Box 41
Container
Contains 3 Results:
An Accumulation of Evidence, Volume 3
File — Box: 41, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
Typed manuscript by Katherine Phelps Caperton. Biographical and genealogical information on the Estill, Rodes, Taylor, Crossthwaite, Cobb, Park, Dillingham, Harris, Mills, Simmons and Van Swearingen families. Contains 283 heavily annotated pages.
Dates:
1843 - 1980; Acquisition: 1990-10-02
Curtis Field Burnam Biography
File — Box: 41, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
Contains a bound biography entitled In Memoriam: Curtis Field Burnam. The biography contains extensive annotated notes by Katherine Caperton. The notes detail additional information about Burnam and her grandchildren, Caperton and Rollins Burnam. As per the script on the inside cover, the biography was given to Rollins Burnam on his 7th birthday (13 Jul 1928). Also contains a five page typed story detailing Burnam's involvement with the 1904 dispute over the legal and social consequences...
Dates:
1843 - 1980; Acquisition: 1990-10-02
Phelps Family Scrapbook
File — Box: 41, Folder: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
Contains pages about Katherine Phelps Caperton's academic performance as a youth, news clippings about various Phelps relatives, and other clippings that detail prominent Kentucky citizens and the events that elevated their respective status in the community and region. Based on the handwritten notes in the scrapbook, it appears that Mrs. Caperton put together its contents.
Dates:
1843 - 1980; Acquisition: 1990-10-02