Ireland family papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Ireland family papers
- Date
- 1823-1883 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.1 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Elections -- Kentucky.
- Legislators -- Kentucky.
- Steamboats -- Kentucky.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged chronologically.
- Preferred Citation
- 2005ms023: [identification of item], Ireland family papers, 1823-1883, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Ireland family lived in Fleming, Lewis, Mason, and Greeunp counties in Kentucky. Family members included Sarah Crutcher (1800-) and Captain Samuel D. Ireland (1798-1861) as well as their daughter-in-law and son Pamela D. Robb and William C. Ireland (1823-). Samuel Ireland built and captained several steamboats, including Emigrant and "S.B. Hunter", which plied the Ohio River to Cincinnati, Louisville, and other points upriver.
- William C. Ireland studied law in Clarksburg, Lewis County. He moved to Greenupsburg (now Greenup), Kentucky, in 1852 and then to Ashland, Kentucky, in 1868. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1859 and again in 1861, and was elected assistant Clerk of the Senate in 1863. During the Civil War, as a former Whig, he was a Unionist who opposed secession. He later joined the Democratic party and was elected Judge from the Sixteenth District in August 1874. Pamela Robb Ireland's parents were Joseph Robb of Lewis County and Dorcas Fee of Flemingsburg.
- Scope and Content
- The Ireland family papers (dated 1823-1883; 0.1 cubic feet; 1 folder) primarily comprise correspondence and legal documents that document the daily lives of the Ireland family of Kentucky and their reactions to the Civil War in Kentucky.
- The earliest group of documents consist of letters from and to Pamela D. Robb Ireland's mother, Dorcas Fee of Flemingsburg. Included in these documents is an advertisement from 1827 by Fee to begin a female school in Clarksburg, Kentucky, where she proposes to teach spelling, reading, writing, needle work, dancing, drawing, and painting. Additionally, there is a letter from Jane Campbell of Cynthiana, Kentucky, to Fee lamenting the death of a presumably enslaved woman named Nelly.
- Other documents include letters to Captain Samuel D. Ireland and Sarah Crutcher Ireland as well as financial and legal documents. The bulk of the Ireland family documents consist of letters to and from William Ireland and his family. Several letters from William to his wife Pamela D. Robb, while serving in the Kentucky Legislature in 1861, include his thoughts on Kentucky's reaction to the secession of Southern states prior to the Civil War. Additionally, the collection contains several letter from William to his father Samuel, commenting on his election to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1859.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Captain Samuel D. Ireland correspondence and financial papers, 1834-1860
William Ireland letters to Samuel D. Ireland, 1857-1860
William Ireland family correspondence and papers, 1861-1883
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