Flanery family papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Flanery family papers
- Date
- 1883-1972 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 3 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Education, Higher -- Kentucky
- Legislators -- Kentucky.
- Women poets, American -- 20th century.
- Women -- Political activity -- Kentucky.
- Women -- Suffrage
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 72m22: [Identification of item], Flanery family papers, 1883-1972, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Mary Elliott Flanery, born into an important political family in Eastern Kentucky, for whom Elliott county was named, was the first woman legislator elected south of the Mason-Dixon line. After attending Barbourville (West Va.) College and the University of Kentucky, Mary Elliott began to teach in 1892. The next year, she married William Harvey Flanery, a lawyer. He established a law practice in Pikeville in 1895; they moved to Catlettsburg in 1912. In 1904 Mary Flanery became associated with the Ashland, Kentucky Daily Independent. She later served as a correspondent with many newspapers throughout Kentucky and neighboring states. Her political interests centered around women's suffrage and education. Her primary achievement during her single term in the Kentucky legislature, as Boyd county's representative from 1921-1923, was the introduction of the bill that created Morehead State University.
- The Flanerys had two daughters, Merle Flanery Howerton and Dawn Flanery Parker. Merle Howerton, like her mother, was active in Democratic Party circles. She served as president of the Democratic Woman's Club of Kentucky and as a member of the state Democratic Central Committee. Dawn Parker was a poet who submitted brief, humorous verses to a variety of magazines.
- Scope and Content
- The Flanery family papers (dated 1883-1972; 3 cubic feet; 5 boxes, 3 items, 1 folder) consist of correspondence receipts, genealogies, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, programs, and political memorabilia documenting the family life and career of Mary Elliott Flanery, the first woman elected to the Kentucky legislature. The correspondence describes concerns of family and business matters. There is also a scrapbook, largely given over to Mary Flanery's career, and there are copies of many of Dawn Parker's poems.
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
Correspondence, 1883-1972
Scope and Contents
The correspondence series includes personal family letters and business letters sent to and written by members of the Flanery family.
1883-1889
1890-1896
1904-1908
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1954
1955-1959
1960
1970-1972
To Mary Elliott Flanery, undated
From Dew Flanery, undated
From John Elliott Flanery, undated
Undated
To and from Merle Flanery Howerton, undated
To and from Dawn Flanery Parker, undated
Undated
General, 1900-1971
Scope and Contents
The General series includes materials collected by the Flanery family like pamphlets, brochures, and event programs from college or political campaigns. The series also contains some poetry and prose presumably written by Dawn Flanery. There are political materials especially relating to women's role in the Democratic Party.
Dawn Parker's invitations, postcards, souvenirs, membership cards, 1911-1971
Elliott genealogical summary, 1911-1971
Bills, checks, receipts, 1912-1917
Diplomas, certificates, 1914-1940
Pamphlets, programs, brochures from Randolph Macon College in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1908-1913
Pamphlets, programs, brochures, 1908-1913
Pamphlets, programs, political memorabilia, 1915-1918
Pamphlets, programs from Randolph Macon College, 1914
Pamphlets, programs, political memorabilia, 1919-1922, undated
Cards, programs, YMCA handbook, 1910-1917
Mary Elliott Flanery State Representative broadsides, 1921-1923
Newspaper clippings, 1900-1936
Ward-Belmont newspaper clippings, 1915 January 22-1915 May 7
Newspaper clippings, 1936-1963
Poetry and receipts, undated
Poetry and prose, undated
Reports, undated
Merle Flanery Howerton pamphlets and press releases from Miami Beach, Florida, circa 1955
Miscellaneous, 1950-1960
Miscellaneous fragments, undated
Kentucky Democratic and Democratic National Party Women's Reports, undated
Merle Flanery's newspaper clippings album, 1906
Flanery family scrapbook, 1911
Poems of Dawn Flanery, undated
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