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His General Assembly papers are\n organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n the collection.","Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n government commissions, and other related political activities\n and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n 1967.","Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.","The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n correspondence and election materials follow. General\n correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n 1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n 1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n 1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n government commission, civic organizations, and community\n affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n conference on aging and conference information as well as\n Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n education in the state. This material, which includes\n correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n public education during the school busing controversy in\n 1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence and addresses; cliippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence; bills (bound); bills,\n resolutions, amendments; Harrison v. Day","Minutes, addresses; public hearing; committee\n report; sub-committee reports; clippings and\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulations, statements of\n expense.","Elections for governor, president and senator,\n 1953-1985 (arranged chronologically); analyses by Larry\n Sabato, 1985-1987; Richmond City Democratic Committee,\n 1953-1955, 1963-1967; Republican Party of Virginia,\n 1980-1986; election miscellany.","Minutes; correspondence; reports; Committee on\n Governmental Structure.","Correspondence, 1955-1958; General Assembly,\n 1956-1958; VALC report, 1957; memoranda and reports,\n 1956-1963, 1970; William and Mary, 1961-1962;\n inter-library cooperation, 1962-1965.","budget, 1963-1964; out-of-state college\n enrollment, 1964; Institute of Scientific Research,\n 1965-1967.","Correspondence; addresses; reports; press\n releases; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1981-1983; Historic Landmarks\n Committee, 1965-1966.","\"Old Mansion,\" 1968-1971; \"Wakefield,\" 1970-1972;\n open space easements, 1966-1979, 1986-1988.","Water resources, 1966-1979; water pollution,\n 1969-1970; state parks, 1957-1974; \"Natural Areas\n System for Virginia,\" 1960-1961; Richmond Regional\n Planning Commission, 1958-1966, 1972; Richmond\n Regional Park Authority 1960-1967; Capital Region\n Park Authority, 1968-1970; James river, 1965-1966,\n 1971; James River Channel, 1962-1964; Richmond\n James River Association, 1964-1970, 1981; Richmond\n Open Space Plan, 1964-1972; Local James Action\n Committee, 1967; Richmond Scenic James Council,\n 1970-1973; James River and Kanawha Parks,\n 1970-1973.","Correspondence; membership; meeting summaries;\n final reports.","Correspondence; membership; water; land use;\n waste management; Chesapeake Bay; fisheries;\n report.","Planning districts; responses; comments.","Correspondence, addresses, etc.","Speeches and addresses, 1958-1975; general\n miscellany.","None.","FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n various government commissions, and other related political\n activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n particular interest included educational and environmental\n issues.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"collection_title_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"collection_ssim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"creator_ssim":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["Ca. 2,750 items (6 archival\n boxes)."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAs much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n appreciation. 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Byrd, J.\n Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n government commissions, and other related political activities\n and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n 1967.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). 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Lancaster\n document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n copies of resolutions from other states.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n correspondence and election materials follow. General\n correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n hearing on March 6 of that year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n 1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n 1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n as previously described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next section of the collection pertains to various\n election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n government commission, civic organizations, and community\n affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n after his 1967 retirement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords pertaining to government begin with several folders\n of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n conference on aging and conference information as well as\n Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n through social security, are included in this material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n common practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n oversee long-range planning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n and a program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe section concerning education begins with a folder of\n general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n education in the state. This material, which includes\n correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n services and facilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n public education during the school busing controversy in\n 1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n and clippings on education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n material concerns water pollution and parks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n governor's acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation and brochures concerning several state parks\n begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n for Virginia Wildlife magazine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n and restored and James River Park was established.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n environmental issues conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and addresses; cliippings;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; bills (bound); bills,\n resolutions, amendments; Harrison v. Day\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes, addresses; public hearing; committee\n report; sub-committee reports; clippings and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulations, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElections for governor, president and senator,\n 1953-1985 (arranged chronologically); analyses by Larry\n Sabato, 1985-1987; Richmond City Democratic Committee,\n 1953-1955, 1963-1967; Republican Party of Virginia,\n 1980-1986; election miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes; correspondence; reports; Committee on\n Governmental Structure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1955-1958; General Assembly,\n 1956-1958; VALC report, 1957; memoranda and reports,\n 1956-1963, 1970; William and Mary, 1961-1962;\n inter-library cooperation, 1962-1965.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebudget, 1963-1964; out-of-state college\n enrollment, 1964; Institute of Scientific Research,\n 1965-1967.