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Va.) -- History.","Berkeley County Agricultural and Mechanics\n Association (Berkeley County, W. Va.)","Boyd, Elisha, 1769- 1841.","Democratic Party (U.S.)","Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-\n 1929.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884.","Faulkner, James, 1776-1817..","Jefferson County (W. Va.) -- History.","Lawyers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Lawyers -- West Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad\n Company.","Merchants -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Political campaigns -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Political campaigns -- West Virginia -- History --\n 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1900.","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 19th\n century.","Waggener, Andrew, 1843-1813.","West Virginia. Constitutional Convention\n (1872)","West Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1900.","Whig Party (U.S.)","Wickahm, John, 1763-1839.","12,000 (ca.) items.","Collection is open for research.","The Faulkner Family papers are arranged into six series by\n individual and subseries by subject or document type where\n necessary. A seventh series contains volumes added after the\n initial processing was completed.","Of Berkeley County, W. Va. Represented in the collection\n are James Faulkner (1776-1817), of Martinsburg, Va. (now W.\n Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899.","The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n trade under his own name. His personal and business\n correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n 1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n 1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n client (records of legal services provided over time not\n necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n records of that mission include documents signed by William\n Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n 69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n 1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n 71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n 76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n 1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n 1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n 1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n the end of the collection.","There are no restrictions.","Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n Berkeley County, Va. (now W. 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(now W.\n Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFaulkner Family Papers, 1737-1954 (Mss1 F2735 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Faulkner Family Papers, 1737-1954 (Mss1 F2735 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJames Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. The company\n dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n trade under his own name. His personal and business\n correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. and James\n Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026amp; Co. of\n Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFor many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlso found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n 1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n 1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026amp; Warner in\n Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n client (records of legal services provided over time not\n necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the more important clients for whom Charles James\n Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio\n Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n settlements is filed in Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n records of that mission include documents signed by William\n Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n 69).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n 1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n 71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n accounts.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n Virginians alike (Box 73).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWith the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n (printed) and news clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n 76-77).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad\n Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026amp;\n Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n 1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n 1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n case files, and personal miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n (Boxes 87-88).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeveral small folders of papers concern Charles James\n Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n entirely financial in nature (Box 93).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBox 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n unclassified miscellany round out the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eLastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n 1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n the end of the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n trade under his own name. His personal and business\n correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n 1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n 1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n client (records of legal services provided over time not\n necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n records of that mission include documents signed by William\n Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n 69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n 1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n 71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n 76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n 1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n 1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n 1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n the end of the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eChiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n Agricultural \u0026amp; Mechanical Association. Also includes\n papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.).\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.)."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00012_c03_c04"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00023_c03_c04","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Subseries 3.4. 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James Harrison Steedman estate files, 1895-1945","Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","Series 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell, 1866-1947","box 54"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","Series 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell, 1866-1947"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","Series 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell, 1866-1947"],"level_ssm":["Sub-Series"],"level_ssim":["Sub-series"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":28,"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"containers_ssim":["box 54"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["The collection is open for research use."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["There are no restrictions."],"_nest_path_":"/components#2/components#3","timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00023","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00023","_root_":"vihi_vih00023","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00023","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00023.xml","title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"title_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"text":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","Mss1 W4126 b FA2","American Red Cross","Argentina--Diplomats--United States","Argentina--Foreign relations--United States","Autobiography","Catania (Italy)","Charities--Virginia--Richmond--History--20th century","Copenhagen (Denmark)","Denmark--Foreign relations--United States","Diplomatic and consular service, American","Diplomatic and consular service--United States--History--20th century","Greece--Foreign relations--United States","India--Foreign relations--United States","Italy--Foreign relations--United States","Mexico--Foreign relations--United States","Richmond Community Fund (Richmond, Va.)","Southern Churchman","Spain--Foreign relations--United States","United States. Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The collection is open for research use.","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection.","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous.","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931.","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927.","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings.","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared.","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission.","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials.","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931).","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947).","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942).","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935).","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933).","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson.","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932).","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment.","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938).","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume.","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained.","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).","Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard.","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately.","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941).","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara.","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine.","Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948.","Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2,","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.","There are no restrictions.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House.","Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection.","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous.","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931.","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927.","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings.","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared.","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission.","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials.","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931).","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947).","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942).","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935).","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933).","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson.","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932).","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment.","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938).","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume.","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained.","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).","Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard.","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately.","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941).","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara.","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2,"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House."],"famname_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy"],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. (John Langbourne), 1831-1915","Williams, John Skelton, 1865-1926","Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924"],"names_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. 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Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). The Booton family is represented by John Booton\n (1786-1845), who married Ann Powell Hill (1798?-1872), sister\n of Ambrose Powell Hill above.","The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.","There are no restrictions.","Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"collection_ssim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"access_terms_ssm":["There are no restrictions."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased from John A. 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Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). 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He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026amp; Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eRecords of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eYoungest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003ePhilip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJulia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":65,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00013_c03_c04"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00013_c03_c05","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Subseries 3.5: Land records, 1794-1843.