Rodgers Family Collection (SC 2535)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

5-24-2012

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2535. Letters of the Rodgers family of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. An 1832 letter written from the Conemaugh Salt Works, Indiana County, Pennsylvania by James Rodgers to his parents describes a destructive flood. Letters of James’ brother Michael Rodgers, a printer in Princeton, Kentucky, written to his mother and another brother, William, describe his health, local conditions, and his business prospects. He also finds Kentucky women to be unsuitable as wives and housekeepers. A typescripted 1881 letter of William Rodgers gives biographical and family details.

Disciplines

History | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Rodgers Family Collection (SC 2535)" (2012). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 2091.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/2091