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; addresses; reports; press\n releases; clippings; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1981-1983; Historic Landmarks\n Committee, 1965-1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Old Mansion,\" 1968-1971; \"Wakefield,\" 1970-1972;\n open space easements, 1966-1979, 1986-1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWater resources, 1966-1979; water pollution,\n 1969-1970; state parks, 1957-1974; \"Natural Areas\n System for Virginia,\" 1960-1961; Richmond Regional\n Planning Commission, 1958-1966, 1972; Richmond\n Regional Park Authority 1960-1967; Capital Region\n Park Authority, 1968-1970; James river, 1965-1966,\n 1971; James River Channel, 1962-1964; Richmond\n James River Association, 1964-1970, 1981; Richmond\n Open Space Plan, 1964-1972; Local James Action\n Committee, 1967; Richmond Scenic James Council,\n 1970-1973; James River and Kanawha Parks,\n 1970-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; membership; meeting summaries;\n final reports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; membership; water; land use;\n waste management; Chesapeake Bay; fisheries;\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlanning districts; responses; comments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches and addresses, 1958-1975; general\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n correspondence and election materials follow. General\n correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n 1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n 1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n 1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n government commission, civic organizations, and community\n affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n conference on aging and conference information as well as\n Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n education in the state. This material, which includes\n correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n public education during the school busing controversy in\n 1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence and addresses; cliippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence; bills (bound); bills,\n resolutions, amendments; Harrison v. Day","Minutes, addresses; public hearing; committee\n report; sub-committee reports; clippings and\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulations, statements of\n expense.","Elections for governor, president and senator,\n 1953-1985 (arranged chronologically); analyses by Larry\n Sabato, 1985-1987; Richmond City Democratic Committee,\n 1953-1955, 1963-1967; Republican Party of Virginia,\n 1980-1986; election miscellany.","Minutes; correspondence; reports; Committee on\n Governmental Structure.","Correspondence, 1955-1958; General Assembly,\n 1956-1958; VALC report, 1957; memoranda and reports,\n 1956-1963, 1970; William and Mary, 1961-1962;\n inter-library cooperation, 1962-1965.","budget, 1963-1964; out-of-state college\n enrollment, 1964; Institute of Scientific Research,\n 1965-1967.","Correspondence; addresses; reports; press\n releases; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1981-1983; Historic Landmarks\n Committee, 1965-1966.","\"Old Mansion,\" 1968-1971; \"Wakefield,\" 1970-1972;\n open space easements, 1966-1979, 1986-1988.","Water resources, 1966-1979; water pollution,\n 1969-1970; state parks, 1957-1974; \"Natural Areas\n System for Virginia,\" 1960-1961; Richmond Regional\n Planning Commission, 1958-1966, 1972; Richmond\n Regional Park Authority 1960-1967; Capital Region\n Park Authority, 1968-1970; James river, 1965-1966,\n 1971; James River Channel, 1962-1964; Richmond\n James River Association, 1964-1970, 1981; Richmond\n Open Space Plan, 1964-1972; Local James Action\n Committee, 1967; Richmond Scenic James Council,\n 1970-1973; James River and Kanawha Parks,\n 1970-1973.","Correspondence; membership; meeting summaries;\n final reports.","Correspondence; membership; water; land use;\n waste management; Chesapeake Bay; fisheries;\n report.","Planning districts; responses; comments.","Correspondence, addresses, etc.","Speeches and addresses, 1958-1975; general\n miscellany."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNone.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["None."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eFitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n various government commissions, and other related political\n activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n particular interest included educational and environmental\n issues.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n various government commissions, and other related political\n activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. 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Edwin F. Conger, Education and\nProfessional Life; Series 2. E.F. Conger Company; Series 3. Norfolk Creosoting\nCompany; Series 4. Piedmont Company; Series 5. Edwin F. Conger personal files;\nand Series 6. Conger Family Personal Files\n","\nNew Jersey native Edwin Fisher Conger became intrigued with forestry as a child\nand learned much from his lumberman father, especially in regard to the growth,\nharvesting and uses of chestnut poles and timber. Beginning in 1909, he attended\nthe Biltmore Forest School, on the famous Biltmore Estate in North Carolina,\nwhere he came under the life-long influence of German forester Dr. Charles Alwin\nSchenck, the chief instructor there. Graduating in 1910, Conger secured a\nposition with the Western Electric Company, where he put in long hours as a\nchestnut pole inspector. During this period he also became acquainted with the\nprocesses of pole and timber preservation through the application of a mixture\nof chemicals known as creosote. "," Around 1915 he went to work for Lowesville\nLumber Company in Lynchburg, and eventually took over the firm and recreated it\nas E. F. Conger Creosoting Company, whose main client initially proved to be\nelements of the Bell Telephone System. Conger set up treatment plants in Shipman\nand Natural Bridge, Virginia, and eventually in Waynesboro, which ultimately led\nto his purchase of the Virginia Creosoting Company in Culpeper. A chestnut\nblight in the 1920s led to the closing of two of the treating plants in\nVirginia, but with continued demand from the telephone and power companies\noperating on the east coast of the United States, Conger purchased the Piedmont\nWood Preserving Company, which operated a pressure-treating plant in Augusta,\nGeorgia, in 1930, followed by the purchase of the Norfolk Creosoting Company in\n1936, giving Conger a facility on deep water with the potential for coastwise\nand export trade. The latter he sold in the 1940s and used the proceeds to\npurchase Hitchcock Woods and the Cedar Creek Farm near Aiken, South Carolina.\nThese 14,000 acres provided Conger with ample resources for his products, but he\nharvested wisely and committed to reforestation well before that was a general\nenvironmental practice."," He also developed contracts with the U.S. government to\nharvest chestnut poles from national forests in the eastern part of the country.\nGradually, Conger got out of the creosoting business, having already converted\nPiedmont Wood Preserving simply to the Piedmont Company, divesting himself of\nthe plant in Augusta and the company's extensive series of contracts in 1951,\nand converting the operation largely into an investments holding firm. He\nlikewise sold off the E. F. Conger Company in the early 1950s to a newly\nconstituted Piedmont Wood Preserving Company headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C.,\nincluding distribution yards in Connecticut, Georgia, and Virginia; became a\nforestry consultant living in Staunton, Virginia; and developed a forestry\ncenter on his lands in South Carolina, partly in tribute to the work of his\nmentor, Dr. Charles Schenck. In later life, he served as a bank president in\nCharlottesville and was a generous philanthropist, supporting a number of\norganizations in Piedmont Virginia before his death in 1974.","Processed under the auspices of a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\n","\nThis collection contains materials regarding the education and career in\nforestry and treated pole production of Edwin F. Conger, including an\nautobiography, research materials, and a photograph album relating to pole\nharvesting and preservation treatment (including images of operations at the\nVirginia Creosoting Company plant in Culpeper, Va., Norfolk Creosoting Company\nat Norfolk, Va., E.F. Conger Creosoting Company at Waynesboro, Va., and the\nPiedmont Company at Augusta, Ga., as well as pictures of Conger's teacher and\nlifelong mentor, Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck).","\nAlso, includes materials (primarily photographs of operations and\npole-production plants) of E. F. Conger Creosoting Company (later simply the E.\nF. Conger Company), headquartered in Staunton, Va., but with chief operations at\nWaynesboro, Va. Files include images of Edwin F. Conger at the company\nheadquarters in Staunton.","Also, includes records of the Norfolk Creosoting Company, with its plant and\nshipping facility at Norfolk, Va., including images of the plant and operations\nat Norfolk, materials concerning the acquisition of the Hitchcock Woods property\nat Aiken, S.C., title abstract to \"Breezy Hill,\" residence of E. F. Conger and\nfamily and company headquarters in Staunton, Va., and materials concerning sale\nand dissolution of the company.","Also, includes records of the Piedmont Company, formed by E.F. Conger through\nhis purchase of the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta, Ga. The company\nwas headquartered in Staunton but most of its operations were in Georgia and\nNorth Carolina, and its largest customer was Southeastern New England Telephone\nCompany. Materials include a minute book of meetings of the Board of Directors\n(largely a family owned and operated business), records of the purchase and\ndissolution of Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta, Ga., photographs of\nplants, operations and workers (some African American), a scrapbook documenting\npole production, treatment and shipping, records concerning the sale of the\ncompany assets to a newly re-constituted Piedmont Wood Preserving Company\nheadquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., and records relating to the later operations\nof the Piedmont Company as an investments holding firm.","Also, include personal and family papers of Edwin F. Conger relating to his\ndaughters, Dorothea (Conger) Eager Grand Sverker and Vivion Randolph (Conger)\nLeBow, his surviving grandchildren, Howard Lloyd Eager and Edwin F. Eager, for\nwhom he served for a time as guardian; his interests in reforestation; and his\nphilanthropic support of local Staunton historic sites and social organizations.