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00013_c03_c05#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00013_c03_c05","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00013_c03_c05"],"id":"vihi_vih00013_c03_c05","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00013","_root_":"vihi_vih00013","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00013_c03","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00013_c03","parent_ssim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 3: John Booton (1786-1845), \"Chestnut Grove, \" Madison County, Va., papers."],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00013","vihi_vih00013_c03"],"title_filing_ssi":"Land records, \n \n 1794-1843.","title_ssm":["Subseries 3.5: Land records, 1794-1843."],"title_tesim":["Subseries 3.5: Land records, 1794-1843."],"normalized_title_ssm":["Subseries 3.5: Land records, 1794-1843."],"text":["Subseries 3.5: Land records, 1794-1843.","Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 3: John Booton (1786-1845), \"Chestnut Grove, \" Madison County, Va., papers.","Box 5"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 3: John Booton (1786-1845), \"Chestnut Grove, \" Madison County, Va., papers."],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 3: John Booton (1786-1845), \"Chestnut Grove, \" Madison County, Va., papers."],"level_ssm":["Sub-Series"],"level_ssim":["Sub-series"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":16,"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"containers_ssim":["Box 5"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["Collection is open for research."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["There are no restrictions."],"_nest_path_":"/components#2/components#4","timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00013","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00013","_root_":"vihi_vih00013","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00013","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00013.xml","title_ssm":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"title_tesim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"text":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Mss1 H5565 a FA2","African American Baptists -- Virginia -- History\n -- 19th century.","Antioch Baptist Church (Culpeper, Va.)","Baptists -- Virginia.","Booton, Ann Powell Hill, 1798?-1872.","Booton, John, 1786-1845.","Bridges -- Design and construction -- Virginia --\n History -- 19th century.","Chestnut Grove (Madison County, Va.)","Churches -- Virginia -- Culpeper County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Churches -- Virginia -- Greene County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Confederate States of America. Army -- Military\n life.","Culpeper County (Va.) -- Politics and government\n -- 19th century.","Germanna Bridge (Va.)","Glendalough (Madison County, Va.)","Hill, Ambrose Powell, 1785-1858.","Hill, Francis Irvin, 1860-1946 --\n Diaries.","Hill, Hugh Hodge, 1858-1937.","Hill, John Booton, 1831-1913.","Hill, William Alexander, 1817-1890.","Hill, William Powell, 1844-1929.","Justices of the peace -- Virginia -- Culpeper\n County.","Liberty Baptist Church (Greene County,\n Va.)","Locust Dale Academy (Va.)","Major, Anna Lee Hill, 1847-1935.","Millwood (Madison County, Va.)","Mountain Lake Hotel (Va.)","Physicians -- Virginia -- Madison County --\n History -- 19th century.","Rapidan River (Va.)","Sheriffs -- Virginia -- Culpeper County.","Sheriffs -- Virginia -- Madison County.","Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company.","4375 (ca.) items (21 manuscript\n boxes)","Collection is open for research.","Arranged into twenty-two sections by individual and further\n subdivided by document type where necessary.","Concern the Hill and related Booton families. Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). The Booton family is represented by John Booton\n (1786-1845), who married Ann Powell Hill (1798?-1872), sister\n of Ambrose Powell Hill above.","The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.","There are no restrictions.","Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"collection_ssim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"access_terms_ssm":["There are no restrictions."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased from John A. 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He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026amp; Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eRecords of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eYoungest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003ePhilip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJulia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":65,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00013_c03_c05"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00023_c03_c05","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Subseries 3.5. 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Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell, 1866-1947"],"level_ssm":["Sub-Series"],"level_ssim":["Sub-series"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":29,"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"containers_ssim":["box 55"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":1,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["The collection is open for research use."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["There are no restrictions."],"_nest_path_":"/components#2/components#4","timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00023","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00023","_root_":"vihi_vih00023","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00023","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00023.xml","title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"title_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947"],"text":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell papers, 1888-1947","Mss1 W4126 b FA2","American Red Cross","Argentina--Diplomats--United States","Argentina--Foreign relations--United States","Autobiography","Catania (Italy)","Charities--Virginia--Richmond--History--20th century","Copenhagen (Denmark)","Denmark--Foreign relations--United States","Diplomatic and consular service, American","Diplomatic and consular service--United States--History--20th century","Greece--Foreign relations--United States","India--Foreign relations--United States","Italy--Foreign relations--United States","Mexico--Foreign relations--United States","Richmond Community Fund (Richmond, Va.)","Southern Churchman","Spain--Foreign relations--United States","United States. Consulate (Athens, Greece)","United States. Consulate (Calcutta, India)","United States. Consulate (Catania, Italy)","United States. Consulate (Mexico City, Mexico)","United States. Consulate (Zanzibar, Zanzibar)","United States. Department of State","United States. General and Special Claims Commissions","United States--Diplomatic and consular service--History--20th century","United States--Foreign relations--Argentina","United States--Foreign relations--Denmark","United States--Foreign relations--Greece","United States--Foreign relations--India","United States--Foreign relations--Italy","United States--Foreign relations--Mexico","United States--Foreign relations--Spain","United States--Foreign relations--Zanzibar","Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Virginians--Argentina","Virginians--Mexico","Women's Council of the Navy League of the United States","Zanzibar","Zanzibar--Foreign relations--United States","The collection is open for research use.","The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection.","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous.","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931.","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927.","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings.","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared.","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission.","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials.","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931).","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947).","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942).","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935).","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933).","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson.","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932).","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment.","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938).","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume.","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained.","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).","Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard.","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately.","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941).","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara.","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine.","Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948.","Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2,","Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.","There are no restrictions.","Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House.","Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy","Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930","Templewood, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount, 1880-1959","Weddell, Alexander Watson, 1841-1883","Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948","Weddell, Elizabeth Wright, 1878-1955","Weddell, James, 1807-1865","Weddell, Margaret Ward, 1869-1935","Weddell, Penelope Margaret Wright, 1840-1901","Weddell, Virginia Chase Steedman, 1874-1948","Weddell, William Sparrow, 1874-1944","Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961","Williams, John L. 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In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948 \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWeddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOne of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWeddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWeddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFiles for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eLastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941). \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBox 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara. \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Ambassador Weddell and his wife thoroughly cover their lives in the\n diplomatic community and as active civic-minded Richmonders. In the paragraphs which follow,\n attention is drawn to their various activities by describing important record groups within\n the collection and explaining the methods of processing these materials. An attempt has been\n made to maintain the ambassador’s own arrangement of his personal records, as nearly as\n possible, which occasionally means that papers covering a single subject, event, or\n organization may be filled in several locations. Such occurrences are cross-referenced\n fully. Also, since the Weddell’s were both interested in many of the same projects and\n organizations, some materials of Mrs. Weddell and those addressed to both are filed with Mr.\n Weddell’s records. Researchers should read this entire description and guide before actually\n examining the collection.","The collection has 4 series: Series 1. Weddell family papers 1858-1925; Series 1.1. James\n Weddell, 1865; Series 1.2. Alexander Watson Weddell; Series 1.3. Penelope Margaret Wright\n Weddell, 1895-1925; Series 2. Alexander and Virginia Weddell papers, 1907-1948; Series 2.1.\n Diaries/Calendars,1907-1947; Series 2.2. Correspondence, 1883-1947 (arranged alphabetically\n by year); Series 2.3. Correspondence, 1923-1946, with Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell;\n Series 2.4. Financial Records, 1897-1947; Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946; Series 2.6.\n Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942 (arranged chronological by post); Series 2.7.\n Organization and Association files, 1923-1948, (arranged alphabetically by organization);\n Series 2.8. Speeches, Addresses, and publications,1930-1947,(speeches, and publications\n [arranged alphabetically]); Series 2.9. Virginia House; Series 2.10. Miscellaneous; Series\n 3. Virginia (Chase) Steedman Weddell papers, Series 3.1. Diaries, Series 3.2.\n Correspondence, Series 3.3. Financial and Philanthropy, Series 3.4. James Harrison Steedman;\n Series 3.5. Miscellaneous; Series 4. Family Miscellaneous.","Series 1. concerns Alexander W. Weddell’s grandfather, James Weddell (1807-1865); father,\n Alexander Watson Weddell (1841-1883); and his mother, Penelope Margaret Wright Weddell\n (1840-1901). The collection beings with a few items from the estate of Weddell’s\n grandfather, James Weddell of Petersburg. Then follow materials of or concerning his father,\n Rev. Alexander Watson Weddell. Most of these papers relate to pastorates in Harrisonburg and\n Richmond, Va., and include copies of summons, notes, and a scrapbook. Rev. Weddell took a\n particular interest in the Protestant Episcopal Home for Ladies in Richmond. His wife left\n an interesting reminiscence of the Fall of Richmond in 1865, as well as a few miscellaneous\n items. Also included are letters of condolence at her death, as well as records of Alex\n Weddell as administrator of his mother’s estate.","Series 2. Alexander W. Weddell's papers, 1883-1948","Series 2.1. includes his diaries/appointment books which start in 1907. The early books are\n written in French, and document his diplomatic post or place of residence for that year.\n Weddell's personal and professional correspondence","Series 2.2, starts in 1883, but bulk starts in 1927. It is organized alphabetically by year\n with separate folders for select correspondents within each year, as well as for other\n correspondents or subjects for which extensive material exists. Notable correspondents\n include: Viscountess Astor; Virginia senators Harry Flood Byrd; Carter Glass, and Claude\n Augustus Swanson; Virginia Governors Colgate W. Darden, Andrew Jackson Montague, and John\n Garland Pollard; Richmond author Ellen Glasgow; U.S. secretaries of state Cordell Hull, and\n Sumner Welles; and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is also a group of thirteen letters from\n President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Specialized correspondence relating to these various\n interests and activities in many cases has been segregated unit separate files.