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                 James Clay family papers, 1770-2006
                     2010MS041 
                 
                 Clay, James 
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             James Clay family papers 
             2010MS041 
             
                 University of Kentucky Special Collections 
             
             
                 
             
             
                 16.42 Cubic feet 
                 67 boxes, 1 item 
             
             1770-2006 
             The James Brown Clay family papers contain correspondence, letters, clippings, certificates, legal documents, manuscripts, ephemera and photographs of family relations and business. James Brown Clay (181-1864) was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky. He and his wife, Susan Marie Jacob, had ten children and lived at the Ashland Estate in Lexington, Kentucky. Their son, Charles Donald Clay was a career soldier and his descendents also served in the United States military. 
         
         
             Conditions Governing Use note 
             Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections. 
         
         
             Conditions Governing Access note 
             Collection is open to researchers by appointment. 
         
         
             Arrangement note 
             Collection is arranged by format. 
         
         
             Immediate Source of Acquisition note 
             Gift, 2010. 
             Elizabeth Clay Blanford (1907-1999), a great-granddaughter in the James B. Clay branch, saved the James B. Clay family papers, and gave them to processor Lindsey Apple for donation to the University of Kentucky Special Collections. 
         
         
             Preferred Citation note 
             2010MS041: [identification of item], James Clay family papers, 1770-2006, University of Kentucky Special Collections. 
         
         
             Biographical note 
             James Brown Clay Sr., born 1817, was the tenth of Henry and Lucretia Clay’s eleven children. James was a farmer, businessman, lawyer, and politician. He purchased Ashland from his mother, the Lexington, Kentucky home built by Henry Clay. In 1843, James B. Clay married Susan Maria Jacob, sister of a three-time mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, Charles Donald Jacob. The couple eventually had ten children. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth United States Congress (March 4, 1857–March 3, 1859). Supporting the Confederacy, he chose exile in Canada but died of tuberculosis before the end of the war in 1864. His wife and descendants lived in central Kentucky. 
             Members of the James Clay family as well as other relevant people include: 
             Thomas Prather Jacob (1827-1889), brother-in-law of James Clay. Susan Maria Jacob Clay (1823-1905), wife of James Clay. 
             Lucy Jacob Clay (1844-1863), daughter of James Clay. James Clay, Jr. (1846-1906), son of James Clay. Harry Independence Clay (1849-1884), son of James Clay. Lucretia 
                 Teetee  Clay (1851-1923), daughter of James Clay. Thomas Clay (1853-1939), son of James Clay. Charles Donald Clay (1857-1935), son of James Clay. George Clay (1858-1934), son of James Clay. 
             Mariah Pepper Clay (1861-1939), wife of Charles D. Clay. Susan Clay Sawitzky (1897-1981), daughter of Charles Donald Clay. William Sawitzky (1879-1947), husband of Susan Clay Sawitzky. Charles D. Clay, Jr. (1899-1922), son of Charles D. Clay. Expelled from West Point. Committed suicide or was murdered at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Robert Pepper Clay (1903-1977), son of Charles D. Clay. Maria Martindale Clay (1903-1997), wife of Robert Pepper Clay. Elizabeth Clay Blanford (1904-1999), daughter of Charles D. Clay. 
             Boyajian family: Lucy Starling Clay, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Robert P. Clay, married Ned Boyajian in 1963 and they had two sons, Ned and Robert. Elizabeth Prudence Pinnie Pepper, mother of Mariah Clay. Henry Howgate (1834-1901), Arctic expedition leader. Lucy Scott, woman courted by Charles D. Clay. Geoge Nicholas (1754-1799), Henry Clay's law partner. 
         