\nAmong these materials are also numerous photographs of family members,\nvacations, and other travel; materials concerning Conger's purchase and\noperation of a resort property at Horse Point Estates in Middlesex County, Va.;\nand a special file on the efforts of Mrs. James A. Higgs to secure the release\nof Lilly Redmond from Western State Hospital in Staunton in order to have her\nreside in an early prototype \"halfway house\" for patients recovering from bouts\nof mental illness.","Lastly, the collection includes some financial records of Conger's wife,\nDorothea Lloyd (Tatum) Conger, as well as genealogical materials she collected\nprimarily on the Randolph and Tatum families; and some late financial records of\nthe Congers' daughter, Vivion (Conger) LeBow.","The first series in this collection provides background materials on the life and career of Edwin Fisher Conger (New Jersey native but long-time Staunton,\nVa., resident). His autobiography provides many helpful details on his education\nand entry into the pole-producing and treating business, introduces information\non several of the companies he acquired and operated, and presents useful\nmaterial on his lifelong interest in and support of American forestry and the\ninfluence of his forestry mentor, Dr. Carl A. Schenck (who is extensively\nfeatured later in the collection). "," Among the most important pieces in this series is the photograph album (folder\n4) compiled throughout Conger's business career (now disassembled for\npreservation purposes)-it contains important imagery of the pole-treatment\nbusiness and the operations of Conger's various companies (detailed below),\nincluding images of creosoting operations, timber lands, the Virginia Creosoting\nCompany plant in Culpeper, the Norfolk Creosoting Company plant, E.F. Conger\nCompany plant in Waynesboro, Piedmont Company plants and yards, general\noperations, and tributes to Dr. Carl A. Schenck, Conger's longtime friend and\nforestry mentor (see Series 5.2)","Edwin F. Conger's first truly successful venture into business began with the conversion of a lumber business in Lynchburg into the E. F. Conger Creosoting\nCompany (later simply known as the E. F. Conger Company). Like several of the\ncompanies he owned and operated, E. F. Conger Company over time become\nessentially a holding company for his investments, but for almost thirty years\nthis firm produced treated poles for telephone and utilities companies\nthroughout the eastern United States, his steadiest and most notable customer\nbeing Southeastern New England Telephone Company.","\nAlthough there are only limited records about the operations of the company\nhere, this series contains numerous images of the company's large treatment\nplant built and maintained at Waynesboro, Va.","Edwin F. Conger purchased and operated the Norfolk Creosoting Company for a relatively short time, but it proved to be one of his most successful ventures. Motivated by the success of E. F. Conger Company, Conger sought a facility with deep water access in order to move his operations more significantly into the coastwise trade in and supply of treated poles. The operations at Norfolk proved as important to shipping as they did to pole production and treatment.\n","The files here include a booklet produced by the Norfolk Creosoting Company long before Conger acquired it, along with another valuable photograph album documenting pole installation in the New York metropolitan area in the 1930s. Conger both collected writings about and wrote himself regarding pole treatment. Perhaps most interesting are the photographs showing the plant at Norfolk and its various operations. Because of the success of this venture, Conger was able to acquire a large number of acres of timber outside of Aiken, South Carolina (known by the name of one of its previous owners, the Hitchcock Woods). This provided him with an abundant supply of chestnut poles and also figured significantly in his future commitments to re-forestry and philanthropy. Through this company, Conger also purchased a stately residence in Staunton, Va. (\"Breezy Hill\"), which he used as a corporate headquarters (his wife served as treasurer of the company). Although the plant and some company assets were sold during World War II, the company itself did not actually dissolve until around 1950.\n","Perhaps the largest venture Conger operated during his lengthy career, Piedmont Creosoting Company (later simply the Piedmont Company) had its headquarters in Staunton, Virginia, but largest plant and operations in Augusta, Georgia. Conger acquired the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta in the early 1930s, dissolved the existing company, and reconstituted operations as the Piedmont Creosoting Company. This company utilized pole collection yards in Connecticut to supply New England customers, and some images of those yards are included here.\n","The files in this series contain the most detailed information about any of the companies Conger operated, most importantly represented by the surviving minute book of Board of Directors' meetings for most the company's history. One of the most valuable pieces in terms of knowing the nature and extent, as well as the details, of Conger's various pole ventures comes in the form of a scrapbook (now disassembled for preservation purposes). Entitled \"From Forest to Field,\" it was prepared for Conger's eldest daughter, Dorothea, by A. B. Carlson, in June 1951. It carefully documents through text and images the operations of the Piedmont Company, using the work operations of the Company to supply an order of southern Yellow Pine poles for the Southern New England Telephone Company. The photographs were taken in the spring of 1949 and the text was drafted subsequently by Carlson of Southern New England Telephone. Poles were acquired from the \"Hitchcock Forest\" near Aiken, South Carolina, owned by E. F. Conger. The company plant in Augusta at that time shipped 100,000 poles per year. Images here show the plant and forest operations and some include depictions of African American workers. Also includes images of the treatment of poles with creosote (a mixture of oils) for preservation, as well as arrangements for shipping.\n","As noted above, this was one of Conger's firms that eventually became a holding company for investments, and some of the last files in this series document how Conger finally got out of the pole-producing and treatment business for good in the 1950s. The pole-treatment operations in Augusta and at other facilities throughout the eastern United States were eventually sold to a new company with an old name, Piedmont Wood Preserving Company, newly headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C. The file concerning the sale contains detailed materials on existing, often long-standing, company contracts that were transferred to Piedmont Wood Preserving Company, as well as materials on the sale of other assets and business contracts to Piedmont Wood Preserving Company.\n","The materials in this series primarily focus on Edwin F. Conger's personal life and family, documenting the life a successful businessman of the first half of the twentieth century might lead and the interests his fortune might encourage and support.\n","Edwin F. Conger personally retained a large amount of acreage in South Carolina that the success of the Norfolk Creosoting Company had enabled him to purchase. Some of the acreage was eventually sold to local interests for housing projects, some used to support the operations of the School of Forestry at the University of North Carolina (including the establishment of a professorship and scholarships), some set aside to honor Conger's lifelong friend and mentor, Dr. Carl A. Schenck, through the creation of a memorial forest and reforestation program (see also Series 5.2).