Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. Collection, 1812-2015 | Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

By Katy Davis, Dr. Christiana Taylor

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Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection Historical Note

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 11

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Folder 1: Strader Family - Accounts, 1840-1867

Mostly Strader family accounts with local and various Kentucky businesses. The bulk of this and the next six folders relate to the family of Lewis Strader (1804-1869), his son Leonidas (1847-1906) and Leonidas' wife Mattie Vaughn (1851-1890). Mattie was the daughter of Fielding Vaughn and Eliza Gum. All these families resided in Green County, KY.

Folder 2: Strader Family - Correspondence to Lewis and Lonnie Strader, 1845-1873

Correspondence relating to business and from friends and family. Most are not addressed to a discernable individual as they use titles such as Pap, Sir, Brother or Col.

Folder 3: Strader Family - Correspondence to Mattie Vaughn Strader, 1873-1886

Correspondence mostly from friends who attended St. Catherine's College with her. Many letters talk about friends and the nuns at St. Catherine's.

Folder 4: Strader Family - Correspondence to Mattie Vaughn Strader from Sister Mary Vincent Ferrer, ca. 1867-1874

Sister Mary Vincent Ferrar was a nun at St. Catherine's College in Springfield, KY while Mattie Vaughn was a student there. She also taught at Holy Rosary in Louisville. Her letters talk a lot about various sisters and priests at St. Catherine's, as well as other students they both knew. She mentions several times Mattie Vaughn's desire to become a novitiate.

Folder 5: Strader Family - Green County Court Documents, 1837-1864

Most of these documents are from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to any constable of Green County ordering that individuals be summoned to appear in court. Beginning in 1851 several of the documents are signed by Lewis Strader, Justice of the Peace in Green County, KY.

Folder 6: Strader Family - Personal Writings

Most of these appear to be school papers or religious treatises, possibly written by Mattie Vaughn. One item is a prayer that mentions Mattie's desire to become a nun and the sin of her parents for forbidding it.

Folder 7: Strader Family - Receipts and Contracts, 1828-1874

Of note is a contract with subscribers for Lewis Strader to start a singing school. The document includes subscriber names and rules for the school. Most of the other documents are receipts or IOUs, about half do not relate to the Strader family and may be related to Lewis' Justice of the Peace duties.

Folder 8: Bertie Waters Papers, 1907-1941

These items document Bertie B. Waters' career as a railway postal clerk with the Cincinnati, Ohio and Nashville Railroad. It documents test scores from his time as clerk as well as promotions, transfers, and pay increases with the Postal Service. Later letters document Mr. Waters' attempt to find work during the Great Depression.

Folder 9: Depositions (2) in case of Elizabeth Irvin v. Ned Irvin, deceased, in Ohio County, Ky., Circuit Court, 1824-09-18

This document consists of two depositions given in Washington Co., Ky., by William J. McElroy and James A. McElroy in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Irvin.  She seeks the balance of money allegedly owed to her by her former bondsman, the late Ned Irvin.

Folder 10: Document, 1847-05-03

Certified list of six men who failed to appear for work on local roads in Pendleton County as they were summoned to do according to law.

Folder 11: Senia(?) Sapp to Elizabeth Sapp, 1865-03-15

From Hawesville in Hancock Co., Ky., the female writer tells her cousin that she fears

Folder 12: Halloween Party in Louisville, Ky., 1904-10

This folder contains three handwritten replies to Miss Helen G. Smith

Folder 13: I. S. Bickett to Marion Co., Ky., Criminal Court, 1904-01-17

Sworn affidavit of I. S., Bickett, M. D., who has been asked to examine a wounded prisoner being held for trial.  The physician provides his assessment of the prisoner

Folder 14: Alben W. Barkley, 1942; 1948; 1952

This folder contains three items: (1) transcript of Senator Barkley

Folder 15: Simeon S. Willis, 1947; 1964; 1965; 1988

This folder contains four items pertaining to Gov. Simeon Willis (1943-47): (1) copy of letter from Oella J. McClelland, Ashland, Ky., attorney, to Willis, 11 December 1964, thanking him for his courtesies when she served years earlier as his secretary; (2) copy of 05 May 1965 letter from Robert Harvey Rice, M. D., to Mrs. Willis reminiscing about his late uncle; (3) typed carbon copy of Governor Willis

Folder 16: Renfro Valley Bugle, vol. 1, no. 1, 1951; Summer

Folder 17: James Lee Harryman to Barbara Elliott, 1952-1953

Twenty letters written by Jim Harryman, an enlisted man in the Army Airborne stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky., to his sweetheart living at home with her parents in Bowling Green, Ky.  The letters document the courtship and first months of marriage of a young Kentucky couple.  Harryman discusses their parents

Folder 18: Elijah C. Phister Letters, 1878

Phister was a judge and Congressman from Maysville, KY and these letters talk about his campaign for Congress.

Folder 19: An Address to the Presbyterians of Kentucky, 1836

Proposing a Plan for the Instruction and Emancipation of Their Slaves. A committee of ten urges that "every preacher read this address to his congregation on some sabbath," denouncing slavery and offering a five point plan for gradual emancipation of slaves, their education, and religious instruction. Published in Newburyport by Charles Whipple.

Folder 20: Billions for Bandaids, 1972

An analysis of the U.S. health care system and proposals for its reform. One area analyzed is Floyd County, Kentucky in an article by Bob Young.

Folder 21: New Party of Kentucky Leaflets, 1971

Includes an analysis of Democratic Party candidates (Ed Muskie, Birch Bayh, and Fred Harris) and a New Party platform. Also includes "The Salt Lake City Statement" which lays out the national New Party platform.

Folder 22: The Racist Use of Rape and the Rape Charge, 1975 ca

A Statement to the Women's Movement from a Group of Socialist Women. Published by the Socialist Women's Caucus of Louisville.

Folder 23: The Labor Problem, 1886

Is Organized Labor Dangerous to Enterprise or American Institutions? A treatise on organized labor by George P. Ikirt.

Folder 24: Value Received for New Deal Dollars, 1938

Remarks of Hon. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky in the Senate of the United States. Includes statistics on the volume of work completed by PWA, WPA, and CCC programs.

Folder 25: What are Schmeid and Nunn Trying to Hide?, 1968

Schmied is the mayor of Louisville, Nunn is governor of Kentucky. This publication was printed by the Kentuckians against KUAC (Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee) in response to Schmied and Nunn's reactions to riots there. The author states that the causes "are plain to see and hear and feel. They are: POVERTY, poor housing, poor education, no jobs, degrading welfare, rats, almost no parks, etc."

Folder 26: Kentucky Mountain Outlaw Transformed

Autobiography of Reverend Charlie L. Wireman, native of Wolfe County, Kentucky.

Folder 27: The Fort Knox Experiment, 1948

The "experimental unit" at Fort Know ran from January 1947 to July 1948 and was intended to show the benefits of Universal Military Training to young men in order to sell the public on the idea.

Folder 28: Total Destruction, 2009

A straightedge fanzine against the ruling social order. Speaks to the media-hyped "Green Scare and related round-ups," also to a police program "Operation Backfire."

Folder 29: William E. Bartley, Jr. for Senate, 1972

Bartley was running as the candidate of the People's Party, a "new political coalition of progressive and concerned Kentucky citizens.

Folder 30: the gay weekly, 1976

Includes an article on Jill Raymond who spent a year in Kentucky jails for refusing to share the location of Susan Saxe and Kathy Power.