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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection of materials documents Clarence's activities as mayor and his attempts to advise future mayors on city financial matters. His brother Archie attended Central University and his letters to his father and sister document that experience. A later series of letters were written to Archie's wife and many express sympathy at her husband's death.
Collection Historical Note
Clarence E. Woods was born in 1865 in Marion County, Kentucky. He attended Central University and served as the owner and/or editor of newspapers in Marion County and Richmond, KY. He became mayor of Richmond in 1906 and later moved to Florida where he died in 1940.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Bunch, Clyde
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Folder:
[
Folder 1: Photographs],
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Folder 2: Documents],
[
Folder 3: Correspondence, 1897-1898],
[
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1873-1874],
[
Folder 5: Clarence E. Woods Records],
[All]
- Folder 1: Photographs
- Item 1: Unidentified Man in Military Uniform
- Item 2: Interior of Unidentified Home
- Item 3: Miss Lucy Lackey and children in front of church, 1890s
- Item 4: Charles H. Campbell, 1890s
- Item 5: Booker and Woods, 1892
- Photo of Thomas F. Booker and Clarence E. Woods taken at the St. Louis Grand Chapter meeting of Sigma Nu.
- Creator: Genelli
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Physical Description: 5x7
- Folder 2: Documents
- Miscellaneous papers and a heart-shaped card.
- Folder 3: Correspondence, 1897-1898
- A series of letters to Kate Woods, many of which express sympathy due to her husband Archie's death.
- Folder 4: Correspondence, 1873-1874
- Letters from Archie Woods to his father and sister during his time as a student in Richmond, KY.
- Folder 5: Clarence E. Woods Records
- Contains political letters for Richmond's ex-mayor Clarence E. Woods; document of an historic ancestor, Archibald Woods, Sr. to the Woods family; brief sketch of Clarence E. Woods; copy of a death certificate; copies of Sigma Nu Chapter business; copy of an article about the death of French Tipton; copy of a map to the cemetery where Clarence and his wife are buried; copy of a funeral notice for Major Thos. C. Woods; and a pamphlet of Clarence E. Woods' background for service as Secretary Treasurer.