\n ","Edwin F. Conger studied under German forestry specialist Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) before World War I and considered him a friend and mentor throughout his life. Conger's financial successes allowed him to join with other of his fellow alumni from the Biltmore Forestry School (where Schenck operated his original school on the grounds of the Biltmore estate in North Carolina) in the years immediately preceding his mentor's passing. The files here document some of those activities through a combination of text documents and photographs. One particularly interesting and unusual item is an album (with phonograph records) documenting Dr. Schenck's return visit to America: The Cavalcade of Trees for the Great: Being the Tour of Carl Alwin Schenck in America, 1951, under the Sponsorship of the American Forestry Association and graduates of the Biltmore Forest School.\n ","The largest portion of this series of Edwin Conger's papers relates to his family and his personal affairs. These include financial records; files on local philanthropy in Staunton; activities involving his purchase and operation of a resort property in Middlesex County, Va., called Horse Point Estates; vacation trips and other travel; correspondence with, extensive photographs of, and files concerning trusts established for his two daughters and his grandchildren (most notably files on the divorce and remarriages of his eldest daughter, Dorothea Lloyd (Conger) Eager Grand Sverker, and the guardianship of her two surviving children, Howard Lloyd Eager and Edwin F. Eager).\n ","One of the particularly interesting and unexpected files here concerns the Higgs/Redmond case: the attempt of Mrs. James A. Higgs to secure release of Lilly Redmond from Western State Hospital in Staunton in order to have her reside in an early prototype \"halfway house\" for patients with mental illness who had partially recovered (folder 95).\n ","This series contains just a few files of the wife and second daughter of Edwin\nF. Conger. Dorothea Lloyd (Tatum) Conger (1893-1961) worked most of her years of\nmarriage as treasurer of companies her husband acquired and operated. Some of\nher letters to her two daughters are found in Conger's correspondence files. The\nfile of genealogical materials, primarily focused on her Tatum family ancestors\nand relations, is the largest grouping of materials of or about Mrs. Conger. A\nsmall amount of financial material relating to Vivion Randolph (Conger) LeBow\n(1923-2006), who left her father's papers to the Virginia Historical Society,\ncompletes the collection.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","The Edwin Fisher Conger papers focus primarily on several of Conger's business operations, specifically the production of treated telephone and\nelectrical poles. Two of Conger's chief operations, Norfolk Creosoting Company\nand the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company (later simply the Piedmont Company)\nfigure most heavily in the collection, along with information regarding Conger's\nfirst endeavor in this field, E.F. Conger Creosoting Company, his extensive\ntimber holdings near Aiken, South Carolina, and his financial, social, and\nphilanthropic dealings as a wealthy businessman living in Virginia.\n","E.F. 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The latter he sold in the 1940s and used the proceeds to\npurchase Hitchcock Woods and the Cedar Creek Farm near Aiken, South Carolina.\nThese 14,000 acres provided Conger with ample resources for his products, but he\nharvested wisely and committed to reforestation well before that was a general\nenvironmental practice."," He also developed contracts with the U.S. government to\nharvest chestnut poles from national forests in the eastern part of the country.\nGradually, Conger got out of the creosoting business, having already converted\nPiedmont Wood Preserving simply to the Piedmont Company, divesting himself of\nthe plant in Augusta and the company's extensive series of contracts in 1951,\nand converting the operation largely into an investments holding firm. He\nlikewise sold off the E. F. Conger Company in the early 1950s to a newly\nconstituted Piedmont Wood Preserving Company headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C.,\nincluding distribution yards in Connecticut, Georgia, and Virginia; became a\nforestry consultant living in Staunton, Virginia; and developed a forestry\ncenter on his lands in South Carolina, partly in tribute to the work of his\nmentor, Dr. Charles Schenck. In later life, he served as a bank president in\nCharlottesville and was a generous philanthropist, supporting a number of\norganizations in Piedmont Virginia before his death in 1974."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEdwin Fisher Conger papers, 1900-1979 (Mss1 C7604 a), Virginia Historical , Accession # Mss1 C7604 a, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\u003c!-- Add your institution's citation information --\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Edwin Fisher Conger papers, 1900-1979 (Mss1 C7604 a), Virginia Historical , Accession # Mss1 C7604 a, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessed under the auspices of a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information\n"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processed under the auspices of a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\nThis collection contains materials regarding the education and career in\nforestry and treated pole production of Edwin F. Conger, including an\nautobiography, research materials, and a photograph album relating to pole\nharvesting and preservation treatment (including images of operations at the\nVirginia Creosoting Company plant in Culpeper, Va., Norfolk Creosoting Company\nat Norfolk, Va., E.F. Conger Creosoting Company at Waynesboro, Va., and the\nPiedmont Company at Augusta, Ga., as well as pictures of Conger's teacher and\nlifelong mentor, Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nAlso, includes materials (primarily photographs of operations and\npole-production plants) of E. F. Conger Creosoting Company (later simply the E.\nF. Conger Company), headquartered in Staunton, Va., but with chief operations at\nWaynesboro, Va. Files include images of Edwin F. Conger at the company\nheadquarters in Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, includes records of the Norfolk Creosoting Company, with its plant and\nshipping facility at Norfolk, Va., including images of the plant and operations\nat Norfolk, materials concerning the acquisition of the Hitchcock Woods property\nat Aiken, S.C., title abstract to \"Breezy Hill,\" residence of E. F. Conger and\nfamily and company headquarters in Staunton, Va., and materials concerning sale\nand dissolution of the company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, includes records of the Piedmont Company, formed by E.F. Conger through\nhis purchase of the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta, Ga. The company\nwas headquartered in Staunton but most of its operations were in Georgia and\nNorth Carolina, and its largest customer was Southeastern New England Telephone\nCompany. Materials include a minute book of meetings of the Board of Directors\n(largely a family owned and operated business), records of the purchase and\ndissolution of Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta, Ga., photographs of\nplants, operations and workers (some African American), a scrapbook documenting\npole production, treatment and shipping, records concerning the sale of the\ncompany assets to a newly re-constituted Piedmont Wood Preserving Company\nheadquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., and records relating to the later operations\nof the Piedmont Company as an investments holding firm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, include personal and family papers of Edwin F. Conger relating to his\ndaughters, Dorothea (Conger) Eager Grand Sverker and Vivion Randolph (Conger)\nLeBow, his surviving grandchildren, Howard Lloyd Eager and Edwin F. Eager, for\nwhom he served for a time as guardian; his interests in reforestation; and his\nphilanthropic support of local Staunton historic sites and social organizations.\nAmong these materials are also numerous photographs of family members,\nvacations, and other travel; materials concerning Conger's purchase and\noperation of a resort property at Horse Point Estates in Middlesex County, Va.;\nand a special file on the efforts of Mrs. James A. Higgs to secure the release\nof Lilly Redmond from Western State Hospital in Staunton in order to have her\nreside in an early prototype \"halfway house\" for patients recovering from bouts\nof mental illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, the collection includes some financial records of Conger's wife,\nDorothea Lloyd (Tatum) Conger, as well as genealogical materials she collected\nprimarily on the Randolph and Tatum families; and some late financial records of\nthe Congers' daughter, Vivion (Conger) LeBow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first series in this collection provides background materials on the life and career of Edwin Fisher Conger (New Jersey native but long-time Staunton,\nVa., resident). His autobiography provides many helpful details on his education\nand entry into the pole-producing and treating business, introduces information\non several of the companies he acquired and operated, and presents useful\nmaterial on his lifelong interest in and support of American forestry and the\ninfluence of his forestry mentor, Dr. Carl A. Schenck (who is extensively\nfeatured later in the collection). