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    <unittitle>Withrow Family Papers</unittitle>
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      <persname role="crp" rules="aacr" source="ingest">Withrow, Margaret</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="crp" rules="aacr" source="ingest">Withrow, John</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="crp" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Moran, Louis</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="crp" rules="aacr" source="ingest">Withrow,  Fanny</persname>
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      <persname rules="aacr" source="ingest">Carson, William Waller</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">70 Item</extent>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="inferred" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1852/1932" type="inclusive">Inclusive 1852-1932</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], Withrow Family Papers, WLU Coll. 0164, Special Collections, 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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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of William Carson, 1985.</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>The Withrow family were long-time residents of Lexington, Virginia.</p>  </bioghist>
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<p>Contains genealogies of Lucy Johnson Withrow; correspondence of Louie Moran to Margaret Withrow, 1919; licences and receipts for John Withrow's general store, 1882-1920; also includes 3 ALS of M. H. Johnson to Fanny Withrow concerning Burnside's bombardment of Fredericksburg and maneuvers in the Valley of Virginia, 1862 November 16-30.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="fast">Virginia -- Lexington</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber="fst00939827" source="fast">General Stores</subject>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="ingest">Withrow, Lucy Johnson</persname>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Johnson, M. H.</persname>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Burnside, Ambrose Everett</persname>
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