Luke family papersLuke family papers MSS 14066Ellen WelchAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

5/14/18

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-03-05 17:51:14 +0000.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Luke family papers MSS 14066 Archival Resource Key /repositories/3/resources/631 1 Cubic Feet 2 legal document boxes and one oversize folder. 1853-1946 English Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a purchase from Charles Apfelbaum by the Small Special Collection Library at the University of Virginia on November 19, 2007.

 Biographical / Historical

The Luke family of Berryville, Virginia during 1853 to 1946 consists of John Whelan Luke, a farmer, a Clarke County school trustee, and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1851), his wife Ann Louisa Grantham, and several of their children, Edwin Clifford Luke, a store salesman in New York City, James Luke, a local bank teller, Pattie Lucille Luke, a music and school teacher, Elizabeth "Bessie" Luke, Samuel Luke (who died from sickness in 1893), and Anna Clayton Luke.

Source: History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke.

 Scope and Contents

Luke Family papers, MSS 14066, 1 cubic foot, contains family correspondence, financial, legal, and personal papers of a late Nineteenth century family from Berryville, Virginia. Topics include slavery, politics, farming, and the health of family and friends. There is also a brief mention of John Hopkins Hospital as well as World War I. There are a few items from other families including Frye, Zirkle, Geary, Rupp, and Harlow. They may have been friends or relatives of the Luke family.

 Family correspondenceArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720710.020 Cubic Feet10 folders in legal document box. Box 1.1869-1946EnglishJohn W. LukeArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720740.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11869-1893English1 [X030899275]1Helen J. DepewArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720780.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11887-1899English1 [X030899275]2E. Cliffored LukeArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720760.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11889-1892English1 [X030899275]3E. Clifford LukeArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720770.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11893English1 [X030899275]4E. Clifford LukeArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720790.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11894-1896English1 [X030899275]5E. Clifford LukeArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720800.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 1.1897-1904; 1943English1 [X030899275]6Ann Louisa Luke and miscellaneous lettersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720810.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 1.1886-1904English1 [X030899275]7Pattie LukeArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720820.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 1.1899-1915, 1946English1 [X030899275]8Scope and Contents

Included are letters from E. Clifford Luke to his sister Pattie about John Hopkins hospital and also about "whipping" the Germans. (1919)

Bessie Luke Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720830.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11905-1913English1 [X030899275]9Samuel Luke (grievance letters about his death)Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720840.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11893English1 [X030899275]10Financial and legal papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720850.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 1.1853-1926EnglishFinancial papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/721090.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 1.1853-1926English1 [X030899275]11Financial papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/721130.08 Cubic FeetTwo folders in legal document box. Box 1.1881-1926English1 [X030899275]12-13Financial papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/721180.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11886-1898English1 [X030899275]14Financial papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/721690.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11886-1911English1 [X030899275]15Financial papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/721730.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 21892-1937English2 [X030899276]1Legal papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720860.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 11885-1908English2 [X030899276]2Miscellaneous and personal items of Luke family and other famliesArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720871880-1950EnglishPrograms (invitations) and school recordsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720880.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 2.1892-1950English2 [X030899276]3Scope and Contents

[Truman] Fry report card, Commencement exercises programs for the Columbia School of Music, Shenandoah County High School, Toms Brook High School, New Market High School; and invitations to the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society, Christ Church Organ and Song Recital, New Amsterdam Club, and Mount Jackson Lodge, Va.,

Advertisements and newspaper clippingsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720890.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 2.[1934-1940's]English2 [X030899276]4George R. Geary, Thomas Frye and Reuben Zirkle financial papersArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/722090.08 Cubic FeetTwo folders in legal document box. Box 2.Geary and Zirkle receipts in folder 5. Frye ledgers in folder 6.1868-1918English2 [X030899276]5-6Autograph books, yearbooks, and scrapbooksArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/722140.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 21888-1908English2 [X030899276]7Scope and Contents

Maggie Shirley Harlow autograph album, P. M. Hopper remembrance plate, Joseph H. Rupp scrapbook, Mennonite yearbooks, Truman Fry report card, and Ruckersivlle Graded School autograph book.

PhotographsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/722380.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 2.[1880's-1930's?]English2 [X030899276]8War ration booksArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/722190.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 2.1942English2 [X030899276]9Writings miscellaneousArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/720900.04 Cubic FeetOne folder in legal document box. Box 2UndatedEnglish2 [X030899276]10Eugene Luke confirmation certificate (oversize)Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/72253UndatedEnglishGeneral

Workflows says that this item is housed in OS box P-35.