Rockbridge Historical Society Biographical CollectionRHS.Coll.0033

Rockbridge Historical Society Biographical CollectionRHS.Coll.0033


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Repository
Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives
Identification
RHS.Coll.0033
Title
Rockbridge Historical Society Biographical Collection Date Not Yet Determined
Quantity
12 Box
Language
English .

Scope and Contents

This collection contains biographical and historical information on various people and places.

Container List

A
Mixed Materials [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 1-14 English.
Scope and Contents

Includes folders on Jean Cameron Agnew, Jeannie O. Abbott, John Agnor, Andrew Alexander, Archibald Alexander, John Alexander, Louise Houston Alexander, William Alexander, Archer Anderson, Ellen Anderson, Joseph Anderson, William A. Anderson, Armentrout, and Jacob Arnold.

  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 1
    Abbot, Jeannie O.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    Includes financial deed from 1890, authorized capital bond from Buena Vista Cassimere Mills from 1891, bond from People's National Bank in Lynchburg from 1891, and a hand written bond noting terms of loans from 1893.

  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 2
    Agnew, Jean Cameron
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a biographical essay by Mrs. Henry Drennan Agnew (no date) and a scrapbook, also assembled by Mrs. Henry Agnew, which includes newspaper clippings about Jean Agnew (1934-1935).

  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 3
    Agnor, John
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 4
    Alexander, Andrew
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 5
    Alexander, Archibald
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a photo of Archibald Alexander's house, dated 1845.

  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 6
    Alexander, John
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 7
    Alexander, Louise Houston
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 8
    Alexander, William
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 9
    Anderson, Archer
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a 1918 publication on Archer Anderson and his time spent as a director of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia.

  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 10
    Anderson, Ellen
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 11
    Anderson, Joseph
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains three gelatin silver photo copies that depict a "patriotic celebration" held on behalf of William A. Anderson from 1917. The original photo was developed by J.T. Miller at 28 Main St. Lexington, Virginia.

  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 12
    Anderson, William A.
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 13
    Armentrout
    English.
  • Text [0000000204] box: 1 folder: 14
    Arnold, Jacob
    English.
B
Mixed Materials [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 15-32 English.
Scope and Contents

Includes folders on George A. Baker, Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. Hassie Barry, Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Blain, Mrs. Lewis H. Blair, BlakeyJohn Bower, Dr. Elliott T. Brady, John Mercer Brooke, Brooks Family, Manley Brown, Mary Moore Brown, Sally White Bruce, Thomas Bruce, Samuel Burks, and Burns family

  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 15
    Baker, George A.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes two photo negatives that depict George and Mary Baker. The developed portraits are included as well.

  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 16
    Barclay, William Houston
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 17
    Barry, Hassie, Mr. and Mrs.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a bound copy of typed interview transcripts between Hassie Barry and Eleanor Connor on behalf of Lime Kiln Arts from November 12th, 1994. Transcribed by Rockbridge Reports.

  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 18
    Benton, Thomas H.
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 19
    Blain, Daniel
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 20
    Blair, Louis H.
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 21
    Blakey
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 22
    Bowyer, John
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 23
    Brady, Dr. Elliot T.
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 24
    Brooke, John Mercer
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 25
    Brooks Family
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 26
    Brown, Manley
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 27
    Brown, Mary Moore
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 28
    Bruce, Sally White
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 29
    Bruce, Thomas
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 30
    Burks, Samuel
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 31
    Buers
    English.
  • Text [0000000205] box: 2 folder: 32
    Burns Family
    English.
C
Mixed Materials [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 33-61 English.
Scope and Contents

Includes folders on Campbell/Houston family, Edmund D. Campbell, Harry D. Campbell, John Lyle Campbell, John Poage Campbell, Leslie Lyle Campbell, Robert F. Campbell, Robert K. Campbell, W. A. Campbell, William S. Campbell, Horace Caruthers, John A. Champe, Chapin family, Chittum, John Coalter, Christopher Columbus, Robert Page Cooke, Mary Beard Copper, Rev. John Craig, Jane Todd Crawford, James S. A. Crawford, Crozet family, Ernest Cummings, and Cunningham family.

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 33
    Campbell Family
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 34
    Campbell, Edmund D.
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 35
    Campbell, Harry D.
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 36
    Campbell, John L.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a manuscript copy of John Lyle Campbell's work "Silurian Formation in Western Virginia," published in the American Journal of Science and ARts, Vol. XVIII, 1879.