\n Organizations that can be found in general correspondence are Richmond Community Council,\n Officers Club of Richmond (World War II), and the Young Men’s Christian Association. During\n Weddell’s absences as ambassador to Argentina and Spain, his secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth\n Cabell Dugdale, maintained his correspondence and took charge of Virginia House. Her files\n begin in 1931.","Series 2.3. is correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Weddell, which is heaviest between\n 1923-1927.","Series 2.4. is Financial Records, 1897-1947, which are extensive. Series includes personal\n account and expense records, but detailed banking and investment records organized\n alphabetically by financial institution. These materials concern both Mr. and Mrs. Weddell’s\n account holdings.","Series 2.5. Miscellaneous, 1899-1946, is educational records, scrapbooks, which document\n the Weddell’s lives and careers throughly and serve as an important introduction to the\n succeeding diplomatic and organization files. Also documented is the Weddell’s marriage in\n 1923. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell was a substantial heiress in her own right, and the\n financial security that occurred as a result of the marriage allowed Weddell to pursue many\n important interests, which the couple often shared.","Series 2.6. Diplomatic Service files, 1908-1942, supplement general correspondence and\n cover all of Weddell’s diplomatic and consular posts. The heaviest documentation is for his\n years as ambassador to Argentina and to Spain. These files include dispatches, speeches,\n programs, dinner invitations and menus, magazine articles and news clippings and a wide\n variety of interesting miscellany (see guide and also U. .S. State Department folders in\n general correspondence.) The Argentina files contain Weddell’s records of the Inter-American\n Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which saw Franklin\n D. Roosevelt’s first visit to South America (file includes letter of Sumner Welles); the\n Seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933 (files\n includes Cordell Hull letter); and a folder on the Chaco Peace Conference of 1935, for which\n Weddell won great honors as a key figure in negotiating a settlement between Bolivia and\n Paraguay (includes letter of John Garland Pollard to Mrs. Weddell). These files also contain\n several scrapbooks and journals kept by Weddell of his trips into the interior of Argentina.\n (Photographic materials and similar items have been transferred the museum photograph\n collection). Weddell’s most difficult post was Madrid, following the end of the Spanish\n Civil War and in the early days of World War II. His files are complete and informative and\n also include scrapbooks covering the entire mission.","Series 2.7. Ambassador Weddell kept extensive files for the organizations in which he took\n an active part. These files include correspondence, minutes, reports, news clippings, and\n support materials.","Weddell served as chairman of the Richmond-Henrico Branch of the American Red Cross. The\n files include letters of Harry F. Byrd (13 Jan. 1943) and Colgate W. Darden (19 March 1943).\n He also served as a director of the Children’s Homes Society of Virginia, seeking homes for\n orphaned or abandoned children in the dark years of the Depression and World War II. He was\n a longtime finance committee member and later vice president (note letter of John Garland\n Pollard, 18 April 1931).","As president of the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union and a director of the\n national organization, Weddell worked for mutual understanding among all people who share\n our common language. His files include letters from Colgate W. Darden (25 Feb. 1943), George\n Catlett Marshall (six letters between Dec. 1942-April 1943), John Garland Pollard (29\n December 1932) and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (seven letters between Oct. 1946-June 1947).","During World War II Mrs. Weddell was state chairman of the Women’s Council of the Navy\n League of the U. S., with headquarters at the Navy League Club in Richmond. Weddell himself\n served as a regional vice president of the League and a chairman of the local Navy Day\n Celebrations in October 1943. His files contain three letters of Colgate W. Darden between 7\n Sept. 1943 and 15 Sept. 1944. Weddelll also chaired the Democracy Programs of the Richmond\n Office of Civilian Defense during the war. Note Letters of Harry F. Byrd (2 Oct. 1942) and\n Colgate W. Darden (17 Oct. 1942).","One of Weddell’s most important local activities involved his role as chairman of the board\n of trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts. Intentionally modeled after Quesnay’s Academy\n of Richmond in the 1780s and 1790s (for which several research files exist), the Richmond\n Academy sought to establish a key center for the arts in Virginia. The movement eventually\n led to the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, of which Weddell served a term as\n president. In 1936 a spilt developed between the two organizations, and very few Academy\n items appear in Weddell’s files after that date. Correspondence includes letters of Colgate\n W. Darden (eight letters between 12 Nov. 1942 and 11 July 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April\n 1944) and John Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935). Mr.\n Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president 1932-1933.\n During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee on\n Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund and\n several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of Nancy\n Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933). As president\n of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored to secure\n gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic structure\n (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 Oct. 1945), Cordell Hull (24 April 1944), and John\n Garland Pollard (twelve letters between 24 Dec. 1931 and 7 July 1935).","Mr. Weddell was active in the Richmond Community Fund by 1929 and served as president\n 1932-1933. During the latter period he was also chairman of the Richmond Mayor’s Committee\n on Unemployment Relief. In 1942 the organization became the Richmond War and Community Fund\n and several postwar folders concern foreign relief during that period. See also letter of\n Nancy Astor (14 Nov. 1932) and John Garland Pollard (14 Sept. 1932, 18 March 1933).","As president of the St. John’s Episcopal Church Foundation in Richmond, Weddell endeavored\n to secure gifts for an endowment fund and for restoration and preservation of the historic\n structure (note letter of Colgate W. Darden, 9 October 1945). Most of his records concerning\n St. Paul’s church involve his sponsorship of the Weddell Memorial Church located first in\n the Fulton area of East Richmond and later on Montrose Heights. The files also concern the\n acquisition of the painting “Conversion of St. Paul” by Benjamin West in 1943 and a memorial\n to Penelope (Weddell) Anderson in 1927. Files for St. Stephen’s Church in the Westhampton\n section of Richmond relate to furnishings for the Weddell Memorial Chapel in honor of\n Penelope (Weddell) Anderson.","Weddell was a longtime member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Virginia after his\n election in 1927. See letter of Harry F. Byrd (10 October 1928) and Colgate W. Darden (24\n April 1947). His greatest interest, however, lay ini the Virginia Historical Society, on\n whose executive committee he served for many years. He confessed to a friend that his\n election as president of the Society “realized the ambition of my life.” Among these folders\n are letters from Nancy Astor (30 July 1945 portraits files; 10 June 1946 Charles Bridges\n file); Harry F. Byrd (26 Nov. 1945); Colgate W. Darden (23 July 1945 E. R. Williams portrait\n file); and John Garland Pollard (17 June 1932).","Series 2.8. Speeches, addresses, publications, 1930-1947, includes a general file of\n Weddell’s speeches, addresses, toasts, etc. The following box begins files of his various\n publications in alphabetical order. He wrote several books, most under the auspices or\n authority of theVirginia Historical Society, but with heavy personal investment.","A Description of Virginia House (Richmond, 1947) was paid for by the Weddells, but all\n revenue was to go to the Virginia Historical Society. The files include drafts, notes,\n proof, a list of prospective subscribers, and some correspondence, especially with architect\n William Lawrence Bottomley (9 Sept. 1946, 2 Dec. 1947)","Weddell’s Introduction to Argentina (New York, 1939), grew from his great love of that\n nation. The volume was originally entitled “Argentina: A Good Neighbor.” Correspondence\n includes letters of Ellen Glasgow (29 Dec. 1938), Cordell Hull (28 April 1939) and Sumner\n Wells (11 June 1938).","The Memorial Volume of Virginia of Virginia Historical Portraiture (Richmond, 1930),\n developed out of the “Exhibition of Virginia Portraits” held to commemorate the opening of\n Virginia House in the Spring of 1929. Early materials include correspondence of the Virginia\n Historical Society’s Committee on the Exhibition of Historical Portraits (George Cole Scott,\n chairman, Preston Davie, Earl Gregg Swem, and Weddell). Katherine Lyon Scott, Weddell’s\n personal secretary at the time, also figures prominently, and numerous letters are directed\n to Harry F. Byrd as honorary chairman of the exhibition. The files contain financial and\n subscription records, insurance materials, private viewing records, returned portraits, and\n portrait files (including correspondence, notes, biographical information, loan agreements,\n and some reproductions). A scrapbook is filed oversize following box 43. Correspondents\n include Lady Astor (21 Feb., 15 Oct., 13 Nov. 1928, files 33, 94, 135); William Lawrence\n Bottomley (file 142); Harry F. Byrd (28 March, 21 May, 6 June 1928; 11 May 1929; 4 Jan.\n 1930; files 15a-e, 15f-g, 33, 108, 127); Andrew J. Montague (file 72, three letters); and\n Claude A. Swanson (30 March 1929). Another important and frequent correspondent throughout\n these files in New York collector Thomas Benedict Clarke (1848-1931), who prepared a review\n of American portraiture for the Memorial Volume.","Files for Portraiture in the Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, 1945) contain\n correspondence, notes on artists and subjects, news clippings, drafts and miscellany.\n Richmond, Virginia, in Old Prints, 1737-1887 (Richmond, 1932) developed from an exhibit at\n the Richmond Public Library in 1931. The general files include a mixture of correspondence\n and accounts (see especially letters of Claude A. Swanson, 9-15 April 1931), while a\n separate prints file and news clippings file are maintained.","Lastly, Weddell became involved in a project to provide an adequate survey history of\n Virginia. The Virginia History Fund that he administered for the Virginia History Foundation\n financed Matthew Page Andrews’s The Soul of A Nation: The Founding of Virginia and Project\n of New England (New York, 1943). The general files contain lengthy correspondence with\n Andrews and letters from Harry F. Byrd (24 June 1942) and Colgate W. Darden (16 Aug.\n 1942).","Series 2.9. Virginia House, In 1925, the Weddell’s purchased an old English manor house,\n Warwick Priory, which was being demolished in England. In the midst of public outcry, they\n had the structure shipped to America and reassembled in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond.\n An addition, designed by architect Henry Grant Morse, intentionally coped the format of\n Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ancestral home in England. The Weddell’s deeded the structure\n to the Virginia Historical Society, retaining only a life interest in the building. Virginia\n House files include original construction and title folders, repair and maintenance records,\n servants and household employees files, garden plans and care. The “loggia” file contains\n extensive correspondence with and plans by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley.\n The files marked “Household Employees, 1930-1933” contains two letters of Andrew J.\n Montague. (See also the photograph collection of the museum department, especially for\n photographs and additional Bottomley materials.)","Series 2.10. Miscellaneous. Note specifically the files on “Stardust,” an unpublished\n volume of poetry gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Weddell as an “anthology of things read and\n loved.” Correspondence includes a letter of Ellen Glasgow (27 May 1940). The estate files\n include numerous news clippings and letters concerning the deaths and funeral of the\n Weddells and of Mrs. Weddell’s personal maid, Violet Mary Andrews (Box 51). Series includes\n various Diplomatic Commissions which are notably signed by William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson,\n Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt and John Garland Pollard.","Series 3. Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell, Some files of Mrs. Weddell are maintained\n separately.","Series 3.1. These include two diaries, 1922-1923, kept during the period when she first met\n and then married Alex Weddell. Her personal correspondence contains some early letters of\n the Chase and Atkinson families, including her father Edwin Elisha Chase (1850-1900), and\n her mother, Virginia (Atkinson) Chase (1854-1900), as well as letters from Harry F. Byrd\n (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1938-1939), Cordell Hull (1936), John Garland Pollard (1933), and\n Eleanor Roosevelt (1929, 1935-1936, 1941).","Virginia Weddell worked tirelessly among the victims of Civil War during her husband’s\n mission to Spain. She administered funds for the American Committee for Relief in Spain and\n helped to organize in New York City the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to\n Spain. Mrs. Weddell established her own private relief fund and also distributed monies for\n the American Red Cross and Quaker Relief Fund. Records Among her papers includes\n correspondence, accounts and account books (2 volumes), reports, a radio address and\n miscellany (box 53).","Box 54 contains complete files on the estate of industrialist James Harrison Steedman,\n (1867-1921) of St. Louis, Mrs. Weddell’s first husband. Beginning in 1898, the materials\n include records of Steedman’s naval reserve service during World War I, his subsequent\n illness and death, and the settlement of his estate. A trust fun was established for his\n widow, who was also his executrix and sole beneficiary. That trust also funded the Steedman\n fellowship in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The estate\n files contain Mrs. Weddell’s correspondence with attorneys, trust officers, and Steedman\n relatives; inheritance and income tax records; and materials concerning the Steedman’s\n California home, “Glen Arden,” in Santa Barbara.","Following Mrs. Weddell’s files are a very few items for each of Mr. Weddell’s sisters. The\n collection closes with information in the Weddell’s memberships in various hereditary\n patriotic organizations and the supporting genealogical research on the Atkinson, Chase,\n Cunningham, and Washington families (for Mrs. Weddell) and the Creecy, Gale, Ward, Weddell\n and Wright families (for Mr. Weddell). The Wright family folders include much information on\n Weddell’s grandfather, Dr. David Minton Wright (1807-1863), who was executed in Norfolk by\n Federal authorities during the Civil War. Primarily, these materials were collected to\n refute a 1907 article appearing in the Century Magazine."