         
             Scope and Contents note 
             The James Clay family papers comprise correspondence, letters, clippings, certificates, legal documents, manuscripts, ephemera, and photographs, which document over two centuries of family history (dated 1770-2006; 16.42 cubic feet; 67 boxes, 1 item). The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between family members. The primary topics discussed in the correspondence concern the relations and friends of the James Clay family, the majority of whom lived in Fayette County, Kentucky, during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Of particular interest is the correspondence of Charles D. Clay, Robert P. Clay, and Thomas Jacob Clay, who were all career soldiers and wrote to the family during various military campaigns. They served in the Spanish American War, the Geronimo Campaign, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War. Included in the correspondence are two letters from Henry Clay to his son, James B. Clay. One item of note is receipt for Porter Clay who trades a debt of $50 to John Clay for his right to a negro girl named Lucy to Henry Clay (Box 26, Folder 29). Also notable is correspondence and notes created by Harry Independence Clay, who was involved in the United States expeditions to the Arctic during the 1880s. A large part of the collection comprises research notes, articles, essays about American art and poetry by Susan Clay Sawitzky and William Sawitzky. Additionally, the collection includes poetry manuscripts written by Susan Clay Sawitzky. Legal papers created by the law office of George Nicholas, a law partner of Henry Clay, are included in the collection. The hundreds of photographs are primarily family portraits and of Sawitzky European vacations. Significant persons represented in the correspondence include Confederate General Basil Duke, journalist Desha Breckinridge, and Artic explorer Henry Howgate. Also in the collection is a photo of the officers who captured Geronimo in 1866, including Lt. Leonoard Wood, Capt. Henry Wars Lawton, and Lt. Thomas J. Clay (Box 22, Folder 1). 
             
         
         
             Blanford, Elizabeth Clay 
             Breckinridge, Desha, 1867-1935 
             Clay family 
             Clay, Charles D., 1854-1935 
             Clay, Henry Independence, 1849-1884 
             Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 
             Clay, James B.,  (James Brown), 1817-1864 
             Clay, Robert P., 1903-1977 
             Clay, Susan Maria Jacob  
             Clay, Thomas Jacob, 1853-1939 
             Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916 
             Geronimo, 1829-1909 
             Howgate, Henry W. 
             Jacob, Charles Donald, 1838-1898 
             Nicholas, George, 1754?-1799 
             Sawitsky, Susan Clay, 1897-1981 
             American poetry--History and criticism 
             American poetry--Women authors. 
             Arctic regions--Description and travel. 
             Art, American--History 
             Art--United States. 
             Correspondence. 
             Families--Photographs. 
             Family archives--Kentucky--Lexington. 
             Family--history 
             Fayette County (Ky.) 
             Kentucky--History. 
             Korean War, 1950-1953 
             Legal documents. 
             Military history. 
             Photograph albums. 
             Photographs 
             Polar regions--Discovery and exploration 
             Spanish-American War, 1898. 
             World War, 1914-1918. 
             World War, 1939-1945. 
         
         
             
                 
                     General and single letters 
                     Series I. 
                     25-27 
                     40, 44 
                     
                         0.86 Cubic feet 
                         3 boxes 
                     
                     1770-1998 
                 
                 
                     Scope and Contents note 
                     The bulk of the General and single letter series consists of newspaper clippings and printed material from the eighteenth through late twentieth centuries. Additionally, the series includes genealogical information, ephemera, drawings, letters, bank notes, and legal documents. For some of the material the provenance is unknown. Some items such as Charles D. Clay, Jr.'s drawing (Box 25, Folder 6) and schoolwork (Box 26, Folder 70) did not constitute enough material for a separate series. Many of the letters are connected in some way to the James B. Clay family, but do not fall into any other series in the papers, such as a letter written to New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace (Box 25, Folder 30) and a letter to J.C.S. Blackburn (Box 25, Folder 31). Finally, the series contains a small amount of Henry Clay material, original and photocopied items, including a financial note (Box 26, Folder 22) and a bill of sale from Porter Clay to Henry Clay concerning interest in a slave girl (Box 26, Folder 29). 
                 