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Among the most important pieces in this series is the photograph album (folder\n4) compiled throughout Conger's business career (now disassembled for\npreservation purposes)-it contains important imagery of the pole-treatment\nbusiness and the operations of Conger's various companies (detailed below),\nincluding images of creosoting operations, timber lands, the Virginia Creosoting\nCompany plant in Culpeper, the Norfolk Creosoting Company plant, E.F. Conger\nCompany plant in Waynesboro, Piedmont Company plants and yards, general\noperations, and tributes to Dr. Carl A. Schenck, Conger's longtime friend and\nforestry mentor (see Series 5.2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin F. Conger's first truly successful venture into business began with the conversion of a lumber business in Lynchburg into the E. F. Conger Creosoting\nCompany (later simply known as the E. F. Conger Company). Like several of the\ncompanies he owned and operated, E. F. Conger Company over time become\nessentially a holding company for his investments, but for almost thirty years\nthis firm produced treated poles for telephone and utilities companies\nthroughout the eastern United States, his steadiest and most notable customer\nbeing Southeastern New England Telephone Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nAlthough there are only limited records about the operations of the company\nhere, this series contains numerous images of the company's large treatment\nplant built and maintained at Waynesboro, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin F. Conger purchased and operated the Norfolk Creosoting Company for a relatively short time, but it proved to be one of his most successful ventures. Motivated by the success of E. F. Conger Company, Conger sought a facility with deep water access in order to move his operations more significantly into the coastwise trade in and supply of treated poles. The operations at Norfolk proved as important to shipping as they did to pole production and treatment.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe files here include a booklet produced by the Norfolk Creosoting Company long before Conger acquired it, along with another valuable photograph album documenting pole installation in the New York metropolitan area in the 1930s. Conger both collected writings about and wrote himself regarding pole treatment. Perhaps most interesting are the photographs showing the plant at Norfolk and its various operations. Because of the success of this venture, Conger was able to acquire a large number of acres of timber outside of Aiken, South Carolina (known by the name of one of its previous owners, the Hitchcock Woods). This provided him with an abundant supply of chestnut poles and also figured significantly in his future commitments to re-forestry and philanthropy. Through this company, Conger also purchased a stately residence in Staunton, Va. (\"Breezy Hill\"), which he used as a corporate headquarters (his wife served as treasurer of the company). Although the plant and some company assets were sold during World War II, the company itself did not actually dissolve until around 1950.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the largest venture Conger operated during his lengthy career, Piedmont Creosoting Company (later simply the Piedmont Company) had its headquarters in Staunton, Virginia, but largest plant and operations in Augusta, Georgia. Conger acquired the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta in the early 1930s, dissolved the existing company, and reconstituted operations as the Piedmont Creosoting Company. This company utilized pole collection yards in Connecticut to supply New England customers, and some images of those yards are included here.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe files in this series contain the most detailed information about any of the companies Conger operated, most importantly represented by the surviving minute book of Board of Directors' meetings for most the company's history. One of the most valuable pieces in terms of knowing the nature and extent, as well as the details, of Conger's various pole ventures comes in the form of a scrapbook (now disassembled for preservation purposes). Entitled \"From Forest to Field,\" it was prepared for Conger's eldest daughter, Dorothea, by A. B. Carlson, in June 1951. It carefully documents through text and images the operations of the Piedmont Company, using the work operations of the Company to supply an order of southern Yellow Pine poles for the Southern New England Telephone Company. The photographs were taken in the spring of 1949 and the text was drafted subsequently by Carlson of Southern New England Telephone. Poles were acquired from the \"Hitchcock Forest\" near Aiken, South Carolina, owned by E. F. Conger. The company plant in Augusta at that time shipped 100,000 poles per year. Images here show the plant and forest operations and some include depictions of African American workers. Also includes images of the treatment of poles with creosote (a mixture of oils) for preservation, as well as arrangements for shipping.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs noted above, this was one of Conger's firms that eventually became a holding company for investments, and some of the last files in this series document how Conger finally got out of the pole-producing and treatment business for good in the 1950s. The pole-treatment operations in Augusta and at other facilities throughout the eastern United States were eventually sold to a new company with an old name, Piedmont Wood Preserving Company, newly headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C. The file concerning the sale contains detailed materials on existing, often long-standing, company contracts that were transferred to Piedmont Wood Preserving Company, as well as materials on the sale of other assets and business contracts to Piedmont Wood Preserving Company.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe materials in this series primarily focus on Edwin F. Conger's personal life and family, documenting the life a successful businessman of the first half of the twentieth century might lead and the interests his fortune might encourage and support.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin F. Conger personally retained a large amount of acreage in South Carolina that the success of the Norfolk Creosoting Company had enabled him to purchase. Some of the acreage was eventually sold to local interests for housing projects, some used to support the operations of the School of Forestry at the University of North Carolina (including the establishment of a professorship and scholarships), some set aside to honor Conger's lifelong friend and mentor, Dr. Carl A. Schenck, through the creation of a memorial forest and reforestation program (see also Series 5.2).\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin F. Conger studied under German forestry specialist Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) before World War I and considered him a friend and mentor throughout his life. Conger's financial successes allowed him to join with other of his fellow alumni from the Biltmore Forestry School (where Schenck operated his original school on the grounds of the Biltmore estate in North Carolina) in the years immediately preceding his mentor's passing. The files here document some of those activities through a combination of text documents and photographs. One particularly interesting and unusual item is an album (with phonograph records) documenting Dr. Schenck's return visit to America: The Cavalcade of Trees for the Great: Being the Tour of Carl Alwin Schenck in America, 1951, under the Sponsorship of the American Forestry Association and graduates of the Biltmore Forest School.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe largest portion of this series of Edwin Conger's papers relates to his family and his personal affairs. These include financial records; files on local philanthropy in Staunton; activities involving his purchase and operation of a resort property in Middlesex County, Va., called Horse Point Estates; vacation trips and other travel; correspondence with, extensive photographs of, and files concerning trusts established for his two daughters and his grandchildren (most notably files on the divorce and remarriages of his eldest daughter, Dorothea Lloyd (Conger) Eager Grand Sverker, and the guardianship of her two surviving children, Howard Lloyd Eager and Edwin F. Eager).