Luke family papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Summary

Extent:
1 Cubic Feet 2 legal document boxes and one oversize folder.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Luke Family papers, MSS 14066, 1 cubic foot, contains family correspondence, financial, legal, and personal papers of a late Nineteenth century family from Berryville, Virginia. Topics include slavery, politics, farming, and the health of family and friends. There is also a brief mention of John Hopkins Hospital as well as World War I. There are a few items from other families including Frye, Zirkle, Geary, Rupp, and Harlow. They may have been friends or relatives of the Luke family.

Included are letters from E. Clifford Luke to his sister Pattie about John Hopkins hospital and also about "whipping" the Germans. (1919)

[Truman] Fry report card, Commencement exercises programs for the Columbia School of Music, Shenandoah County High School, Toms Brook High School, New Market High School; and invitations to the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society, Christ Church Organ and Song Recital, New Amsterdam Club, and Mount Jackson Lodge, Va.,

Maggie Shirley Harlow autograph album, P. M. Hopper remembrance plate, Joseph H. Rupp scrapbook, Mennonite yearbooks, Truman Fry report card, and Ruckersivlle Graded School autograph book.

Biographical / historical:

The Luke family of Berryville, Virginia during 1853 to 1946 consists of John Whelan Luke, a farmer, a Clarke County school trustee, and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1851), his wife Ann Louisa Grantham, and several of their children, Edwin Clifford Luke, a store salesman in New York City, James Luke, a local bank teller, Pattie Lucille Luke, a music and school teacher, Elizabeth "Bessie" Luke, Samuel Luke (who died from sickness in 1893), and Anna Clayton Luke.

Source: History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke.

Acquisition information:
This collection was a purchase from Charles Apfelbaum by the Small Special Collection Library at the University of Virginia on November 19, 2007.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard