Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947

Access and use

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:

Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947. Accession 51472. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947. Accession 51472. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1890-1947, of Carey Wilbur Butterworth (1868-1949) relating to his work as an agent for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad at Doswell station in Hanover County, and later at Milford station in Caroline County, Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, much of it with William D. Duke (1873-1951), company general manager, and concerns employee hiring, wages, job performance, and working conditions at the two stations. There are also accounts and receipts, applications for weekly settlements, cartoons and drawings, certificates, check rolls, employee pay receipts, freight bills and bills of lading, monthly accounts current, Order of Railroad Telegraphers materials, remittances, and retirement benefit information.

Biographical / historical:

Carey Wilbur Butterworth was born in Petersburg, Virginia on 22 October 1868. He was the son of Joseph Wilbur Butterworth and Martha Thomas Southall. He married 1) Ida Burns Little (1870-1905) on 23 June 1892, and 2) Mamie Young Little (1879-1973) on 19 June 1907. Butterworth was employed by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad for over fifty years. He died in Richmond on 5 December 1949 and is buried in Riverview Cemetery.

Acquisition information:
Purchased.
Physical description:
.675 cubic feet (2 boxes)