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Filson Club Lectures, 1887-1992

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Filson Club

Title: Lectures, 1887-1992

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

Size of Collection: 3 cubic feet

Location Number: Mss./BI/F489b

Scope and Content Note

Often referred to as “Talks Before the Filson,” the collection contains numerous research papers and memorial speeches given before meetings of the Filson Historical Society from 1887 to 1992. Topics cover many aspects of Kentucky history, focusing mainly on the state from the frontier-era to the Civil War. Many prominent club members, including Colonel Reuben T. Durrett and Alfred S. Pirtle, gave numerous papers and had papers given about them after their deaths. The collection also includes several poems and short stories. Some folders in this collection has been digitized. To view PDF scan, click on the link provided in the folder list below.

Historical Note

The Filson Historical Society was founded as the Filson Club in 1884 to preserve Kentucky history and has since amassed large collections of manuscripts, books, and artwork. In the Filson’s early days, members were required to present papers at meetings. These papers were often kept on file by the Filson, resulting in the “Talks Before the Filson” collection.

Folder List

Folder 1: Index

Folder 2: Alexander, Harry W.

Folder 3: Allison, Young E.

Folder 4: Altsheller, Brent

Folder 5: Anderson, Kitty

Folder 6: Andrews, Alfred J.

Folder 7: Anonymous

Folder 8: Barker, Thomas A.

Folder 9: Barton, W. E. (William Eleazer)

Folder 10: Bate, Richard Alexander

Folder 10a: Beattie, George W.

Folder 11: Beckner, Lucien

Folder 12: Bernhardt, Carl

Folder 13: Bloom, Levi

Folder 14: Bourne, James M.

Folder 15: Bowman, Pauline Newman

Folder 16: Boyd, Samuel G.

Folder 17: Brown, John Mason

Folder 18: Bruce, Horatio W.

Folder 19: Bryant, Thomas Julian

Folder 20: Burt, Jesse C., Jr.

Folder 21: Callahan, J. E.

Folder 22: Carrington, Wirt Johnson

Folder 23: Cawein, Madison

Folder 24: Cherry, T. C. (Thomas Crittenden)

Folder 25: Clay, Cassius Marcellus

Folder 26: Cleveland, Harry Whitney

Folder 27: Coats, Ida Symmes

Folder 28: Collins, Val. P.

Folder 29: Conkwright, Bessie Taul

Folder 30: Coomes, M. F. (click to access PDF)

Folder 31: Cotterill, Robert S.

Folder 32: Cromwell, Emma Guy

Folder 33: Crume, Lee G.

Folder 34: de la Hunt, Thomas James

Folder 35: Dickey, J. J. (John Jay)

Folder 36: Distelhorst, Walter

Folder 37: Dobbs, Charles

Folder 38: Donohue, James J.

Folder 39: Doyle, John A.

Folder 40: Duke, Basil W.

Folder 41: Duncan, Fannie Casseday

Folder 42: Durrett, Reuben T., Memoriams, 1887-1895

Folder 43: Durrett, Reuben T., Memoriams, 1900-1902

Folder 44: Durrett, Reuben T., Papers

Folder 45: Edwards, C. Hayden

Folder 46: Ellwanger, Ella H.

Folder 47: Fisher, Thomas C.

Folder 48: Fonda, Mary A.

Folder 49: Fowler, Ila Earle

Folder 50: Frank, Louis

Folder 51: Frazee, L. J.

Folder 52: Fuson, Henry Harvey

Folder 53: Gilbert, R. B.

Folder 54: Greene, Buckner F.

Folder 55: Greene, Nancy Lewis

Folder 56: Greenley, Thomas B.

Folder 57: Gregory, George H.

Folder 58: Hamilton, Samuel L.

Folder 59: Harrison, Ida Withers

Folder 60: Harrison, Lowell

Folder 61: Henton, Sara Hansborough

Folder 62: Heywood, John H.

Folder 63: Hill, Eugene D.

Folder 64: Hill, Samuel S.

Folder 65: Hoefelman, Walter M.

Folder 66: Holifield, Marvin Bertie

Folder 67: Humphrey, W. C.

Folder 68: Hunter, Mrs. Robert

Folder 69: Hurst, William L.

Folder 70: Huston, George

Folder 71: Isenberg, James L.

Folder 72: Jillson, Willard R.

Folder 73: Johnston, Josiah Stoddard, 1893-1901

Folder 74: Johnston, Josiah Stoddard, 1902-1904

Folder 75: Jones, Lewis H.

Folder 76: Jouett, Edward S.

Folder 77: Kelly, Walter H.

Folder 78: Kendrick, William C.

Folder 79: Kilpatrick, Lewis H.

Folder 80: Kincaid, Robert L.

Folder 81: Lafferty, Maude Ward, 1911, 1918

Folder 82: Lafferty, Maude Ward, 1930

Folder 83: Levi, Lily Ernestine, 1906 (click to access PDF)

Folder 84: Levi, Lily Ernestine, 1907 (click to access PDF)

Folder 85: Levi, Lily Ernestine, 1909

Folder 86: Levi, Lily Ernestine, 1917, 1924

Folder 87: Lewis, Ada S.

Folder 88: Little, Lucius P.

Folder 89: Loos, Charles Louis

Folder 90: Lytle, Elizabeth

Folder 91: McBryer, James

Folder 92: McDowell, William P.

Folder 93: McMeekin, Isabel McLennan

Folder 94: Macpherson, Ernest

Folder 95: Martin, Boyd

Folder 96: Martin, Mrs. Clarence

Folder 97: Mather, Otis M.

Folder 98: Mercer, S. C.

Folder 99: Miller, Elvira Sydnor

Folder 100: Miller, James C.

Folder 101: Moseley, M. H.

Folder 102: Mueller, Ignatius

Folder 103: Nachod, C. P.

Folder 104: Needham, Charles K.

Folder 105: Needham, Charles K.

Folder 106: Newcomb, Mary

Folder 107: Oldacre, Clara L.

Folder 108: Parsons, T. W.

Folder 109: Perrin, William Henry

Folder 110: Peter, Robert

Folder 111: Pettus, Joseph

Folder 112: Pirtle, Alfred, Tippecanoe

Folder 113: Pirtle, Alfred, 1898-1907

Folder 114: Pirtle, Alfred, 1910-1917

Folder 115: Pirtle, Alfred, 1921, 1922, no date

Folder 116: Pirtle, John Rowan

Folder 117: Price, Samuel Woodson (click to access PDF)

Folder 118: Purcell, Martha

Folder 119: Ranck, George W.

Folder 120: Reade, Philip

Folder 121: Richardson, John B.

Folder 122: Roland, Alice Kate

Folder 123: Rothert, Otto A.

Folder 124: Rouse, Alice Riddle

Folder 125: Sanders, Myra

Folder 126: Sanders, Robert Stuart

Folder 127: Sanders, Verney

Folder 128: Schachner, August

Folder 129: Schoening, Augusta

Folder 130: Scott, Elizabeth Slaughter

Folder 131: Sewell, Mrs. Nat B.

Folder 132: Seymour, Charles B.

Folder 133: Smith, D. T.

Folder 134: Smith, John F.

Folder 135: Smith, Zachary

Folder 136: Speed, Thomas

Folder 137: Stephenson, Martha

Folder 138: Stephenson, Wendell

Folder 139: Stone, May and Katherine Pettit

Folder 140: Strother, John C.

Folder 141: Summers, William T.

Folder 142: Tapp, Hambleton

Folder 143: Tevis, R. C.

Folder 144: Thixton, Marie M.

Folder 145: Thomas, D. L.

Folder 146: Thompson, Lawrence Sidney

Folder 147: Thompson, Stith

Folder 148: Threlkel, Marguerite

Folder 149: Thruston, R. C. Ballard

Folder 150: Thummel, G. E. and C. C. (Constantine Charles) Keller III

Folder 151: Tipton, French

Folder 152: Todd, C. C.

Folder 153: Todd, George D.

Folder 154: Todd, Lyman B.

Folder 155: Townsend, John Wilson

Folder 156: Trout, Allen M.

Folder 157: Tucker, Mattie B.

Folder 158: Van Stockum, R. R. (Ronald Reginald)

Folder 159: Walter, Lewis A.

Folder 160: Watterson, Henry

Folder 161: Wickliffe, John D.

Folder 162: Wilgus, D. K.

Folder 163: Wilson, Fannie S.

Folder 164: Wood, William F.

Folder 165: Woodson, Isaac T.

Folder 166: Young, Bennett H.

Index, by author

Alexander, Harry W.

“The Future Louisville as Determined by the City Plan Now Under Preparation”  Read before the Filson Club, June 2, 1930.

 

Allison, Young E.

“The Curious Legend of Louis Philippe in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, November 5, 1923.

Published privately, 1924.

 

Altsheller, Brent

“C.C. Graham, M.D., 1784-1885:  Historian, Antiquarian, Rifle Expert, Centenarian”

Read before the Filson Club, January 6, 1933.

Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1933.

 

Anderson, Kitty

“Soldiers’ Retreat: A Historical House and Its Famous People”

Read before the Filson Club, April 7, 1919.

Published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 17, No. 51, Sept. 1919.

 

Andrews, Alfred J.

“Gideon Shryock, Kentucky Architect and Greek Revival Architecture in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, December 6, 1943.

Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 18, 1944.

 

Anonymous

“Harrison D. Taylor”

Read before the Filson Club, ca. 1888.

 

“Col. James Francis Buckner”

Read before the Filson Club, ca. August 1889.

 

Barker, Thomas A.

“A History of the Jefferson County Court House”

Read before the Filson Club, May 7, 1934.

 

Barton, W.E. (William Eleazer)

“The Lincolns in Their Old Kentucky Home”

Read before the Filson Club, December 4, 1922.

Published by Berea College Press, 1923.

 

Bate, Richard Alexander

“Commodore Richard Taylor: A Colonial Sketch”

Read before the Filson Club, January 5, 1925.

 

“George Rogers Clark: Child of Virginia, Hero of Kentucky, Father of the Mighty West, George Rogers Clark, The Patriot Martyr”

Read before the Filson Club, October 6, 1941.

 

Beattie, George W.

“Colonel William Lynn: Kentucky Pioneer”

Read before the Filson Club, October 2, 1922.

 

Beckner, Lucien

“John Findley: The First Pathfinder of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, February 7, 1927.

Published in The History Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 1927.

 

Bernhardt, Carl

Untitled paper concerning the founding of Louisville

Read before the Filson Club on unknown date.

 

Bloom, Levi

“Personal Recollections of Louisville Before and During the Civil War”

Read before the Filson Club, May 6, 1935.

Published in unknown newspaper.

 

Bourne, James M.

“Reverend David Morton”

Read before the Filson Club, May 2, 1898.

 

“The Difference Between English, Julian, and Gregorian Calendars”

Read before the Filson Club on unknown date.

 

Bowman, Pauline Newman

Letters from Josiah Langdon to Richard C. Langdon; from Levi White to his wife

Presented to the Filson Club,1930.

 

Boyd, Samuel G.

“The Louisville and Nashville Turnpike Road”

Read before the Filson Club, November 2, 1925.

Published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 24, No. 71, May 1926.

 

Brown, John Mason

Untitled Memorial Speech on Rev. Edward Porter Humphrey

Read before the Filson Club, ca. December 1887.

 

Bruce, Horatio W.

“Richard Jones Brown”

Read before the Filson Club, ca. January 1892.

 

Bryant, Thomas Julian

“Bryant’s Station and Its Founder, William Bryant”
Read before the Filson Club, December 5, 1910.

 

Burt, Jesse C., Jr.

“Whitefoord Russell Cole, His Life and Times”

Read before the Filson Club, November 2, 1953.

Published in The Filson Club Historical Quarterly, Jan. 1954.

 

Callahan, J.E.

“My Recollections of Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

 

Carrington, Wirt Johnson

“General Evan Shelby”

Read before the Filson Club, April 6, 1895.

 

Cawein, Madison

“How They Brought Aid to Bryan’s Station”

Read before the Filson Club, October 4, 1897.

 

Cherry, T.C. (Thomas Crittenden)

“Robert Craddock and Peter Tardiveau”

Read before the Filson Club, February 2, 1925.

 

Clay, Cassius Marcellus

“Washington”

Read before the Filson Club, April 25, 1889.

“Money”

Read before the Filson Club, March 4, 1890.

The two papers are bound together as “Two Papers by Cassius Marcellus Clay.”

 

Cleveland, Henry Whitney

Untitled Memorial Speech on Judge William L. Jackson

Read before the Filson Club, ca. May 1890.

 

Coats, Ida Symmes

“The Bardstown Road”

Read before the Filson Club, October 4, 1915.

 

Collins, Val P.

“County Growth of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, February 6, 1922.

 

Conkwright, Bessie Taul

“Estill’s Defeat or, The Battle of Little Mountain”

Read before the Filson Club, December 3, 1923.

Published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Sept. 1924

 

Coomes, Dr. M.F.

“History of Benjamin Linn and His Work as a Kentucky Pioneer”

Read before the Filson Club, January 7, 1895.

 

Cotterill, Robert S.

“Lafayette in Kentucky One Hundred Years Ago”

Read before the Filson Club, March 2, 1925.

 

Cromwell, Emma Guy

Copies of documents originally accompanying Cromwell’s “Preserving the Old Records of the State”

Read before the Filson Club, January 4, 1925.

 

Crume, Dr. Lee G.

“Pioneers and Pioneer Places of Nelson County”

Read before the Filson Club, March 6, 1933.

 

de la Hunt, Thomas James

“Hancock County, Kentucky and Indiana Neighbours”

Read before the Filson Club, April 2, 1916.

 

Dickey, J.J. (John Jay)

“The Filson Club: A Poem”

Read before the Filson Club, October 7, 1929

 

 

Distelhorst, Walter

Untitled Paper on Colonel John Floyd

Read before the Filson Club, May 6, 1957

Published as “Colonel John Floyd, of Kentucky, A Story” in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 4, Oct. 1957.

 

Dobbs, Charles

“A Changing Viewpoint of Pioneer Development”

Read before the Filson Club, May 2, 1927.

 

Donohue, James J.

“Milton Hannibal Smith: His Life and Achievements”

Read before the Filson Club, April 4, 1949.

Publisher and date unknown.

 

Doyle, John A.

“Benedict Flaget First Bishop of Bardstown-Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, May 2, 1932.

Published in The Record (newspaper of the Louisville diocese), June 9, 16, 23, 1932.

 

Duke, Basil W.

“Personal Recollections of Shiloh”

Read before the Filson Club, April 6, 1914.

 

Duncan, Fannie Casseday

“How Our Grandfathers Lived”

Read before the Filson Club, January 5, 1903.

 

“George Rogers Clark: 1782”

Read before the Filson Club, November 19, 1918.

 

“An Appreciation of a Kentucky Physician, Surgeon, and Governor – Luke P. Blackburn”

Read before the Filson Club, May 1, 1922.

 

Untitled Paper on the Filson Club

Read before the Filson Club, December 7, 1925.

 

“Conquering American Boys: Joel Tanner Hart, The “Poet-Sculptor”

Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

 

Durrett, Reuben T.

“In Memoriam of General William Preston”

Read before the Filson Club, ca. 1887

 

“Early Banking in Kentucky”

Prepared for the Kentucky Bankers Association, October 4, 1892.

Read before the Filson Club, November 7, 1892.

 

Untitled Memoriam for Richard J. Menefee, John H. McHenry, James A. Chappell, and Dr. William H. Galt.

Read before the Filson Club, October 2, 1893.

 

“The Hon. Samuel E. DeHaven”

Read before the Filson Club, December 4, 1893.

 

“A Sketch of Richard Henderson Rivers, D.D.”

Read before the Filson Club, October 1, 1894.

 

“A Sketch of the Life and Writings of William Davis Gallagher”

Read before the Filson Club, October 1, 1894.

 

“In Memoriam- Gen. Charles Anderson”

Read before the Filson Club, October 7, 1895.

 

“Petition of the Filson Club to the Congress of the United States for the Old Custom House Property in Louisville, Ky. Deb. 22, 1896”

Included is accompanying letter by R.T. Durrett

 

“In Memoriam- George M. Davie”

Read before the Filson Club, March 5, 1900.

 

Speech on the Acceptance of a Portrait of George M. Davie by A.O. Revenaugh

Read before the Filson Club, January 7, 1901.

 

“William Chenault”

Read before the Filson Club on October 7, 1901.

 

“The First Christmas in Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, February 3, 1902.

Published in Southern Bivouac, ca. December 1884

Published in The Courier-Journal, December 25, 1884 (article in Pirtle file, 115)

 

Untitled Memoriam for John White, Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, Walter N. Haldeman, and Col. Richard C. Wintersmith

Read before the Filson Club, June 2, 1902

 

Durrett, Reuben T. (continued)

Letter from Peyton Short to Henry Clay

Extracts read by Durrett before the Filson Club, April 4, 1904.

 

“Impressments in 1786 and What Followed the Taking of a Cow”

Read before the Filson Club, June 5, 1905.

Published in Ohio History and Philosophical Society Quarterly, 1910.

 

“Henry Clay and George Rogers Clark in the National Statuary Hall”

Read before a joint committee of the Filson Club and the Kentucky State

Historical Society, January 17, 1906

 

“Reception Speech of Col. R.T. Durrett at the Dedicatory Ceremonies of the Boone Statue in Cherokee Park, June 15th 1906”

 

Edwards, C. Hayden

“An Abbreviated History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company”

Read before the Filson Club, December 1, 1991.

 

Ellwanger, Ella H.

“History of Estill County”

Read before the Filson Club, January 5, 1914.

 

Fisher, Thomas C.

“The Morgan Hughes Station and the Long Run Baptist Church”

Read before the Filson Club, November 1, 1937.

 

Fonda, Mary A.

“Kentucky Music”

Read before the Filson Club, March 5, 1894.

 

Eight Chapter History of Kentucky Music

 

Fowler, Ila Earle

“Tavern Times in Old Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, March 7, 1927.

Published in Louisville Herald Post, March 13, 17, 1927.

 

“The Tradewater River Country in Western Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, March 5, 1934.

 

Frank, Louis

“A Medical Student of the Eighties”

Read before the Filson Club, March 2, 1936.

 

Frazee, L.J.

“Early Railroading”

Read before the Filson Club, December 5, 1904.

 

Fuson, Henry Harvey

“The Cumberland Ford Settlement”

Read before the Filson Club, May 5, 1924.

 

Gilbert, R.B.

“Prehistoric Animals in Kentucky and the Ohio Valley or, Animals That Lived Before Men Began to Write History.”

Read before the Filson Club, December 3, 1917.

 

Greene, Buckner F.

A Report to the Filson Club by Its Delegate to the Eighth International Geographic Congress

Read before the Filson Club, October 3, 1904.

 

Greene, Nancy Lewis

“Mrs. Anna R. Des Cognets: A Sketch”

Read before the Filson Club, October 6, 1902.

 

Greenley, Thomas B.

“Reminiscences in the Lives and Characters of Some of the Old Physicians of Louisville, Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, ca. 1900.

 

“Some Reminiscences of Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, April 4, 1904.

 

Gregory, George H.

“The Bluegrass Region of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, February 4, 1924.

 

Hamilton, Samuel L.

“Remarks of Rev. Samuel L. Hamilton at the Broadus Memorial Service of the

Filson Club, April 1895”

 

Harrison, Ida Withers

“The Botanic Garden of Transylvania University”

Read before the Filson Club, April 6, 1903.

 

Harrison, Lowell

“The Road to Statehood”

Read before the Filson Club, June 1, 1992.

 

“A Century of Progress: The Filson Club, 1884-1984”

Read before the Filson Club, October 1, 1984.

Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4, Oct. 1984.

 

Henton, Sara Hansborough.

“Joel T. Hart”
Read before the Filson Club, October 2, 1893.

 

Heywood, John H.

“Daniel Boone and the Genesis of Kentucky”

Read before the Historical Genealogical Society of Boston, May 7, 1884.

Read before the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1884.

Read before the Melrose Roundabout Club, October 24, 1884.

Read before the Filson Club, March 3, 1890.

 

“Judge John Speed and His Family”

Read before the Filson Club, June 4, 1894.

Published by John P. Morton and Co. of Louisville, 1894.

 

Hill, Eugene D.

“History of the Louisville Cement Company and the Natural Cement Industry In and Around Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, December 3, 1945.

 

Hill, Samuel S.

“Outline Sketch of Georgetown College”

Read before the Filson Club, April 2, 1951.

Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2, April 1952.

 

Hoefelman, Walter M.

Untitled Paper on the Historical Records Survey Project

Read before the Filson Club, December 6, 1937.

 

Holifield, Marvin Bertie

“The Secession of Southern States Did Not Constitute a Rebellion or an Insurrection Against the United States Because They Legally Exercised Their Reserve Powers”

Read before the Filson Club, November 2, 1955.

 

Humphrey, W.C.

“Indian Land Titles in Our Commonwealth”

Read before the Filson Club, January 6, 1896.

 

Untitled Memoriam on George M. Davie

Read before the Filson Club, March 4, 1900.

Located with Reuben T. Durrett’s memoriam on Davie.

 

Hunter, Mrs. Robert

“Shelby County and Its History”

Read before the Filson Club, February 3, 1908.

 

“In Memorium [sic]- Mrs. Clarence L. Martin”

Read before the Filson Club, February 4, 1929.

 

Hurst, William L.

Untitled Paper on a Tree with Daniel Boone’s Name Carved on It

Read before the Filson Club, June 3, 1895.

 

Huston, George.

“Reminiscences of John U. Waring”

Read before the Filson Club, March 1903.

 

Isenberg, James L.

“Early Harrodsburg in the Westward Sweep”

Read before the Filson Club, December 2, 1929.

 

Jillson, Willard R.

“A History of the Coal Industry in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, November 7, 1921.

Published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 20, Jan. 1922.

 

“The Discovery of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, April 3, 1922.

Published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 20, No. 59, May 1922.

 

“The Texas Movement in Kentucky (1820-1836)”

Read before the Filson Club, May 4, 1925.

Published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 23, No. 68, May 1925.

 

Johnston, Josiah Stoddard

“The Exploration and Settlement of Dr. Thomas Walker in 1750”

Read before the Filson Club, November 6, 1893.

 

“Prof. George W. Ranck”

Read before the Filson Club, October 7, 1901.

 

“Captain Harry Gordon’s Journal”

Read before the Filson Club, March 3, 1902.

 

“Sketch of Reuben Thomas Durrett”

Read before the Filson Club, March 24, 1904.

 

“The Settlement of Harrodsburg”

Delivered at 134th Anniversary of the Founding of Harrodsburg, June 16, 1908.

 

Jones, Lewis K.

“Emma Bledsoe”

Read before the Filson Club, October 3, 1910.

 

Jouett, Edward S.

“Jack Jouett’s Ride”

Read before the Filson Club, November 7, 1949.

Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2, April 1950.

 

Keller, C. C., III and G. E. Thummel

“The Sea-Power Challenge”

Read before the Filson Club, May 4, 1970.

 

Kelly, Walter H.

“The Kentucky Rifle – Its Origin and Effect Upon American History”

Read before the Filson Club, January 1, 1923.

 

Kendrick, William C.

“Early Jewelers of Louisville and Some of Their Successors”

Read before the Filson Club, February 5, 1934.

 

Kilpatrick, Lewis H.

“The Journal of William Calk, Kentucky Pioneer”

Read before the Filson Club, March 1, 1920.

Published in The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, March 1921

 

Kincaid, Robert L.

“Joshua Fry Speed: Lincoln’s Confidential Agent in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, April 4, 1955.

 

Lafferty, Maude Ward

“The Lairs” with S. Eliza Lair

Prepared for Lair Association, August 1909

Read before the Filson Club, December 4, 1911

 

“Early Taverns and Travelers in Central Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, February 4, 1918.

 

“A Revolutionary Tragedy: The Destruction of Ruddle’s and Martin’s Forts”

Read before the Filson Club, January 6, 1930.

 

Levi, Lily Ernestine

“Traditions of Shippingport”

Read before the Filson Club, May 7, 1906.

 

“Monograph on the Town of Portland, Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, May 6, 1907.

 

“A Monograph of Jeffersontown, Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, April 5, 1909.

 

“Simon Kenton”

Read before the Filson Club, March 5, 1917.

 

“The Boyhood of Daniel Boone”

Read before the Filson Club, January 7, 1924

 

Lewis, Ada S.

“Dr. R. B. Gilbert”

Read before the Filson Club, June 6, 1921.

 

Little, Lucius P.

“Ann Marshall and Her Various Matrimonial Experiences”

Read before the Filson Club, December 6, 1915.

 

Loos, Charles Louis

Memoriam on George W. Ranck

Read before the Filson Club, October 7, 1901. – In Lyman B. Todd file

 

Lytle, Elizabeth

“Cleopatra to Antony”

Read before the Filson Club, November 1901.

Published in The Illustrated South, Vol. 4, No. 6, November 1901.

 

“Winding Yarn”

Read before the Filson Club, December 4, 1901.

McBryer, James

“The Odd Number Seven – References to the Bible”

Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

 

McDowell, William P.

“Reminiscence of the Battle of Perryville, Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, May 2, 1898.

 

McMeekin, Isabel McLennan

“The Bronze Hunter, Kentucky Speaks to Boone”

Read before the Filson Club by Mrs. Shackelford Miller, November 2, 1934.

Published in book form, unknown publisher.

 

Macpherson, Ernest

“Gettysburg and Its Effect Upon the Fortunes of the Confederacy”

Published by The Louisville Times, November 15, 1913.

Included upon Mr. Macpherson’s request; never presented to the Filson Club.

 

Martin, Boyd

“Dramatic Art in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, April 1, 1946.

 

Martin, Eliza Gathright

“Will Wallace Harney, The Man, The Writer”

Read before the Filson Club, January 6, 1919.

 

Mather, Otis M.

“Explorers and Early Settlers South of Muldraugh Hill”

Read before the Filson Club, February 5, 1923.

 

“Christopher Miller – Indian Captive and Scout of General Anthony Wayne”

Read before the Filson Club, December 4, 1933.

 

“Thomas Lincoln and His Neighbors, 1808-1811”

Read before the Filson Club, 1934.

 

Mercer, S. C.

“The Two Kentuckians” – Poem

Read before the Filson Club by Mrs. Irwin Dugan, June 1901

Published by Press of S.T. Copeland, Louisville, 1901

 

“Echo River and Civil War Echoes” – Poem

Read before the Filson Club, October 5, 1903.

 

“Reconciliation” – Poem
Uncertain if read before the Filson Club

Merriman, Lillian Monroe

“Life of George Rogers Clark, 1775-1777”

Read before the Filson Club November 19, 1918

 

“History of Hartford and Ohio County”

Read before the Filson Club, April 5, 1920

 

“The Fontaine Family of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club June 5, 1922

 

Miller, Elvira Sydnor

“Henry T. Stanton”

Read before the Filson Club, June 5, 1898.

 

“Miss Marie M. Thixton”

Read before the Filson Club, November 1901.

 

Miller, James C.

“Pleutonic Formation in Kentucky”
Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

 

Moseley, M.H.

“Timeless Talisman – Steel”

Read before the Filson Club, 1973.

Published in The (Eddyville, Ky.) Herald-Ledger, July 18, 1973.

 

Mueller, Ignatius

“The Characteristics of True American Citizenship or, The American National Character”

Read before the Filson Club, March 1, 1915.

 

Nachod, C.P.

Incomplete notes that accompanied a slide show.

Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

 

Needham, Charles K.

“The Life and Achievements of Albert Fink”

Read before the Filson Club, October 4, 1920.

Includes accompanying 1912 photograph of Bridge No. 112, Wheeling Division Crossing the Monongahela River at Fairmont, West Virginia.

 

“A Review of the Efforts That Have Been Made to Develop Water Power at the Falls of the Ohio” – Including drawings

Read before the Filson Club, December 5, 1921.

 

“The du Pont Paper Mill and Artesian Well”

Read before the Filson Club, March 3, 1924.

 

“Some Historical Notes Relating to the Courthouse of Jefferson Co., Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, January 3, 1927.

Published in The Civic Opinion, September 24, 1927.

 

Newcomb, Mary.

Untitled paper on folk music.

Read before the Filson Club, January 4, 1932.

 

Oldacre, Clara L.

“A National Park in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club by Clara Lee Oldacre, December 5, 1927.

 

Parsons, T.W.

“An Old-Time Kentucky Riot”

Read before the Filson Club, January 1, 1894.

 

“A Hanging and Riot at Booneville, Ky in 1847”

Read before the Filson Club, ca. 1894.

 

“History of Breathitt County, Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, December 2, 1895.

 

Perrin, William Henry

“In Memoriam – Richard Henry Collins, L.L.D.”

Read before the Filson Club, February 6, 1888.

 

Peter, Robert

“Extracts from the History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University”

Read before the Filson Club by R.T. Durrett, November 7, 1904.

 

Pettit, Katherine

“Education in the Kentucky Mountains” with May Stone

Read before the Filson Club, February 4, 1907

 

Pettus, Joseph

“Recollections of the Battle of Perryville”

Read before the Filson Club, May 1898.

 

“Bland W. Ballard: A Paper”

Read before the Filson Club, January 3, 1916.

 

Pirtle, Alfred

“Report of Repairs on President Taylor’s Graveyard”

Read before the Filson Club, December 5, 1898.

