Newspapers

Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Diaries

Dueling – Kentucky

Education

Europe – Description and travel

Greek letter societies – Southern States

Henry, Gustavus A. (Gustavus Adolphus), 1804-1880

Henry, J. (John), 1793-1873

Henry, John Flournoy, 1839-1899?

Henry, Robert Pryor, 1788-1826

Henry, William, 1761-1824

Henry family

Iowa – History – 19th century

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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

Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836

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

Lebanon Law School (Lebanon, Tenn.)

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870

Letcher, Robert Perkins, 1788-1861

Mammoth Cave (Ky.)

Morehead, C.S. (Charles Slaughter), 1802-1868

National Republican Party (Ky.)

Politicians – Autographs

Presidents – United States – Elections – 1824

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Richardson family

Robinson, James Fisher, 1800-1882

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Sayre Institute (Lexington, Ky.)

Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826

Short family

Slave insurrections – Southern States

Slavery – Kentucky

Tennessee – History – 19th century

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

Tornadoes – Kentucky – Louisville

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

United States – Description and travel

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

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

United States – History – War of 1812

United States – Politics and government – 1815-1861

Woodliegh (Louisville, Ky.)

World War, 1939-1945

Hamilton Family Papers, 1841-1978

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Hamilton Family

Title: Papers, 1841-1978

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

Size of Collection: 0.33 cubic feet

Location Number: Mss./A/H222

Scope and Content Note

Hamilton collection contains business correspondence, 1841-1978, a family scrapbook, several miscellaneous items, and an unbound copy of the World War Two picture magazine, Experience in Battle. Correspondence consists of legal, insurance, receipt, order, transportation, and grain trade documents. Loose scrapbook includes newspaper clippings of family births, deaths, and marriages, as well as military paraphernalia. Family patriarch James Clay Hamilton, 1838-1925, was a regionally prominent businessman from Uniontown, Kentucky.

Biographical Note

Family patriarch James Clay Hamilton, 1838-1925, was a regionally prominent wharf boat proprietor, grain dealer, and insurance salesman from Uniontown, Kentucky, whose associates included businessmen from Morganfield, Paducah, Evansville, Tell City, and Louisville. His correspondence consists of legal, insurance, receipt, order, transportation, and grain trade documents. The Hamilton family was connected to several notable persons via marriage and business. A loose scrapbook includes newspaper clippings of family births, deaths, and marriages, as well as military paraphernalia. It also contains Union County (Ky.) Advocate articles on Hamilton family members Col. J.D. Givens, Major J.C. Hamilton, and Tech Sgt. William Lyle Hamilton, who was killed over Germany in a 1943 bombing mission.

Folder List

Folder 1: Business Correspondence

Folder 2: Business Correspondence

Folder 3: Experience in Battle Magazine

Folder 4: Miscellaneous

Folder 5: Scrapbook

Subject Headings

Grain trade – Ohio River Valley

Hamilton family

Hamilton, James Clay, 1838-1925

Union County (Ky.) – Commerce

World War, 1939-1945