Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Family Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Preferred citation:

Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries

Summary

Extent:
2.0 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes a lot of genealogical notes and copies of wills compiled by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs but also report cards, class notes, and letters of different Stubbs family members. An oration delivered by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Sr. before the Phoenix Literary Society is also included as well as his application for the professorship at William & Mary. There are letters written William Carter Stubbs while a student at William & Mary,letters of John Catlett Stubbs while studying medicine in Charlottesville and Baltimore and two class notebooks of Lucy T. C. Stubbs of Williamsburg.

The collection also includes bills and receipts of people who lived in Gloucester County and King & Queen County, Virginia as well as the Stubbs family. There are also papers of Christopher T. Jones and Thomas J. Banks, both of Gloucester.

Of particular note is a letter written to Jefferson Stubbs (father of Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr.), which mentions the 1855 yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia.

Of note: Magruder-Ewell Camp letterhead

Written while a student at William & Mary, of note is an account of a student's death

East Alabama College, Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical College

Gloucester County, Virginia

Gloucester County, Virginia

Largely people in Gloucester County and King & Queen County, of note is an 1832 receipt for a coffin for "infant child of negro woman Milly"

Catlett, Buckner, Cooke, Booth, Baytop, Conway, Stanard, Yates, Robinson, Walker, Armistead, Ludlow, Carter, Mann, Page, Waller, Walker, Taliaferro, Smith, Landon, Underwood, Eggleston

Crossland, Snead, Cosnahan, Strachey, Cox, Smith, Hansford, Robins, Stubbs, Corbin, Bertrand, Griffin, Mercer

Griffin, Buckner, Booth, Upton, Carter, Catlett, Walker

Landon, Catlett, Butler, Tomkies, Duval, Mercer, Weeden

Waller, Robins, Hansford

Boswell, Taliaferro, Waller

"Constitution of the Association of the Alumni" (William & Mary)

"The Making of the Union: Contributions of the College of William & Mary in Virginia," 1899

"A Poem read on Feb. 19, 1903 before the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at William & Mary College"

Address before Phi Beta Kappa by Edward S. Joynes, 1903 Feb. 19

Bruton Parish Church Program, 1907 Oct. 5

Frank P. Stubbs Campaign Meeting Notice, 1920

Postcards

Calling Card

Invitations, 1902

W. C. Stubbs Broadside, 1876

Universal Exposition Seal, 1904

Business Card for J. O. W. Watlington, Merchant of Norfolk

APVA Membership Card, 1911

Virginia $5.00 Treasury Note

Cut outs from publications of famous people, pasted onto pages of a textbook

Newspapers clippings pasted onto the pages of The World in the Middle Ages: An Historcal Geography

Clippings, mainly related to genealogy

Biographical / historical:

Thomas Jefferson Stubbs was born 14 September 1841 in Gloucester County, Va. He attended the College of William & Mary and served in the 34th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army. Stubbs then attended the University of Virginia. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas in Batesville and was professor of math at the College of William & Mary from 1888 until his death in 1915.

Several members of the Stubbs family also attended the College of William & Mary, including Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr., William Carter Stubbs, and William Carter Stubbs, Jr.

Acquisition information:
Purchase