 

“Report on the Condition of the Zachary Taylor Monument and Burial Ground”

Read before the Filson Club, December 5, 1898.

 

“Zachary Taylor: A Brief Sketch”

Read before the Filson Club, 1899.

 

“Battle of Tippecanoe”

Read before the Filson Club, November 1, 1897.

Published as Filson Publications, Nov. 15, 1900.

Pirtle, Alfred (continued)

“Report of Committee on First Fort in Louisville”
Read before the Filson Club, January 7, 1901 and February 3, 1902.

Photograph of map of Louisville drawn by George Rogers Clark in 1779.

 

“Sleet of February 1902”

Read before the Filson Club, February 7, 1902.

 

“The Political Campaign of 1844”

Read before the Filson Club, October 5, 1904.

 

“Where Louisville Started”

Read before the Filson Club, April 16, 1910.

 

“The Chenoweth Family”

Read before the Filson Club, June 6, 1910.

 

“A Sketch of John Filson and a Look at John Filson’s Map”

Read before the Filson Club, March 4, 1912.

 

“Louisville, Up to 1830”

Read before the Staff of the Louisville Free Public Library, April 29, 1913.

 

“Joseph Rogers Burial Ground”

Read before the Filson Club, September 21, 1916.

 

“Reminiscences of Louisville in the 1840s”

Read before the Filson Club, March 1, 1917.

 

“Pilgrimage to the Sites of Floyd’s Station, Dutch Station, Linn’s Station and Spring Station On the Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek, Jefferson County, Kentucky”

Prepared by Alfred Pirtle and Otto Rothert for the Pilgrimage, April 24, 1921.

 

“Recollections of Jacob’s Woods and the Sham Funeral of Andrew Jackson in Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, February 6, 1922.

 

“A Visit to Winchester, Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, April 12, 1922.

 

“My First Trip Up the Kentucky River – 1844”

Read before the Filson Club, date unknown.

 

“Reminiscence of June 1945: Jacob’s Woods, Louisville; Sham Funeral of Andrew Jackson; Combat between the Kearsarge and the Alabama, June 19, 1864.”

Read before the Filson Club, date unknown.

Pirtle, Alfred (continued)

“Combat between . . .” published in American Historical Review, October 1917, trans. from original French by Pirtle

 

Pirtle, John Rowan

“National Statuary Hall and Its Eligible from the State of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, January 1, 1906.

 

Price, Samuel W.

“Sketch of the Life of Joel T. Hart”

Read before the Filson Club, June 7, 1897.

 

“Old King Solomon”

Read before the Filson Club, May 6, 1901.

 

“Old Masters of the Bluegrass”

Read in Part before the Filson Club, unknown date.

Published as Filson Club Publication, No. 17, 1902.

 

Purcell, Martha

“A Sister of the Sage of Monticello Sleeps in Kentucky’s Soil”
Read before the Filson Club, May 7, 1923.

 

Ranck, George W.

“The Travelling Church”

Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

Published privately, 1910.

 

Reade, Philip

“Wayne’s Campaign, 1793-94.”

Read before the Filson Club, February 5, 1917.

 

Richardson, John B.

“Who Killed Tecumseh?”

Read before the Filson Club, April 1, 1901.

 

Roland, Alice Kate

“A Kentuckian’s Greeting to the ‘Home-Comers’”

Written June 10, 1906.  Not read before the Filson Club.

 

 

Rothert, Otto A.

“The Story of the Stack: A History of the Muhlenberg County Landmark, at One Time the Home of Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner.”

Read before the Filson Club, March 1, 1909.

 

“A Review of ‘Lonz Powers of the Regulators” A Romance of Western Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club by Otto A. Rothert, June 5, 1911.

 

“The Old Militia Muster”

Read before the Filson Club, February 5, 1912.

 

 

“The Harpes: Two Outlaws of Pioneer Times”
Read before the Filson Club, October 6, 1924.

Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, July 1927.

 

“Origins of the Names: Beargrass Creek, The Point and Thruston Square”

Read before the Filson Club, October 3, 1927.

Published in The History Quarterly, October 1927.

 

Rouse, Alice Riddle

“Col. Dick Johnson’s Choctaw Academy”

Read before the Filson Club, June 7, 1915.

Published by Ohio Archaeological & Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXV, No. 1, Jan. 1916.

 

Sanders, Myra

“The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, October 5, 1914.

 

“George Rogers Clark, 1752-1774”

Read before the Filson Club, November 19, 1918.

 

“The Salt Wells of Bullitt Co., Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, April 4, 1921.

 

Sanders, Robert Stuart

“The Reverend John Dabney Shane and His Collection Owned by the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”

Read before the Filson Club, January 7, 1946.

 

Sanders, Verney.

“Remarkable Career of George N. Sanders – Politician, President Maker and Kentuckian”

Read before the Filson Club, April 5, 1897.

 

Schachner, August

“Dr. Ephraim McDowell: A Neglected Benefactor of the Human Race”

Read before the Filson Club, May 1, 1922.

 

Schoening, Augusta.

“The Academy Movement in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, June 4, 1928.

 

Scott, Elizabeth Slaughter.

“The Lexington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Their Commemoration Proceedings, August 18, 1896”

Read before the Filson Club, 1896.

 

Sewell, Mrs. Nat B.

“Education in the Kentucky Mountains”
Read before the Filson Club, December 1, 1919.

 

Seymour, Charles B.

“A History of the Jefferson County Court House”

Read before the Filson Club, January 3, 1921.

 

“Reminiscences of Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, October 1, 1917.

 

Smith, D. T.

“Reminiscences of the Civil War in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, February 2, 1903.

 

Smith, John F.

“Anglo-American Folklore in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, February 7, 1921.

 

“Kentucky Folks at the Heads of Hollows”

Read before the Filson Club, March 6, 1922.

 

“The Pride of the Mountains”

Read before the Filson Club, April 2, 1923.

 

“Quaint Customs of the Mountains Explained”

Read before the Filson Club, April 7, 1924.

 

“The Salt Making Industry of Clay County, Ky.”

Read before the Filson Club, April 4, 1927.

 

Smith, Zachary

“The Mother of Henry Clay”

Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

Published as a portion of The Clay Family, Filson Club Publications No. 14, 1899.

 

“Statement of Gen. Richard M. Gano of Dallas, Texas”

Read before the Filson Club, June 5, 1899.

 

“Life and Labors of Rev. John Gano, the Noted Pioneer Preacher, Founder of the First Baptist Churches in New York City, Yadkin Valley, N.C., Frankfort, Ky., and many other places; a Distinguished Chaplain in the Army of the Revolution; The Devoted Evangelist of the Thirteen American Colonies, in the 18th Century”

Read before the Filson Club, June 5, 1899.

 

“Dueling and Some Noted Duels by Kentuckians”

Read before the Filson Club, May 20, 1910.

 

“Henry Clay”

Read before the Filson Club, April 1911.

 

“The Hudson and Clay Families”

Read before the Filson Club, unknown date.

 

Speed, Thomas

“The Exploration of Kentucky by the White Man”

Read before the Filson Club, January 6, 1893.

 

Speech on the Acceptance of a Portrait of George M. Davie by A.O. Ravenaugh

Read before the Filson Club, January 7, 1901.

Located with Reuben T. Durrett’s memoriam on Davie.

 

Stephenson, Martha

“Old Time Lotteries in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, November 5, 1917.

 

“George Rogers Clark”

Read before the Filson Club, November 19, 1918.

 

“George Rogers Clark Before His Arrival at Corn Island”

Read before the Filson Club, June 2, 1923.

 

Stephenson, Wendell

Outline for “Twentieth Century Progress in the Writing of Southern History”
Read before the Filson Club, June 3, 1946.

 

Stone, May

“Education in the Kentucky Mountains” with Catherine Pettitt.

Read before the Filson Club, February 4, 1907.

 

Strother, John C.

“Some Causes Which Led to the War with Mexico in 1846, and Some Glimpses at the Present and Future of Mexico”

Read before the Filson Club, February 1, 1915.

 

“George Rogers Clark from 1783 to 1799”

Read before the Filson Club, November 19, 1918.

 

“A Historical Sketch of Trimble County”

Read before the Filson Club, February 2, 1920.

 

Summers, William T.

“Reminiscences of 1858-1878 in Louisville”

Read before the Filson Club, April 2, 1917.

 

Tapp, Hambleton

“Otto Arthur Rothert, 1871-1956, Secretary of the Filson Club, 1917-1945”

Read before the Filson Club, November 1984.

 

Tevis, R.C.

“Daniel Mayes Bowmar: A Memorial.”

Read before the Filson Club, ca. January 1890.

 

Thixton, Marie M.

“Louisville Song Writers”

Read before the Filson Club, December 3, 1900.

 

Thomas, D. L.

“Bad-Luck Superstitions in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, November 6, 1916.

 

Thompson, Lawrence Sidney

“The Historical Novel in Kentucky: From the Long Hunters to Appomattox”

Read before the Filson Club, April 3, 1950.

Published in the Kentucky Novel, University of Kentucky Press, 1953.

 

Thompson, Stith

“Pioneer Roads to Kentucky, 1750-1787”

Read before the Filson Club by Alfred Pirtle (October 2, 1911) and J.C. Strother (November 6, 1911)

 

Threlkel, Marguerite

“Mann’s Lick: A Salt Station in Jefferson County Before 1780”

Read before the Filson Club, June 6, 1927.

Published in The History Quarterly, Vol. 1, 1927.

 

Thruston, R. C. Ballard

“The Durrett Library and Relics”

Read before the Filson Club, March 2, 1914.

 

Thummel, G. E. and C. C. Keller, III

“The Sea-Power Challenge”

Read before the Filson Club, May 4, 1970.

 

Titpon, French

“Church Discipline”

Read before the Filson, May 1, 1893

 

“Squire Boone”

Read before the Filson Club, June 3, 1895.

Transcript by R.R. Van Stockum, Sr.

 

Todd, C.C.

