J. Shields Kenan Papers

Finding Aid

Box 1

Military Records (1)
- This file contains records concerning Mr. Kenan's career in the Army and National Guard. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. [1942-1976]

Military Records (2)
- This file contains records concerning Mr. Kenan's career in the Army and National Guard. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. [1942-1976]

Military Records (3)
- This file contains records concerning Mr. Kenan's career in the Army and National Guard. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. [1942-1976]

Military Records (4)
- This file contains records concerning Mr. Kenan's career in the Army and National Guard. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. [1942-1976]

Military Records (5)
- This file contains records concerning Mr. Kenan's career in the Army and National Guard. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. [1942-1976]

Military Records (6)
- This file contains records concerning Mr. Kenan's career in the Army and National Guard. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Fort Stewart
- This file contains information on medical services available at Fort Stewart. [1988]

Kenan's - History
- This file contains information about the history of Kenan's, the office supply and print shop run by Mr. Kenan's family.

Rotary Club
- This file contains information about the Statesboro Rotary Club, including transcripts of speeches on its history given by Mr. Kenan.

Bulloch County Historical Society
- This file contains materials about Mr. Kenan's participation in the founding of the Bulloch County Historical Society. [1973]

Liberty Hall
- This file contains information about Liberty Hall, the Kenan family's ancestral home in Kenansville, North Carolina.

Elise Richardson Kenan - DAC
- This file contains Elise Richardson Kenan's application for membership in the Daughters of the American Colonists.

Elise Richardson Kenan - Colonial Dames
- This file contains Elise Richardson Kenan's certificate of membership in Georgia Society of Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century and genealogical information on the Richardson family.

Elise Richardson Kenan - DAR
- This file contains Elise Richardson Kenan's application for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Bulloch Times
- This file contains photocopies of articles from the Bulloch Times, the local newspaper which Mr. Kenan published for a time.

Alvaretta Kenan Register
- This file contains information about Alvaretta Kenan Register, Mr. Kenan's sister.

Miscellaneous
- booklet - The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum [1963]
- Housing Authority of the City of Statesboro, Statesboro, Georgia: Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedules for the Year Ended March 31, 1996
- newspaper clipping - "W. H. Edmonds Recalls the 1920's in Statesboro," Bulloch Herald, January 19, 1961
- newspaper clipping - "Riding the rails through the mountains of Europe," The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, June 20, 1982





J. Shields Kenan Papers

Finding Aid

Box 2

1) certificate from First United Methodist Church of Statesboro, stating that J. Shields Kenan became a member of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1932 [10-24-87]

2) certificate naming James S. Kenan a Life Member of the Retired Officers Association

3) plaque naming J. Shields Kenan a Will Watt Fellow in the Georgia Rotary Student Program

4) District 692 Rotary Award for Outstanding Service Project in Club Service, presented to Statesboro Rotary Club [4-26-87]

5) Service Above Self award presented to Sheilds Kenan by the Statesboro Rotary Club for preparing the fifty year history book [1/87]

6) framed commission naming James Shields Kenan a Reserve Commissioned Officer (Major) in the U. S. Army [4-25-62]