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948. \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 6, 1876, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell was the son of\n Episcopal minister Alexander Watson Weddell and his wife, Penelope Margaret Wright. With the\n early death of his father and a large family of six siblings, Alex Weddell struggled to\n secure a rudimentary education and find a profession. A chance meeting while working as a\n clerk at the U. S. Copyright Office led to his first diplomatic post as secretary to the\n minister of Denmark. Stationed in Zanzibar, Catania, Athens, Beirut, Calcutta, and Mexico\n City, Weddell moved slowly up the foreign service professional ladder. His career in foreign\n service as a consul or ambassador would last for almost forty years, culminating in\n ambassadorships in Argentina and Spain. Virginia Atkinson Chase Steedman was born in\n Missouri in 1874 to Edwin E. Chase and Virginia Atkinson Chase. She was educated at Miss\n Brown's School for Girls in New York City. In 1900 She married James Harrison Steedman from\n a wealthy family, but he unfortunately he died in 1921 after serving in World War I.\n Steedman, was a wealthy widow from St. Louis, Missouri when she and Weddell were introduced\n by mutual friends in Calcutta during a around-the-world trip in 1922. Mr. Weddell\n accompanied Steedman and her companions back to the United States by cruise ship. The\n courtship on the ship resulted in the couple marrying four months later in New York. Virgina\n Weddell was an integral part of Alexander Weddell's success in the foreign service. Weddell\n retired, due to health, from foreign service in 1942. The Weddell's returned to Richmond and\n their historically rebuilt English priory home, Virginia House. The couple and their maid\n tragically died a train collision accident in rural Missouri on January 1, 1948."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va. \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Papers, 1858-1955, (Mss1 W4126 b FA2), Virginia Historical\n Society, Richmond, Va."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2, \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Virginia Historical Society: Mss1 W4126 a-e, Mss1 W4126 b FA2,"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers concerning Alexander W. Weddell’s diplomatic and consular service. Papers were\n organized by Weddell for publication of a memoir of his life and career. Papers include\n correspondence with family, friends, foreign service officers, and politicians and\n miscellany from the various posts of service. Researchers should consult the other Weddell\n collections in conduction with research in this collection. Note that some subjects and\n correspondents may appear several locations, so this description and the guide which follows\n should be examined thoroughly."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eMainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House. \u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Mainly materials related to Weddell’s career as a diplomat and\n ambassador of the United States in Argentina and Spain. The papers include\n diaries/calendars, correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, diplomatic files,\n organizational records, speeches, Virginia House, publications, miscellaneous, and Virginia\n Chase Steedman Weddell papers. The bulk of papers are correspondence which starts in 1883,\n but is especially heavy after 1927. The correspondence is both personal and professional and\n concern his diplomatic career and missions along with civic and philanthropic organizations.\n There is also documentation of the construction and maintenance of the Weddell’s Richmond\n home, Virginia House."],"famname_ssim":["Weddell family--Genealogy","Wright family--Genealogy"],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Henry W. (Henry Watkins), 1870-1954","Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964","Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951","Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946","Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944","Bryan, Jonathan","Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966","Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942","Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933","Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981","Dugdale, Elizabeth Cabell, 1902-1990","Ellyson, Lora Effie Hotchkiss, 1848-1935","Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945","Glass, Carter, 1858-1946","Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923","Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955","Lane, Arthur Bliss, 1894–1956","Montague, Andrew Jackson, 1862-1937","Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931","Morse, Henry Grant, 1884-1934","Olds, Robert Edwin, 1875-1932","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922","Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937","Protestant Episcopal Church Home for Ladies (Richmond, Va.)","Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962","Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945","Sheffield, James Rockwell, 1864–1938","Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939","Taft, William H. 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Va.) -- History.","Berkeley County Agricultural and Mechanics\n Association (Berkeley County, W. Va.)","Boyd, Elisha, 1769- 1841.","Democratic Party (U.S.)","Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-\n 1929.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884.","Faulkner, James, 1776-1817..","Jefferson County (W. Va.) -- History.","Lawyers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Lawyers -- West Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad\n Company.","Merchants -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Political campaigns -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Political campaigns -- West Virginia -- History --\n 19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","United States -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1900.","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 19th\n century.","Waggener, Andrew, 1843-1813.","West Virginia. Constitutional Convention\n (1872)","West Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1900.","Whig Party (U.S.)","Wickahm, John, 1763-1839.","12,000 (ca.) items.","Collection is open for research.","The Faulkner Family papers are arranged into six series by\n individual and subseries by subject or document type where\n necessary. A seventh series contains volumes added after the\n initial processing was completed.","Of Berkeley County, W. Va. Represented in the collection\n are James Faulkner (1776-1817), of Martinsburg, Va. (now W.\n Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899.","The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n trade under his own name. His personal and business\n correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n 1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n 1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n client (records of legal services provided over time not\n necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n records of that mission include documents signed by William\n Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n 69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n 1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n 71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n 76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n 1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n 1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n 1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n the end of the collection.","There are no restrictions.","Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n Berkeley County, Va. (now W. 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(now W.\n Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFaulkner Family Papers, 1737-1954 (Mss1 F2735 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Faulkner Family Papers, 1737-1954 (Mss1 F2735 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJames Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. The company\n dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n trade under his own name. His personal and business\n correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. and James\n Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026amp; Co. of\n Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFor many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlso found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n 1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n 1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026amp; Warner in\n Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n client (records of legal services provided over time not\n necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the more important clients for whom Charles James\n Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio\n Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n settlements is filed in Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n records of that mission include documents signed by William\n Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n 69).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n 1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n 71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n accounts.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n Virginians alike (Box 73).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWith the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n (printed) and news clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n 76-77).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad\n Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026amp;\n Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n 1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n 1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n case files, and personal miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n (Boxes 87-88).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeveral small folders of papers concern Charles James\n Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n entirely financial in nature (Box 93).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBox 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n unclassified miscellany round out the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eLastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n 1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n the end of the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n trade under his own name. His personal and business\n correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n 1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n 1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n client (records of legal services provided over time not\n necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n records of that mission include documents signed by William\n Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n 69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n 1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n 71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n 76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n 1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n 1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n 1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n the end of the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eChiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n Agricultural \u0026amp; Mechanical Association. Also includes\n papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.).\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n Berkeley County, Va. (now W. 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Army -- Military\n life.","Culpeper County (Va.) -- Politics and government\n -- 19th century.","Germanna Bridge (Va.)","Glendalough (Madison County, Va.)","Hill, Ambrose Powell, 1785-1858.","Hill, Francis Irvin, 1860-1946 --\n Diaries.","Hill, Hugh Hodge, 1858-1937.","Hill, John Booton, 1831-1913.","Hill, William Alexander, 1817-1890.","Hill, William Powell, 1844-1929.","Justices of the peace -- Virginia -- Culpeper\n County.","Liberty Baptist Church (Greene County,\n Va.)","Locust Dale Academy (Va.)","Major, Anna Lee Hill, 1847-1935.","Millwood (Madison County, Va.)","Mountain Lake Hotel (Va.)","Physicians -- Virginia -- Madison County --\n History -- 19th century.","Rapidan River (Va.)","Sheriffs -- Virginia -- Culpeper County.","Sheriffs -- Virginia -- Madison County.","Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company.","4375 (ca.) items (21 manuscript\n boxes)","Collection is open for research.","Arranged into twenty-two sections by individual and further\n subdivided by document type where necessary.","Concern the Hill and related Booton families. Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). The Booton family is represented by John Booton\n (1786-1845), who married Ann Powell Hill (1798?-1872), sister\n of Ambrose Powell Hill above.","The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.","There are no restrictions.","Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"collection_ssim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"access_terms_ssm":["There are no restrictions."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased from John A. 