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 37
    Campbell, John Lyle
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 38
    Campbell, John Poage
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 39
    Campbell, Leslie Lyle
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 40
    Campbell, Robert F.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a scrapbook made from a First Presbyterian Church (Asheville, N.C.) program pamphlet and newspaper clippings about Robert Campbell. The pamphlet is from a 1943 memorial of Campbell.

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 41
    Campbell, Robert K.
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 42
    Campbell, William Addison
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a scrapbook with a variety of personal writings, journal entries, and correspondence to and from William Anderson Campbell. Letters date back to 1882. Newspaper obituaries are included following personal writing and ephemera.

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 43
    Campbell, William S.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains two photos of William S. Campbell as a child and as a young man. No dates available.

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 44
    Caruthers, Horace
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 45
    Caruthers, William A.
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 46
    Champe, John A.
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 47
    Chapin, Laura
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 48
    Chittum, Charles
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    Two copies of a pamphlet called 'The Story of Finding the Coffin in which Gen. Robert E. Lee was afterward Buried'

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 49
    Coalter, John
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 50
    Columbus, Christopher
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains 4 photographs that display a 1492 English translation of Christopher Colombus' Log Book on his initial journey to the Americas.

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 51
    Cooke, Robert Page
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 52
    Copper, Mary Beard
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 53
    Corbin, Margaret
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 54
    Craig, Reverend John
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 55
    Crawford, Jane Todd
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a number of publications and complete magazines reflecting on Jane Crawford's abdominal surgery performed by Ephraim McDowell, such as the Kentucky Medical Journal (1979) and Danville Magazine (1972). Furthermore, there is an illustrated print depicting the medical scene (based on a lithograph from 1880).

  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 56
    Crawford, Jane Todd - Correspondence
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 57
    Crawford, Jane Todd - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 58
    Crawford, James A.
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 59
    Crozet, Claudius
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 60
    Cummings, Ernest
    English.
  • Text [0000006780] box: 3 folder: 61
    Cunningham
    English.
D
Mixed Materials [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 62-81 English.
Scope and Contents

Includes folders on Samuel Dale, Benjamin Darst, Pierre Daura, Davidson, Charles Andrew Davidson, Greenlee Davidson, James Dorman Davidson, James M. Davidson, Jefferson Davis, Sam Davis, Benjamin Franklin Day, Marquis De Chastellus, Sally Bruce Dickinson, James Dabney Dix, Charles Squier Dod, Calvin M. Dold, Drake, and Dunlap.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 62
    Dale, Samuel
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 63
    Darst, Benjamin Sr.
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 64
    Daura, Pierre
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a woodblock print of a Pierre Daura Christmas card, depicting the birth of Jesus Christ. No dates available.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 65
    Davidson
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 66
    Davidson, Charles Andrew
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 67
    Davidson, Greenlee - Poem
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 68
    Davidson, Greenlee - Poem
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 69
    Davidson, Greenlee - Biography
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 70
    Davidson, James Dorman
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 71
    Davidson, James M.
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 72
    Davis, Jefferson
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a pamphlet from the Proclamation of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Jefferson Davis on June 3rd, 1908, officially dubbed a Confederate memorial day by the Hollywood Memorial association and endorsed by former Virginia Govenor, Claude A. Swanson. Pamphlet includes a photo of Davis.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 73
    Davis, Sam
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a pamphlet on Sam Davis written by Dr. H. M. Hamill entitled "The Story of an Old Fashion Boy," from 1908.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 74
    Day, Benjamin Franklin
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 75
    De Chastellus, Marquis
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 76
    Dickinson, Sally Bruce
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 77
    Dix, James Dabney
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a biographical death record in the immediate days following James Dabney Dix's passing by his brother. No dates available.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 78
    Dod, Charles Squier
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 79
    Dold, Calvin M.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains 19th century ink blotters advertising insurance companies for which Dold was the Lexington agent as well as a biographical sketch of Dold.

