Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884,. Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.
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Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.
Papers of the Grinnans and related Coalter, Bryan, Duryea, Tucker, and Glassell families center on Randolph Bryan Grinnan, Southern Presbyterian missionary to Japan, 1885-98, and pastor of churches in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Va., and to a lesser extent on his son Randolph Bryan Grinnan a University of Virginia medical student. Topics of interest in the correspondence include a biography of John Randolph of Roanoke; the War of 1812; politics in 1849 including the Whigs, tariff, loco-focos, and John C. Calhoun; secession and the Civil War; blacks; life at U. Va. in the 1870s, 80s, 1920, and 30s; life at Hampden-Sydney College in the 1870s; Pantops Academy, Charlottesville, Va. in the 1880s; missionary life in Japan in the 1880s and 90s; the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899; the Spanish American War; life at Randolph Macon Women's College in the 1930s; genealogy; and family matters. Passing references include cholera and yellow fever in New Orleans in the 1850s, vaccination in 1853, a visit to U. Va. by Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 1928, and the U.S. elections of 1932 and 1936. There are descriptions of Norfolk, Charlottesville and Kempsville, Va., London in 1854, Denver, Colo., Port Gibson, Miss., New York City, Ashville and Henderson, N.C., Columbia, S.C., San Francisco, New Orleans, and Louisville, Ky. Of special interest are the letters and 1864 diary of John F. Sale Co. H, 12th Virginia Infantry describing some of the bleaker sides of army life and referring to Seven Pines, Antietam (Crampton's Gap), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Also of interest are items pertaining to John Randolph of Roanoke including a copy of Dr. Francis West's account of his final illness; essays by Georgia Screven Bryan Grinnan including one regarding family servants Abram and Lucy Carter together with their marriage certificate and her will; an essay on Brampton; an Iowa land grant, 1860, signed by James Buchanan, photographs, scrapbooks, newsclippings, and the Rev. Grinnan's Japanese notebooks and diary. Among the correspondents are Judah Philip Benjamin, Corbin Braxton Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, John Stewart Bryan, Joseph Bryan, John Coalter, John Esten Cooke, Noah Knowles Davis, John H. Duryea, Eudora Glassell, James MacMillan Glassell, Andrew Glassell Grinnan, Cornelia Grinnan, Daniel Grinnan, Ella Grinnan, Helen Grinnan, Lena Leete Grinnan, Martha Estelle Duryea Grinnan, Nina Stuart Grinnan, St. George Tucker Grinnan, Joseph Henry, Samuel Hopkins, John Letcher, John William Mallett, Delia Bryan Page, James Alexander Seddon, Samuel Lewis Southard, Thomas Tudor Tucker, St. George Tucker, and Charles Scott Venable.
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