                 
                     
                         Address of a Paris Merchant 
                         25 
                         1 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Mme. Vacher Letourueur 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Peter Bissa Runo drawing 
                         25 
                         2 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         A pastel drawing of a man. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Clay Heritage newspaper clippings 
                         25 
                         4 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Two newspaper clippings dealing with the Clay ancestry. One clipping is a fragment of George Clay’s response to a 
                             Lexington Herald  news column concerning a donation for the war effort. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Clay-Pepper genealogy notes 
                         25 
                         5 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Notes are in Susan’s handwriting. Culpepper family. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Charles D. Clay, Jr. drawing 
                         25 
                         6 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Charley designed a tank, or motorized armored vehicle years before World War I. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Exhibit 
                             Biographical Cyclopedia of Kentucky Family 
                         25 
                         7 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         
                             Reverend Porter Clay and the Clay family 
                         25 
                         8 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Letter allegedly written by Porter Clay about the Clay Family. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Empty envelopes (3) 
                         25 
                         9 - 11 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Ephraim McDowell portrait postcard 
                         25 
                         12 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Family news 
                         25 
                         13 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Mentions obituary of George Clay, Thomas J. Clay, wedding of Thomas Hart Clay, William Sawitzky 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         F. Bret Harte, 
                             the Heathen Chinee 
                         25 
                         14 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Jacob crest 
                         25 
                         14A 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Cadet Prayer at West Point 
                         25 
                         3 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         on cardstock 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Pepper Family Genealogy (McDowell Branch) 
                         25 
                         15 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         
                             A Renewal Statute and Prohibition Against Allied Trade in Greenland 
                         25 
                         15A 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Slide rule practice 
                         25 
                         15B 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Elsie McDowell Jackson newspaper clipping of wedding 
                         25 
                         15C 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Miscellaneous items 
                         25 
                         15D 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper clippings 
                         25 
                         15E 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Subjects include wounding of Charles D. Clay in the Philippines; deaths of Lucretia 
                             Teetee  Clay and Charles Clay; pictures of Ashland and Pepper home in Frankfort, KY; pamphlet on Duncan Tavern, Paris, KY. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         George Hudson will (copy) 
                         25 
                         15F 
                         1770 November 30 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Will (copy) of Henry Clay’s maternal grandfather. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Lands belonging to estate of Colonel James Morrison: report of Theodore W. Clay 
                         25 
                         16 
                         1830 July 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Henry Clay sent son Theodore to Missouri to evaluate the lands owned there by Morrison. Notes: land 8 miles north of St. Louis on Mississippi River; land 12 miles east of St Charles on Missouri River; land in counties of St. Charles and Pike. He sold lots at Cape Girardeau per instructions of the executor who was Henry Clay. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Note about Healey painting 
                         25 
                         17 
                         1845 July 1 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Healey was sent by the King of France to take portraits of some American citizens. Healey presented a copy of the one of Clay to Mrs. Clay. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Unknown Clay to Judge James Harlan 
                         25 
                         18 
                         1881 April 1 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         One of Charles’s brothers asks that Harlan intervene with his brother, Justice Harlan, asking him to use influence with the President to gain an appointment as an army second lieutenant for Charles D. Clay. (Handwriting would suggest that the author is George or James Jr.) 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Berry's Ship, 
                             Louisville Courier-Journal  newspaper clipping 
                         25 
                         19 
                         1881 July 9 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Playbill for 
                             Woodcock’s Little Game 
                         25 
                         20 
                         1884 March 13 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Playbill for event at Fort Custer, Montana. Note on back. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Description of a land transaction witnessed 
                         25 
                         21 
                         1889 January 23 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Survey Report J.M. Corbin, Surveyor 
                         25 
                         22 
                         1896 March 2 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Three copies of surveyor’s report on a piece of land about four miles south west of Lexington on the south side of the Versailles Turnpike. It sounds like the farm that Charles and Ria buy later with a part of her inheritance. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         William A. Turner v. Mary W. Anderson et. al., Appelants 
                         25 
                         23 
                         1911 July 12 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Supreme Court of Missouri. Mary W. Anderson was a daughter of Eugene Erwin and a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay. The legal case was over undue influence she may have had on her husband’s last will brought by children from an earlier marriage. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         William A. Turner v. Mary W. Anderson et.al., Appelants 