  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 80
    Drake, G. Francis
    English.
  • Text [0000006781] box: 4 folder: 81
    Dunlap, Henrietta
    English.
E-I
Mixed Materials [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 82-117 English.
Scope and Contents

George William Effinger, Charles M. Figgat, Richard Fletcher, Augusta B. Fothergill, William Frazier, Jacob Fuller, Francis pendleton Gaines, James E. A. Gibbs, Gilbert McClung Gillespie, Gilmer Family, Ellen Glasgow, Nancy Gravatt, Michael Harmon, Robert Goodloe Harper, Haynes family, David Hays, John Hays, Hays family, Maude Henderson, Hickory Hill, Finley Willson Houston, K. H. Houston, Samuel Houston, Samuel Houston Jr., Rev. Samuel Houston, Thomas D. Houston, Houston Family, James Lewis Howe, Charles Hughes, margaret Jones Hull, Milton Wylie Humphreys, Richard C. Irby, and George Irwin.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 82
    Effinger, George Williams
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 83
    Figgat, Charles M.
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 84
    Fletcher, Richard
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 85
    Fothergill, Augusta B.
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 86
    Frazier, William
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 87
    Fuller, Jacob
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a teaching certificate for the Rockbridge County public free schools dated August 31, 1873 and a certificate of lifetime membership in the American Colonization Society dated August 25, 1846. The membership certificate is signed by the Society's president, Henry Clay, and secretary, William McLain.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 88
    Gaines, Francis Pendleton
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a pamphlet from the inauguration of Francis Pendleton Gaines as President of Washington and Lee University. Dated October 25th, 1930.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 89
    Gibbs, James E. A.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains 6 silver gellatin photographs and one photo negative depicting James Gibbs and his residence. No dates available.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 90
    Gibbs, James E. A. - Biography
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 91
    Gillespie, Gilbert McClung
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 92
    Gilmer Family
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 93
    Glasgow, Ellen
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    Includes part of newspaper article, "Ellen Glasgow's Biographer Visits Old Buena Vista Home," with photo of author Miss Phyllis Hanson of Norfolk in Green Forest room, holding her manuscript.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 94
    Gravatt, Nancy
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 95
    Harmon, Michael
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 96
    Harper, Robert Goodloe
    1914English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a published speech given by Harper at the celebration of the recent triumphs of the cause of mankind in Germany dated January 20, 1814.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 97
    Haynes Family
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 98
    Hays, David
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 99
    Hays Family
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 100
    Hays, John
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 101
    Henderson, Maude
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 102
    Hickory Hill
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains an October 1944 receipt for the sale of "Hickory Hill," a home in Rockbridge County.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 103
    Houston, Finley Wilson
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 104
    Houston, K. H.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a bound scrapbook with a variety of stickers and newspaper clipppings. No dates available.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 105
    Houston, Samuel
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a pamphlet written by Sam Houston, dated March 3rd, 1825, which proffers his perspective on 19th century Tennessee state politics.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 106
    Houston, Samuel - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 107
    Houston, Samuel Reverend
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 108
    Houston, Samuel Jr.
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 109
    Houston, Thomas D.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a detailed biography of Houston and a documents collection. No publication date available.

  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 110
    Houston Family
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 111
    Howe, James Lewis
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 112
    Howe, James Lewis - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 113
    Hughes, Charles
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 114
    Hull, Margaret James
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 115
    Humphreys, Milton Wylie
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 116
    Irby, Richard C.
    English.
  • Text [0000000210] box: 5 folder: 117
    Irwin, George
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains personal correspondence between George Irwin and his mother, dated December 10th, 1917.

J
Mixed Materials [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 118-133 English.
Scope and Contents

This box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.

  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 118
    Jackson, George
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains personal correspondence between George Jackson and Mrs. Moore regarding real estate. Dated August 17th, 1907.

  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 119
    Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall"
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 120
    Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 121
    Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" - Biography
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a copy of "The Southern Churchman" from 1944 with a biographical piece on Jackson. Also holds an undated poem from an anoynmous author. Furthermore, there is a silver gellatin photo of a personal correspondence between Jackson and a fellow Confederate General.

  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 122
    Jefferson, Thomas
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains multiple photo negatives and a developed silver gellatin photograph of a Thomas Jefferson letter related to the Natural Bridge, dated July 1st, 1809. A facsimilie of the letter is also included.

  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 123
    Jerome, Chauncy
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 124
    Johnston, Abner Nash
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 125
    Johnston Family
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a number of photos that portray personal correspondence to and from Johnston, dated between 1798 to 1805. Furthermore the folder has a prize awarded to Anna Johnston in chemistry from the Lexington Female Academy.