\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the particularly interesting and unexpected files here concerns the Higgs/Redmond case: the attempt of Mrs. James A. Higgs to secure release of Lilly Redmond from Western State Hospital in Staunton in order to have her reside in an early prototype \"halfway house\" for patients with mental illness who had partially recovered (folder 95).\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains just a few files of the wife and second daughter of Edwin\nF. Conger. Dorothea Lloyd (Tatum) Conger (1893-1961) worked most of her years of\nmarriage as treasurer of companies her husband acquired and operated. Some of\nher letters to her two daughters are found in Conger's correspondence files. The\nfile of genealogical materials, primarily focused on her Tatum family ancestors\nand relations, is the largest grouping of materials of or about Mrs. Conger. A\nsmall amount of financial material relating to Vivion Randolph (Conger) LeBow\n(1923-2006), who left her father's papers to the Virginia Historical Society,\ncompletes the collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["\nThis collection contains materials regarding the education and career in\nforestry and treated pole production of Edwin F. Conger, including an\nautobiography, research materials, and a photograph album relating to pole\nharvesting and preservation treatment (including images of operations at the\nVirginia Creosoting Company plant in Culpeper, Va., Norfolk Creosoting Company\nat Norfolk, Va., E.F. Conger Creosoting Company at Waynesboro, Va., and the\nPiedmont Company at Augusta, Ga., as well as pictures of Conger's teacher and\nlifelong mentor, Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck).","\nAlso, includes materials (primarily photographs of operations and\npole-production plants) of E. F. Conger Creosoting Company (later simply the E.\nF. Conger Company), headquartered in Staunton, Va., but with chief operations at\nWaynesboro, Va. Files include images of Edwin F. Conger at the company\nheadquarters in Staunton.","Also, includes records of the Norfolk Creosoting Company, with its plant and\nshipping facility at Norfolk, Va., including images of the plant and operations\nat Norfolk, materials concerning the acquisition of the Hitchcock Woods property\nat Aiken, S.C., title abstract to \"Breezy Hill,\" residence of E. F. Conger and\nfamily and company headquarters in Staunton, Va., and materials concerning sale\nand dissolution of the company.","Also, includes records of the Piedmont Company, formed by E.F. Conger through\nhis purchase of the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta, Ga. The company\nwas headquartered in Staunton but most of its operations were in Georgia and\nNorth Carolina, and its largest customer was Southeastern New England Telephone\nCompany. Materials include a minute book of meetings of the Board of Directors\n(largely a family owned and operated business), records of the purchase and\ndissolution of Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta, Ga., photographs of\nplants, operations and workers (some African American), a scrapbook documenting\npole production, treatment and shipping, records concerning the sale of the\ncompany assets to a newly re-constituted Piedmont Wood Preserving Company\nheadquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., and records relating to the later operations\nof the Piedmont Company as an investments holding firm.","Also, include personal and family papers of Edwin F. Conger relating to his\ndaughters, Dorothea (Conger) Eager Grand Sverker and Vivion Randolph (Conger)\nLeBow, his surviving grandchildren, Howard Lloyd Eager and Edwin F. Eager, for\nwhom he served for a time as guardian; his interests in reforestation; and his\nphilanthropic support of local Staunton historic sites and social organizations.\nAmong these materials are also numerous photographs of family members,\nvacations, and other travel; materials concerning Conger's purchase and\noperation of a resort property at Horse Point Estates in Middlesex County, Va.;\nand a special file on the efforts of Mrs. James A. Higgs to secure the release\nof Lilly Redmond from Western State Hospital in Staunton in order to have her\nreside in an early prototype \"halfway house\" for patients recovering from bouts\nof mental illness.","Lastly, the collection includes some financial records of Conger's wife,\nDorothea Lloyd (Tatum) Conger, as well as genealogical materials she collected\nprimarily on the Randolph and Tatum families; and some late financial records of\nthe Congers' daughter, Vivion (Conger) LeBow.","The first series in this collection provides background materials on the life and career of Edwin Fisher Conger (New Jersey native but long-time Staunton,\nVa., resident). His autobiography provides many helpful details on his education\nand entry into the pole-producing and treating business, introduces information\non several of the companies he acquired and operated, and presents useful\nmaterial on his lifelong interest in and support of American forestry and the\ninfluence of his forestry mentor, Dr. Carl A. Schenck (who is extensively\nfeatured later in the collection). "," Among the most important pieces in this series is the photograph album (folder\n4) compiled throughout Conger's business career (now disassembled for\npreservation purposes)-it contains important imagery of the pole-treatment\nbusiness and the operations of Conger's various companies (detailed below),\nincluding images of creosoting operations, timber lands, the Virginia Creosoting\nCompany plant in Culpeper, the Norfolk Creosoting Company plant, E.F. Conger\nCompany plant in Waynesboro, Piedmont Company plants and yards, general\noperations, and tributes to Dr. Carl A. Schenck, Conger's longtime friend and\nforestry mentor (see Series 5.2)","Edwin F. Conger's first truly successful venture into business began with the conversion of a lumber business in Lynchburg into the E. F. Conger Creosoting\nCompany (later simply known as the E. F. Conger Company). Like several of the\ncompanies he owned and operated, E. F. Conger Company over time become\nessentially a holding company for his investments, but for almost thirty years\nthis firm produced treated poles for telephone and utilities companies\nthroughout the eastern United States, his steadiest and most notable customer\nbeing Southeastern New England Telephone Company.","\nAlthough there are only limited records about the operations of the company\nhere, this series contains numerous images of the company's large treatment\nplant built and maintained at Waynesboro, Va.","Edwin F. Conger purchased and operated the Norfolk Creosoting Company for a relatively short time, but it proved to be one of his most successful ventures. Motivated by the success of E. F. Conger Company, Conger sought a facility with deep water access in order to move his operations more significantly into the coastwise trade in and supply of treated poles. The operations at Norfolk proved as important to shipping as they did to pole production and treatment.\n","The files here include a booklet produced by the Norfolk Creosoting Company long before Conger acquired it, along with another valuable photograph album documenting pole installation in the New York metropolitan area in the 1930s. Conger both collected writings about and wrote himself regarding pole treatment. Perhaps most interesting are the photographs showing the plant at Norfolk and its various operations. Because of the success of this venture, Conger was able to acquire a large number of acres of timber outside of Aiken, South Carolina (known by the name of one of its previous owners, the Hitchcock Woods). This provided him with an abundant supply of chestnut poles and also figured significantly in his future commitments to re-forestry and philanthropy. Through this company, Conger also purchased a stately residence in Staunton, Va. (\"Breezy Hill\"), which he used as a corporate headquarters (his wife served as treasurer of the company). Although the plant and some company assets were sold during World War II, the company itself did not actually dissolve until around 1950.\n","Perhaps the largest venture Conger operated during his lengthy career, Piedmont Creosoting Company (later simply the Piedmont Company) had its headquarters in Staunton, Virginia, but largest plant and operations in Augusta, Georgia. Conger acquired the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company of Augusta in the early 1930s, dissolved the existing company, and reconstituted operations as the Piedmont Creosoting Company. This company utilized pole collection yards in Connecticut to supply New England customers, and some images of those yards are included here.