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Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). The Booton family is represented by John Booton\n (1786-1845), who married Ann Powell Hill (1798?-1872), sister\n of Ambrose Powell Hill above.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Concern the Hill and related Booton families. Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). 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He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026amp; Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eRecords of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eYoungest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003ePhilip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJulia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":65,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00013_c03_c06"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00013_c04_c01","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Subseries 4.1: Correspondence, 1849-1871.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00013_c04_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00013_c04_c01","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00013_c04_c01"],"id":"vihi_vih00013_c04_c01","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00013","_root_":"vihi_vih00013","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00013_c04","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00013_c04","parent_ssim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 4: Series 4. Ann Powell (Hill )\n Booton (1798?-1872), \"Chestnut Grove, \" Madison County, Va., papers."],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00013","vihi_vih00013_c04"],"title_filing_ssi":"Correspondence, \n \n 1849-1871.","title_ssm":["Subseries 4.1: Correspondence, 1849-1871."],"title_tesim":["Subseries 4.1: Correspondence, 1849-1871."],"normalized_title_ssm":["Subseries 4.1: Correspondence, 1849-1871."],"text":["Subseries 4.1: Correspondence, 1849-1871.","Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 4: Series 4. Ann Powell (Hill )\n Booton (1798?-1872), \"Chestnut Grove, \" Madison County, Va., papers.","Box 6"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 4: Series 4. Ann Powell (Hill )\n Booton (1798?-1872), \"Chestnut Grove, \" Madison County, Va., papers."],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945","Series 4: Series 4. 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Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). The Booton family is represented by John Booton\n (1786-1845), who married Ann Powell Hill (1798?-1872), sister\n of Ambrose Powell Hill above.","The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.","There are no restrictions.","Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"collection_ssim":["Hill Family Papers, 1787-1945"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 H5565 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"access_terms_ssm":["There are no restrictions."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased from John A. 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Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). The Booton family is represented by John Booton\n (1786-1845), who married Ann Powell Hill (1798?-1872), sister\n of Ambrose Powell Hill above.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Concern the Hill and related Booton families. Represented\n are Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858) of Culpeper County, Va.,\n planter, local official, president of the Thornton's Gap\n Turnpike Company; his son, William Alexander Hill (1817-1890),\n physician and Baptist minister of \"Glendalough,\" Madison\n County, Va.; his sons Hugh Hodge Hill (1858?-1937), physician,\n and Francis Irvin Hill (1860-1946), and daughter, Anna Lee\n (Hill) Major (1847-1935); and grandson, Albert Hudgins Hill\n (1866-1933). 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He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026amp; Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eRecords of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCaptain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eYoungest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003ePhilip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJulia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers open with a single item of Henry Hill\n (1743-1815), a planter and Continental Army officer who was\n progenitor of the Culpeper Hills. He built \"Millwood\" on a\n plantation just across the county line in Madison near\n presently-day Novum. The home figured prominently in the\n affairs of his son A. P. Hill.","Captain Ambrose Powell Hill (1785-1858), uncle of the\n Confederate general of the same name, served as a justice of\n the peace, sheriff and legislator for Culpeper County. He\n lived primarily at Culpeper Court House, but also spent time\n at the home he inherited from his father, \"Millwood.\"","Captain Hill's correspondence reflects his various\n interests as a planter and local official. It includes letters\n from Congressman John Strode Barbour and Governor William\n Smith. In 1844 Hill was appointed one of the commissioners of\n the Culpeper County Court to consider the construction of a\n bridge spanning the Rapidan River between Culpeper and Orange\n counties. He maintained records as superintendent of the\n building of Germanna Bridge, including orders of the county\n court, specifications, a bond of the contractor, William T. J.\n Richards (in the hand of William Green), and accounts. Hill\n also served as president of the Thornton's Gap Turnpike\n Company, 1850-1854. His records include correspondence and\n reports, minutes, a memorial to the Virginia Board of Public\n Works, specifications for the turnpike and Hazel River Bridge\n in Culpeper County, an account book and loose accounts, and a\n deed (copy) from James Barbour.","As sheriff and in his private capacity, A. P. Hill also\n acted as executor of a number of estates in Culpeper County.\n His records primarily include correspondence, accounts and\n inventories. One of the estates, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry\n (d. 1844), made significant bequests to Baptist organizations\n and institutions. Hill's personal miscellany includes as well\n records of his activities as a member of Mount Pony (later\n Culpeper) Baptist Church. Estate materials, kept by his son\n and administrator, William A. Hill, include a conveyance of\n \"Millwood,\" division of slaves, and records of two lawsuits\n concerning the estate settlement.","John Booton (1786-1845) was a son of William Booton and\n Frances Hill, a sister of Henry Hill (1743-1815). Booton lived\n at \"chestnut Grove\" in Madison County and his family attended\n Liberty Baptist Church, just across the line in Greene County.\n He pursued an active, if erratic, career in local affairs. His\n correspondence includes letters of Madison clerk Belfield Cave\n (concerning a contested election in 1841; see below) and\n lawyer William Green. A large group of loose accounts covers\n the purchase and sale of tobacco and wheat, subscriptions to\n Baptist publications, and, like almost all groups of accounts\n in this collection, local taxation. John Booton and his broth\n Sinclair also had a financial interest in John S. Beazley\n \u0026 Co., merchants in Rapid Ann (now Wolftown), Va.","As well as planting, Booton acted as deputy sheriff in\n Madison under a succession of sheriffs, including William\n Booton and Robert Thomas. His tenure covered the years\n 1815-1843, during part of which time his brother Sinclair also\n served as deputy sheriff. Booton's records include auditor's\n receipts; receipts from the Madison county commissioner of the\n revenue; Sheriff's receipts (including fees for \"farmage\" -\n the leasing of the office of sheriff to a deputy in return for\n a portion of collected fees); executives of judgments, orders\n and writs issued by the county court or individual justices; a\n bond of the jailor concerning the county jail; fee book, 1828;\n and records as administrator of estates in Madison County\n (primarily accounts and inventories), committed to the\n sheriffs by the county court.","Records of land purchased or sold by John Booton in Madison\n and Orange counties include deeds, agreements, receipts,\n surveys and plats. Other materials include judgments issued in\n 1837 as a justice of the peace, and records as clerk of the\n lst and 2nd Battalions of the 82nd Infantry Regiment of\n Virginia Militia (primarily fines for failing to attend\n muster) Booton was twice elected to the House of Delegates for\n Madison County (1839 and 1840) and both times his election was\n successfully contested by opponent Robert Alexander Banks. The\n latter investigation created a tense situation in the county\n (see Belfield Cave letters; House Journal, 1840-1841, Doc. No.\n 45, and election materials in this collection).","John Booton acted as trustee for his cousin Henry Hill\n (1782-1846) and brother-in-law William Henry Hill (1803-1880),\n and as administrator of the estate of his brother Sinclair\n (1797-1839). Among his miscellaneous records are slave\n materials and 1830 agreement concerning a copper mine in\n Orange County. Estate materials, kept by executors Edwin\n Booton and William A. Hill, include inventories and\n appraisals, loose accounts, sales and tax records, an account\n book covering the guardianship of Ann Powell Hill Booton (b.\n 1827), and records of the division of \"Chestnut Grove\" after\n the death of Booton's wife.","Captain A. P. Hill's son, William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890), was both a physician and a Baptist minister. He\n built and lived at \"Glendalough\" near Locust Dale in Madison\n County. His correspondence consists primarily of family\n letters, including a number from his sons while they served in\n the Confederate Army and to his daughter describing military\n operations in and around Culpeper and Madison counties. Other\n correspondents include Governor William Smith and General\n James Gaven Field, later attorney-general of Virginia;\n additional subjects include financial matters and Baptist\n church affairs.","Dr. Hill was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in\n Philadelphia. His records include class cards issued to attend\n medial lectures. Hill served as executor of Oliver B. Jenks, a\n New Hampshire-born physician who practiced in Madison and\n married one of Hill's Twyman cousins. The records include an\n account book, loose accounts, 1858-1875 (primarily for medical\n services rendered), receipts and bonds. Hill also served as\n administrator of several other estates in Madison, including\n that of Baptist benefactor Daniel J. Smoot. Miscellaneous\n items include materials concerning Hill's pastorates at\n Liberty Church in Greene County and Antioch Church, a black\n congregation at Culpeper Court House, as well as records as\n first superintendent of schools in Madison and Greene\n counties. Dr. Hill's wife, Judith Frances (Booton) Hill (1822-\n 1909), was a daughter of John Booton. Her correspondence\n consists primarily of family letters, though a number concern\n the death of William A. Hill. Thomas Hill (b. 1810?) was a\n brother of William A. Hill. A few items of financial interest\n comprise his papers in Box 9.","Edwin Booton (b. 1820) and John Booton (b. 1825) both moved\n to Greene County. Some of their accounts were generated as\n agents for their month, Ann Powell (hill) Booton. Their\n unmarried sister, Ann Powell Hill Booton (b. 1827) lived at\n \"Chestnut Grove\" and later at \"Glendalough\". Her papers\n consist primarily of family correspondence (especially with\n nephew Hugh Hodge Hill), guardian's accounts kept by William\n A. Hill, 1847-1862, and loose financial records.","John Booton Hill (1841-1913), son of Dr. William A. Hill,\n worked for his uncle Henry Hill (1816-1866) as a paymaster for\n the U. S. Army preceding the Civil War. In 1861 he returned to\n Madison as Captain of Co. C of the 82nd Regiment of Militia.\n He was soon transferred to Richmond, again to assist his uncle\n in creating the paymaster department for Virginia State Forces\n and later for the Confederate Army. In 1864 he rose to the\n rank of Major and was assigned to Anderson's Corps of the Army\n of Norther Virginia at the Siege of Petersburg. After the War\n he worked as assistant superintendent of the Richmond Water\n Works and as treasurer of the E. B. Taylor Co., importers, and\n was active in First Baptist Church.","Hill's papers include letters, mostly written to his sister\n Anna while in Confederate service (see also his parents'\n correspondence); reminiscences of service; obituary notices\n and memorials; and a few items of his wife, Virginia Byrd\n (Hudgins) Hill (1842-1925), including notes on the Hudgins\n family.","Hill's brother William Powell Hill (1844-1929) also served\n in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army and\n later in Co. C of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. After the\n War he engaged in lumber manufacturing in Orange County and\n handled real estate in Culpeper County. Letters to his sister\n Anna during his Confederate service chiefly comprise his\n correspondence (see also his parents' correspondence), while\n two commonplace books concern agricultural labor and activity\n and a diary of a trip from \"Glendalough\" to Luray, Va.,\n presumably in 1867.","Dr. Hugh Hodge Hill (1858-?1937) was named for one of his\n father's medical professors at the University of Pennsylvania.\n He attended the same school and then practiced in Madison\n County and as resident physician at Mountain Lake Hotel in\n Giles County. Among his papers are reports, essays, and\n exercises while a student at Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale,\n Va. (1873-1876); materials concerning his attempt to secure a\n post as resident physician at Germantown Hospital, Germantown,\n Pa., in 1896; and some records of his activity in Mt. Zion\n Baptist Church, Oakpark, Va.","Youngest of the Hill brothers, Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946) lived for a time in Greensboro, N. C., as an\n insurance agent and later a manufacturer's representative, but\n seems to have returned to \"Glendalough\" in the 1890s. He kept\n a diary of farm and local events in early 1899 (entries after\n March 29 were made by his wife, Zilpha), and his accounts are\n very sporadic except for the years 1935-1945. Miscellany\n includes about a half-dozen letters written to Zilpha Hill\n (Brachin) Hill (d. 1906).","Philip Major (b. 1847) married Dr. William A. Hill's eldest\n daughter. He was a \"professor\" at Locust Dale Academy and\n lived at\"Glendalough\". His wife Anna Lee (Hill) Major\n (1847-1935), attended school at the Inglewood Female Academy\n run by Dr. Charles Quarles at \"Inglewood\" in Louisa County\n during the Civil War. Much of her correspondence is with\n family members, schoolmates, and fellow workers in the Baptist\n Church. Correspondents include James Gaven Field and Baptist\n ministers Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Oscar Farish Flippo (with\n photograph), and William Alexander Street.","Julia Henry Hill (1853?