Special Collections Research Center
Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Family Papers
Mss. 65 St9
/repositories/2/resources/4872
2.0 Linear Feet
1789-1933
English
Biographical Information:
Thomas Jefferson Stubbs was born 14 September 1841 in Gloucester County, Va. He attended the College of William & Mary and served in the 34th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army. Stubbs then attended the University of Virginia. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas in Batesville and was professor of math at the College of William & Mary from 1888 until his death in 1915.
Several members of the Stubbs family also attended the College of William & Mary, including Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr., William Carter Stubbs, and William Carter Stubbs, Jr.
Acquisition Information:
Purchase
Separated Materials:
One book has been removed from the collection and shelved in Rare Books or Swem Library Stacks and a box of personal and Civil War artifacts has been moved to the Mss. Artifact Collection.
Conditions Governing Access:
Collection is open to all researchers. Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Preferred Citation:
Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries
Scope and Contents
Collection includes a lot of genealogical notes and copies of wills compiled by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs but also report cards, class notes, and letters of different Stubbs family members. An oration delivered by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Sr. before the Phoenix Literary Society is also included as well as his application for the professorship at William & Mary. There are letters written William Carter Stubbs while a student at William & Mary,letters of John Catlett Stubbs while studying medicine in Charlottesville and Baltimore and two class notebooks of Lucy T. C. Stubbs of Williamsburg.
The collection also includes bills and receipts of people who lived in Gloucester County and King & Queen County, Virginia as well as the Stubbs family. There are also papers of Christopher T. Jones and Thomas J. Banks, both of Gloucester.
Of particular note is a letter written to Jefferson Stubbs (father of Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr.), which mentions the 1855 yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia.
Correspondence
Financial records
Notebooks
Receipts (financial records)
Scrapbooks
Virginia--Genealogy
College of William and Mary--History--19th century
Gloucester County (Va.)--History
Yellow fever--Virginia--Norfolk
Stubbs, Thomas Jefferson, 1841-1915
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae
Stubbs family
College of William and Mary. Phoenix Literary Society
Appointment of Thomas Jefferson Stubbs as Commandant of the 21st Regiment by Alexander G. Taliaferro/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720431846 October 10English11Cappahosic Academy Report Card for Thomas Jefferson Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720441857English12William & Mary Class Report Cards of Thomas Jefferson Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720451859-1860English13Graduating Oration by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720461860 July 4English14Oration by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs before the Phoenix Literary Society/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720471861 February 22English15Receipts from William & Mary for Thomas J. & James Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720481858-1859English16Letters Recommending Thomas Jefferson Stubbs for Teaching Positions/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720491866-1869, 1872English17Letters Recommending Thomas Jefferson Stubbs for Employment at William & Mary/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720501888English18Thomas Jefferson Stubbs' Application for a Professorship at William & Mary/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720511888 June 25English19Acknowledgement from Batesville (Arkansas) Presbyterian Sabbath School/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720521888English110Mt. Zion Masonic Lodge 10/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720531888English111Resolution from Arkansas College Board of Trustees, Notice of Honorary Degree from Arkansas College/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720541888 June 7, 1889 June 13English112James P. Coffin Letter to Thomas Jefferson Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720551888 June 7English113Letters written by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Sr./repositories/2/archival_objects/2720561893-1897English114Scope and ContentsOf note: Magruder-Ewell Camp letterhead
Letters written by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Sr./repositories/2/archival_objects/2720571899-1902English115Letters written to Jefferson Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720581835, 1852-1871, 1883English116Letters written to/by Various Correspondents/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720591821-1824, 1845, 1860, 1888, 1890-1891English117Letters written by William C. Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720601860-1861English118Scope and ContentsWritten while a student at William & Mary, of note is an account of a student's death
Letters written by William C. Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720611870-1876English119Scope and ContentsEast Alabama College, Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical College
