<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">xt7t4b2x5f9d https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7t4b2x5f9d/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7t4b2x5f9d/data/46m7.dao.xml Wallis, Robert G. 1900-1911 0.24 Cubic Feet 1 item collections 46m7 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Robert G. Wallis scrapbook Assassination -- Politics and government -- Kentucky. Robert G. Wallis scrapbook text Robert G. Wallis scrapbook 1900 1900-1911 2017 true xt7t4b2x5f9d collection true 46m7 46m7 Wallis, Robert G. scrapbook Robert G. Wallis scrapbook, 1900-1911  46m7 Amanda Hanner University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 2014 March 24 Special Collections Research Center University of Kentucky Libraries Margaret I. King Library Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039 URL:  This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on  2017-11-14 11:26:54 -0500 . Description is in English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard 
   
     
       English 
     
     
       University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 
     
     Robert G. Wallis scrapbook 
     
       Wallis, Robert G. 
     
     46m7 
     2659 
     
       0.24 Cubic Feet 
       1 item 
     
     1900-1911 
     The Robert G. Wallis scrapbook (dated 1900-1911; 0.24 cubic feet; 1 item) consists of a scrapbook entitled  Our Martyred Governor, William Goebel . 
   
   
     Immediate Source of Acquisition 
 Gift, 1938    
   
     Scope and Contents 
 The Robert G. Wallis scrapbook (dated 1900-1911; 0.24 cubic feet; 1 item) consists of a scrapbook entitled  Our Martyred Governor, William Goebel . The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings documenting the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel in 1900and subsequent events surrounding the assassination. Additionally, the scrapbook includes information pertaining to William Goebel's political life. Robert G. Wallis created the scrapbook in Clark County, Kentucky, and dated it 1911.    
   
     Preferred Citation 
 46m7: [identification of item], Robert G. Wallis scrapbook, 1900-1911, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Conditions Governing Use 
 The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Conditions Governing Access 
 Collection is open to researchers by appointment.    
   
     Biographical note 
 Farmer Robert G. Wallis was born on September 25, 1859, in Fayette, Kentucky, the son of Thomas Morgan Wallis (1804-1918) and Susan Thomas Dudley (1826-1901). In 1901, he married Ollie Ranger Fishback (1866-1943); they had no children. Wallis died on January 31, 1920 in Clark, Ky.   Senator and Governor William Goebel was born on January 4, 1856, in Pennsylvania, to Wilhelm Goebel (1830-1877) and Augusta Justus (1831-?). He received a degree from Cincinnati Law School in 1877 and served in the Kentucky State Senate from 1887-1899. Goebel was shot on January 30, 1900, following an election appeal where he was voted governor of Kentucky. The only United States governor to be assassinated, Goebel died from his wounds on February 3, 1900.    
   
     Assassination -- Politics and government -- Kentucky. 
     Scrapbooks 
     Kentucky -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. 
     Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 
     Wallis, Robert G. 
     Goebel, William, 1856-1900 
   
   Our Martyred Governor, William Goebel  scrapbook 622123 1900-1911 1 
 
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