Luke family papers , MSS 14066

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Ellen Welch

Administrative Information

Biographical / Historical

The Luke family of Berryville, Virginia during 1853 to 1946 consists of John Whelan Luke, a farmer, a Clarke County school trustee, and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1851), his wife Ann Louisa Grantham, and several of their children, Edwin Clifford Luke, a store salesman in New York City, James Luke, a local bank teller, Pattie Lucille Luke, a music and school teacher, Elizabeth "Bessie" Luke, Samuel Luke (who died from sickness in 1893), and Anna Clayton Luke.

Source: History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke.

Scope and Contents

Luke Family papers, MSS 14066, 1 cubic foot, contains family correspondence, financial, legal, and personal papers of a late Nineteenth century family from Berryville, Virginia. Topics include slavery, politics, farming, and the health of family and friends. There is also a brief mention of John Hopkins Hospital as well as World War I. There are a few items from other families including Frye, Zirkle, Geary, Rupp, and Harlow. They may have been friends or relatives of the Luke family.

Container List

Family correspondence

0.020 Cubic Feet 10 folders in legal document box. Box 1.

1869-1946English.

Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 1
John W. Luke

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1869-1893English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 2
Helen J. Depew

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1887-1899English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 3
E. Cliffored Luke

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1889-1892English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 4
E. Clifford Luke

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1893English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 5
E. Clifford Luke

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1894-1896English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 6
E. Clifford Luke

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1.
1897-1904; 1943English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 7
Ann Louisa Luke and miscellaneous letters

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1.
1886-1904English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 8
Pattie Luke

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1.
1899-1915, 1946English.
Scope and Contents
Included are letters from E. Clifford Luke to his sister Pattie about John Hopkins hospital and also about "whipping" the Germans. (1919)
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 9
Bessie Luke

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1905-1913English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 10
Samuel Luke (grievance letters about his death)

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1893English.

Financial and legal papers

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1.

1853-1926English.

Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 11
Financial papers

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1.
1853-1926English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 12-13
Financial papers

0.08 Cubic Feet Two folders in legal document box. Box 1.
1881-1926English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 14
Financial papers

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1886-1898English.
Manuscripts box: 1 [X030899275] folder: 15
Financial papers

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1886-1911English.
Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 1
Financial papers

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2
1892-1937English.
Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 2
Legal papers

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 1
1885-1908English.

Miscellaneous and personal items of Luke family and other famlies

1880-1950English.

Mixed Materials box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 3
Programs (invitations) and school records

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2.
1892-1950English.
Scope and Contents
[Truman] Fry report card, Commencement exercises programs for the Columbia School of Music, Shenandoah County High School, Toms Brook High School, New Market High School; and invitations to the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society, Christ Church Organ and Song Recital, New Amsterdam Club, and Mount Jackson Lodge, Va.,
Mixed Materials box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 4
Advertisements and newspaper clippings

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2.
[1934-1940's]English.
Manuscripts box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 5-6
George R. Geary, Thomas Frye and Reuben Zirkle financial papers

0.08 Cubic Feet Two folders in legal document box. Box 2. Geary and Zirkle receipts in folder 5. Frye ledgers in folder 6.
1868-1918English.
Mixed Materials box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 7
Autograph books, yearbooks, and scrapbooks

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2
1888-1908English.
Scope and Contents
Maggie Shirley Harlow autograph album, P. M. Hopper remembrance plate, Joseph H. Rupp scrapbook, Mennonite yearbooks, Truman Fry report card, and Ruckersivlle Graded School autograph book.
Photographs box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 8
Photographs

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2.
[1880's-1930's?]English.
Mixed Materials box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 9
War ration books

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2.
1942English.
Mixed Materials box: 2 [X030899276] folder: 10
Writings miscellaneous

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder in legal document box. Box 2
UndatedEnglish.
Eugene Luke confirmation certificate (oversize)
UndatedEnglish.
General
Workflows says that this item is housed in OS box P-35.