\n","The files in this series contain the most detailed information about any of the companies Conger operated, most importantly represented by the surviving minute book of Board of Directors' meetings for most the company's history. One of the most valuable pieces in terms of knowing the nature and extent, as well as the details, of Conger's various pole ventures comes in the form of a scrapbook (now disassembled for preservation purposes). Entitled \"From Forest to Field,\" it was prepared for Conger's eldest daughter, Dorothea, by A. B. Carlson, in June 1951. It carefully documents through text and images the operations of the Piedmont Company, using the work operations of the Company to supply an order of southern Yellow Pine poles for the Southern New England Telephone Company. The photographs were taken in the spring of 1949 and the text was drafted subsequently by Carlson of Southern New England Telephone. Poles were acquired from the \"Hitchcock Forest\" near Aiken, South Carolina, owned by E. F. Conger. The company plant in Augusta at that time shipped 100,000 poles per year. Images here show the plant and forest operations and some include depictions of African American workers. Also includes images of the treatment of poles with creosote (a mixture of oils) for preservation, as well as arrangements for shipping.\n","As noted above, this was one of Conger's firms that eventually became a holding company for investments, and some of the last files in this series document how Conger finally got out of the pole-producing and treatment business for good in the 1950s. The pole-treatment operations in Augusta and at other facilities throughout the eastern United States were eventually sold to a new company with an old name, Piedmont Wood Preserving Company, newly headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C. The file concerning the sale contains detailed materials on existing, often long-standing, company contracts that were transferred to Piedmont Wood Preserving Company, as well as materials on the sale of other assets and business contracts to Piedmont Wood Preserving Company.\n","The materials in this series primarily focus on Edwin F. Conger's personal life and family, documenting the life a successful businessman of the first half of the twentieth century might lead and the interests his fortune might encourage and support.\n","Edwin F. Conger personally retained a large amount of acreage in South Carolina that the success of the Norfolk Creosoting Company had enabled him to purchase. Some of the acreage was eventually sold to local interests for housing projects, some used to support the operations of the School of Forestry at the University of North Carolina (including the establishment of a professorship and scholarships), some set aside to honor Conger's lifelong friend and mentor, Dr. Carl A. Schenck, through the creation of a memorial forest and reforestation program (see also Series 5.2).\n ","Edwin F. Conger studied under German forestry specialist Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) before World War I and considered him a friend and mentor throughout his life. Conger's financial successes allowed him to join with other of his fellow alumni from the Biltmore Forestry School (where Schenck operated his original school on the grounds of the Biltmore estate in North Carolina) in the years immediately preceding his mentor's passing. The files here document some of those activities through a combination of text documents and photographs. One particularly interesting and unusual item is an album (with phonograph records) documenting Dr. Schenck's return visit to America: The Cavalcade of Trees for the Great: Being the Tour of Carl Alwin Schenck in America, 1951, under the Sponsorship of the American Forestry Association and graduates of the Biltmore Forest School.\n ","The largest portion of this series of Edwin Conger's papers relates to his family and his personal affairs. These include financial records; files on local philanthropy in Staunton; activities involving his purchase and operation of a resort property in Middlesex County, Va., called Horse Point Estates; vacation trips and other travel; correspondence with, extensive photographs of, and files concerning trusts established for his two daughters and his grandchildren (most notably files on the divorce and remarriages of his eldest daughter, Dorothea Lloyd (Conger) Eager Grand Sverker, and the guardianship of her two surviving children, Howard Lloyd Eager and Edwin F. Eager).\n ","One of the particularly interesting and unexpected files here concerns the Higgs/Redmond case: the attempt of Mrs. James A. Higgs to secure release of Lilly Redmond from Western State Hospital in Staunton in order to have her reside in an early prototype \"halfway house\" for patients with mental illness who had partially recovered (folder 95).\n ","This series contains just a few files of the wife and second daughter of Edwin\nF. Conger. Dorothea Lloyd (Tatum) Conger (1893-1961) worked most of her years of\nmarriage as treasurer of companies her husband acquired and operated. Some of\nher letters to her two daughters are found in Conger's correspondence files. The\nfile of genealogical materials, primarily focused on her Tatum family ancestors\nand relations, is the largest grouping of materials of or about Mrs. Conger. A\nsmall amount of financial material relating to Vivion Randolph (Conger) LeBow\n(1923-2006), who left her father's papers to the Virginia Historical Society,\ncompletes the collection.\n"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Edwin Fisher Conger papers focus primarily on several of Conger's business operations, specifically the production of treated telephone and\nelectrical poles. Two of Conger's chief operations, Norfolk Creosoting Company\nand the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company (later simply the Piedmont Company)\nfigure most heavily in the collection, along with information regarding Conger's\nfirst endeavor in this field, E.F. Conger Creosoting Company, his extensive\ntimber holdings near Aiken, South Carolina, and his financial, social, and\nphilanthropic dealings as a wealthy businessman living in Virginia.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Edwin Fisher Conger papers focus primarily on several of Conger's business operations, specifically the production of treated telephone and\nelectrical poles. Two of Conger's chief operations, Norfolk Creosoting Company\nand the Piedmont Wood Preserving Company (later simply the Piedmont Company)\nfigure most heavily in the collection, along with information regarding Conger's\nfirst endeavor in this field, E.F. Conger Creosoting Company, his extensive\ntimber holdings near Aiken, South Carolina, and his financial, social, and\nphilanthropic dealings as a wealthy businessman living in Virginia.\n"],"names_ssim":["E.F. Conger Company - Records and correspondence.","Conger, Edwin Fisher, 1887-1974."],"corpname_ssim":["E.F. 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From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.","The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.","Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.","Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_title_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_ssim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"creator_ssim":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation,\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["10,000 (ca.) items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for use.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for use."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into fifteen sections by creator.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into fifteen sections by creator."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["This collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026amp; Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1848-1868.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1864-1888.