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A Guide to the Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947 Butterworth, Carey Wilbur, Papers, 1890-1947 51472

A Guide to the Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51472


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
51472
Title
Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947
Physical Description
.675 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947. Accession 51472. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Purchased.

Biographical Information

Carey Wilbur Butterworth was born in Petersburg, Virginia on 22 October 1868. He was the son of Joseph Wilbur Butterworth and Martha Thomas Southall. He married 1) Ida Burns Little (1870-1905) on 23 June 1892, and 2) Mamie Young Little (1879-1973) on 19 June 1907. Butterworth was employed by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad for over fifty years. He died in Richmond on 5 December 1949 and is buried in Riverview Cemetery.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1890-1947, of Carey Wilbur Butterworth (1868-1949) relating to his work as an agent for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad at Doswell station in Hanover County, and later at Milford station in Caroline County, Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, much of it with William D. Duke (1873-1951), company general manager, and concerns employee hiring, wages, job performance, and working conditions at the two stations. There are also accounts and receipts, applications for weekly settlements, cartoons and drawings, certificates, check rolls, employee pay receipts, freight bills and bills of lading, monthly accounts current, Order of Railroad Telegraphers materials, remittances, and retirement benefit information.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1
Accounts and Receipts.
Box 1 Folder 2
Annual Reports, 1932, 1947 .
Box 1 Folder 3
Applications for Weekly Settlements.
Box 1 Folder 4
Cartoons/Drawings.
Box 1 Folder 5
Certificates.
Box 1 Folder 6
Check Rolls.
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence, 1890 .
Box 1 Folder 8-11
Correspondence, 1895-1898 .
Box 1 Folder 12-13
Correspondence, 1904-1905 .
Box 1 Folder 14
Correspondence, 1907 .
Box 1 Folder 15-26
Correspondence, 1909-1920 .
Box 1 Folder 27
Correspondence, 1923 .
Box 1 Folder 28-29
Correspondence, 1927-1928 .
Box 1 Folder 30
Correspondence, 1930 .
Box 1 Folder 31
Correspondence, 1932 .
Box 1 Folder 32
Correspondence, 1934 .
Box 1 Folder 33
Correspondence, 1936 .
Box 1 Folder 34-35
Correspondence, 1938-1939 .
Box 1 Folder 36
Correspondence, 1941 .
Box 1 Folder 37
Correspondence, 1946 .
Box 1 Folder 38
Correspondence, undated.
Box PP Oversize Box Folder n/a
The Country Merchant (New Concord, OH), August 1901 .
Box 1 Folder 39
Deed.
Box 1 Folder 40
Diary of Agnes Gray Butterworth, 1919 .
Box PP Oversize Box Folder n/a
Drawing/Sketch (Oversize).
Box 1 Folder 41
Employee Job Performance.
Box 1 Folder 42
Employee Pay Receipts/Stubs.
Box 1 Folder 43
Forms/Stationary (Blank).
Box 1 Folder 44
Freight Bills/Bills of Lading.
Box 1 Folder 45
Freight Bill Overcharges.
Box 2 Folder 1
Greeting Cards.
Box 2 Folder 2
Minutes.
Box 2 Folder 3
Miscellaneous.
Box 2 Folder 4
Monthly Accounts Current.
Box 2 Folder 5
"National Housing Act" - Federal Housing Administration Booklet.
Box 2 Folder 6
Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
Box 2 Folder 7
Parnassus Club.
Box 2 Folder 8
Patent.
Box PP Oversize Box Folder n/a
Plan of New Water Station at Milford, 1916 .
Box 2 Folder 9-10
Remittances, 1911 .
Box 2 Folder 11
Retirement Benefits.
Box 2 Folder 12
Rules and Regulations/Schedule of Wages, 1910 .
Box 2 Folder 13
Virginian Railway Company - Authorities for Expenditure, 1922-1924 .