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Beckham, John Crepps Wickliffe 1869-1940

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Works: 36 works in 37 publications in 2 languages and 44 library holdings
Classifications: jk2318.k4, 815
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1 edition published in in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Correspondence, official and personal; University records, including financial records; Board of Regents minutes, reports and publications; photographs and blueprints; speeches, writings and travel records of H.L. Donovan.
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The Castleman papers mainly consist of correspondence. Some letters, collected by Castleman, were written by, to, and about Confederate agents in Canada during the Civil War. One letter contains an account of a visit to Captain John Y. Beall before his execution. Other Confederate correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Clement C. Clay, Jefferson Davis, Jacob Thompson, and Bennett H. Young. Later correspondence addresses Kentucky politics and the Kentucky Militia's service in Texas in 1836-1837. The collection also includes a brief article by Castleman entitled "The Kentucky Mounted Gun Men and the Sabine War."
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Collection consists of correspondence, research and genealogical notes, unfinished manuscripts, sermon extracts, and other materials of Z.F. Smith, an educator, historian of Kentucky, and an elder in the Church of Christ. Of primary interest is correspondence with Lucretia Hart Clay (granddaughter of Henry Clay) regarding Clay family history, Smith's 300+ page unfinished history of the early 19th century restoration movement inaugurated in Kentucky by Barton W. Stone, research notes on the Clay family, a 17-page handwritten bio of Henry Clay, and other miscellaneous items pertaining to Kentucky religious history.
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Collection contains the accumulated papers of Arthur Yager during his service as Governor of Puerto Rico (1913-1921). Correspondence in the collection pertains to Yager's activities as governor, specifically his appointments, proposed legislation, and handling of labor and economic issues on the island. Correspondence discusses in detail Yager's efforts towards the eventual passage of the Jones Act of 1917, which granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans and reorganized the island's government and relationship to the United States. Other topics discussed in the collection include: labor strikes, economic conditions, the coffee and sugar industries, prohibition, the 1918 earthquake, Puerto Rican elections and political parties, the court system, disease, tourism, World War I, administration of the draft, migrant labor, foreign relations, education, general social conditions of the island, and Kentucky politics. Correspondents of note include presidents Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, and Herbert Hoover; Secretary of War Newton Baker; Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; Resident Commissioners of Puerto Rico Felix Cordova-Davila and Luis Munoz-Rivera; AFL leaders Samuel Gompers and Santiago Iglesias; Congressmen William A. Jones, John F. Shafroth, Ollie M. James, and John W. Weeks; Secretary of Puerto Rico Martin Travieso, Jr.; and Frank McIntyre, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs.
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Included are a 26 May 1906 letter to Charles Stoll of Louisville acknowledging him on his recent action to enforce Sunday closing laws; and an 11 March 1916 letter to Eleanor Holmes Lindsay responding to her request for his support of a resolution to provide an appropriation to erect a monument at Judge Lindsay's grave, and stating that he is in no position to take part in this matter.
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This collection contains documents concerning the New Capitol of Kentucky and its construction, which took place between 1906 and 1910. The materials in this collection include sixteen petitions drawn up and signed by women in several Kentucky counties in 1900 requesting the legislature to make appropriations for a new capitol. There is also a check for $1,323,999.35 written by Governor Beckham as chairman of the Sinking Fund Commission to the state treasury, from monies obtained from the payment by the U.S. Government to Kentucky for Civil War reparations. Other materials include a copy of the act passed in 1904 authorizing "erection and completion of the Capitol", which is signed by the legislator who introduced the bill, Representative L.F. Johnson of Frankfort. There are also in the group, a copy of the contract let in 1905 for the actual construction work, two programs and an invitation for the cornerstone-laying ceremony in 1906, and a description of the bill considered (and later passed) in 1902 to create a State Board of Commissioners to plan the new capitol is included, as well as a descriptive pamphlet published in 1912 describing the new state house. It is inscribed as the property of Mrs. H.V. McChesney, wife of the former Secretary of State and early commissioner on the aforesaid Board. The collection has two copies of a 1928 General Assembly resolution to create a legislative committee to oversee plans to paint murals in the building. There is also a clipping concerning Kentucky statehood from the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL Sesquicentennial edition of 1942, and a commemorative program from the 75th anniversary celebration of the Capitol in 1985 in the group.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Letter from Beckham, governor of Kentucky, to a county chairman of the Democratic party recommending two Negro campaign workers.
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Correspondence, official and personal; University records, including financial records; Board of Regents minutes, reports and publications; photographs and blueprints; speeches, writings and travel records of H.L. Donovan.
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