  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 126
    Jones, Mary Eddie Scott
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 127
    Jordan, John
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a copy of the magazine "The Iron Worker," dated August 1957, with a biographical piece on John Jordan. Also included is a photocopy of a November 7, 1873 Lexington Gazette article, giving the particulars of the blowing up of the Jordan Furnace in Amherst County, on October 28, 1873. Two men were killed, Henry Watkins and a black man, by the name of Tom Watson. An excerpt of this newspaper article, from the Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1973, is also included in this folder.

  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 128
    Jordan, John - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 129
    Jordan, John - Biography
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 130
    Jordan, John - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 131
    Jordan, Captain John
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 132
    Junkin, Charles Irwin
    English.
  • Text [0000000258] box: 6 folder: 133
    Junkin, William F.
    English.
K-L
Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 134-157 English.
Scope and Contents

Aldine Kieffer, Ann E. Kirkpatrick, James F. Knick, Eva Jordan Krebs, Leech Family, John Legeune, Leguene address, John Letcher, John Letcher Jr., Andrew Lewis, John Lewis, Margaret Lewis, Dr. Alfred Leyburn, John Doak Lilley,

  • Text box: 7 folder: 134
    Kieffer, Aldine
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 135
    Kieffer, Aldine - Musical Sheetbooks
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains two books of sheet music - "The New Harmonia Sacra: A Compilation of Church Music" by Joseph Funk's Sons published by Glen Publishing Company Printers in 1826, as well as "The Star of Bethlehem" edited by J.H. Hail and J.H. Ruebush published 1889.

  • Text box: 7 folder: 136
    Kirkpatrick, Ann E.
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 137
    Knick, James F.
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 138
    Krebs, Eva Jordan
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 139
    Leech Family
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes tax forms for the Leech family dated 1889 and 1890, one of which deals with Thomas Leech's military status as a tax exemption.

  • Text box: 7 folder: 140
    Lejeune, Eugenia
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 141
    Lejeune, John
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 142
    Lejeune, John - Address
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 143
    Letcher, John Seymour
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 144
    Letcher, John Seymour - Correspondence
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes two business cards with John Letcher's signature. No dates available.

  • Text box: 7 folder: 145
    Letcher, John Jr.
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 146
    Lewis, Andrew
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 147
    Lewis, Andrew Continued
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 148
    Lewis, John
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes one photo negative and one developed silver gellatin photograph of John Lewis' home, Fort Lewis, as it stood in 1925 outside of Staunton, Virginia.

  • Text box: 7 folder: 149
    Lewis, Margaret Lynn
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 150
    Lewis, Margaret - The Commonplace Book
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 151
    Leyburn, Alfred
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 152
    Lilley, John Doak
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 153
    Lyle, Duncan A.
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 154
    Lyle Family
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 155
    Lyle, John Blair - Notes on Virginia Cavalcade
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    Contains undated photo negatives and developed photos of John Blair Lyle's tombstone.

  • Text box: 7 folder: 156
    Lyle, John Blair - Correspondence Concerning Virginia Cavalcade
    English.
  • Text box: 7 folder: 157
    Lyle, John Blair - Papers
    English.
Lee
Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 158-188 English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 158
    Lee, Cader
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 159
    Lee, Fitzhugh
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a letter between J.H. Letcher and Fitzhugh Lee with his signature. Dated May 25th, 1893.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 160
    Lee, George Washington Custis
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    Original typescript and manuscripts relating to reminiscences of G.W.C. Lee's time as President of Washington and Lee, and his time in Lexington.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 161
    Lee, Henry
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 162
    Lee, Mildred Childe
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 163
    Lee, Robert Edward
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains four separate portraits of General Robert Edward Lee. All are undated.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 164
    Lee Memorial - Unveiling Program, Richmond
    1890-05-29English.
    Scope and Contents

    Program from the Unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. 2nd Edition. Dated 1890.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 165
    Lee, Robert Edward - Copies of Letters
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 166
    Lee, Robert Edward
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a pamphlet entitled "The True Story of General Order No. 9 - General Lee's Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia," published by Lee Museum Committee at WLU. Published 1928.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 167
    Lee, Robert Edward - Copies of Ceremonial Panphlets at the Presidential Inauguration of Robert E. Lee at Washington College
    1883English.
    Scope and Contents

