Joseph Kieffer Ruebush, Frederick County Papers, 1788-1888

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Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
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Richmond, VA 23219
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Preferred citation:

Joseph Kieffer Ruebush. Frederick County Papers, 1788-1888. Accession 23718a, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Creator:
Joseph Kieffer Ruebush
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Joseph Kieffer Ruebush. Frederick County Papers, 1788-1888. Accession 23718a, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Frederick County, Virginia, papers, 1788-1888, collected by Joseph K. Ruebush (1878-1963) of Harrisonburg, Virginia, consisting of: abstracts, announcements, bonds, certificates, certificates of ordination, correspondence, decrees, deeds, judicial records, land grants, plats, receipts, reports, surveys, warrants, and wills mainly of the Evard and Clevenger families of Frederick County and Winchester, Virginia.

Subjects covered by the collection are: freedmen, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Reconstruction in Alabama; the Church of Christ at Galilee and the clergy in Frederick County, Virginia; decedents' estates, land titles, local taxation, and slaves in Frederick County; Frederick County overseers of the poor and illegitimate children; and the history of Frederick County in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also contains papers relating to the history of the following families: Browning, Clevenger, Evard, Gruber, McClay, Peters, Stephens, and Wilson.

Biographical / historical:

Joseph Kieffer Ruebush was born 26 October 1878 in Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia. He attended Shenandoah College and Ohio State University's school of journalism. Ruebush operated the Ruebush-Kieffer press in Rockingham County for several years. As a historian, he wrote on Rockingham County and on the Shenandoah Valley. Ruebush served as one of the first trustees of the Rockingham County Public Library, on the Civil War Centennial Commission, and the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Roundtable. He was a founder of the Rockingham Historical Society. He married Nancy Byrd Rhodes (d. 1952). Ruebush died 25 July 1963 in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Joseph Kieffer Ruebush, Harrisonburg, Virginia, on 7 September 1951.
Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically with licenses and receipts located at the end.

Physical location:
Personal papers collection, Acc. 23718-a. Item A-1 is located in Oversize box 55. Originals of items A-5, A-7 - A-10, A-14 - A-15 are located in the Frederick County Court Records. Photocopies of these documents are included here.
Physical description:
51 leaves and 61 pages.