John W. Daniel Papers, 1893-1910

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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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Collection is open to research.

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Preferred citation:

John W. Daniel Papers, 1893-1910. Accession 21683. Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Creator:
John W. Daniel
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

John W. Daniel Papers, 1893-1910. Accession 21683. Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1893-1910, of John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) of Lynchburg, Virginia, and United States Senator, consisting of correspondence concerning rural free mail delivery in Virginia counties; the Civil War, including the 14th Virginia cavalry, Confederate records, the steamer St. Nicholas, a Daniel-edited column in the Richmond TIMES-DISPATCH, and complimentary books on Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson sent to Daniel; free coinage; Daniel's speeches; requests for an appointment as a Washington D.C. Capitol policeman and for a commission in the United States army; the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the 1907 Jamestown Exposition; an invitation to speak at Easton College in Manassas, Virginia; Daniel's reelection to the Senate in 1910; and a promissory note. Papers also include predictions on the 1894 congressional elections in New York and Virginia and which party would control the United States Congress.

Biographical / historical:

John Warwick Daniel was born 5 September 1842 in Lynchburg, Virginia, to William Daniel, Jr. (1806-1873) and Sarah Ann Warwick Daniel (d. 1845). Daniel attended Lynchburg College and Locust Grove Academy, but left school when the Civil War began. Commissioned a lieutenant, he rose to the rank of major and received a crippling wound at the Battle of the Wilderness. After the Civil War, Daniel began practicing law and entered politics. He served in the House of Delegates from 1869 to 1871 and in the state Senate from 1875 to 1881. Daniel was elected United States Senator by the Virginia General Assembly in 1885 and served from 1887 until his death. He represented Lynchburg in the 1901-1902 state constitutional convention, and was considered a potential vice-presidential nominee at the 1904 Democratic National Convention. Daniel married Julia Elizabeth Murrell (1850-1937) 24 November 1869. He died 29 June 1910.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Glenna Whybrew, Lynchburg, Virginia, 19 February 1940.
Physical description:
36 leaves and 12 pages