    Four copies of "Ceremonies connected with the Inauguration of the Mausoleum and the Unveiling of the Recumbent Figure of General Robert Edward Lee." Dated 1883.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 168
    Lee, Robert Edward - Miscellaneous
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a copy og "Shenandoah Valley Magazine" from November 1980 that has a biographical piece on Lee's Lexington Home. Also includes Lee Memorial Fund magazine from 1921 and article, "Where the Past Isn't Even Past," by Peter J. Boyer, on the battles dividing Lexington, Virginia, THE WEEKLY STANDARD, November 26, 2018.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 169
    Lee, Robert Edward - Commemorative Church Programs
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 170
    Lee, Robert Edward - Eulogies in Washington College newspaper "Southern Collegian"
    1870-10-15English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a copy of the newspaper "Southern Collegian" from October 15th, 1870 with the obituary of General Robert E. Lee.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 171
    Lee, Robert Edward - Copies of "General Lee at Gettysburg, A Paper Read Before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, on the Fourth of April, 1905."
    1905-04-04English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a copy of James Power Smith's paper on General Lee at Gettysburg, which was delivered in April 1905. Published by R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans from Richmond, VA.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 172
    Lee, Robert Edward - "General Robert E. Lee", an Address by John Wesley Hill, Typescript.
    1924-05English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 173
    Lee, Robert Edward - "Lee Jackson Day" an address by Dr. Harry D. Campbell
    1925-01-19English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 174
    Lee, Robert Edward - "Robert E. Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness," Poem Manuscript
    1900English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 175
    Lee, Robert Edward - Southern Collegian, Lee Number, Volume 39, Number 3,
    1907-01-19English.
    Scope and Contents

    Soft-bound copy of Southern Collegian, Volume XXXIX, Number 3, "Lee Number", Robert E. Lee Centennial.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 176
    Lee, Robert Edward - "Robert E. Lee, Soldier, Patriot, Educator" Pamphlet
    1921English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 177
    Lee, Robert Edward - "Robert E. Lee: Churchman", by Marshall W. Fishwick, Historiographer, Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    "Robert E. Lee: Churchman", by Marshall W. Fishwick, Historiographer, Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 178
    Lee, Robert Edward - "War and Work," by Colonel William Couper
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains "War and Work" by Colonel William Couper - an address delivered before the Rockbridge County (VA.) Historical Society. Dated April 22nd, 1940.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 179
    Lee, Robert Edward - Papers Concerning Lee
    English.
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    Lee, Robert - Traveller
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 181
    Lee, Robert Edward - Traveller's Silhouette Postcard
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 182
    Lee Family
    English.
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    Lee Family
    English.
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    Lee Family - "The Lee Girls" Paper by Mary P. Coulling
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 185
    Lee, Robert Edward - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes two sketched of furnishing inside the former home of Robert E. Lee. Undated.

  • Text box: 8 folder: 186
    Lee, Robert Edward - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
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    Lee, Robert Edward - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 8 folder: 188
    Lee, Robert Edward - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
M-Mc
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 189-216 English.
Scope and Contents

George Marshall, Bonnie Martin, John Mathews, Mathew F. Maury, Donald McCraig, Ghost McChesney, Thomas Edward McCorkle, McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Hugh White McCrum, Charles McCulloch Jr., Hunter McDonald, Catherine Feland McDowell, Charles R. McDowell, Ephraim McDowell, McDowell Family, McElroy, William McElwee, Henry McLaughlen, Alexander G. McNutt, MacMillon.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 189
    Marshall, George
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 190
    Martin, Bonnie
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    Includes a bound copy of an interview with Bonnie Martin by Eleanor Connor for Lime Kiln Arts, published October 27th, 1994.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 191
    Matthews, John
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 192
    Maury, Matthew F.
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 193
    McCaig, Donald
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 194
    McChesney, Ghost
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a list of miscellaneous stocks written by McChesney. Written January 20th, 1953.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 195
    McCorkle, Thomas Edward - In Kappa Alpha Journal
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a "Kappa Alpha Journal" from March 1935 about Thomas Edward McCorkle.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 196
    McCormick Family
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 197
    McCormick, Cyrus - Information Concerning the Reaper and Family Farm
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a pamplhet written by T.S. Gillett, published by Weed Parsons and Company in 1855. The pamphlet describes the court case of Cyrus McCormick against William H. Seymour and Dayton S. Morgan.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 198
    McCormick, Cyrus Hall
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a brochure for McCormick Farm, as well as a Pamphlet for the McCormick Celebration, which took place on September 25th, 1931.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 199
    McCrum, Hugh White
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 200
    McColloch, Charles Jr.
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 201
    McDonald, Hunter
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 202
    McDowell, Catherine Feland
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 203
    McDowell, Charles R.
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 204
    McDowell, Ephraim - Medical Jounrals
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a pamphlet entitled "The 'Scotts-Irish' of the Valley of Virginia, and their Influence on Medical Progress in America" by Dr. Hugh Trout, published by Paul B. Hoeber Inc. in 1938. There is also a copy of the Kentucky Medical Journal published in 1933. Furthermore there is a Ephriam McDowell biographical pamphlet.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 205
    McDowell, Ephraim - Miscellaneous
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a pamphlet entitled "Our Pioneer Heroine of Surgery - Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford" by Mrs. Arthur Thomas McCormack in 1932.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 206
    McDowell, Ephraim - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 207
    McDowell, Ephraim - Papers
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a bound copy of "Restoration History of the Home of Dr. Ephraim McDowell - Father of Abdominal Surgery: Danville, Kentucky." Published in 2000.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 208
    McDowell, Ephraim - Photographs and Pictures
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains three separate silver gellatin photographs from 1957. One is a depiction of McDowell's statue. The other two depict McDowell's grave and location.