“Judge Harry Innes”

Read before the Filson Club, April 2, 1906.

 

Todd, George D.

“A Sketch of Judge Harry Innes”

Read before the Filson Club, May 1894.

 

“The Capture of Ruddle’s and Martin’s Stations in Kentucky by the British and Indians”

Read before the Filson Club, February 1, 1897.

 

“The First Cotton Factory in the West”

Read before the Filson Club, March 7, 1898.

 

“How the Pioneers of the West Obtained Their Supplies Prior to 1800 and What They Paid for Them”

Read before the Filson Club, 1901.

 

“How the Pioneers of the West Marketed Their Products and the Difficulties They Had to Contend With”

Read before the Filson Club, May 1903.

 

“Peter Callaway”

Read before the Filson Club, September 1912?

 

Todd, Lyman B.

“Prof. George W. Ranck”

Read before the Filson Club, October 7, 1901.

 

Townsend, John Wilson.

Kentucky: Mother of Governors”

Read before the Filson Club, October 4, 1909.

 

Trout, Allen M.

“My People Stand and Take It”

Read before the Filson Club, October 4, 1948.

 

Tucker, Mattie B.

“Negro Superstitions” – Short Story

Read before the Filson Club, January 5, 1903

 

“Development of Education in Kentucky”

Possibly read before the Filson Club, ca. 1929.

 

Van Stockum, R. R.

“An International Romance: Marquis Antoine de Charette de lat Contrie and Susanne Meriwether Henning of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, October 5, 1987.

 

Walter, Lewis A.

“Thet Jim Crow Kyar: A Tale of Kentucky Law” – Short Story

Read before the Filson Club, May 1893.

 

“How Massa Wood Entered Dem G.A.R.’s: A Story of the G.A.R.’s Encampment in Louisville, 1895” – Short Story

Read before the Filson Club, December 1895.

 

“How Miss Penn Danced the Yankees Down: A True Story of How, Near the Close of the Civil War, a Southern Girl Danced Down Three Northern Soldiers at Graham Springs” – Short Story

Read before the Filson Club, 1902.

 

Watterson, Henry.

“David Wendell Yandell (In Memoriam)”

Read before the Filson Club, June 5, 1898.

 

Wickliffe, John D.

“Early Fortifications in Nelson County”

Read before the Filson Club, ca.1927-28.

Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 3, April 1928.

 

Wilgus, D. K.

“The Legend of Macpherson’s Farewell in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, June 3, 1957.

 

Wilson, Fannie S.

“Some Shrines and Historic Spots in Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, May 7, 1928.

 

Wood, William F.

“Mignonette” – Poem

Read before the Filson Club, December 4, 1901.

 

“The Gathering of the Waters” – Poem

Possibly read before the Filson Club, ca. May 1897

 

Woodson, Isaac T.

“Gen. Alpheus Baker”

Read before the Filson Club, February 6, 1899.

 

“In Memoriam- Geo. M. Davie”

Read before the Filson Club, March 5, 1900.

Additional copy located with Reuben T. Durrett’s memoriam on Davie.

 

Young, Bennett H.

“The Discovery of Kentucky”

Read before the Filson Club, January 6, 1896.

 

“Memorial of John D. Taggart”

Read before the Filson Club, June 5, 1898.

 

“A Confidential Forward”

Published as the forward to Prehistoric Men of Kentucky by Bennett H. Young, Filson Publications, No. 25

 

 

Subject Headings

Anderson, Charles, 1814-1895

Anderson family

Appalachian Region – Social life and customs

Artesian wells – Kentucky – Louisville

Artists – Kentucky

Baker, Alpheus, 1821-1891

Ballard, Bland W., 1761-1853

Bank of Kentucky

Banks and banking – Kentucky

Bell, Theodore S. (Theodore Stout), 1807-1884

Berea College

Bethel Academy (Jessamine County, Ky.)

Blackburn, Luke Pryor, 1816-1887

Bledsoe, Emma

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 – Statues – Kentucky – Louisville

Boone, Squire, 1744-1815

Booneville (Ky.) – History – 19th century

Bowmar, Daniel Mayes, 1843-1890

Breathitt County (Ky.) – History

Broadus, John Albert, 1827-1895

Brown, Richard Jones, 1819-1892

Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830

Bryant’s Station (Ky.) – History

Bryant’s Station (Ky.) – Poetry

Buckner family

Buckner, James Francis, 1813-1889

Bullitt County (Ky.) – History

Bullitt, Thomas James, 1763-1840

Business enterprises – Kentucky – Louisville

Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853

Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914

Centre College (Danville, Ky.)

Chappell, James A., 1823-1893

Charette de la Contrie, Antoine, marquis de

Chenault, William, 1835-1901

Chenoweth family

Christmas – Kentucky – Louisville

Church buildings – Kentucky – Louisville

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 – Poetry

Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865

Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903

Clay family

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Collins, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1824-1888

Constitutional law – United States

Corn Island (Ky.) – History – 18th Century

Cotton textile industry – Kentucky – Danville

Counties – Kentucky

Courthouses – Kentucky – Jefferson County

Craddock, Robert

Cumberland College (Princeton, Ky.)

Danville Political Club (Danville, Ky.)

Daughters of the American Revolution. Lexington Chapter (Lexington, Ky.)

Davie, George M., 1848-1900

Daviess, Joseph Hamilton, 1774-1811

DeHaven, Samuel E., 1825?-1893

Des Cognets, Anna Russell, d. 1902.

Dueling – Kentucky

Dickey, John Jay, 1842-1934

Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913

Durrett, Reuben T. (Reuben Thomas), 1824-1913 – Library

Education – Kentucky

Estill County (Ky.) – History

Estill’s Defeat, 1782

Estill, Monk

Filson Club – Poetry

Filson, John, ca. 1747-1788

Fink, Albert, 1827-1897

Floods – Kentucky – Louisville

Folklore – Kentucky

Folk music – United States

Frontier and pioneer life – Kentucky

Gallagher, William D. (William Davis), 1808-1894

Galt, William H., 1827-1893

Gano, John, 1727-1804

Geology, Structural – Kentucky

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863

Gilbert, R. B.

Gilkey, John

Gordon, Harry

Governors – United States

Grave robbing

Haldeman, Walter N., 1821-1902

Hancock County (Ky.) – History

Hardin County (Ky.) – History

Harney, Will Wallace, 1832-1912

Harrodsburg (Ky.) – History

Hart, Joel T. (Joel Tanner), 1810-1877

Hindman Settlement School – History

Historical Records Survey (U.S.)

Henning, Susanne Meriwether, b. 1888

Historic sites – Kentucky

Hudson family

Humphrey, Edward P. (Edward Porter), 1809-1887

Indians of North America – Wars

Innes, Harry, 1752-1816

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 – Death and burial

Jackson, William L., 1825-1890

Jarvis, John Wesley, 1780-1840

Jefferson family

Jeffersontown (Ky.) – History

Jewelers – Kentucky – Louisville – History

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

Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836

Kentucky – Anecdotes

Kentucky – Commerce – History – 18th century

Kentucky – Description and travel

Kentucky – Discovery and exploration

Kentucky – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

Kentucky – History – Fiction

Kentucky – History – Poetry

Kentucky – Maps – Early works to 1800

Kentucky. Militia

Kentucky bluegrass

Kentucky rifle

Kentucky River (Ky.) – Description and travel

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

Lair family

Land grants – Kentucky

Langdon, Josiah

Larue County (KY.) – History

Lewis family

Lewis, Lucy Jefferson, 1752-1811 – Family

Lincoln, Abraham, 1744-1786

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851

Long Run Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.)

Lotteries – Kentucky

Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

Louisville Cement Company

Louisville (Ky.) – Climate

Louisville (Ky.) – History – 18th century

Louisville (Ky.) – History – 19th century

Louisville Turnpike (Ky.)

Lynn, Benjamin, 1750-1814

Lytle, Elizabeth

McDowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830

McHenry, John H., 1832-1893

McMeekin, Isabel McLennan, 1895-1973

Marshall, Nancy, ca. 1781-1860

Martin, Eliza Gathright, 1847-1929

Martin’s Fort (Bourbon County, Ky.)

Mastodon – Ohio River Valley

Medicine – Kentucky

Menefee, Richard J., 1837-1893

Mercer, S. C. (Samuel C.)

Mexican War, 1846-1848

Mexican War, 1846-1848 – Causes

Miller, Christopher, b. ca. 1768

Mines and mineral resources – Kentucky

Morton, David, 1833-1898

Morton family

Muhlenberg County (Ky.) – History

Musicians – Kentucky

National characteristics, American

National Statuary Hall (United States Capitol, Washington, D. C.)

Nelson County (Ky.) – History

Numbers in the Bible

Ohio River – Power utilization

Oneida Baptist Institute

Ovariotomy

Paper industry – Kentucky – Louisville

Perry County (Ind.) – History

Perryville, Battle of, Perryville, Ky., 1862 – Personal narratives

Physicians – Kentucky – Biography

Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.)

Pineville (Ky.) – History

Pirtle, Alfred, b. 1837

Poetry, Modern – 20th century

Pollard, Joseph, Jr.

Porter, James D., 1810-1859

Portland cement industry

Portland (Louisville, Ky.) – History

Presidents – United States – Election – 1844

Preston, William, 1816-1887

Price, Samuel Woodson, 1828-1918

Pusey, Henry K., b. 1827

Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

Railroads – History – 19th century

Ranck, George Washington, 1841-1900

Richardson, T. G. (Tobias Gibson), 1827-1892

Ridgely, Frederick, 1757-1824

Riots – Kentucky

Ritchie, John, 1752-1814

Rivers, R. H. (Richard Henderson), 1814-1894

Roads – Kentucky – History

Rogers, Joseph M, 1742-1834 – Tomb

Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956

Rowley, William – Will

Ruddle’s Fort (Bourbon County, Ky.)

