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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Jim Greve, 18 May 2016 Description is in English 2016-05-18 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 51472 Jim Greve

Library of Virginia 2016 Jim Greve Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Carey Wilbur Butterworth Papers, 1890-1947 51472 .675 cubic feet (2 boxes) English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

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

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Biographical Information

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.

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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.

 Contents List Accounts and Receipts. 1 1 Annual Reports, 1932, 1947. 1 2 Applications for Weekly Settlements. 1 3 Cartoons/Drawings. 1 4 Certificates. 1 5 Check Rolls. 1 6 Correspondence, 1890. 1 7 Correspondence, 1895-1898. 1 8-11 Correspondence, 1904-1905. 1 12-13 Correspondence, 1907. 1 14 Correspondence, 1909-1920. 1 15-26 Correspondence, 1923. 1 27 Correspondence, 1927-1928. 1 28-29 Correspondence, 1930. 1 30 Correspondence, 1932. 1 31 Correspondence, 1934. 1 32 Correspondence, 1936. 1 33 Correspondence, 1938-1939. 1 34-35 Correspondence, 1941. 1 36 Correspondence, 1946. 1 37 Correspondence, undated. 1 38 The Country Merchant (New Concord, OH), August 1901. PP Oversize Box n/a Deed. 1 39 Diary of Agnes Gray Butterworth, 1919. 1 40 Drawing/Sketch (Oversize). PP Oversize Box n/a Employee Job Performance. 1 41 Employee Pay Receipts/Stubs. 1 42 Forms/Stationary (Blank). 1 43 Freight Bills/Bills of Lading. 1 44 Freight Bill Overcharges. 1 45 Greeting Cards. 2 1 Minutes. 2 2 Miscellaneous. 2 3 Monthly Accounts Current. 2 4 "National Housing Act" - Federal Housing Administration Booklet. 2 5 Order of Railroad Telegraphers. 2 6 Parnassus Club. 2 7 Patent. 2 8 Plan of New Water Station at Milford, 1916. PP Oversize Box n/a Remittances, 1911. 2 9-10 Retirement Benefits. 2 11 Rules and Regulations/Schedule of Wages, 1910. 2 12 Virginian Railway Company - Authorities for Expenditure, 1922-1924. 2 13