  • Text box: 9 folder: 209
    McDowell Family
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 210
    McElroy, Lebo
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 211
    McElwee, William
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 212
    McLaughlin, Henry
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 213
    McNutt, Alexander G. - Ephemera
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 214
    McNutt, Alexander G. - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 215
    McNutt, Alexander G. - Correspondence
    English.
  • Text box: 9 folder: 216
    Macmillan - Article on Antiques
    English.
Md-Mz
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 217-238 English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 217
    Miley, Michael - Essay on Photography
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 218
    Miley, Michael - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 219
    Miley, Michael - Biography
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 220
    Miley, Michael - Notes on Photo Negatives
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 221
    Miley, Michael - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 222
    Miley, Michael - Capital Stock in Miley Color Photograph Company
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a Capital stock for 10,000 dollars in the name of Michael Miley for Miley Colour Photograph Company. Dated 1902.

  • Text box: 10 folder: 223
    Miley, Michael - Photo Envelope without Photo
    English.
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    Miley, Michael - Photo Print Copy
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a photocopied image made by Michael Miley entitled "Miley Mosiac." No dates available.

  • Text box: 10 folder: 225
    Miley, Michael - Documents Concerning Protrait of Robert E. Lee
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 226
    Miley, Michael - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 227
    Miley, Michael - Copies of Photos
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 228
    Miley, Michael - Business Liscences
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains two bound scrapbooks of Virginia Licenses issued to Michael Miley as a daguerreotype artist. Dated from 1866 to 1918.

  • Text box: 10 folder: 229
    Miley, Michael - Newspaper Clipping
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 230
    Miller, William
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 231
    Mitchell, William
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a list of people who fronted money for the funeral expenses. No dates included.

  • Text box: 10 folder: 232
    Moore, Andrew
    English.
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    Moore, Elizabeth
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 234
    Morrison, Samuel Brown
    English.
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    Morrison, William McCutchan
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 236
    Morrison, William McCutchan
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a pamphlet on Reverened William MacCutchen Morrison from June 7th, 1926.

  • Text box: 10 folder: 237
    Morton, Lucy
    English.
  • Text box: 10 folder: 238
    Murray, James
    English.
N-P
N-P
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 239-272
1 Box
English.
Scope and Contents

