James R. Brown Papers, 1957-1991

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Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
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POC: Archives Reference Services
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Preferred citation:

James R. Brown Papers, 1957-1991. Accessions 38643 and 43768. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

James R. Brown Papers, 1957-1991. Accessions 38643 and 43768. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1957-1991, of James R. Brown (1917-1993) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, containing his genealogical research on the Brown family, and allied lines of Elledge, Gunnnels, Halley, Isley, Patton, Sandusky, and Shanks. Areas covered include Fairfax County, Virginia, and Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. There are abstracts and copies of census records, deeds, estate administration records, marriage records and vital statistics, military records, and wills, and also correspondence, family group sheets, genealogical charts and pedigrees, genealogies compiled by others, and published sources. There is also a copy of Century Bombers: The Story of the Bloody Hundredth written by Richard Le Strange, with Brown's assistance, and published in 1989.

The correspondence contains requests by Brown for records from various libraries and archival repositories, historical societies, and courthouses. There are also letters to and from family members and other researchers, and responses from individuals to queries by Brown that were published in the journal Genealogical Helper.

The family name files include Brown's research notes, and copies and abstracts of census records, deeds, estate administration records, marriage records and vital statistics, military records, and wills, and also correspondence, family group sheets, genealogical charts and pedigrees, genealogies compiled by others, and published sources. There is also a copy of Century Bombers: The Story of the Bloody Hundredth written by Richard Le Strange, with Brown's assistance, and published in 1989.

Biographical / historical:

James Robert Brown was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 27 February 1917. He studied law at the University of Minnesota, and then enlisted in 1942, and flew missions with the 100th Bomb Group in England. Following the war, he went back to the University of Minnesota and earned a degree in business administration. Brown was employed as a sales manager for the Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis. He married Ella Caroline Bertheussen (b. 1917) in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on 14 December 1940. He died on 14 September 1993.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Joanne J. Hughes, Victoria, British Columbia.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into the following series:

  • Series I. Correspondence.
  • Series II. Family Name Files.

Arranged chronologically.

Arranged alphabetically.

Physical description:
4.725 cubic feet (11 boxes).