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E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund.

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Buckhorn Children's Center Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0045-SAA 045
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs and microfilmed records documenting the establishment and operation of Buckhorn Children's Center and its predecessor institutions, Witherspoon College and Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency, located in Perry County, Ky. Selected Records 1874-1979; Selected Photographs 1900-1980.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874-1980

E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021 SAA 020
Abstract The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom. Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1978

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Appalachian Region. 1
Breathitt County (Ky.) 1
Education -- Kentucky. 1
Knott County (Ky.). 1