Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

3-19-2009

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 Collection 121. Correspondence, legal papers, and news clippings about the Hobsons, a prominent family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The correspondence and reminiscences of Civil War veteran William E. Hobson; a diary kept by Mary Elizabeth Van Meter during the evacuation of Bowling Green, 1861; and correspondence of George Anna (Hobson) Duncan, an award winning trapshooter, are of particular significance. Also includes genealogical information about the Hobson and related families.

Disciplines

History | United States History

Additional Files
MSS 121 B3 F17 VAN Meter, Mary E. Diary.pdf (2178 kB)
Civil War Diary of Mary E. (Shrewsbury) Van Meter
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