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  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Genie Aberson (1940-) on July 30, 2007. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Leslie D. Aberson (1936-) on February 4, 2002. The summary is accompanied by Aberson's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Marie Abrams (1937-) on October 2, 2001. The summary is accompanied by Marie Abrams's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Nancy Abrams (1938-) on February 6, 2002. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

    Nancy K. Abrams was born in Louisville, and grew up in the Highlands in her youth. Her daily life included attending middle and high school, Sunday school on weekends, and socializing with friends at a Bardstown Road drug store. She and her family were largely unaffected by the local flood of 1937 and the international Jewish crisis of the Holocaust and Israeli conflicts. She maintained Jewish faith by being confirmed and participating in the NCJW, a demonstration of social service she passed on to subsequent generations in her family.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Ronald Abrams (1936-) on October 2, 2001. The summary is accompanied by Ronald Abrams's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Letter from Mary Adair to her sister, Mary McCalla, mentioning her son, Alexander Adair.
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  • Letter from Mary Adair to her sister, updating her on her family and wishing she has enjoyed "all of the happyness of a wife and mother in the midst of an agreeable family." She worries of her father dying soon because without him she will be "destitute of any other home."
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  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Ida Sontz (1923-) in June 2010. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Julian Shapiro (1930-) in December 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Milton Z. Russman (1916-2014) in Fall 2010. The summary is accompanied by an obituary for Milton Z. Russman. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Sonia Cohen Levine (1904-) on June 23, 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Muriel Handmaker (1934-) on December 14, 2010. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Betty Byck Goodman (1934-) in August 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

    Betty Byck Goodman, the daughter of German immigrants, was born in Louisville. She lived in an upscale neighborhood that housed few Jews and few shops. During the Great Flood of 1937 she went down to Mockingbird Valley with a maid to see the water level and lived a month without electricity. Her experiences with synagogue were limited but she was confirmed and did observe Passover. Betty attended Emmet Field Elementary School, then Barrett Junior High, then went to the Kentucky Home School for Girls. She attended college at the University of Miami, Ohio, and then enrolled in Spalding for Counseling Psychology and her Master’s, which she used to help families with alcohol abuse. Her father joined the United States Army at the beginning of World War II at age 42 and eventually landed at Fort Bragg. One of her most passionate hobbies is painting, for which she takes classes at the Temple. She intends to leave behind a spirit of respect, love, and dignity to treat others with.

  • Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Caroline Balleisen (1930-2020) in September 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • A list of bonds from Alexander Scott Bullitt loaning out enslaved people, the thirteenth in a series. The list names the slaves, the amount they were hired for, and who they were hired to, including: Charles, Ben, Billy, Venus and family, Melisa, Bill Trigg, Hanibell, Ben and Delphia, Kiah, Simon, Cesar, Tom and family, and James.
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  • A list of bonds from Alexander Scott Bullitt loaning out enslaved people, the fourteenth in a series. The list names the slaves, the amount they were hired for, and who they were hired to, including: Tom and Family, Melissa and Chick, William Trigg, Charles, Ben, Billy, and Betty.
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  • Bill of sale for Molly and Letty, two enslaved women, between Alexander Scott Bullitt, Caleb Noel, and John Edward. There is a corresponding letter written by E. E. Parker stating that Molly is to be sent to the home of Daniel Nicholson. These documents are dated June 8th, 1810.
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  • Land-grant survey which was made at the request of Robert Burton, Esq., agent for Richard Henderson & Co., on 20 April 1796, after a grant of 200,000 acres was made to the company by the Virginia Assembly.
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  • Map showing the Old Northwest and Southwest territories along with their rivers, towns, creeks, mills, courthouses, traces, forts, and salt licks. Includes tracts held by the Ohio, New Jersey, and Wabash Companies, the Virginia donation lands and land set aside in Tennessee for the "North Carolina troops."
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  • Richard Anderson writes his brother-in-law, Jonathan Clark, a letter from his home near Louisville about what the newly seated Kentucky legislature has accomplished. He writes of the dreadful state of Indigenous and U.S. affairs, with two recent defeats at the tribes' hands and failed negotiations. He fears his friend Colonel John Hardin, who has been sent to negotiate with them, will be killed, like Major Freeman. As gloomy and discouraging as the situation, Kentucky is too promising a country to abandon. Jonathan's presence would be of great assistance to his parents and one of his siblings who are suffering from an upsetting situation that his father-in-law John Clark has discussed with him several times, but he has not been authorized to discuss it and shall say no more other than to inform Jonathan that there is a situation of concern regarding the elder Clarks and a sibling. [Although not specified, the situation most likely concerns Fanny Clark's tumultuous marriage with James O'Fallon.] William Clark has been assisting Anderson with Jonathan's land investments and has sent records.
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