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForm letters; greeting cards; invitations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlanters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRed Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":49,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00007_c02_c02"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00007_c06_c02","type":"Subseries","attributes":{"title":"Correspondence, \n \n 1885-1918","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00007_c06_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00007_c06_c02","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00007_c06_c02"],"id":"vihi_vih00007_c06_c02","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00007","_root_":"vihi_vih00007","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00007_c06","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00007_c06","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00007","vihi_vih00007_c06"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00007","vihi_vih00007_c06"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Series 6: Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), \"Burlington,\" King William County, Va. \n \n 1868-1918"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Series 6: Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), \"Burlington,\" King William County, Va. \n \n 1868-1918"],"text":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Series 6: Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), \"Burlington,\" King William County, Va. \n \n 1868-1918","Correspondence, \n \n 1885-1918","Box 9"],"title_filing_ssi":"Correspondence, \n \n 1885-1918","title_ssm":["Correspondence, \n \n 1885-1918"],"title_tesim":["Correspondence, \n \n 1885-1918"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Correspondence, \n \n 1885-1918"],"component_level_isim":[2],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["Subseries"],"level_ssim":["Subseries"],"sort_isi":12,"containers_ssim":["Box 9"],"_nest_path_":"/components#5/components#1","timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00007","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00007","_root_":"vihi_vih00007","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00007","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00007.xml","title_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"title_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2","Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate","10,000 (ca.) items.","Collection is open for use.","Arranged into fifteen sections by creator.","This collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.","The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.","Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.","Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_title_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_ssim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"creator_ssim":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation,\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["10,000 (ca.) items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for use.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for use."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into fifteen sections by creator.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into fifteen sections by creator."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["This collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026amp; Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1848-1868.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1864-1888.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForm letters; greeting cards; invitations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlanters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRed Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":49,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00007_c06_c02"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00021_c03_c01","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Correspondence,\n\t 1931","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c03_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c03_c01","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00021_c03_c01"],"id":"vihi_vih00021_c03_c01","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021_c03","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c03","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c03"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c03"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Series 3. 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In \neach series description, there are notes about the record series overall, \ngenerally with some reference to specific materials within the series. The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n","Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t","There are no restrictions.\n","Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n","Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey.","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss3 Ar896 a FA2\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_title_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"collection_ssim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"geogname_ssm":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"geogname_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"places_ssim":["Arvonia (Va.) - Commerce - History - 20th century.","Buckingham County (Va.) - Economic conditions - 20th century.","Virginia - Commerce - History - 20th century."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Charles E. 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The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c03_c01"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c01","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Correspondence, \n\t1959","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c01","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00021_c02_c01"],"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c01","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Series 2. 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The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c01"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c02","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Correspondence, \n\t1960","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c02","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00021_c02_c02"],"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c02","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Series 2. 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The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. 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The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c02"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c03","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Correspondence, \n\t1961-1963","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c03#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c03","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00021_c02_c03"],"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c03","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Series 2. 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The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. 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Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c03"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c04","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Correspondence, \n\t1964-1965","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c04#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c04","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00021_c02_c04"],"id":"vihi_vih00021_c02_c04","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c02","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c02"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Series 2. 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The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. 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Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c02_c04"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00021_c03_c08","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Correspondence with Branch \u0026 Company, Richmond, concerning stock purchases, \n\t1962–1967","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c03_c08#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c03_c08","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00021_c03_c08"],"id":"vihi_vih00021_c03_c08","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00021","_root_":"vihi_vih00021","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00021_c03","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00021_c03","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c03"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00021","vihi_vih00021_c03"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, \n1913–1990","Series 3. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. 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Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. 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Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c03_c08"}}],"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=compact"}}]},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/facet/repository_ssim.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026view=compact"}},{"type":"facet","id":"collection_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Collection","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"A Guide to the J. 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