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McKennie, Clement P. Ledger of Clement P. McKennie, 1855-1856.

Title: Ledger of Clement P. McKennie, 1855-1856.

The ledger includes accounts of many prominent Albemarle County, Va. families.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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McKennie, Clement P. Letter to Mrs Mary McKennie: [manuscript], 1843 Oct 16.

Title: Letter to Mrs Mary McKennie: [manuscript], 1843 Oct 16.

C P McKennie regrets that a flood prevented him from reaching his mother and sends manys sentiments of devotion to her.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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McKennie, Clement P. Ledger of Clement P. McKennie [manuscript], 1855-1856.

Title: Ledger of Clement P. McKennie [manuscript], 1855-1856.

The ledger includes accounts of many prominent Albemarle County, Va. families.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Adams, Stephen, 1835-. Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

Title: Papers of the Barbour family [manuscript], 1793-1941.

The collection consists chiefly of the personal and financial papers of James Barbour, his son, Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and granddaughter Caroline Homassel Barbour Ellis. Topics of interest include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; slaves and slavery (including an 1854 inventory); genealogy; the American Party and its opposition to Roman Catholics as office holders; rail travel from Virginia to Florida in 1857; cotton; Orange County court house construction; and Reconstruction, the Republican Party, and the Virginia Convention of 1867. Also the Immigration Society; the shooting of General Thompson by Osceola at Ft. King; William Mahone's political activities; a St. Paul law practice in 1886; the Minneapolis exposition, 1886; the destruction of Madison letters by a gardener; a building for the Library of Congress; Fitzhugh Lee as governor; Thomas L. Rosser's political opinions; and Russian and Polish affairs, 1889. Also James Barbour's orations, 1890; race relations in 1891; the Boer War; the San Francisco earthquake; a 1917 poetry reading by Robert Frost; Red Cross Work; Catherine Booth; the Yorktown Sesquecentennial; and Garden Week. University of Virginia topics include the Student Infirmary Fund, 1867; Washington Hall, 1869; renovations and additions, 1869; astronomical observations, 1869; a department of agriculture, 1870; and the detrimental effect of politics on the University, 1884. Also the selling of the Lee family papers to the Library of Congress, 1886; the resevoir and dam, 1886; reorganization of various schools, 1887; recasting of the bell; the hiring and resignation of professors; Dr. Harrison's affair; and Presbyterian influence. The collection also contains ballot sheets for the election of Zachary Taylor; a William Henry Harrison political cartoon; U.Va. Board of Visitors resolutions, 1850-1865, on faculty salaries; minutes and membership lists, 1876-1879, of the Lay Association Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church; minutes, 1892, of the U.Va. Society of Alumni; photographs of Barboursville; slave inventories; and copies of General orders, August - November 1861, issued by Generals Banks, and McClellan, U.S. Army of the Potomac.

ArchivalResource: 3 feet.

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