Scope and Contents: The Hart Family Papers consist mostly of financial and business records of Thomas H. Hart and his immediate family. His wife Josephine was postmistress of Leesburgh in Harrison County where the couple lived until sometime after 1880 and there are records of that appointment in the papers. Genealogy records and correspondence are also included as well as news clippings about unrelated, prominent members of the Hart family, such as Albert Bushnell Hart and Admiral Thomas C. Hart. Of particular interest are the Madison County government appointments signed by early Kentucky Governors.