Bodley family papers, 1773-1939
Bodley family, Thomas Barclay, John Bowman, James D. Breckinridge, Helm Bruce, Harry F. Byrd, Arthur Campbell, Edmund Clark, Jonathan Clark, James Craik, John J. Crittenden, Lyman Copeland Draper, Edward Everett, William Henry Harrison, Nathaniel Hart, Harry Innes, Richard M. Johnson, James Monroe, James Morrison, John Norton Pomeroy, C. A. Rodney, Lovell Harrison Rousseau, William Lewis Sharkey, James Speed, Joshua F. Speed, Robert Wickliffe, James Winchester
Papers pertaining to the Bodley and related families, primarily in Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Virginia, include personal and business correspondence, business, legal, land, and military papers, and genealogical material. Personal correspondence, 1776-1920, revolves around Thomas Bodley, his son William Stewart Bodley, and his grandson Temple Bodley. Topics include Kentucky history and politics; prominent Kentucky families like the Breckinridges, Clays, Crittendens, and Wickliffes; presidential elections and candidates; African American colonization efforts; agriculture in Kentucky and the South; banking; California history and the gold rush; cholera and other diseases; churches; land speculation; North American Indians; lawyers in Kentucky and Mississippi; Louisville history and politics; the Mexican War; Mississippi history and politics; the Aaron Burr Conspiracy; railroad development; the Civil War; states' rights; Reconstruction; slavery; religion and religious thought; St. Louis history; United States history, politics, foreign relations, and military; Virginia history; the Whig Party; and World War I. Documents include three diaries (1770-1811, 1814-1815, 1863-1865); land papers, 1783-1912; business papers, 1781-1936; military papers, 1788-1852; and genealogy. The collection also contains a group of Clark-Hite-Shiell Papers
Archival Material, English, 1773
History
9.33 cubic ft.
86072194