Russell family

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

Salt industry and trade – Kentucky

Sanders, George Nicholas, 1812-1873

Shane, John Dabney, 1812-1864 – Library

Shelby County (Ky.) – History

Shelby, Evan, 1719-1794

Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 – Personal narratives

Shippingport (Ky.) – History

Slaves – Biography

Solomon, William King, 1775-1854

Speed family

Speed, John, 1772-1840 – Family

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

Stanton, Henry T. (Henry Thompson), 1834-1898

Steamboats – Kentucky

Sue Bennett College

Superstition – Kentucky

Taggart, John D., 1822-1898

Tarascon, John D., 1765-1825

Tarascon, Louis Anastasius, b. 1759

Tardiveau, Pierre, d. ca. 1835

Tates Creek Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.)

Taylor family

Taylor, Richard, 1749-1825

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 – Tomb

Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813 – Death and burial

Theater – Kentucky

Thixton, Marie M.

Todd, Lyman Beecher, 1831-1902

Tradewater River Region (Ky.) – History

Transylvania University

Trimble Co. (Ky.) – History

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Medical care

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Underground movements

United States. Navy

Vendetta – Southern States

Wabash Campaign, 1786

Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794

Walter, Lewis Allwhyn, 1868-1951

Waring, John U., 1790-1846?

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Wayne’s Campaign, 1794

Weir, James, b. 1821

Whiskey – Kentucky

White, John, 1822-1902

White, Levi, b. 1803 – Correspondence

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825

Wintersmith, Richard C., 1822-1902

Wood, William F.

Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898

Galloway Family Papers, 1893-1928

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Galloway family

Title: Papers. 1893 – 1928

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

Size of Collection: 1 cubic foot

Locator Number: Mss./A/G174

Scope and Content Note

Majority of the collection consists of correspondence between Carl B. Galloway and his fiancé and future wife, Marguerite (Maggie) Edwards, beginning with their early courtship in Iowa in 1893 up to their marriage in 1898 and continuing with a few letters in 1928. In addition to revealing the developing affection between them, the letters offer many details concerning their backgrounds, personal opinions on local and national issues, family life and work experiences (teaching, operating creameries and a livery stable, and ore mining). Additional letters written by Carl’s parents living in Kentucky provide much insight regarding the role of religion (Presbyterianism) in daily life and parenting. An interesting series of letters written between 1912 and 1914 reveal an intense family dispute between Carl’s mother, Sallie Galloway, and Carl’s sister-in-law, Nina Galloway, and their attempts to obtain support from other family members.

Biographical Note

Carl B. Galloway, the eldest son of Oliver and Sallie Galloway, was born April 21, 1874, in Perryville, Boyle Co., Ky. His younger brother, Dwight, was born in December, 1884. Carl’s father was a Presbyterian minister and served a series of churches in Kentucky, Illinois and Iowa. Carl remained in Iowa after his parents moved back to Kentucky in 1895. There he held a series of jobs in creameries and became a co-owner of a livery stable in Brooklyn, Iowa. In 1897, Carl moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, at the recommendation of an uncle and worked in a mining operation for a number of years. After a 5-year courtship, Carl married Marguerite (Maggie) Edwards, a school teacher from Adair, Iowa, in 1898. After living in Breckenridge for some time, they had moved back to Iowa by 1910, where he entered the insurance business. He and Maggie had no children.

List of Folders

Folder 1: Correspondence; August, 1893 – July, 1894

Folder 2: Correspondence; August, 1894 – June, 1895

Folder 3: Correspondence; July – September, 1895

Folder 4: Correspondence; October – November, 1895

Folder 5: Correspondence; December, 1895

Folder 6: Correspondence; January – March, 1896

Folder 7: Correspondence; April – May, 1896

Folder 8: Correspondence; June – July, 1896

Folder 9: Correspondence; August, 1896

Folder 10: Correspondence; September, 1896

Folder 11: Correspondence; October, 1896

Folder 12: Correspondence; November – December, 1896

Folder 13: Correspondence; January, 1897

Folder 14: Correspondence; February – April, 1897

Folder 15: Correspondence; May, 1897

Folder 16: Correspondence; June, 1897

Folder 17: Correspondence; July, 1897

Folder 18: Correspondence; August – September, 1897

Folder 19: Correspondence; January – May, 1898

Folder 20: Correspondence; June – November, 1898

Folder 21: Correspondence; April – May, 1899

Folder 22: Correspondence; June – December, 1899

Folder 23: Correspondence; 1900 – 1928

Folder 24: Correspondence; undated, miscellaneous

Subject Headings

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

Clothing and dress – United States – 19th century

Courtship – Iowa – 19th century

Creameries – Employees

Colorado – Description and travel – 19th century

Domestic relations – 19th century

Galloway family

Indoor games – Iowa – 19th century

Iowa – Social life and customs – 19th century

Kentucky – Social life and customs – 19th century

Letterheads – United States – 19th century

Love-letters – 19th century

Mines and mineral resources – Colorado

Parenting – Religious aspects – 19th century

Presbyterian Church – Clergy

Presidents – United States – Election – 1896

Racism – Kentucky – 19th century

Railroad accidents – United States

Spanish-American War, 1898

Stables – Employees

Teaching – Iowa – 19th century

English, Logan Berry (1884-1940) Papers, 1917-1940

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Logan Berry English, 1884-1940

Title: Papers, 1917-1940

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 E58

Scope and Content Note

English collection consists of personal correspondence from World War One, various post-war military papers, newspapers from November, 1918, and a folder of miscellaneous, non-military items. Lieutenant English, of Hardin and later Henderson County, Kentucky, was a chaplain in the 336 th regiment of the American Expeditionary Force and was stationed at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and various parts of France during World War One. He also served in local and state music clubs and the Kentucky Infantry Reserve until 1928. Folder 8 contains oversized newspapers.

Biographical Note

Logan Berry English was born in 1884 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Lieutenant English was a chaplain in the 336th regiment (part of the 84 th Lincoln, or Railsplitters Division), American Expeditionary Force, and was stationed at Camp Sherman, near Chillicothe, Ohio, and various parts of France during World War One. The 336 th never saw action and was inactivated in January, 1919. He was also involved in local and state music clubs in the 1920s and served in the Kentucky Infantry Reserve until 1928. English moved to Henderson County, Kentucky, after the war and died in 1940.

Folder List

Folder 1: Personal Correspondence

Folder 2: Personal Correspondence

Folder 3: Personal Correspondence

Folder 4: Military Correspondence

Folder 5: Military Correspondence

Folder 6: Miscellaneous Military

Folder 7: Miscellaneous

Folder 8 (oversized): Newspapers

Subject Headings

English, Logan Berry, 1884-1962

Music – 20 th century

United States. Army – Military Life

World War, 1914-1918

Fleming-Edmonds Family Papers, 1762-1938

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Fleming-Edmonds Family

Title: Papers, 1762-1938 (bulk 1762-1811)

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/F597

Scope and Content Note

The Fleming-Edmonds Family Papers include extensive correspondence from eighteenth century Kentucky and Virginia. Most of the letters are either to or from Col. William Fleming, a Virginian who was an early visitor to Kentucky and a member of the state’s land court. Many of the letters discuss land acquisition but others describe Indian raids, life on the frontier, and journeys to Kentucky. Some also discuss the Revolutionary War. Three of Judge William B. Fleming’s diaries are also part of the collection. Fleming kept them while traveling Europe first in 1868 and then again in 1891. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration, Fleming served in the Department of State and the collection contains correspondence between Fleming and Wilson, including three letters from the President. Later material is mostly genealogical in nature including correspondence related to genealogy as well as family trees and printed material. The collection also includes photostats of a small series of letters from members of the Armstrong family, particularly J. N. Armstrong and William McNeil Armstrong.

Photographs of the Fleming family were transferred to the Filson’s photo collection. Some of the printed material in the collection was transferred to the Filson Library.

Another collection of William Fleming’s papers is held by the Special Collections department at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Biographical Note

The Fleming-Edmonds Family is descended from Col. William Fleming (1729-1795), who settled in Virginia ca. 1755 after emigrating from Scotland. A land speculator and soldier, Fleming served in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore’s War and the Revolutionary War. Col. Fleming’s papers include extensive correspondence from his parents, Leonard (ca. 1700-1775) and Margaret, who remained in Scotland, and Leonard Israel Fleming (1764-1845), who settled in Kentucky around the turn of the nineteenth century. Judge William B. Fleming (1843-1918), a grandson of Col. Fleming, was a judge and diplomat. His daughter, Mary Fleming (1880-1974), married Henry M. Edmonds (1878-1959) and moved to Alabama. This collection of papers comes from her descendants.

See genealogical materials in the collection for more information.

Folder List

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1762-1764

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1765-1767

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1768-1776

Folder 4: Correspondence, 1778-1780

Folder 5: Correspondence, 1783-1785

Folder 6: Correspondence, 1786-1792

Folder 7: Correspondence, 1793-1798

Folder 8: Correspondence, 1801-1811

Folder 9: Correspondence, undated

Folder 10: Correspondence, 1867-1927

Folder 11: Correspondence, 1928-1929

Folder 12: Correspondence, 1931-1938

Folder 13: Correspondence with Woodrow Wilson, 1917

Folder 14: Correspondence regarding the DAR

Folder 15: William B. Fleming Journal, 16 August – 13 September 1868

Folder 16: William B. Fleming Journal, ca. October 1868

Folder 17: William B. Fleming Journal, 1891

Folder 18: Genealogy

Folder 19: Genealogy – William Fleming

Folder 20: Genealogy – Miscellaneous

Folder 21: Photostats – Anderson family correspondence, 1832-1852

Folder 22: Photostats – Miscellaneous

Folder 23: Printed material

Folder 24: Scotland tour guides

Folder 25: Miscellaneous

Subject Headings

Centennial Exhibition (1876: Philadelphia, Pa.)