-1888) appears in the correspondence\n of her parents and older siblings. Among her papers is an\n agreement with the Locust Dale School District in Madison\n County to teach at Oak Park School House in 1877, and\n resolutions of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Missionary\n Society.","Albert Hudgins Hill (1866-1933), son of John Booton Hill,\n attended the University of Richmond and began his teaching\n career in a local evening school. His correspondence includes\n letters from William Gordon McCabe. He became principal of\n Scottsville Elementary and High Schools in 1887. Materials\n include recommendations, a certificate, and a news clipping.\n Hill joined the Richmond City public schools in 1889, rising\n from principal to assistant superintendent in 1904 and\n superintendent in 1919. Materials, 1909-1933, consist of\n correspondence, accounts, an abortive nomination as\n superintendent in 1909, records of attendance at Colombia\n University, 1911-1914, appointment as superintendent,\n biographical information, essays, news clippings, and\n resolutions.","Albert Hill married Cora J. Bransford (1867-1941) of\n Lynchburg. Along with family correspondence and loose\n accounts, the collection also contains records of her\n administration of the estate of her sister, Judith H.\n (Bransford) Silverhorn; a commonplace book, 1913-1936,\n including notes of deaths of members of the Beers and\n Bransford families; and an autograph album kept in Lynchburg,\n 1881-1893. Mrs. Hill's estate materials consist primarily of\n sympathy notes and letters written to her daughters, Katharine\n Byrd (Hill) Smith and Judith Bransford (Hill) Weaver.","The last section of the collection consists of miscellany,\n including a few items of general correspondence of various\n other members of the Booton and Hill families, 1866-1905;\n accounts, 1838-1865; obituary notices; clippings, and an\n agreement of Governor James Lawson Kemper with Alfred Madison\n Barbour concerning land in Culpeper County."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eAbstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Abstract: This collection concerns\n a family locally prominent in social, political, governmental\n and religious affairs in Culpeper and Madison counties, Va.\n Physicians, educators, planters, ministers and members of\n various Baptist congregations, a number of the leading persons\n in these papers figured in significant events locally and\n across the state over two centuries. Includes correspondence\n and other materials representing Ambrose Powell Hill's service\n as justice of the peace, sheriff, and legislator from Culpeper\n County, Va., his records of the building of the Germanna\n Bridge over the Rapidan River, and his presidency of the\n Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company, as well as estate papers;\n materials of John Booton (1786-1845) of \"Chestnut Grove,\"\n Madison County, Va., planter, deputy sheriff, and politician,\n whose two runs for the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in\n contested elections; materials of William Alexander Hill\n (1817-1890) as a physician and Baptist minister, of\n \"Glendalough,\" Madison County, Va., including letters written\n during his service in the Confederate Army and records of his\n pastorates of Liberty Church, Greene County, Va., and Antioch\n Church, Culpeper County, Va., an African American\n congregation. Also, include materials of John Booton Hill\n (1841-1913), including letters written during his service in\n the Confederate Army and reminiscences of his war-time\n experiences; materials relating to Hugh Hodge Hill\n (1858?-1937), concerning his service as resident physician at\n Mountain Lake Hotel, Giles County, Va., and his attendance at\n Locust Dale Academy, Locust Dale, Va.; and Francis Irvin Hill\n (1860-1946), including a diary of farm and local events, 1899,\n kept at \"Millwood,\" Madison County, Va."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":65,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00013_c04_c01"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c04_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00010_c04_c01"],"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010_c04","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04","parent_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983), Richmond, Va."],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04"],"title_filing_ssi":"General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970","title_ssm":["Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970"],"title_tesim":["Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970"],"text":["Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970","Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983), Richmond, Va.","Box 1\n (cont.)"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983), Richmond, Va."],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983), Richmond, Va."],"level_ssm":["Sub-Series"],"level_ssim":["Sub-series"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":5,"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"containers_ssim":["Box 1\n (cont.)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":11,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["Collection is open for research."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["There are no restrictions."],"_nest_path_":"/components#3/components#0","timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00010","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00010.xml","title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"text":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Mss1 C5472 a FA2","Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage.","900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box).","Collection is open for research.","The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.","Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.","This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","There are no restrictions.","Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"access_terms_ssm":["There are no restrictions."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Adele Clark in 1979. 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While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMaterials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. 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Court of Customs and Patent\n Appeals.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Governor (1958-1962 : Almond)","Virginia. Office of the Attorney\n General.","Women -- Virginia -- Political activity.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and customs --\n 20th century.","2,8000 (ca.) items.","Collection is open for research.","Organized into ten series by material type. Correspondence\n is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Other materials\n are arranged chronologically wherever possible.","James Lindsay Almond, Jr., was born June 15, 1898, in\n Charlottesville, Va., the son of Lindsay and Eddie Nicholas\n (Burgess) Almond. At an early age his family moved to a farm\n in rural Orange County, Va. Almond entered the University of\n Virginia in 1917 as a member of the Student Army Training\n Corps but withdrew a year later and consequently served for a\n year as principal of the Zoar High School near Roanoke, Va.,\n 1921- 1922. He then entered the University of Virginia School\n of Law and earned his law degree in 1923. He had been admitted\n to the Virginia Bar in 1921. He was in private practice as a\n lawyer in Roanoke, Va., 1923- 1932, and quickly became known\n for his handling of criminal cases.","A Democrat, Almond's interest in politics began in his\n teens. His involvement with Democrat Harry Flood Byrd began in\n 1925, when Almond made several speeches in support of Byrd's\n gubernatorial campaign. With Byrd's help, Almond was appointed\n assistant Commonwealth's attorney for the city of Roanoke,\n 1930-1933, and a judge of the Roanoke Hustings court,\n 1933-1945. He was later appointed to the 79th U.S. Congress\n and elected a member of the 80th U.S. Congress. The Virginia\n Democratic Party, led by Harry F. Byrd, asked Almond to step\n down from his Congressional seat and run for attorney general\n of Virginia, to which position he was elected in 1948. He\n served in this office until 1957, at which time he resigned to\n run for governor of Virginia.","Both Almond's campaign for and service as governor were\n dominated by Virginia's response to the Supreme Court's school\n desegregation edict. As governor, he inherited a program of\n \"massive resistance\" designed to halt school integration by\n erecting a series of defensive obstacles. Realizing the\n movement was doomed and if continued would potentially destroy\n the Commonwealth's educational system, in January 1959 Almond\n admitted defeat and established a commission to develop a plan\n for the integration of Virginia's public schools. Almond's\n reversal on this issue cost him the support of the Harry F.\n Byrd and his many supporters.","Following Almond's term as governor, he was appointed by\n President John F. Kennedy as an interim judge of the U.S.\n Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Washington, D.C. With\n U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd on the Senate Judicial Committee,\n it took much campaigning on the part of Almond's friends and\n supporters to secure his official appointment to this post in\n 1963. He served as a member of this court until his retirement\n in 1986.","J. Lindsay Almond married Josephine Katherine Minter\n (1901-1992) in 1925. A native of Roanoke, Va., Mrs. Almond\n attended Elizabeth College in Salem, Va., and received her\n bachelor's degree in 1923 from Wittenberg University in Ohio.\n The Almond's had no children, but raised Mrs. Almond's orphan\n nephew, Lewis S. Minter, from infancy. Mr. Almond died April\n 14, 1986, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Roanoke,\n Va.","Series 1 contains the non-official correspondence of J.\n Lindsay Almond, Jr., 1925-1983, chiefly as governor and while\n he was seeking a federal judgeship. Subjects mentioned include\n concerns of constituents; recommendations of persons for\n appointments by various state and local officials; the attempt\n on Almond's life in April 1959; Almond's stand on school\n desegregation (see the correspondence of Alburtis S. Harrison,\n Jr., Charles L. Lady, and Sydney F. Small); and the efforts of\n Almond's supporters to get him a position on the U.S. Court of\n Patent Appeals (see the correspondence of George Edward Allen\n (1885-1972), Miner Carl Andrews, Lester R. Bachner, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), James O. Eastland, Charles Rogers\n Fenwick, Eppa Hunton IV, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert\n Francis Kennedy, Marvin E. Nuckols, Jr., and A. Willis\n Robertson). This appointment was blocked for almost a year by\n U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a member of the Senate Judicial\n Committee, who had broken with Almond over the latter's\n apparent reversal of his support of school desegregation and\n the policy of \"massive resistance.\" Also included is scattered\n family correspondence, chiefly concerning the health of\n Almond's mother, Edmonia Nicholas (Burgess) Almond (d.\n 1966).","Series 2 contains speeches given on various occasions.\n Subseries 2.1, Speeches by J. Lindsay Almond, are arranged\n chronologically. See 1958-1960 for the bulk of speeches\n concerning school desegregation. Subseries 2.2, Speeches by\n Others, is arranged alphabetically by author.","Series 3 includes scattered financial and legal records,\n 1948-1978, of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., consisting of records of\n sale and purchase of residential real estate in Roanoke and\n Richmond, Va., loose accounts and papers including forms\n relating to his employment as a federal judge, canceled\n checks, an account book for his expenses relating to the last\n illness and death of his mother, Edmonia Nicholas (Burgess)\n Almond (d. 1966) of Locust Grove, Va., and miscellaneous items\n including an affidavit concerning the Virginia Senatorial\n campaign of 1946 and its connection with the C.I.O. Political\n Action Committee and a list of firearms owned by Mr.\n Almond.","Series 4 includes scrapbooks, 1934-1963, containing chiefly\n newspaper clippings from Richmond and Roanoke, Va., newspapers\n documenting the various careers of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. The\n volumes are arranged in four subseries as follows: Subseries\n 4.1 documents Almond's career as a judge of the Roanoke City\n Hustings Court and as a member of the U.S. House of\n Representatives. Series 4.2 documents Almond's return to\n Virginia to serve as Attorney General. Subseries 4.3 documents\n Almond's campaign for, election as, and service as governor of\n Virginia. Prominently mentioned is his fight against\n court-ordered desegregation of public schools. Subseries 4.4\n in many ways overlaps previous subseries but also includes a\n scrapbook concerning the Roanoke Racing Homer Club, Roanoke,\n Va., of which Almond was a member, and a 1963 barbecue given\n in Almond's honor.","Series 5 consists of newspaper clippings, 1931-1987,\n arranged chronologically, chiefly from Roanoke and Richmond,\n Va., papers. Subjects include Almond's service as Attorney\n General of Virginia, campaign for and election as Governor of\n Virginia, the \"massive resistance\" movement, and the Almonds'\n life after leaving office. See also: Oversize.","Series 6 contains brief biographical statements,\n occasionally in resolution form. Some items were evidently\n attached to letters of recommendation for various\n appointments. Persons represented include: J. Lindsay Almond,\n Josephine Katherine (Minter) Almond, Jerome M. Alper, Rufus\n Adolphus Ayers, Leroy S. Bendheim, Charles Newton Bordwine,\n Carter Lee Burgess, Mortimer Maxwell Caplin, Albert Edward\n Cox, John Alvin Crogan, Constantine N. Dombalis, John H. East,\n F. Howard Forsyth, Connie Barriot Gay, Edward Wren Hudgins,\n Thomas G. Massie, Joe G. Matthews, Josephine (Umberger)\n Minter, C. E. Myers, Andrew E. Newton, Gene A. Robens, Bradley\n Roberts, William L. Saunders, Erwin Seago, Robert N. W. Welch,\n and Elijah Brockenbrough White.","Series 7 contains non-scrapbook volumes. Subseries 7.1\n consists of Almond's appointment registers, 1951-1961 (90 v.)