Job Darbin Turner Alumni Association papers, 1882-19310000ua199 Alumni Association (University of Kentucky) Job Darbin Turner0.55 cubic feet (2 boxes) The materials are in English. The Job Darbin Turner Alumni Association papers consist of correspondence, clippings, and records, 1882-1931.University of Kentucky Libraries, Special Collections Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
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0000ua199: [identification of item], Job Darbin Turner Alumni Association papers, University of Kentucky Archives.
Turner, Job D, 1876-1946. Pence, Merry Lewis, 1854-1938. University of Kentucky. Alumni Association.Lexington (Ky.)Job Darbin Turner was a University of Kentucky graduate, class of 1898, who served as Alumni Association secretary from 1913-1916. Turner later served as head of the Department of Commercial Fields at the University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, circa 1937 and headed a project to secure a portrait of then president James K. Patterson.
The Job Darbin Turner Alumni Association papers consist of correspondence, clippings, and records. The papers consist of correspondence and expense records from1898. The correspondence, along with letters and telegrams, concern various University of Kentucky class members and their activities. The expense records are comprised predominantly of receipts for expenditures made by Turner for Alumni Association activities or publications. Also included are several newspapers referencing Mr. Merry Lewis Pence, who served as a professor of Physics and is best know for his experimental work with X-rays. The newspapers in folders 6-9 are fragile and damaged.
This collection is arranged by subject in folders.
Container List 11Correspondence, 1913-191612Alumni Magazine Submissions, 1916.13Receipts and records, 1910-191514Receipts, 1913-191615Clippings regarding Alumni and Alumni Association, 1916.16Scientific American, April 4, 188517The Morning Herald, April 25, 1897 (Part I)18The Courier Journal, April 19, 193119The Courier Journal, November 22, 192621Lexington Daily Press, June 9, 1881 (two copies)22Weekly Courier Journal, January 30 188223The Daily Leader, April 5, 189624The Morning Herald, April 10, 1896; The Morning Herald, April 15, 189625The Somerset Reporter, May 7, 189626The Morning Herald, April 25, 1897 (Part II); The Morning Democrat, February 14, 190127Kentucky Kernel, May 11 1916; Kentucky Kernel, October 11, 1918