Dueling – Kentucky.y

Europe – Description and travely

Fleming-Edmonds family

Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765)

Indians of North America – Wars

Kentucky – Discovery and exploration

Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850

Louisville (Ky.) – Description and travel

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

Religion and culture – Kentucky

Slavery – United States

United States – History – French and Indian War, 1755-1763

United States – History – Revolution, 1775-1783

United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)

United States. Navy

Foote Family Added Papers, 1809-1956

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Foote family

Title: Added papers, 1809-1956.

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

Size of Collection: 1 cubic feet

Locator Number: Mss./A/F688c

Biographical Note

The Foote family has lived in Kentucky since the early 19 th century. They also had branches of the family in Virginia and the Deep South. These papers include some of this early history of the family. The majority of the papers are from the early 20 th century from Edwin C. Foote. Edwin Foote attended business school in Louisville and briefly worked in the city as a bank teller, before returning to the farm in Breckinridge County. His correspondents include friends still living in the county while he lived in Louisville and a female friend studying nursing in Washington, D.C.

The Foote family was also involved in local politics and there are several documents dealing with the Democratic Club of Breckinridge County. Subjects of these papers include the War with Mexico, the Tilden election and the Kentucky governor’s race of 1907.

Scope and Content Note

This collection of added papers includes letters and receipts from the early 19 th century through the middle of the 20 th century. The majority of the papers is from the first decade of the 20 th century and is from Edwin C. Foote as he attends business school in Louisville, his employment and correspondence from friends. There are many interesting political papers in the collection because the Foote family was involved in the local Democratic club for many years. These include copies of an 1848 proclamation of 11 resolutions dealing with the Mexican War and the Wilmot Proviso and an 1872 proclamation dealing with the Tilden election.

Folder List

Folder 1: Correspondence and receipts, 1809-1818

Folder 2: Correspondence and receipts, 1822-1829

Folder 3: Correspondence and receipts, 1830-1839

Folder 4: Correspondence and papers, 1840-1849

Folder 5: Correspondence and papers, 1850-1865

Folder 6: Correspondence and papers, 1871-1897

Folder 7: Undated and fragments from the 19 th century

Folder 8: Accounts for E J Wright & Co., 1901

Folder 9: Correspondence and papers, 1902-1904

Folder 10: Correspondence, January and February 1905

Folder 11: Correspondence, March and April 1905

Folder 12: Correspondence, May and June 1905

Folder 13: Correspondence, July and August 1905

Folder 14: Correspondence, September and October 1905

Folder 15: Correspondence, November and December 1905

Folder 16: Correspondence, January to March, 1906

Folder 17: Correspondence, April to June 1906

Folder 18: Correspondence, July to November 1906

Folder 19: Correspondence, 1907

Folder 20: Correspondence, 1908

Folder 21: Correspondence, 1909

Folder 22: Correspondence, 1911-1918

Folder 23: Correspondence, 1921-1928

Folder 24: Correspondence, 1930-1939

Folder 25: Correspondence, 1941-1948

Folder 26: Correspondence, 1951-1956

Folder 27: Undated correspondence and papers, 20 th century

Folder 28: Undated correspondence and papers, 20 th century

Folder 29: Canceled checks, 1919-1922

Folder 30: Papers from Bryant and Stratton Business College

Folder 31: Pocket Calendars and Notebooks

Subject Headings

Alexander, William, 1744-1814

Bryant & Stratton Business College

Confederate States of America. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 1st

Cotton trade – Texas

Creek War, 1813-1814

Floods – Kentucky

Foote family

Fort Mims (Ala.)

Kentucky State Fair – History

Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company

Mexican War, 1846-1848 – Public opinion

National Farmers’ Union (U.S.)

Nurses – In-service training

Patent medicines

Periodical cicada – Kentucky

Play – Kentucky

Poetry

Presidents – United States – Election – 1876

Slavery – United States

Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886

Tobacco package labels

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

Willson, Augustus Everett, 1846-1931

Wilmot proviso

Gill, George F. Diary, 1862-1863

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Gill, George F.

Title: Diary, 1862-1863

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

Size of Collection: 1 item

Locator Number: Mss./A/G475

Scope and Content Note

Sgt. Gill, 1 st Kentucky Infantry Regt. (Union), records events just prior to his capture during the Battle of Stones River, Murfreesboro, TN, during his imprisonment at Libby Prison, Richmond, VA, and following his release two weeks later. He describes how he was transported to Richmond, prison conditions and how prisoners bartered for food and clothing. Collection includes photocopies of his military pension records, unit history and diary transcriptions. This diary has been digitized. To view the PDF scan, click on the link provided in the folder list below.

Biographical Note

George F. Gill was born in New York in 1836. He later moved to Cincinnati where he married his first wife, Ellen Doyle, in 1859. They had one son. After Ellen’s death, he married Anna Coleman in 1864. They had 3 children. George enlisted in the 1st Kentucky Infantry Regt. (Union) and served from 1861-1864. In 1864, he re-enlisted in the 181st Ohio Infantry Regt. He died Feb. 17, 1903.

Folder List

Folder 1: Diary, 1862-1863 (click to access PDF)

Subject Headings

Gill, George F., 1836-1903

Libby Prison

Lice – United States

Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863

Tennessee – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

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

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Prisoners and prisons, Confederate

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

United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864)

Virginia – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

Gibson, Clara Papers, 1890, 1908-1919

Held byThe Filson Historical Society

Creator: Clara Gibson

Title: Papers, 1890, 1908-1919

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

Size of Collection: 0.66 cubic feet

Location Number: Mss./A/G448

Scope and Content Note

The Clara Gibson papers consist of records of interest retained by Clara Gibson. These records document the activities and social life of a young Louisville, Kentucky woman during high school and through World War I.

The Clara Gibson papers contain several items of incoming correspondence, primarily from soldiers serving in the United States Army during World War I. Gibson’s primary correspondents were Sergeant A. C. “Cliff” Carbery and Corporal Richard B. “Dick” Harris, but there are also letters from Edison Eubank, Bob Luell, Charles E. Walker, Homer O. Stuart, Jimmy Wray, Charles Carlson, William F. Ricketts, and various individuals identified only by first name. Several of these men pursued romantic relationships with Gibson before enlisting or while serving in the military. The correspondence includes letters from Camp Sherman, Ohio, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and France. Postcards, some color, showing New York, Washington D.C., France, and romantic scenes of soldiers and civilian women are included in the correspondence from Carbery and Harris.

Gibson attended Louisville Girls High School, and her papers include report cards, lists of textbooks, commencement invitations, Louisville Railway tickets, her class schedules, supplementary reading lists, theater programs (including sheet music to “Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines” for the play of the same name) for Macauley’s Theatre, and the High School Record for December 1918 and January 1919. A small number of items related to productions put on by the Louisville Boy’s School at Macauley’s Theatre are also included.

Through her correspondence with soldiers and her own activities Gibson collected one folder of military related papers. These include furlough slips, booklets of patriotic songs, advertisements for war bonds, rules regarding mail and Christmas packages for soldiers, reprints of speeches by prominent politicians regarding World War I, volunteer and community service badges, a program to the 334 th Regimental Minstrel Show, advice on gardening and saving coal, a blank furlough slip for Camp Zachary Taylor (with locations of Soldiers’ Club and Club for Colored Soldiers on the opposite side), eight colored magazine illustrations of “A Day in the Life of a Soldier” originally painted by Sidney H. Riesenberg (source unknown), and Gibson’s registration card for the Woman’s Committee-Council of National Defense.

Two printed booklets in the collection include a souvenir copy of the song “My Old Kentucky Home” by Stephen C. Foster and a copy of Sayings by Luke McLuke. This last is a collection of short, humorous jokes and anecdotes.

News clippings are chiefly composed of fashion columns and advice (particularly “My Style Diary,” a recurring column which Gibson pasted into a book), World War I, and local and high school theater.

Finally, a miscellaneous folder contains a 1918 French calendar with color illustrations of young women and fairies, fashion illustrations and advertisements (some color), a Butterick brand pattern for a kimono, an invitation to the 1918 Optimist’s Club Dinner addressed to Clara’s father, William C. Gibson, and a memorial to the 15 September 1889 death of five Louisville Fire Department fire fighters.

A small number of artifacts were separated to the Filson’s Museum.

Some photos were also separated to the Filson’s Photograph Collection.

Biographical Note

Clara Gibson was born circa 1900 to William C. Gibson and Lizzie M. (possibly Lilly May) Gibson. She resided at 349 N. 26 th Street, Louisville, Kentucky, and attended the Louisville Girls High School where she was active in theater. Gibson was a Red Cross volunteer during World War I, likely a nurse, at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. She corresponded with several soldiers in the United States Army, collected Macauley’s Theatre ephemera, and died of Spanish influenza in late February or early March of 1919. She was preceded in death by two sisters, names unknown. Her brother, Anderson Alter Gibson, survived to adulthood.

Folder List

Folder 1: Personal Correspondence from A. C. “Cliff” Carbery, 1918-1919

Folder 2: Personal Correspondence from Richard B. Harris, 1918-1919

Folder 3: Personal Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1918-1919

Folder 4: Louisville Girls High School Papers, 1915-1919

Folder 5: Military Papers, 1916-1918

Folder 6: Poetry and Humor Papers, 1890, 1916

Folder 7: Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1919

Folder 8: Miscellaneous, 1908-1919

Subject Headings

Advertising

Airplanes

Art calendars

Camp Sherman (Ohio)

Camp Zachary Taylor (Ky.)

Carbery, A. C.

Clothing and dress – Kentucky – Louisville

Commencement ceremonies – Kentucky – Louisville

Courtship – Kentucky

Dance parties

Education – Kentucky

Education, Secondary – Kentucky – Louisville

Fairies

Fashion – Kentucky – Louisville

Fort Sill (Ok.)

Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864

Harris, Richard B.

High school girls – Kentucky – Louisville

Humorous recitations

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 – Kentucky – Louisville

Kentucky – Social life and customs

Letterheads

Louisville Girls High School, 1856-1950

Love-letters – Kentucky – Louisville

Macauley’s Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)

Machine guns

Military education – Kentucky

Military education – Ohio

Military education – Oklahoma

Military training camps – Kentucky – Louisville

Military training camps – Ohio

Military training camps – Oklahoma

Patriotism – Kentucky – Louisville

Postcards

Prohibition

Race relations

Racism

Railroad accidents – France

Segregation – Kentucky – Louisville

Songs

Speeches, addresses, etc.

