Box 5

Masonic certificate, 1868; patent for Improvement for Inside Blinds; admission to Delaware County Courts, 1884; carbon copy of typed tribute to Victor Hugo delivered at Lincoln Hall, Philadelphia, 1885; copy of letter which references his defense of Spiritualism, 1886

Poetry written by Damon Y. Kilgore, including poem to six month old daughter, Carrie Burnham Kilgore. Letters from Kilgore daughters, Carrie and Fannie, to parents and miscellaneous. Also a downloadt found online Jan. 10, 2019, a copy of a memorial on life of Damon Y. Kilgore, probably written by his wife, and according to source, copied from an incomplete typed manuscript, the property of Alfred D. Hoadley. Created 2011 using Reunion for Macintosh. Alfred Hoadley died in 2010.

In 1872 Kilgore wrote to the University of Pennsylvania Law School for permission to attend lectures. Includes congratulations in 1883 for graduation from Law School, but advised to wear street dress rather than cap and gown at Commencement. Many of letters deal with her legal practice.

Legal arguments, admittance certificates, etc.

Includes correspondence from University of Pennsylvania Law School concerning biographical sketch and acknowledging her as its first woman graduate

First part of Constitution written by Carrie B. Kilgore, attorney of Law, 1886. Manuscript copy by her daughter in a hardback notebook. The goal was equal education for women.

Brochures, session of 1870-71: Carrie S. Burnham, M.D., as Faculty: Professor of Physiology and Hygiene. Damon Y. Kilgore, Esq., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. The Hygieo-therapeutic College of Philadelphia was a Homeopathic medical school, open to men and women).

Argued before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for the Eastern District. Damon Y. Kilgore, attorney for the Plaintiff. The case concerned Carrie's attempt to register to vote in the 1871 general election. Courts determined she was not a "freeman" as defined at the time.

Oration, delivered Sunday Evening, July 4, 1869. Published by the Blood Brothers, Philadelphia. 2nd and 3rd editions