\n kept while he was Attorney General and Governor of Virginia.\n Entries are short, often containing only the name of the\n person visiting. Occasionally mention is made of subject\n matter to be discussed. Almond's attendance at official\n functions (including receptions, luncheons, conferences) is\n also noted. Subseries 7.2 consists of miscellaneous volumes,\n including a letterbook, 1919 April 30-May 9, containing drafts\n of letters from J. Lindsay Almond to Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond; student notebook, 1923 March 4-June 1, kept\n at the University of Virginia Law School; Roll book, 1957\n November 5, containing recollections of J. Lindsay Almond's\n gubernatorial victory, collected by the Almond Booster Club of\n Roanoke, Va.; and Guest register, 1958 April 22-1962 January\n 4, of visitors to the Governor's Mansion.","Series 8 includes diplomas, certificates of membership in\n various organizations, law licenses and certificates of\n qualification to appear before various courts, masonic\n materials, and miscellaneous items received during Almond's\n careers. Of special interest are his diploma from the\n University of Virginia, 1923; his law license, 1921; a\n certificate of appointment to the U.S. Court of Customs and\n Patent Appeals, 1962, signed by John F. Kennedy and Robert P.\n Kennedy; oath as Attorney General of Virginia, 1950;\n certificate of election as Democratic Party candidate for\n governor, 1957; and Virginia Senate Resolution No. 30 upon his\n death. (Many items are oversized.)","Series 9 contains miscellaneous and other papers, including\n Almond family papers (will, 1956, of Edmonia Nicholas\n (Burgess) Almond; letter, 1891, of W. W. Scott to T. W.\n Almond); Almond family genealogical notes; funeral program for\n I. T. Minter (d. 1934), father of Josephine (Minter) Almond;\n writings about J. Lindsay Almond; original poetry and\n Christmas greetings from friends; and minutes of meetings,\n 1974, of the Colon Club of Richmond, Va., a social club made\n up of members of the Richmond business and political\n elite.","Series 10 contains the papers of Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond. Subseries 10.1, Correspondence, 1942-1986,\n consists chiefly letters expressing support for J. Lindsay\n Almond's candidacy and election as governor, and of his\n actions as governor. Also, personal and family correspondence.\n Correspondents of note include Mildred Almond (concerning\n strained relations between J. Lindsay Almond and his brother\n over the care of their invalid mother), Jacqueline (Bouvier)\n Kennedy Onassis, Lewis S. and Ted A. Minter, Woodrow T. Scurry\n (of Roanoke, Va., a black man who spent time in prison and\n credited Gov. Almond with helping him to turn his life\n around), Wilbur Walker (concerning the Governor's schedule),\n and Edith Galt Bolling Wilson (of Washington, D.C., discussing\n Democratic politics and her relationship with the President\n and Mrs. Kennedy). Subseries 10.2, Speeches, 1940-1983,\n contains the text of speeches delivered by Mrs. Almond on\n various occasions. Arranged chronologically where possible,\n alphabetically by subject otherwise. Subseries 10.3., Other\n papers, 1923-1974, includes notes for speeches, commonplace\n containing poetry and prose, financial materials concerning\n household expenses at the Governor's Mansion, guest lists for\n planning events at the Governor's Mansion, notes for\n interviews, scrapbooks, and awards.","There are no restrictions.","Correspondence, 1925-1983;\n speeches, 1927-1979; financial and legal papers, 1948-1978;\n scrapbooks, 1934-1963; newspaper clippings, 1931-1987;\n miscellaneous volumes; certificates and awards. 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His involvement with Democrat Harry Flood Byrd began in\n 1925, when Almond made several speeches in support of Byrd's\n gubernatorial campaign. With Byrd's help, Almond was appointed\n assistant Commonwealth's attorney for the city of Roanoke,\n 1930-1933, and a judge of the Roanoke Hustings court,\n 1933-1945. He was later appointed to the 79th U.S. Congress\n and elected a member of the 80th U.S. Congress. The Virginia\n Democratic Party, led by Harry F. Byrd, asked Almond to step\n down from his Congressional seat and run for attorney general\n of Virginia, to which position he was elected in 1948. He\n served in this office until 1957, at which time he resigned to\n run for governor of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBoth Almond's campaign for and service as governor were\n dominated by Virginia's response to the Supreme Court's school\n desegregation edict. As governor, he inherited a program of\n \"massive resistance\" designed to halt school integration by\n erecting a series of defensive obstacles. Realizing the\n movement was doomed and if continued would potentially destroy\n the Commonwealth's educational system, in January 1959 Almond\n admitted defeat and established a commission to develop a plan\n for the integration of Virginia's public schools. Almond's\n reversal on this issue cost him the support of the Harry F.\n Byrd and his many supporters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFollowing Almond's term as governor, he was appointed by\n President John F. Kennedy as an interim judge of the U.S.\n Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Washington, D.C. With\n U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd on the Senate Judicial Committee,\n it took much campaigning on the part of Almond's friends and\n supporters to secure his official appointment to this post in\n 1963. He served as a member of this court until his retirement\n in 1986.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJ. Lindsay Almond married Josephine Katherine Minter\n (1901-1992) in 1925. A native of Roanoke, Va., Mrs. Almond\n attended Elizabeth College in Salem, Va., and received her\n bachelor's degree in 1923 from Wittenberg University in Ohio.\n The Almond's had no children, but raised Mrs. Almond's orphan\n nephew, Lewis S. Minter, from infancy. Mr. Almond died April\n 14, 1986, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Roanoke,\n Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["James Lindsay Almond, Jr., was born June 15, 1898, in\n Charlottesville, Va., the son of Lindsay and Eddie Nicholas\n (Burgess) Almond. At an early age his family moved to a farm\n in rural Orange County, Va. Almond entered the University of\n Virginia in 1917 as a member of the Student Army Training\n Corps but withdrew a year later and consequently served for a\n year as principal of the Zoar High School near Roanoke, Va.,\n 1921- 1922. He then entered the University of Virginia School\n of Law and earned his law degree in 1923. He had been admitted\n to the Virginia Bar in 1921. He was in private practice as a\n lawyer in Roanoke, Va., 1923- 1932, and quickly became known\n for his handling of criminal cases.","A Democrat, Almond's interest in politics began in his\n teens. His involvement with Democrat Harry Flood Byrd began in\n 1925, when Almond made several speeches in support of Byrd's\n gubernatorial campaign. With Byrd's help, Almond was appointed\n assistant Commonwealth's attorney for the city of Roanoke,\n 1930-1933, and a judge of the Roanoke Hustings court,\n 1933-1945. He was later appointed to the 79th U.S. Congress\n and elected a member of the 80th U.S. Congress. The Virginia\n Democratic Party, led by Harry F. Byrd, asked Almond to step\n down from his Congressional seat and run for attorney general\n of Virginia, to which position he was elected in 1948. He\n served in this office until 1957, at which time he resigned to\n run for governor of Virginia.","Both Almond's campaign for and service as governor were\n dominated by Virginia's response to the Supreme Court's school\n desegregation edict. As governor, he inherited a program of\n \"massive resistance\" designed to halt school integration by\n erecting a series of defensive obstacles. Realizing the\n movement was doomed and if continued would potentially destroy\n the Commonwealth's educational system, in January 1959 Almond\n admitted defeat and established a commission to develop a plan\n for the integration of Virginia's public schools. Almond's\n reversal on this issue cost him the support of the Harry F.\n Byrd and his many supporters.","Following Almond's term as governor, he was appointed by\n President John F. Kennedy as an interim judge of the U.S.\n Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Washington, D.C. With\n U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd on the Senate Judicial Committee,\n it took much campaigning on the part of Almond's friends and\n supporters to secure his official appointment to this post in\n 1963. He served as a member of this court until his retirement\n in 1986.","J. Lindsay Almond married Josephine Katherine Minter\n (1901-1992) in 1925. A native of Roanoke, Va., Mrs. Almond\n attended Elizabeth College in Salem, Va., and received her\n bachelor's degree in 1923 from Wittenberg University in Ohio.\n The Almond's had no children, but raised Mrs. Almond's orphan\n nephew, Lewis S. Minter, from infancy. Mr. Almond died April\n 14, 1986, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Roanoke,\n Va."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJ. Lindsay Almond Papers, 1850-1987 (Mss1 AL685 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["J. Lindsay Almond Papers, 1850-1987 (Mss1 AL685 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 contains the non-official correspondence of J.\n Lindsay Almond, Jr., 1925-1983, chiefly as governor and while\n he was seeking a federal judgeship. Subjects mentioned include\n concerns of constituents; recommendations of persons for\n appointments by various state and local officials; the attempt\n on Almond's life in April 1959; Almond's stand on school\n desegregation (see the correspondence of Alburtis S. Harrison,\n Jr., Charles L. Lady, and Sydney F. Small); and the efforts of\n Almond's supporters to get him a position on the U.S. Court of\n Patent Appeals (see the correspondence of George Edward Allen\n (1885-1972), Miner Carl Andrews, Lester R. Bachner, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), James O. Eastland, Charles Rogers\n Fenwick, Eppa Hunton IV, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert\n Francis Kennedy, Marvin E. Nuckols, Jr., and A. Willis\n Robertson). This appointment was blocked for almost a year by\n U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a member of the Senate Judicial\n Committee, who had broken with Almond over the latter's\n apparent reversal of his support of school desegregation and\n the policy of \"massive resistance.\" Also included is scattered\n family correspondence, chiefly concerning the health of\n Almond's mother, Edmonia Nicholas (Burgess) Almond (d.\n 1966).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains speeches given on various occasions.\n Subseries 2.1, Speeches by J. Lindsay Almond, are arranged\n chronologically. See 1958-1960 for the bulk of speeches\n concerning school desegregation. Subseries 2.2, Speeches by\n Others, is arranged alphabetically by author.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 includes scattered financial and legal records,\n 1948-1978, of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., consisting of records of\n sale and purchase of residential real estate in Roanoke and\n Richmond, Va., loose accounts and papers including forms\n relating to his employment as a federal judge, canceled\n checks, an account book for his expenses relating to the last\n illness and death of his mother, Edmonia Nicholas (Burgess)\n Almond (d. 1966) of Locust Grove, Va., and miscellaneous items\n including an affidavit concerning the Virginia Senatorial\n campaign of 1946 and its connection with the C.I.O. Political\n Action Committee and a list of firearms owned by Mr.\n Almond.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 includes scrapbooks, 1934-1963, containing chiefly\n newspaper clippings from Richmond and Roanoke, Va., newspapers\n documenting the various careers of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. The\n volumes are arranged in four subseries as follows: Subseries\n 4.1 documents Almond's career as a judge of the Roanoke City\n Hustings Court and as a member of the U.S. House of\n Representatives. Series 4.2 documents Almond's return to\n Virginia to serve as Attorney General. Subseries 4.3 documents\n Almond's campaign for, election as, and service as governor of\n Virginia. Prominently mentioned is his fight against\n court-ordered desegregation of public schools. Subseries 4.4\n in many ways overlaps previous subseries but also includes a\n scrapbook concerning the Roanoke Racing Homer Club, Roanoke,\n Va., of which Almond was a member, and a 1963 barbecue given\n in Almond's honor.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 consists of newspaper clippings, 1931-1987,\n arranged chronologically, chiefly from Roanoke and Richmond,\n Va., papers. Subjects include Almond's service as Attorney\n General of Virginia, campaign for and election as Governor of\n Virginia, the \"massive resistance\" movement, and the Almonds'\n life after leaving office. See also: Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6 contains brief biographical statements,\n occasionally in resolution form. Some items were evidently\n attached to letters of recommendation for various\n appointments. Persons represented include: J. Lindsay Almond,\n Josephine Katherine (Minter) Almond, Jerome M. Alper, Rufus\n Adolphus Ayers, Leroy S. Bendheim, Charles Newton Bordwine,\n Carter Lee Burgess, Mortimer Maxwell Caplin, Albert Edward\n Cox, John Alvin Crogan, Constantine N. Dombalis, John H. East,\n F. Howard Forsyth, Connie Barriot Gay, Edward Wren Hudgins,\n Thomas G. Massie, Joe G. Matthews, Josephine (Umberger)\n Minter, C. E. Myers, Andrew E. Newton, Gene A. Robens, Bradley\n Roberts, William L. Saunders, Erwin Seago, Robert N. W. Welch,\n and Elijah Brockenbrough White.