Maude Ward Lafferty papers, 1865-1955
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Maude Ward Lafferty papers, 1865-1955
- Creator
- Lafferty, Maude Ward
- Extent
- 1.2 cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Subjects
- Barker, Henry Stites, 1850-1928.
- Bowman, John Bryan, 1824-1891.
- Ward, Andrew Harrison, 1815-1904.
- Lafferty, Maude Ward, 1869-1962.
- University of Kentucky.
- Lexington (Ky.)
- Women -- Kentucky -- Lexington.
- Scrapbooks.
- Arrangement
- This collection is arranged by subject in folders.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Maude Ward Lafferty was noted for her research. She was born in 1869 in Cynthiana, Kentucky where she also graduated from high school. She continued her education and graduated from a Paris, Kentucky convent as well. She was the wife of Judge William Thornton Lafferty who established the University of Kentucky's College of Law. Maude Lafferty wrote The Lure of Kentucky, a historical guidebook. She served as secretary of club service in the University of Kentucky's Department of Extension from 1924-1940. She affected a bureau of information to supply source material, books, historical data, speakers for club programs, and founded the University of Kentucky Woman's Club in 1909. Maude Ward Lafferty served as the first UK Woman's Club president, was also the president of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky from 1914-1916, and served as chairman of the board of the Kentucky Federation of Woman's Clubs. In 1924, she wrote and directed a sesquicentennial pageant for Harrodsburg and in 1925, one for Lexington. Maude Ward Lafferty gave lectures in the early 1920s on Kentucky history and raised more than 1,000 dollars for the University Student Loan Fund. She died on January 11, 1962.
- Scope and Content
- The Maude Ward Lafferty papers contain materials, such as biographical sketches, clippings, reports, and manuscripts used for Mrs. Lafferty's research on various topics including: the history of University of Kentucky, John B. Bowman, Choctaw Indian Academy, and Scott County (Kentucky) history.
- The collection also includes some of Mrs. Lafferty's writings, her correspondence, articles written about Mrs. Lafferty, and two scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs of Mrs. Lafferty and her family. There are also two boxes of note cards, which appear to be citations of articles, books, and other materials which Mrs. Lafferty used in her research.
Contents of the Collection
Articles by or about Maude Lafferty
Biographical Sketches
John B. Bowman and UK Board of Curators, 1873-1878
Correspondence between John B. Bowman and Hon. Harry Ward and Andrew Harrison Ward
Broadsides; charts; maps; pictures
Clippings, 1922-1950
State College History, 1870s-1910s
Manuscripts: History of the College of the Bible; Professor A. R. Milligan Historical Review of Kentucky University Read at 40th Anniversary of Union with Transylvania; Personal Reminiscences by Curator Z. F. Smith
Miscellaneous 1910-1948, includes Women's Club committee reports
Meeting programs, dedications, etc.
Transylvania College materials
Choctaw Indian Academy and Scott County History
Correspondence, 1916-1955
Bibliographic profiles, 1865-1882; contains some history of the University of Kentucky
University Extension Bulletin and miscellaneous
History of the University of Kentucky compiled by Maude Lafferty for the Kentucky Daughters of the American Revolution
Scrapbook 1: Includes Victory Garden and World War I, family photos, 1889-1921; Scrapbook 2: Features clippings about Mrs. Lafferty, particularly about talks she gave, 1908-1944
Note cards
Note cards
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