Phil Nunn, Frank Padget, Henry Chester Parsons, Alexander Paxton, Elisha F. Paxton, James John Paxton, John A. Paxton, John H. Paxton, John and Phoebe Paxton, Thomas Paxton, William M. Paxton, Pendleton, Alexander Spotswood Pendleton, Edmund Pendleton, James Dudley Pendleton, William C. Pendleton, William J. Pendleton, William Nelson Pendleton, Frances Penick, Mary Monroe Penick, S. G. Pettigrew, Physicians, William Franklin Pierson, William T. Poague, Miles Poindexter, Thomas Posey, Preston, Randolph Preston, Beatrice Price, Byron D. Pultz.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 239
    Nunn, Phil
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes the a photocopy of a portrait of Phil "Old Dixie" Nunn. No dates available.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 240
    Padget, Frank
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 241
    Parsons, Henry Chester
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a portrait of Henry Chester Parsons dated 1945.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 242
    Paxton, Alexander
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 243
    Paxton, Elisha F.
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 244
    Paxton, James John
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains personal correspondence, journal entries, and a jury summons with James John Paxton dated in the 1850s.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 245
    Paxton, John H.
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 246
    Paxton, John A.
    English.
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    Paxton, John and Phoebe
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 248
    Paxton, John and Phoebe - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 249
    Paxton, Thomas
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a flyer for the interred body of Thomas Paxton, dated 1788.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 250
    Paxton, William M.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a photo of W.M. Paxton along with copies of two pieces of writing: "The Covers" and "The Legend of Moaning Falls." Dated 1799.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 251
    Pendleton Family
    English.
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    Pendleton, Alexander Spotswood
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 253
    Pendleton, Edmund
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 254
    Pendleton, James Dudley
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a Cross of Military Service for James Dudley Pendleton dated February 19th, 1890.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 255
    Pendleton, William Cecil
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 256
    Pendleton, William J.
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 257
    Pendleton, William Nelson
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains an in memoriam for Reverend William Nelson Pendleton, the rector of Grace Memorial Church. Dated January 15th, 1883.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 258
    Penick, France
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a personal correspondence between Frances Penick and J.B. Earman. Dated November 11th, 1897.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 259
    Penick, Mary Monroe
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 260
    Pettigrew, S.G.
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 261
    Physicians
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a number of biographical cards for local physicians in alphabetical order.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 262
    Physicians - Essay
    English.
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    Pierson, William Franklin
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 264
    Poague, William Thomas
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes two copies of a biographical report on Colonel William T. Poague, dated 1957.

  • Text box: 11 folder: 265
    Poindexter, Miles
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 266
    Poindexter, Miles - Correspondence
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 267
    Poindexter, Miles - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 268
    Posey, Thomas
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 269
    Preston Family - Military Service
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 270
    Preston, Randolph - Essay on Washington and Lee University
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 271
    Price, Beatrice
    English.
  • Text box: 11 folder: 272
    Pultz, Byron D.
    English.
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Q-V
Mixed Materials box: 12 folder: 273-311 English.
Scope and Contents

James A. Quarles, Read, Andrew Reid, Samuel McDowell Reid, Richardson, Robinson, John Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pat Robertson, John Ruff, William Ruff, William Henry Ruffner, Schnare, S. M. Schoonmaker, Alfred Chandler Scott, Sellers Family, James Madison Senseney, Abner Terry Sheilds, John Camden Sheilds, Joseph Showalter, John Skinner, Sloan Family, Francis H. Smith, Henry Louis Smith, Beverly Stanard, John R. S. Sterrett, Styles, General Thomas Sumter, John O. Tardy, Lucian Thompson, George Tompkins, John Fulton Tompkins, Harry St. George Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, Dr. Charles Turner, Sidney Vale

  • Text box: 12 folder: 273
    Quarles, James A.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes two reprints of Christmas sermons delivered by James Quarles. No dates available.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 274
    Read, Beverly M.
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 275
    Reid, Andrew
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 276
    Reid, Samuel McDowell
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 277
    Reid, Samuel McDowell - Photocopies of Correspondence
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 278
    Richardson, Archie
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 279
    Roosevelt, Eleanor
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 280
    Robertson, "Pat," or Marion Gordon
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains Pat Robertson's report card from Lexington High School in 1943-1944.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 281
    Robinson, John
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 282
    Robinson, Chas J.
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 283
    Ruff, John
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a biographical memoir of an "Early 19th Century Citizen - John M. Ruff." Dated December 1987.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 284
    Ruff, William Mr. and Mrs.
    English.
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    Ruffner, William Henry
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a bound copy of a biographical report on William Henry Ruffner by Bessie Bare, dated April 10th, 1938. There is a photo included of Ruffner's country home.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 286
    Ruffner, William Henry - Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a bound copy of the magazine "The Virginia Teacher," which includes a biographical story on William Ruffner. Dated October, 1924.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 287
    Schnare, Lester
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 288
    Schoonmaker, S.M.
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 289
    Scott, Alfred Chandler
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 290
    Sellers Family
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 291
    Senseney, James Madison
    English.
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    Shield, Abner Terry
    English.
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    Shields, John Camden
    English.
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    Showalter, Joseph
    English.
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    Skinner, John
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 296
    Sloan, Family
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 297
    Smith, Frances Henney
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 298
    Smith, Henry Louis
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a letter from September 10th, 1934 with Henry Louis Smith's signature.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 299
    Standard, Beverly
    English.
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    Sterrett, John R.S.
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    Styles, Spottswood
    English.
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    Sumter, Thomas
    English.
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    Tardy, John O.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a photocopy of John Tardy's 1884 teaching certificate for Rockbridge County schools.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 304
    Thompson, Lucian
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains three receipts from the Rockbridge County Court and the sheriff's office in the years 1859, 1862, and 1868.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 305
    Tompkins, George
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a large political cartoon from the Birmingham News-Age Herald with a caricature of Rockbridge born soldier, "Big" Sam Dale.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 306
    Tompkins, John Fulton
    English.
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    Tucker, Henry "Harry" St. George - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 308
    Tucker, Henry "Harry" St. George - Papers
    English.
  • Text box: 12 folder: 309
    Tucker, Henry St. George - Nomination Speeches State DNC
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes photocopies of Henry St. George Tucker's nomination speech to the (August) 1888 Democratic National Convention.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 310
    Turner, Charles
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a pamphlet for the memorial service of Charles Turner, held at Washinton and Lee University and dated October 9th, 1999. The folder also includes a commemorative "Five Star General" ribbon, likely from the ceremony.