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7 contains non-scrapbook volumes. Subseries 7.1\n consists of Almond's appointment registers, 1951-1961 (90 v.)\n kept while he was Attorney General and Governor of Virginia.\n Entries are short, often containing only the name of the\n person visiting. Occasionally mention is made of subject\n matter to be discussed. Almond's attendance at official\n functions (including receptions, luncheons, conferences) is\n also noted. Subseries 7.2 consists of miscellaneous volumes,\n including a letterbook, 1919 April 30-May 9, containing drafts\n of letters from J. Lindsay Almond to Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond; student notebook, 1923 March 4-June 1, kept\n at the University of Virginia Law School; Roll book, 1957\n November 5, containing recollections of J. Lindsay Almond's\n gubernatorial victory, collected by the Almond Booster Club of\n Roanoke, Va.; and Guest register, 1958 April 22-1962 January\n 4, of visitors to the Governor's Mansion.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 includes diplomas, certificates of membership in\n various organizations, law licenses and certificates of\n qualification to appear before various courts, masonic\n materials, and miscellaneous items received during Almond's\n careers. Of special interest are his diploma from the\n University of Virginia, 1923; his law license, 1921; a\n certificate of appointment to the U.S. Court of Customs and\n Patent Appeals, 1962, signed by John F. Kennedy and Robert P.\n Kennedy; oath as Attorney General of Virginia, 1950;\n certificate of election as Democratic Party candidate for\n governor, 1957; and Virginia Senate Resolution No. 30 upon his\n death. (Many items are oversized.)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains miscellaneous and other papers, including\n Almond family papers (will, 1956, of Edmonia Nicholas\n (Burgess) Almond; letter, 1891, of W. W. Scott to T. W.\n Almond); Almond family genealogical notes; funeral program for\n I. T. Minter (d. 1934), father of Josephine (Minter) Almond;\n writings about J. Lindsay Almond; original poetry and\n Christmas greetings from friends; and minutes of meetings,\n 1974, of the Colon Club of Richmond, Va., a social club made\n up of members of the Richmond business and political\n elite.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 contains the papers of Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond. Subseries 10.1, Correspondence, 1942-1986,\n consists chiefly letters expressing support for J. Lindsay\n Almond's candidacy and election as governor, and of his\n actions as governor. Also, personal and family correspondence.\n Correspondents of note include Mildred Almond (concerning\n strained relations between J. Lindsay Almond and his brother\n over the care of their invalid mother), Jacqueline (Bouvier)\n Kennedy Onassis, Lewis S. and Ted A. Minter, Woodrow T. Scurry\n (of Roanoke, Va., a black man who spent time in prison and\n credited Gov. Almond with helping him to turn his life\n around), Wilbur Walker (concerning the Governor's schedule),\n and Edith Galt Bolling Wilson (of Washington, D.C., discussing\n Democratic politics and her relationship with the President\n and Mrs. Kennedy). Subseries 10.2, Speeches, 1940-1983,\n contains the text of speeches delivered by Mrs. Almond on\n various occasions. Arranged chronologically where possible,\n alphabetically by subject otherwise. Subseries 10.3., Other\n papers, 1923-1974, includes notes for speeches, commonplace\n containing poetry and prose, financial materials concerning\n household expenses at the Governor's Mansion, guest lists for\n planning events at the Governor's Mansion, notes for\n interviews, scrapbooks, and awards.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 contains the non-official correspondence of J.\n Lindsay Almond, Jr., 1925-1983, chiefly as governor and while\n he was seeking a federal judgeship. Subjects mentioned include\n concerns of constituents; recommendations of persons for\n appointments by various state and local officials; the attempt\n on Almond's life in April 1959; Almond's stand on school\n desegregation (see the correspondence of Alburtis S. Harrison,\n Jr., Charles L. Lady, and Sydney F. Small); and the efforts of\n Almond's supporters to get him a position on the U.S. Court of\n Patent Appeals (see the correspondence of George Edward Allen\n (1885-1972), Miner Carl Andrews, Lester R. Bachner, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), James O. Eastland, Charles Rogers\n Fenwick, Eppa Hunton IV, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert\n Francis Kennedy, Marvin E. Nuckols, Jr., and A. Willis\n Robertson). This appointment was blocked for almost a year by\n U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a member of the Senate Judicial\n Committee, who had broken with Almond over the latter's\n apparent reversal of his support of school desegregation and\n the policy of \"massive resistance.\" Also included is scattered\n family correspondence, chiefly concerning the health of\n Almond's mother, Edmonia Nicholas (Burgess) Almond (d.\n 1966).","Series 2 contains speeches given on various occasions.\n Subseries 2.1, Speeches by J. Lindsay Almond, are arranged\n chronologically. See 1958-1960 for the bulk of speeches\n concerning school desegregation. Subseries 2.2, Speeches by\n Others, is arranged alphabetically by author.","Series 3 includes scattered financial and legal records,\n 1948-1978, of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., consisting of records of\n sale and purchase of residential real estate in Roanoke and\n Richmond, Va., loose accounts and papers including forms\n relating to his employment as a federal judge, canceled\n checks, an account book for his expenses relating to the last\n illness and death of his mother, Edmonia Nicholas (Burgess)\n Almond (d. 1966) of Locust Grove, Va., and miscellaneous items\n including an affidavit concerning the Virginia Senatorial\n campaign of 1946 and its connection with the C.I.O. Political\n Action Committee and a list of firearms owned by Mr.\n Almond.","Series 4 includes scrapbooks, 1934-1963, containing chiefly\n newspaper clippings from Richmond and Roanoke, Va., newspapers\n documenting the various careers of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. The\n volumes are arranged in four subseries as follows: Subseries\n 4.1 documents Almond's career as a judge of the Roanoke City\n Hustings Court and as a member of the U.S. House of\n Representatives. Series 4.2 documents Almond's return to\n Virginia to serve as Attorney General. Subseries 4.3 documents\n Almond's campaign for, election as, and service as governor of\n Virginia. Prominently mentioned is his fight against\n court-ordered desegregation of public schools. Subseries 4.4\n in many ways overlaps previous subseries but also includes a\n scrapbook concerning the Roanoke Racing Homer Club, Roanoke,\n Va., of which Almond was a member, and a 1963 barbecue given\n in Almond's honor.","Series 5 consists of newspaper clippings, 1931-1987,\n arranged chronologically, chiefly from Roanoke and Richmond,\n Va., papers. Subjects include Almond's service as Attorney\n General of Virginia, campaign for and election as Governor of\n Virginia, the \"massive resistance\" movement, and the Almonds'\n life after leaving office. See also: Oversize.","Series 6 contains brief biographical statements,\n occasionally in resolution form. Some items were evidently\n attached to letters of recommendation for various\n appointments. Persons represented include: J. Lindsay Almond,\n Josephine Katherine (Minter) Almond, Jerome M. Alper, Rufus\n Adolphus Ayers, Leroy S. Bendheim, Charles Newton Bordwine,\n Carter Lee Burgess, Mortimer Maxwell Caplin, Albert Edward\n Cox, John Alvin Crogan, Constantine N. Dombalis, John H. East,\n F. Howard Forsyth, Connie Barriot Gay, Edward Wren Hudgins,\n Thomas G. Massie, Joe G. Matthews, Josephine (Umberger)\n Minter, C. E. Myers, Andrew E. Newton, Gene A. Robens, Bradley\n Roberts, William L. Saunders, Erwin Seago, Robert N. W. Welch,\n and Elijah Brockenbrough White.","Series 7 contains non-scrapbook volumes. Subseries 7.1\n consists of Almond's appointment registers, 1951-1961 (90 v.)\n kept while he was Attorney General and Governor of Virginia.\n Entries are short, often containing only the name of the\n person visiting. Occasionally mention is made of subject\n matter to be discussed. Almond's attendance at official\n functions (including receptions, luncheons, conferences) is\n also noted. Subseries 7.2 consists of miscellaneous volumes,\n including a letterbook, 1919 April 30-May 9, containing drafts\n of letters from J. Lindsay Almond to Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond; student notebook, 1923 March 4-June 1, kept\n at the University of Virginia Law School; Roll book, 1957\n November 5, containing recollections of J. Lindsay Almond's\n gubernatorial victory, collected by the Almond Booster Club of\n Roanoke, Va.; and Guest register, 1958 April 22-1962 January\n 4, of visitors to the Governor's Mansion.","Series 8 includes diplomas, certificates of membership in\n various organizations, law licenses and certificates of\n qualification to appear before various courts, masonic\n materials, and miscellaneous items received during Almond's\n careers. Of special interest are his diploma from the\n University of Virginia, 1923; his law license, 1921; a\n certificate of appointment to the U.S. Court of Customs and\n Patent Appeals, 1962, signed by John F. Kennedy and Robert P.\n Kennedy; oath as Attorney General of Virginia, 1950;\n certificate of election as Democratic Party candidate for\n governor, 1957; and Virginia Senate Resolution No. 30 upon his\n death. (Many items are oversized.)","Series 9 contains miscellaneous and other papers, including\n Almond family papers (will, 1956, of Edmonia Nicholas\n (Burgess) Almond; letter, 1891, of W. W. Scott to T. W.\n Almond); Almond family genealogical notes; funeral program for\n I. T. Minter (d. 1934), father of Josephine (Minter) Almond;\n writings about J. Lindsay Almond; original poetry and\n Christmas greetings from friends; and minutes of meetings,\n 1974, of the Colon Club of Richmond, Va., a social club made\n up of members of the Richmond business and political\n elite.","Series 10 contains the papers of Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond. Subseries 10.1, Correspondence, 1942-1986,\n consists chiefly letters expressing support for J. Lindsay\n Almond's candidacy and election as governor, and of his\n actions as governor. Also, personal and family correspondence.\n Correspondents of note include Mildred Almond (concerning\n strained relations between J. Lindsay Almond and his brother\n over the care of their invalid mother), Jacqueline (Bouvier)\n Kennedy Onassis, Lewis S. and Ted A. Minter, Woodrow T. Scurry\n (of Roanoke, Va., a black man who spent time in prison and\n credited Gov. Almond with helping him to turn his life\n around), Wilbur Walker (concerning the Governor's schedule),\n and Edith Galt Bolling Wilson (of Washington, D.C., discussing\n Democratic politics and her relationship with the President\n and Mrs. Kennedy). Subseries 10.2, Speeches, 1940-1983,\n contains the text of speeches delivered by Mrs. Almond on\n various occasions. Arranged chronologically where possible,\n alphabetically by subject otherwise. Subseries 10.3., Other\n papers, 1923-1974, includes notes for speeches, commonplace\n containing poetry and prose, financial materials concerning\n household expenses at the Governor's Mansion, guest lists for\n planning events at the Governor's Mansion, notes for\n interviews, scrapbooks, and awards."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eCorrespondence, 1925-1983;\n speeches, 1927-1979; financial and legal papers, 1948-1978;\n scrapbooks, 1934-1963; newspaper clippings, 1931-1987;\n miscellaneous volumes; certificates and awards. Correspondence\n is non-official, but touches on Almond's term as Governor of\n Virginia and on his appointment to the U.S. Court of Customs\n and Patent Appeals. Scrapbooks and clippings document his\n campaigns and terms as attorney general and governor of\n Virginia, and contain a great deal of information on\n Virginia's resistance to school desegregation. Also included\n in the collection are correspondence, speeches, and\n miscellaneous papers of Almond's wife, Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond (1901-1992), some of which concerns her\n service as First Lady of Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence, 1925-1983;\n speeches, 1927-1979; financial and legal papers, 1948-1978;\n scrapbooks, 1934-1963; newspaper clippings, 1931-1987;\n miscellaneous volumes; certificates and awards. Correspondence\n is non-official, but touches on Almond's term as Governor of\n Virginia and on his appointment to the U.S. Court of Customs\n and Patent Appeals. Scrapbooks and clippings document his\n campaigns and terms as attorney general and governor of\n Virginia, and contain a great deal of information on\n Virginia's resistance to school desegregation. Also included\n in the collection are correspondence, speeches, and\n miscellaneous papers of Almond's wife, Josephine Katherine\n (Minter) Almond (1901-1992), some of which concerns her\n service as First Lady of Virginia."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":21,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:36:33.766Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00019_c04_c01"}}],"included":[{"type":"facet","id":"repository_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Repository","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"Virginia Historical Society","value":"Virginia Historical Society","hits":1374},"links":{"remove":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026view=list"}}]},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/facet/repository_ssim.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026view=list"}},{"type":"facet","id":"collection_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Collection","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"A Guide to the J. 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