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THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY Published by The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky Incorporated NELSON L. DAWSON, PH.D., Editor 4p VOLUME 65 1991 Copyright 1991, by The Filson Club, Incorporated Press of General Printing Company Louisville, Kentucky CONTENTS OF VOLUME 65 January 1991 Recollections of Louisville, Kentucky 1890-1930 ..000o................... Edited by Dorothy C. Rush William Earl Barber: A Kentucky Hero at the Chosin Reservoir .. _H. Lew Wallace and James C. Claypool Tennessee’s Greatest Stud — Belle Meade cecectvsssssesevsseees......William Ridley Wills, I Notes and Documents: A View from John Filson’s House ..... Robert J. Greene and Leslie Ellen Brown Book Reviews .. eiates Guest Speakers for 1990 ..... Filson Club Reports ..... News and Comment Membership List April 1991 Kentucky Women Portrait of a Murderess: Anna Cook(e) Beauchamp J. W. Cooke Sarah G. Humphreys: Antebellum Belle to Equal Rights Activist, 1830-1907 Mary G. McBride and Ann M. McLaurin ‘“‘Perusin’ the Pennyrile’: Sadie Price, 19th-Century Botanist ......... Carol Crowe-Carraco Mary Verhoeff Versus the Army Engineers on the Canalization of the PA NN icici edie Aes David F. Ross “To Serve the People of the State of Kentucky”: Sarah Gibson Blanding and the Development of Administrative Skill, 1923-1941 Carolyn Terry Bashaw Book Reviews In Memoriam, 1990 News and Comment Editor’s Page July 1991 Biography of James LaViers and Diary of Thomas and James LaViers, 1863, Written While on Board the Vanguard, a Sailing Vessel .. -vcccssv........ Introduction by Harry M. Caudill The Reverend Ichabod Camp, First American Preacher on the Ohio and Mississippi EG isochrone cae ais nee ; Otto Lohrenz “What We Are About”: Recently Discovered Letters of William Clark Shed New Light on the Lewis and Clark Expedition ...... Gary E. Moulton and James J. Holmberg Focus on Kentucky Genealogy The Tyler Settlement Rural Historic District: Background and Beginning .... ; Joellen Tyler Johnston Book Reviews News and Comment Editor’s Page October 1991 Slavery’s Death Knell: Mourners and Revelers 7 Stuart Seely Sprague Joel T. Hart’s Executors: George Saul and Edward Silsbee . ; oo... Clifford Amyx The Impact of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic on the Jackson Purchase ..... Gregory K. Culver Notes and Documents Kentucky’s Slave Importation Law in Lyon County: A Document ...... , .......... Christopher Waldrep Book Reviews . News and Comment Editor’s Page . Index to Volume 65