State songs – Kentucky

Theater – Kentucky – Louisville

Theater programs – Kentucky – Louisville

Transportation – Tickets – Kentucky – Louisville

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

United States. Army. Infantry Regiment 333rd.

United States. Army. Machine Gun Battalion, 327th. Company C

United States. Army – Barracks and quarters

United States. Army – Machine gun drill and tactics

United States. Army – Military life

Volunteers – Kentucky – Louisville

Weather

Wit and humor

Women – Education – Kentucky – Louisville

Women volunteers – Kentucky – Louisville

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 – War work – Kentucky – Louisville – Red Cross

World War, 1914-1918 – Social aspects – United States

World War, 1914-1918 – Songs and music

Field, Benjamin T. Memoir, 1862-1865

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Field, Benjamin T.

Title: Memoir, 1862-1865

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

Size of Collection: 1 volume

Locator Number: Mss. A F453

Scope and Content Note

Collection consists of a single volume of memoirs recorded by Sgt. Field, Company E, 10 th Kentucky Cavalry Regt., C.S.A. The entries were possibly copied from a diary approximately 45 years after the Civil War and are dated between his enlistment in August, 1862 and his return home after the war in July, 1865. Major topics include his imprisonment in two Union military prisons, Johnson Island and Camp Douglas, Ill., and his regiment’s exploits during Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s raid into Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio in July, 1863.

Biographical Note

Benjamin T. Field was born in March, 1842 in Daviess Co., Ky. In August, 1862, he enlisted in what became the 10 th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A. Barely 3 weeks later, he surrendered to Union forces during a skirmish near Uniontown, Ky. He was transported to Johnson Island prison in Ohio where he spent the next two months. Following his release through a prisoner exchange, he rejoined his regiment now stationed in Tennessee under the command of Gen. John Hunt Morgan. In July, 1863, his regiment participated in Morgan’s raid into Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. He was captured in West Virginia 3 weeks later and sent to Camp Douglas (Ill.) where he spent the next 18 months as a prisoner of war. After enduring considerable hardship, he was released through another prisoner exchange in February, 1865. He was prevented from joining his regiment now stationed in western Virginia and spent the final months of the war at a farm near Salem, Virginia. There he met his future wife, Mattie Hurt, with whom he corresponded over the next 4 years. They were married in December, 1869 and had 5 children.

List of Folders

Folder 1: Memoir, 1862 – 1865; one attached sheet

Subject Headings

Camp Douglas (Ill.)

Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865

Confederate States of America. Army – Discipline

Confederate States of America. Army – Military life

Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, 10th

Confederate States of America. Army. Morgan’s Cavalry Division

Courtship – Virginia

Field, Benjamin T., b. 1842

Indiana – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

Johnson Island Prison

Kentucky – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

Morgan’s Ohio Raid, 1863

Ohio – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

Tennessee – History – Civil War, 1861-1865

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Destruction and pillage

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Medical care

United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Prisoners and prisons

George Rogers Clark Memorial Foundation Records, 1948-1959

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: George Rogers Clark Memorial Foundation

Title: Records, 1948-1959

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./BI/G347a

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, and other materials related to the George Rogers Clark Memorial Foundation, its related organizations (George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement and George Rogers Clark Memorial Committee) and their activities. Much of the correspondence is from Hambleton Tapp, chair of the foundation; Richard H. “Harry” Hill, and Ernest Vogt, head of the Rotary Club committee.

Historical Note

The George Rogers Clark Memorial Foundation was formed when the George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement and the Rotary Club joined their efforts to commemorate Clark. The group built a shelter at George Rogers Clark Park, campaigned for the United States Postal Service to issue a Clark commemorative stamp, pushed for the bridge on Louisville’s Second Street to be named for Clark, and worked to get Clark elected to New York University’s American Hall of Fame. The Foundation succeeded in having the bridge named in honor of Clark and building the shelter but failed on the stamp and Hall of Fame initiatives.

Folder List

Folder 1: George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement – Filson Club Committee, Correspondence 1949

Folder 2: George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement – Correspondence, 1950

Folder 3: George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement – Correspondence, 1951-1954

Folder 4: George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement – Correspondence, April-July 1955

Folder 5: George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement – Correspondence, August 1955

Folder 6: George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement – Correspondence, September 1955

Folder 7: George Rogers Clark Memorial Movement – Correspondence, Sept-Nov 1955

Folder 8: George Rogers Clark Memorial Committee – Correspondence, 1948

Folder 9: George Rogers Clark Memorial Committee – Correspondence, 1949

Folder 10: George Rogers Clark Memorial Committee – Correspondence, 1950-1951

Folder 11: George Rogers Clark Memorial Committee – Miscellaneous

Folder 12: Correspondence – January-March, 1952

Folder 13: Correspondence – April-July 1952

Folder 14: Correspondence – August-October 1952

Folder 15: Correspondence – November-December 1952

Folder 16: Correspondence – 1953

Folder 17: Correspondence – 1955-1956, 1959

Folder 18: Rotary Club/Filson Club Committee, 1950-1951

Folder 19: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, January-April 1952

Folder 20: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, May-July 1952

Folder 21: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, August 1952

Folder 22: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, September 1952

Folder 23: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, October 1952

Folder 24: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, 2 November – 15 November 1952

Folder 25: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, 17 November – 30 November 1952

Folder 26: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, December and undated 1952

Folder 27: Hambleton Tapp – Correspondence, 1953

Folder 28: Hambleton Tapp – Miscellaneous

Folder 29: George Rogers Clark Bicentennial

Folder 30: George Rogers Clark Week

Folder 31: Memos and Minutes

Folder 32: Clippings and Miscellaneous

Subject Headings

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 — Societies, etc.

Courier-journal (Louisville, Ky.)

The Filson Historical Society, Inc. (Louisville, Ky.)

George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge (Louisville, Ky.)

George Rogers Clark Memorial Foundation

New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans

Rotary Club of Louisville

Gray, George Herbert (1874-1945) Architectural Drawings, 1905-1919

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: George Herbert Gray, 1874-1945

Title: Architectural Drawings, 1905-1919

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

Size of Collection: 20 folders, oversized

Location Number: Mss./AR/G779

Biographical Note

George H. Gray (1874-1945), an architect in Louisville during the early 20 th century, studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He settled in the Louisville area as a draftsman in 1906 and married Mary Belknap in 1909. Over the next decade, he practiced under several firm names, including Gray & Hawes and Gray & Wischmeyer as well as under his own name. He designed a number of noted residences and churches while in the state, as well as various other buildings. With the start of World War I, Gray joined the U.S. Engineering Corps and served in France through the end of the war, ascending to the rank of Major. Upon return to the United States, he established residence in New Haven, CT where he again practiced architecture until retirement in 1942.

Scope and Content Note

Collection includes Gray’s architectural drawings created while working at Louisville-based architectural firms Gray & Hawes and Gray & Wischmeyer as well as under his own name. Types of architectural drawings include blueprints, drafting linen sets, and pencil on trace paper for residential, ecclesiastical, and educational buildings as well as landscape studies and designs including Olmstead Brothers Landscape Architecture Firm drawings for the Belknap estate in Louisville, Ky. The collection includes drawings for Lincliff, The Midlands, Oxmoor, Bethlehem Evangelical Church, Church of Our Merciful Savior, Kentucky Child Welfare Exhibit, Parkland School, Pershing Stadium (in Paris, France), St. George’s Mission, St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Wyoming and Navarre Reality Co. Click here to see project index for more complete list.

Folder List

Folder 1: Mrs. Charles Allen, formal garden, 1912, 1916; Mrs. Richard H. Barker, residence, 1909

Folder 2: Bethlehem Evangelical Church, 1915

Folder 3: Percy N. Booth, Esq., garage, 1912; Mr. J. W. Brown, residence, n.d.

Folder 4: William Marshall Bullitt, residence, n.d.; Church of Our Merciful Savior, 1912

Folder 5: Mr. B. Compton, residence, n.d.

Folder 6: Grade School Building, 1910; Dr. I. H. Harrington, residence, 1914

Folder 7: Mrs. S. K. Henning, residence, 1909; Isaac Hilliard, plot plan, 1916

Folder 8: Lewis C. Humphrey, residence, 1915; Kentucky Child Welfare Exhibit, general plan, 1912

Folder 9: Lincliff, estate of Wm. Belknap, 1905-1906, 1914, n.d

Folder 10: Henry Manley, residence, 1913

Folder 11: The Midlands, estate of M. S. D. Belknap, 1911, 1914-1917, n.d.

Folder 12: The Midlands, estate of M. S. D. Belknap, 1916

Folder 13: Jacob Nill, bakery & residence, 1913; Parkland School, alterations & additions, 1911

Folder 14: Pershing Stadium, 1919

Folder 15: William Ruedeman, residence & garage, 1913

Folder 16: St. George’s Mission, building, 1910-1912; St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Church, 1913

Folder 17: Mr. M. McGehee Stokes, residence, 1910; Sarah Grimes Talbott, restoration & additions, 1908

Folder 18: Mrs. L. L. Thompson, residence, 1915

Folder 19: Mr. E. H. Wedekind, residence, 1914

Folder 20: Wyoming and Navarre Reality Co, apartment building, 1908

Subject Headings

Architecture – Designs and plans

Architecture – Kentucky – Louisville

Architecture, Domestic

Belknap family

Church architecture – Kentucky – Louisville.

Gardens – Designs and plans

Gray, George Herbert, 1874-1945

Hawes, Henry

Landscape design

Lincliff (Ky.: Estate)

Midlands, The (Louisville, Ky.)

Olmsted Brothers

Wischmeyer, Herman