Fouse family papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Fouse family papers
- Date
- 1854-1952 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 1.35 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Scripts.
- African Americans.
- Pamphlets.
- High school principals -- Kentucky -- Lexington.
- Educators.
- African Americans -- Education.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject.
- Preferred Citation
- 53M58 : [Identification of Item], Fouse Family Papers, 1854-1952, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- In 1893, Mr. Fouse was the first African American graduate of Otterbein College, in Westerville, Ohio. He began his academic career by founding the Corydon (Indiana) High School, where he remained until 1904 when he began his tenure as principal of Lincoln School in Gallipolis, Ohio. In 1908 Mr. Fouse became principal of the William Grant High School in Covington, Kentucky.
- Moving to Lexington, Kentucky in 1913, Mr. Fouse supervised the Russell School until 1923 when the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School was constructed and he served as its principal until his retirement in 1938.
- Elizabeth Fouse was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and a teacher who was active in numerous educational, religious, social and temperance organizations. She founded Lexington's Phyllis Wheatley Young Women's Christian Association (currently, in 1996, the Wheatley YWCA spells its name as Ms. Wheatley did: Phillis), was president of the Kentucky Chapter of the National Association of Colored Women in addition to serving as the scholarship division chair of the N.A.C.W. Mrs. Fouse was a member of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Kentucky Negro Education Association.
- The Dunbar High School portion of the collection includes information about athletic activities, and the cafeteria. A radio script prepared by Professor Fouse for a broadcast (30 April 1939) over station WLAP focused on the history of education of the black community in Lexington.
- Scope and Content
- The papers of William Henry Fouse and his wife, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beatrice Fouse reflect their commitment to the education of African Americans in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and, in particular, Lexington, Kentucky. The collection includes account books, correspondence, notebooks related to educational activities, pamphlets, broadsides and various financial records.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
Account book, 1897-1909
Account book, 1910-1918
Account books, 1927 May 25-1938 May 13
The American Baptist Louisville, Kentucky, 1947 August 2-1951 August 24
Baptist church material, 1924 December 3-1952 May 18
Bluegrass Oratorical Association, 1928 March 29-1937 April 6
Business letters, 1908 May 26-1948 December 15
London Ferrell's Prayer, 1854 October 2
- Box 2, folder 3
Scope and Contents
This is a typed copy. The last name is generally spelled Ferrill.
General correspondence, 1917 July 13-1937 August 31
General correspondence, 1937 September-1950 August
General correspondence, 1930 December 11-1952 October 23
General Kentucky material, 1914 January-1951 October
General non-Kentucky material, 1907-1951
Robert H. Hughes Educational Fund, 1928 March 29-1939 June 7
Inter-State County News Lexington, Kentucky, 1948 March 27-1948 May 15
Kentucky Association of Colored Women, and related organizations, 1921 May 31-1948 May 10
Kentucky Masonic Herald Frankfort, Kentucky, 1917 June
Kentucky Negro Education Association, 1932 June 29-1943 May 8
Library School Club notebook, undated
National Association of Colored Women, Inc., 1904 July 22-1950 November 25
National Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1945 August 31-1951 April 20
Postcards, 1910-1951
Scrapbook, 1910 January 30-1916 July 23
Items taken from Scrapbook, 1913-1915
School visits, 1916 September 20-1917 June 10
Young Men's Christian Association, 1930 November 1-1941 November 17
Young Women's Christian Association, 1921-1951
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, 1931 March 16-1949 January 8
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