  • Text box: 12 folder: 311
    Vale, Sidney
    English.
W-Z
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 312-339 English.
Scope and Contents

Harrington Waddell, James Waddell, James H. Waddell, Maude Waddell, Ned Waddell, Wade, Wallace, William A. Wallace, William A. A. Wallace, George Washington, William D. Washington, Welsh Familiy, James J. White, Zachariah J. White, Alice Williams, A.H. Williams, Sidney Williams, W. L. Wilson, Winston Family, Mrs. J. B. Wood, Richard Woods, Mrs. Wyatt

  • Text box: 13 folder: 312
    Waddell, Harrington
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a photo of Harrington Waddell from 1943. It also includes two copies of the pamphlet "Four Decades of Progress," which were created for an honorary celebration of Waddell's service to Lexington Schools on May 7th, 1937.

  • Text box: 13 folder: 313
    Waddell, James H.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a research notebook with biographical and geneological background information on many notable Rockbridge County citizens. The author is likely Lyle Letcher Campbell (signed L.L.C.).

  • Text box: 13 folder: 314
    Waddell, James H. - Personal Note
    April 11, 1884English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a singular letter between Francis H. Smith concerning the funeral of civil war Captain James H. Waddell. Dated April 11th, 1884.

  • Text box: 13 folder: 315
    Waddell, Maude
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    Waddell, Ned
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    Wade, Thomas M.
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    Wallace Family
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    Wallace, William A. "Bigfoot" - Biography
    English.
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    Wallace, William A. "Bigfoot" - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
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    Wallace, William A. "Bigfoot" - Sketch and Articles
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains an undated sketch of "Big Foot" Wallace, as well as two photographs depicting his Virginia memorial plaque erected in 1934. One photo is dated 1964, and the other is undated.

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    Wallace, William A. "Bigfoot" - Biography
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a bound biographical essay on "Big Foot" Wallace, written and compiled by Harrington Waddell in 1933.

  • Text box: 13 folder: 323
    Washington, George
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    Washington, George - Notes on Illness and Death
    English.
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    Washington, George - George McGhee on Washington's Trusteeship
    1988English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a copy of George McGhee's 1988 essay "George Washington's Trusteeship over the Estate of the Rev. Dr. Charles Green, 1765-1772, which included the present area of Farmer's Delight Farm, Loudon County, Virginia."

  • Text box: 13 folder: 326
    Washington, William D.
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    Washington, William D. - Newspaper Clippings
    English.
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    Washington, William D. - Press Clippings
    English.
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    Welsh Family
    English.
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    White, James J.
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    White, Zacariah J.
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    Williams, Alice
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    Williams, G.H.
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    Williamson, Sidney
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    Wilson, W.L.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a December 1969 copy of the "Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine," which a piece written on W.L. Wilson inside.

  • Text box: 13 folder: 336
    Winston Family
    English.
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    Wood, J.B.
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a photograph of Mrs. Wood near a variety of Roman memorabilia from 1933.

  • Text box: 13 folder: 338
    Woods, Richard
    English.
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    Wyatt - Sketchbooks
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains two undated sketchbooks that owned to Mrs. Wyatt.