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      <persname rules="aacr" source="ingest">Hotinger, Rice</persname>
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      <persname rules="aacr" source="ingest">Hotinger, Leonard D.</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Hotinger family</famname>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1931-10-16/1971" type="inclusive">Inclusive 1943-1971</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Rice Hotinger Ledger, WLU Coll. 0261, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections staff to verify the appropriate format.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Blue sheet prepared by Betty Kondayan (9/18/01)</p>  </processinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_396402e39eb134facbcb5288788ba266">
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>The Hotingers were Rockbridge County farmers and owners of Mountain View Farm, which is represented on the National Register of Historic Places.</p>  </bioghist>
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<p>This accounting ledger contains records of the Hotinger's Mountain View Farm at Kerrs Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia.  Also included is a 1936 deed tracing of their house, Rice Hotinger's will, a memorial to him, an American Hereford Record: This is to Certify, the Pedigree of EVC PRINCE WALTER 4, Bull, calved March 8, 1963, breeder Charles P. Evans, Clifton Forge, Virginia, and a Railway Express Agency shipper's prepaid receipt from Lexington to Staunton, December 11, 1939.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="local">Virginia -- Mountain View Farm</geogname>
    <subject source="fast">Accounting</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Records</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Farms -- Finance</subject>
    <geogname source="fast">Virginia -- Rockbridge County</geogname>
    <subject source="fast">Account books</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Livestock</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Railway mail service</subject>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Hotinger, Harvey Lewis</persname>
    <corpname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">American Hereford Record</corpname>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Evans, Charles P.</persname>
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