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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Materials consist of a general journal and loose sheets from a receipts and disbursements ledger maintained by Fund secretary, Luise West. They provide detailed financial information concerning the operation of Homeplace Hospital, other programs at Homeplace, the construction of the Perry County Rural Telephone Company, payments made by the Fund in the form of loans or grants, and income from various trusts. Together, they represent very comprehensive sources of information on the fiscal...

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. ...