Breathitt County (Ky.)
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Breathitt County, Kentucky
File — Box 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
Family photograph, portrait of Addie Lions
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1965
Breathitt County, Kentucky
File — Box 30, Folder: 6-7
Identifier: Folders 6-7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1968-2000
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