Lexington History

Holley, Mary Austin. Letters of an Early American Traveler, Mary Austin Holley: Her Life and Her Works, 1784-1846. Edited by Mattie Austin Hatcher, Southwest Press, 1933.
General Collection: F389 .H76
Includes reprints of letters written by M. A. Holley, including a few on Cholera and Yellow Fever.

Medical theses on cholera written by medical students at Transylvania between the 1820s and 1850s.
A medical theses was sometimes written at the culmination of a medical degree at Transylvanian in the first half of the 18th century.  Learn more about the Medical Theses collection and the Transylvania Medical School

Transylvania Journal of Medicine  1828-1837, vol. 1, vols. 3-8, vols. 10-11.

Bell, John, et al. All the Material Facts in the History of Epidemic Cholera : Being a Report of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, to the Board of Health : And a Full Account of the Causes, Post Mortem Appearances, and Treatment of the Disease. Published by Thomas Desilver, Jun., 1832.

Drake, Daniel. A Practical Treatise on the History, Prevention, and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera: Designed Both for the Profession and the People. Corey and Fairbank, 1832.
Drake taught at Transy.

News articles published at the time of an event are considered primary historical sources.

1787-1840 - Kentucky Gazette. 

• LexPubLib's info on the Kentucky Gazette along with link to digitized copies of Kentucky Gazette.

1808-1832 - The Reporter & The Kentucky Reporter

• LexPubLib's info on The Reporter and link to digitized copies of The Reporter (1808-1817)
• LPL's info on the Kentucky Reporter and link to digitized copies of The Kentucky Reporter (1817-1830)

1845-1847 - The True American - Abolitionist, Cassius Clay

• LPL's info on the True American and digitized copies from 1845-1846.

1847-1848 - Daily Lexington Atlas

• LPL's info on the Daily Lexington Atlas and digitized copies

1892-1912 - Lexington Standard

• Only a few issues are known; these are digitized at the LOCs Chronicling America site

1895-1899 - Daily Argonaut

• LPL's info on the Daily Argonaut and digitized copies

1912-unknown - Lexington Daily News

• Only a few issues are known to exist which are digitized at LOC's Chronicling America

The Lexington Herald Leader was once multiple newspapers.

• 1870 - Lexington Daily Press started by Hart Foster and Henry T. Duncan.
• 1888 - Kentucky Leader started.
• 1895 - Lexington Daily Press combines with Lexington Transcript to form the Morning Herald.
• 1895 - Kentucky Leader changes name to Daily Leader
• 1897-1935 - Morning Herald and then the Lexington Herald edited by Desha Breckinridge
• 1901 - Daily Leader changes name to Lexington Leader
• 1905 - Morning Herald changes name to Lexington Herald
• 1937 - John Stoll, editor of the Lexington Leader, buys the Lexington Herald.  They are published as separate papers on the same equipment. The Herald  reflects the Democrat party's point of view and the Leader leans Republican.
• 1973 - Knight Newspapers (later to be Knight-Ridder) buys the Herald Leader Company.
• 1980 - Location is moved the Main St. & Midland Ave.
• 1983 - The Herald and the Leader merge papers to become one publication. John Carroll who had been the editor of the Herald is the editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader. Transy provides access to the Herald Leader from 1983-current.

Foody, Terry. The Pie Seller, the Drunk, and the Lady : Heroes of the 1833 Cholera Epidemic in Lexington, Kentucky : Lessons for Our Global Health Today. Terry Foody, 2014.
General Collection: RA644 .C3 F66 2014

Cholera in Lexington. University of Kentucky Library Associates, 1963.
General Collection: RC131.K4 C45 1963

Ambrose, Charles T. A Short Tour of Lexington : Regarding Cholera Epidemics Here, Buildings of Architectural Note, Sites of Local Historical Interest, the City's Most Celebrated Madam. 2007.
Spec Coll: F459 .L6 A540 2011

Calomel, Cholera, and Science, 1825-1865. In: Ramage, James A., and Andrea S. Watkins. Kentucky Rising : Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War, University Press of Kentucky, 2011.