                         25 
                         24 
                         1914 July 2 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Supreme Court of Missouri. A second suit dealing with the will of William Anderson. Mary Webster Anderson was a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         War Department Special Orders No. 125 
                         25 
                         25 
                         1925 July 27 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Connecticut Portraits by Ralph Earl: 1751-1801 
                         25 
                         26 
                         1935 August 1-October 15 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Christmas letter 
                         25 
                         27 
                         circa 1900 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Address is to Newtown Scott County. Ria Clay’s sister married a Clay Hatchell and lived around Newtown. Little boys would be Charley and Bob. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Fletcher Johnston to an unknown Clay family member 
                         25 
                         28 
                         1883 May 18 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Arthur M. Rutledge to 
                             Colonel 
                         25 
                         29 
                         1884 May 24 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Thanks the recipient (probably Charles or Thomas from contents of letter) for an invitation to come to Lexington. He mentions an invitation from 
                             your mother and brother Jim.  He cannot come because of a previously planned trip. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         D. Meriwether to Gov. Lew Wallace, Santa Fe, New Mexico 
                         25 
                         30 
                         1880 January 28 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         A letter of introduction. Clay is thinking about Santa Fe as a home. He is involved in the wool industry at the time. Meriwether introduces him as a grandson of the statesman Henry Clay who is worthy of the name. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         W.B. Haza to J.C.S. Blackburn 
                         25 
                         31 
                         1883 May 3 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Sturgeon, Clements & Co. receipt 
                         25 
                         32 
                         1864 September 5 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         R. H. Ogburn; firm holds bag of gold worth $1018.33. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Ella M. Williams to Charles Clay, Jr. 
                         25 
                         34 
                         1912 December 5 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Interesting letter from the mistress of the private school attended by Clay children. Col. Clay wants the boys trained for West Point. The key lesson is in discipline, she says, and Charley has been showing a lack of it in ill-prepared lessons. She has rebuked him and his honor has been challenged. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         University of Kentucky Bulletin, Department of University Extension 
                         25 
                         35 
                         1926 June 1 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Lecture Catalog New York University 
                         25 
                         36 
                         1940-1941 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         A Tribute to Mr. Clay by James F. Hopkins 
                         25 
                         37 
                         1955 August 1 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Hopkins delivered an address at Ashland as a part of a program presented by the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation and the University of Kentucky. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Ladies of the Seaman’s Friend Society to Mrs. H. Clay 
                         25 
                         38 
                         1848 March 1 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Note about a visit from Henry Clay to Philadelphia. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Bill Adamson to William Blanford 
                         26 
                         1 
                         1996 December 5 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Adamson is trying to contact Bill Blanford, a cousin to his mother, about family genealogy. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Pauline Tressilian to Bill Adamson 
                         26 
                         2 
                         1997 March 1 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Writing for Bill Blanford, Tressilian explains her role and the present condition of Bill and Elizabeth. Some family genealogy. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper clipping, horse race in Montreal 
                         26 
                         3 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper clipping on death of Captain Richard Pike 
                         26 
                         4 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Account of the death of an arctic explorer. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Treasury Notes by authorization of Congress 
                         26 
                         5 
                         1776 April 2 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Forty shilling Caroll Currency note; Four dollar continental currency; and Carolina currency 6 and 4 dollar notes. Pasted to a backing. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Portait of a woman, Inscription 
                             Great-Grandmother Benjamin Hensley 
                         26 
                         6 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Drawing of a woman, Prudence Culbertson Hensley 
                         26 
                         7 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         According to the note, she was born 1790, died 1878. She would be an ancestor of Maria Hensley Pepper (Mrs. Charles D.) Clay. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper clipping, Ashland-Balgowan trip 
                         26 
                         8 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         Scope and Contents note 
                         Undated clipping about a visit to Ashland and Balgowan. The article mentions Dr. Tom Bullock (Nettie McDowell’s husband), Tom and George Clay, and Col. Milton Young. The article also talks about libraries and artifacts relating to Henry Clay. 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper clippings, fragments 
                         26 
                         9 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper map of Kentucky 
                         26 
                         10 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper clippings, poems, literary items 
                         26 
                         11 
                         undated 
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         Newspaper clipping, photograph of Kaiser Wilhelm,