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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Jim Greve, 24 April 2014 Description is in English 2014-04-24 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the James R. Brown Papers, 1957-1991 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 38643, 43768 Jim Greve

Library of Virginia 2014 Jim Greve Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia James R. Brown Papers, 1957-1991 38643, 43768 4.725 cubic feet (11 boxes). English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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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.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Joanne J. Hughes, Victoria, British Columbia.

Biographical Information

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.

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.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series I. Correspondence. Series II. Family Name Files. Contents List Series I. Correspondence. 1-4 Extent: 4 boxes.

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.

Arranged chronologically.

1957. 1 1 1958. 1 2 1959. 1 3 1960 (January-June). 1 4 1960 (July-December). 1 5 1961. 1 6 1962. 1 7 1963. 1 8 1964. 1 9 1966. 1 10 1967 (January-June). 1 11 1967 (July-October). 1 12 1967 (November-December). 1 13 1968 (January-June). 1 14 1968 (July-September). 1 15 1968 (October-December). 1 16 1969 (January-June). 2 1 1969 (July-December). 2 2 1970 (January-June). 2 3 1970 (July-September). 2 4 1970 (October-December). 2 5 1971 (January-February). 2 6 1971 (March-July). 2 7 1971 (August-December). 2 8 1972 (January-February). 2 9 1972 (March-April). 2 10 1972 (May-December). 2 11 1973 (January-March). 3 1 1973 (April-December). 3 2 1974. 3 3 1975. 3 4 1976 (January-February). 3 5 1976 (March-December). 3 6 1977 (January-April). 3 7 1977 (May-December). 3 8 1978 (January-February). 3 9 1978 (March-December). 3 10 1979. 3 11 1980. 3 12 1981 (January-May). 4 1 1981 (June-December). 4 2 1982. 4 3 1983. 4 4 1984. 4 5 1985. 4 6 1986. 4 7 1987. 4 8 1988. 4 9 1989. 4 10 1990. 4 11 1991. 4 12 Allen, Patricia Joan Kirchherr. 4 13 May, George S. 4 14-15 Rutherford, Kenneth. 4 16-17 Series II. Family Name Files. 5-11 Extent: 7 boxes.

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.

Arranged alphabetically.

Aldridge. 5 1 Ancestor Charts - Minnesota Historical Society. 5 2 "Ancestry of James Shanks of Huron County, Ohio" by Harry S. Blaine. 5 3 "And Then There Were Collinsons" by Irma S. Harper. 5 4 Barnes. 5 5 Boone. 5 6 Bowman. 5 7 Brown. 5 8-10 Brown, Alexander (1809-1896). 5 11-12 Century Bombers: The Story of the Bloody Hundredth. 6 n/a Charts - Oversize. Oversize PP Box 105 Coe. 6 1 "Cohee and Collison" by Hilda Chance. 6 2 Collison. 6 3 Computer Discs. 6 4 Corwin. 6 5 Culver. 6 6 Demarest. 6 7 Dillon. 6 8 Dinwiddie. 6 9 Dobbins. 6 10 Doty. 6 11 Dyer. 6 12 Elledge. 6 13-15 Estate of Mary Holley (Macon County, MO). 6 16 Family Group Sheets - Various Families. 6 17-18 "Genealogy of the Shanks Family in America" by Maj. Gen. David C. Shanks. 7 1 Gevedon. 7 2 Griffin. 7 3-4 Guffey. 7 5 Gunnels. 7 6-12 Halley. 7 13-16 Halley. 8 1 Halley/Holley. 8 2 Halley (Linda Kay Hocker). 8 3 Halley-Simpson. 8 4 Halliburton. 8 5 Hawley/Halley/Holley (Ann H. Mack). 8 6 Hopps-Nason. 8 7 Inskeep. 8 8 Isley. 8 9-13 "James Shanks Memorial" by Sylvia Richards. 8 14 Johnson. 8 15-16 Johnston. 8 17 Kelley. 9 1 Marshall-Saltzgiver-Hansen. 9 2 McClure. 9 3 Miller. 9 4-5 Minner. 9 6 Monroe County, OH - History. 9 7 Monroe County, OH Map - Search Requests. 9 8-9 Nunnely. 9 10 Patton. 9 11-13 Peyton. 9 14 Photographs. 9 15 Pierson. 9 16 Problem Files. 9 17 Roach. 9 18 Rosenbush. 9 19 Ross. 9 20 Sadowski. 9 21 Sandusky. 9 22-24 Sandusky. 10 1-2 Schnepp. 10 3 Schnepp/Snepp. 10 4-5 Shanks. 10 6-15 Sharp. 11 1 "Some Descendants of James Halley, Sr. and Elizabeth Simpson". 11 2 "Some Early Settlers of the St. Croix Valley" by Mary J. Williams. 11 3 Title Abstracts - Lindsay, Garvin County, OK. 11 4