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University of North Carolina at
Asheville Manuscript Register Seth J. Perkinson
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| Title | Seth J. Perkinson |
| Creator | Louise L. Sallstrom, grand-daughter |
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/perkinson/perkinson.htm |
| Subject Keyword |
: Seth J. Perkinson ; Louise L. Sallstrom ; Edgar W. Lyda ; Asheville, NC ; Clean Life Club ; boy's clubs ; Mike Hamrick ; West Asheville Men’s Club ; Mr. B.B. Anderson, principal of Hall Fletcher High School ; E.B. Roberts ; W.E. Ryon ; J. E. Harris ; P.J. Fortune ; B.A. Barrose ; G.G. Morgan ; Mr. Bert Starnes ; E.E. Wheeler ; Y.M.C.A. ; West Asheville Civic Club ; Cherokee Indians ; Cherokee, NC ; West Asheville Civic Club ; Knot-Hole Gang ; Reformatory ; Camp Powatan; Asheville Boys' Home ; Buncombe County Training School ; Eliada Homes ; Mountain home Orphanage ; Civic Club Baseball League ; Spurgeon Sluder ; Asheville Fire Department ; Lee Edwards High School ; Jackson Building ; Mildred Weaver (daughter) ; Louise P. Ijams |
| Subject LCSH |
: Perkinson, Seth J. West Asheville (Asheville, NC) West Asheville Men's Club (Asheville, NC) Lyda, Edgar W. Sallstrom, Louise L. Clean Life Club (Asheville, NC) Weaver, Mildred Camp Powatan YMCA - Asheville |
| Description | A brief transcribed account of work of Seth J. Perkinson with the Asheville Clean Life Club donated by his grand-daughter, Louise L. Sallstrom and his daughter Mildred Young. Folder also includes an updated version, donated by Louise Sallstrom December 11, 2006, which is the Forward to an upcoming novel based on Seth Perkinson's life. |
| Publisher | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 28804 |
| Contributor | Southern Highlands Research Center |
| Date | 2001-06-30 |
| Type | Collection ; Text |
| Format | 2 documents |
| Source | Special Collections Vertical Files Perkinson, Seth [Clean Life Work Club] |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Edgar M. Lyda Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/lyda/Default.htm ; E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, ball3864a,b,c,c ; ball2417, UNCA. |
| Coverage | 1940's ; Asheville, NC |
| Rights | Any display, publication or public use must
credit D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North
Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | Louise L. Sallstrom [earlier version of the text may have been donated by Mildred Young, daughter] |
| Acquisition | 2004-04-15 |
| Citation | Seth J. Perkinson, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Southern Highlands Research Center staff ; Special Collections staff, 1980 and 2001 |
| Last updated | 2004-11-22, 2006-01-10 |
| Biography | Seth Perkinson is best known to Asheville as the creator of the Clean Life Club [also known to YMCA as the Good Life Club], an organization with the purpose of helping underprivileged boys live a clean life both physically and spiritually. The club remained strong throughout the Depression and well after World War II, during which time it branched out into several brother organizations such as the Tourist Knot Hole Gang, Camp Powhatan, and the Civic Club Baseball League. Seth and his wife Lela Y. Perkinson had six children: Mildred Weaver [whose photograph is included in the Ewart B. Ball Collection]; Louise P. Ijams of Memphis, TN ; Katherine P. Lyda of Asheville [who married Edgar W. Lyda] ; Seth Perkinson Jr. of Lake Lure, NC ; Mildred P. Young of Asheville ; and Dorothy P. Jolliff Kres of Cape Coral, FL. Seth's granddaughter, Louise Lyda Sallstrom, and Seth Perkinson's son, Seth Perkinson, Jr., have completed a historical novel based on Seth senior's work with the boys in the YMCA and the Clean Club. |
