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By Tauheedah El-Saadiq
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The strength of the Green Clay collection is the photographs, which were mostly taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Although there are some portraits, there are also many photos of Madison county, including historic sites, river scenes, historic homes and even a moonshine still. The collection also includes some of his published historical articles and other Madison County publications.
Collection Historical Note
Green Clay was born at White Hall on 11 August 1871 and was named Guy Ephrium Herrick. He was the son of John Frank and Mary Clay Herrick. Mary Clay was the oldest daughter of Cassius M. Clay, the "Lion of White Hall." When his parents divorced his mother began calling him Green Clay and at her insistence he changed his name to Green Clay after he reached 21.
Green attended school in Richmond and high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was a student at the University of Michigan for two years, Central University for two years, and graduated from Columbia College in Washington, DC with the LL.B. degree in 1893. He practiced law in Richmond and Cincinnati.
He began working in the newspaper business sometime after 1900 and worked for papers in Ohio, New York, Richmond and Tennessee. He also wrote numerous articles and pamphlets about the history of Richmond and Madison County and worked for the WPA supervising the indexing of court records. He also worked as city clerk, purchasing agent and auditor of Richmond.
He was a member of the Richmond Lodge of Elks and moved to the Elks National Home in Bedford, Virginia in 1947. He died there without descendants on 10 Jan 1962 and was buried on the grounds.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Unknown
Acquisition Method:
gift
Other Note:
Photographs were initially numbered with the accession number; however, a decision was made to change to collection number. The database was changed, but the numbers written on the images were not changed.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Photographs],
[Series 2: Manuscripts and Publications],
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- Series 2: Manuscripts and Publications
- Box 1
- Barcode: 31234014041998
- Folder 3: Madison County Sequi-centennial Celebration souvenir program
- Folder 4: Newspaper and magazine clippings
- Item 1: Kentucky, b.1931
- Item 2: Kentucky pioneers to be Honored tomorrow by Jack Hunter, Enquirer Sunday Magazine, Sept. 2, 1934
- Item 3: The Bluegrass region of Kentucky by Green Clay, The Highway Traveler, Apr.-May 1945, Vol. 17, no. 2, 1945
- Item 4: The Klan Way by Green Clay, Courier Journal Magazine, 19055
- Item 5: A Mighty Lion Raged at White Hall by Sue McClelland Theirman, Courier Journal Magazine, June 13,1954
- Item 6: Photo of White Hall by John E. Theirman from The Courier Journal Magazine
- Item 7: Scenic and Historic Madison County by Green Clay, Kentucky Progress Magazine, Sep, 1931
- Folder 5: Service and Supplies Advertisement appearing in the Kentucky Register, Dec. 14, 1877
- Folder 6: Madison County Kentucky compiled by Green Clay for the Chamber of Commerce, 1927
- Folder 7: Kentucky: The Bluegrass State-Home of Beautiful women, fast Horses and Good Whiskey by Green Clay, Girard, Kansas: Heldeman-Julius Publications, ca. 1947
- Folder 8: Kentucky (illustrated) front cover missing
- Folder 9: Warranty deed-Greenleaf to Clay
- Folder 10: Excerpts from Court Order Book C (Madison County)
- Folder 11: Madison County Chronicles, 1946-1954
- This is mostly a collection of articles written by Green Clay for the newspaper; however, there are several pieces of correspondence in the front including carbon copies of Clay's responses and a brief family genealogy.
- Folder 12: C.M. Clay Biography
- Unpublished manuscript by Geeen Clay.
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