Letters written by William C. Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720621884-1885, 1919English120Letters written to William C. Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720631867-1875, 1884, 1918English121Letters written to "Mr. Stubbs"/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720641888, 1890English122Notary Public Certificate for Jefferson W. Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720651878 December 11English123Stubbs Family Receipts & Financial Documents/repositories/2/archival_objects/272066circa 1789, 1810-1908English124Manuscript Pages of Notes on William & Mary for 1858-1867/repositories/2/archival_objects/272067circa 1870sEnglish125Typescript List of the 1888-1908 Graduates of William & Mary/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720681908English126Manuscript of "Quotation from Taylor's Destruction and Reconstruction"/repositories/2/archival_objects/272069circa 1870sEnglish127Manuscript of an Address on the "Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor"/repositories/2/archival_objects/272070circa 1870sEnglish128Writings about Mathematics/repositories/2/archival_objects/272071circa 1880sEnglish129Acknowledgements on the Death of Thomas Jefferson Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720721915 NovemberEnglish130"Parole of Honor" for A. N. Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720731865 May 17English131Letters written by John Catlett Stubbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720741868-1873English132Christopher T. Jones Papers/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720751821-1834English133Scope and ContentsGloucester County, Virginia
Thomas J. Banks Papers/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720761832-1837English134Scope and ContentsGloucester County, Virginia
Receipts, Bills, Orders for/of Various Individuals/repositories/2/archival_objects/272077circa 1810-1833, 1870, 1877English135Scope and ContentsLargely people in Gloucester County and King & Queen County, of note is an 1832 receipt for a coffin for "infant child of negro woman Milly"
Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Sr. Bank Book & Cancelled Checks/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720781914-1915English21Photographs of an Unidentified Farmstead/repositories/2/archival_objects/272079circa 1880s-1890sEnglish22Genealogical Notes on the Catlett-Stubbs Families/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720801902English23Copies of Wills of Joseph, William, and Richard Eggleston/repositories/2/archival_objects/272081circa 1890sEnglish24Copies of Wills/repositories/2/archival_objects/272082circa 1890sEnglish25Scope and ContentsCatlett, Buckner, Cooke, Booth, Baytop, Conway, Stanard, Yates, Robinson, Walker, Armistead, Ludlow, Carter, Mann, Page, Waller, Walker, Taliaferro, Smith, Landon, Underwood, Eggleston
Copies of Wills/repositories/2/archival_objects/272083circa 1890sEnglish26Scope and ContentsCrossland, Snead, Cosnahan, Strachey, Cox, Smith, Hansford, Robins, Stubbs, Corbin, Bertrand, Griffin, Mercer
Copies of Wills/repositories/2/archival_objects/272084circa 1890sEnglish27Scope and ContentsGriffin, Buckner, Booth, Upton, Carter, Catlett, Walker
Copies of Wills/repositories/2/archival_objects/272085circa 1890sEnglish28Scope and ContentsLandon, Catlett, Butler, Tomkies, Duval, Mercer, Weeden
Copies of Wills/repositories/2/archival_objects/272086circa 1890sEnglish29Scope and ContentsWaller, Robins, Hansford
Copies of Wills/repositories/2/archival_objects/272087circa 1890sEnglish210Scope and ContentsBoswell, Taliaferro, Waller
Letters concerning Genealogy/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720881901-1903, 1919-1930English211Newspaper Clippings about Stubbs Family Members/repositories/2/archival_objects/272089circa 1904-1933English212Genealogy Notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/272090circa 1902-1909English213Printed Material/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720911899, 1903, 1907English214Scope and Contents"Constitution of the Association of the Alumni" (William & Mary)
"The Making of the Union: Contributions of the College of William & Mary in Virginia," 1899
"A Poem read on Feb. 19, 1903 before the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at William & Mary College"
Address before Phi Beta Kappa by Edward S. Joynes, 1903 Feb. 19
Bruton Parish Church Program, 1907 Oct. 5
Ephemera/repositories/2/archival_objects/272092circa 1876-1920English215Scope and ContentsFrank P. Stubbs Campaign Meeting Notice, 1920
Postcards
Calling Card
Invitations, 1902
W. C. Stubbs Broadside, 1876
Universal Exposition Seal, 1904
Business Card for J. O. W. Watlington, Merchant of Norfolk
APVA Membership Card, 1911
Virginia $5.00 Treasury Note
Lucy T. C. Stubbs English & History Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/272093circa 1890sEnglish216Lucy T. C. Stubbs French Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720941892English31Bellevue High School Grade Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720951907-1909English32Bellevue High School Grade Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720961902-1905, 1914English33Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr. Class Notebook: Economics and Industrial Problems/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720971901-1902English34Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr. Class Notebook: Finance/repositories/2/archival_objects/272098circa 1901-1902English35Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr. Class Notebook: History of Political Theories/repositories/2/archival_objects/2720991900-1902English36Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr. Class Notebook: Economic Theory/repositories/2/archival_objects/272100circa 1901-1902English37Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr. Class Notebook: Senior German Exercises/repositories/2/archival_objects/2721011899-1900English38Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Jr. Kappa Alpha Order. Alpha Lambda Chapter Document/repositories/2/archival_objects/2721021901 June 2English39Scrapbook/repositories/2/archival_objects/272103circa 1880s-1890sEnglish41Scope and ContentsCut outs from publications of famous people, pasted onto pages of a textbook
Patterson's Speller Analyzer/repositories/2/archival_objects/2721041873English42Scrapbook/repositories/2/archival_objects/2721051870English43Scope and ContentsNewspapers clippings pasted onto the pages of The World in the Middle Ages: An Historcal Geography
Scrapbook/repositories/2/archival_objects/272106circa 1900-1915English44Scope and ContentsClippings, mainly related to genealogy