Content Description The collection contains materials, predominantly correspondence, related to the Basore family of Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri. Much of the correspondence is by or between siblings George W. Basore, Francis Marion (F.M.) Basore, and Abraham Denver (A.D.) Basore, and many letters relate to the Kingston Roller Mill of Kingston, Arkansas, which several family members were involved with. As described by the donor, Wayne Clark, in his introduction to the collection, "The letters are mostly...

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The collection consists of speeches, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and other materials, primarily regarding the Madison County, Arkansas political career of Albert King and reflecting King's involvement with Carl E. Bailey and Orval Faubus' gubernatorial campaigns.

Scope and Content Note The Kingston, Arkansas, Collection contains photocopies of selected articles pertaining to Kingston, Arkansas, published in the Brick Church Life magazine, 1920-1929; a booklet 100% American: The War Story of a Country Church by Elmer J. Bouher; photocopies of articles by Otto E. Rayburn; and other printed material. It also contains photographs of the Kingston Community Church, a 1926 photograph of Otto E. Rayburn with the Kingston High School graduating class, and other group...

Scope and Content Note The Kingston Presbyterian Church Documents consists of letters, and 123 photocopied glass slides, dated from 1921 - 1925. Papers concerning the Kingston Church were found at the First United Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas February 15, 2003. The centerpiece of the collection is an unsigned letter presumably penned by Reverend Elmer J. Bouher circa 1923 petitioning a "sister" church in Rochester, New York for...