KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 9 Apr 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 153 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:58:52 -0400 From: Bob Francis Subject: MISC: Shane Interview sources SHANE INTERVIEWS PUBLISHED IN THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY John D. Shane (born 1812, died 1864), as already stated, interviewed many pioneers and sons and daughters of pioneers. He kept detailed notes on each interview. His original notes, as has been frequently mentioned by us, are in the archives of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. A calendar entry of each is given in the Calendar of The Kentucky Papers in the Draper Collection of Manuscripts-, prepared by Miss Mabel C. Weaks, and published in 1925, a volume already referred to. The Filson Club, so far, has published in full twelve of these interviews, of which there are several hundred. Many have been quoted from, but as far as we are aware no one else has ever published any of them in full. Any and all are worth publishing. Those presented by us were therefore selected more or less at random. These twelve, like all of Shane's many other notes on interviews, throw interesting sidelights on early Kentucky and Kentuckians and give much local color not preserved elsewhere. Shane will not be fully appreciated until more Kentucky historians dig into his notes and there find what he has recorded, directly or indirectly, on the many subjects bearing on pioneer times. The Kentucky Papers, so-called, in the Draper Collection of Manuscripts fill thirty-four volumes, but they form a comparatively small part of the Draper manuscripts that bear on Kentucky and Kentuckians. Each volume of The Kentucky Papers is designated CC. The number of the volume precedes the letters CC, the figures that follow indicate the pages. Practically all of Shane's interviews are in volumes 11 to 17, that is 11CC to 17CC. Photostat copies of these seven volumes are in the archives of The Filson Club. We here list the Shane interviews that have been published in full in The Filson Club History Quarterly. The time of publication is shown, also an indication is given of the number of pages required for each. In this list are included a biography of Shane by Ye Secretary and a poem by Lucien V. Rule: 11 CC 54-66: Reverend John D. Shane's Interview with Pioneer William Clinkenbeard. By Lucien Beckner. April, 1928, pages 95-128. Shane, the Western Collector-a Biographical Sketch. By Otto A. Rothert. (Includes a brief list of Shane material in Draper Collection, Madison, Wisconsin, and in Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia.) January, 1930, pages 1-16. 11 CC 253-57: Big Crossing Station Built by Robert Johnson, Recorded in John D. Shane's Interview with Pioneer Ben. Guthrie. By Mrs. William H. Coffman. January, 1931, pages 1-15. 11 CC 67-79: John A Shane's Interview with Benjamin Allen, Clark County. By Lucien Beckner. April, 1931, pages 63-98. At The Grave of Reverend John D. Shane-Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, July 29, 1931. (A poem, seventy lines.) By Lucien V. Rule. October, 1933, pages 220-222. 11 CC 141-45: John D. Shane's Interview with Ephraim Sandusky. By Lucien V. Rule. October, 1934, pages 217-228. 12 CC 45-53: Reverend John Dabney Shane's Interview with Mrs. Sarah Graham of Bath County. By Lucien Beckner. October, 1935, pages 222-241. 11 CC 5-9, 17-18: Reverend John D. Shane's Notes on Interview, in 1844, with Mrs. Hinds and Patrick Scott of Bourbon County. (A copy of a recently found photograph of Shane is inserted in this transcription.) By Lucien Beckner. July, 1936, pages 166-177. 11 CC 133-35: Reverend John D. Shane's Notes on an Interview with Elijah Foley of Fayette County. By Lucien Beckner. October, 1937, pages 252-259. 12 CC 127-33: John D. Shane's Notes on an Interview with Jeptha Kemper of Montgomery County. By Lucien Beckner. July, 1938. Pages 151-161. 11 CC 25-27 (also extracts from 11 CC 41, 11 CC 128-132, 12 CC 42-44): John A Shane's Interview with Mrs. John McKinney and Her Son Harvey-Including Data on John McKinney's Fight with a Wildcat. By Otto A. Rothert. July, 1939, pages 157-166. 11 CC 19-23: John D. Shane Is Interview with Pioneer John Hedge, Bourbon County. By Otto A. Rothert. July, 1940, pages 176-181. 11 CC 121-125: John D. Shane's Interview with Colonel John Graves of Fayette County. By Otto A. Rothert. October, 1941, pages 238-247. 11 CC 276-279: John D. Shane's Interview, in 1841, with Mrs. Wilson of Woodford County. Also a List of Shane Interviews Published in The Filson Club History Quarterly. By Otto A. Rothert. October, 1942, pages 227-235. John D. Shane died February 7, 1864, in Cincinnati, where he was living at the time and where he kept his collection of books and other materials bearing on history and literature. In September, 1864, this collection was sold by the administrator of his estate, A. W. Williamson. For that purpose a fifty-page pamphlet of lists of items was printed. Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in Various Departments of Literature and Science, being the Library of the Late Rev. John A Shane-which will be sold at auction by S. G. Hubbard, Cincinnati. What became of the bulk of his library, that is his hundreds of standard books bearing on history, literature and science, has not yet been ascertained by us. It is known, however, that his books containing his manuscript notes on interviews and a few other items were purchased by Lyman C. Draper who shortly thereafter gave them to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is also known that the manuscripts, pamphlets and other documents bearing on church and allied subjects were then purchased by the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia. Beginning December, 1930, The Journal of the Department of History of the Presbyterian Society, Philadelphia, began publishing at irregular intervals documents from their Shane Collection, that is manuscripts and pamphlets that had been prepared by others and had been collected by Shane. In the October, 1935, issue of The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Charles R. Staples, of Lexington, published a nineteen-page article entitled "New Discoveries Amongst Old Records." He points out many of the important early Kentucky court records that are being neglected by local, regional and State historians. He calls attention to the Shane Collection in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and gives a two-page summary of the Shane Collection housed in the archives of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia. Mr. Staples' summary of the Philadelphia collection in The Register and our brief list of the two collections in Wisconsin and Philadelphia published in the History Quarterly in October, 1929, present a general outline of the Shane material in those two libraries. The Filson Club contemplates publishing, in full, each year, one of the Shane interviews and will be pleased to have suggestions as to which to select. Furthermore, Ye Editor is gathering material for an extensive biography of John D. Shane and therefore will be glad to receive or have his attention called to any published or unpublished data on the life and works of this neglected collector of material bearing on the early history of Kentucky. End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #153 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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