Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933. Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.
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Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.
The collection contains the correspondence of three generations of the Hubard family of Virginia and West Virginia planters, lawyers and politicians. The papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1808-1871] of Rosney and Chellowe, Buckingham Co. Va., contain letters from his brother Edmund Wilcox Hubard and his son at V. M. I. James Linnaeus Hubard. Genealogy, U. S. politics and farming are frequent topics. Most of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubbard [1839-1921] were generated by his law practice and businesses, including the presidency of the Orange-Keysville Railway. There are a few Civil War letters and copies of political letters between his father-in-law John R. Edmunds and Walter Coles as well as some genealogical material. The bulk of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1876- ],a Fayetteville, W. Va. lawyer, consists of correspondence with his wife Ruth Drewry Whittle Hubard, their children, and relatives. Family papers include land grants, wills, deeds, court orders, maps and plats, stocks and Confederate bonds, plantation journals, insurance policies, bills and receipts, and estate settlements. There are numerous clippings, greeting cards, invitations, photographs, school reports and miscellany. Of special interest in the collection are 1781 orders to William Hubard to join Nathanael Greene's southern army; class notes from lectures on economics by George Tucker; and a description of the garrison at Vera Cruz by William A. Whittle of the U. S. Ohio; Also a denouncement of Martin Van Buren for turning a relative out of office; an effort to discredit the log cabin campaign of 1840; an 1844 letter to Thomas Ritchie on the annexation of Texas; an account of a visit to V. M. I. by Millard Fillmore; and an 1852 letter on the Virginia delegates' role at the Democratic National Convention, Also an 1854 plea by an overseer on behalf of a slave named "Walker" who wishes Hubard to buy his wife; memoirs of the battle of Spotsylvania; a description of an 1870 James River flood; an 1872 appeal from Horace Greeley to support his nomination, and an 1875 description of the Va. Democratic party by Fitzhugh Lee. Also efforts to aid Jefferson's impoverished granddaughter Septimia Randolph Meikleham; 1884 papers for the Richmond, Va., Republican City Committee; a letter from William Smith commending Hubard II's legislative service, and a petition to William McKinley recommending Hubard II for an appointment. Correspondents include Philip Alexander Bruce, George Craighead Cabell, William C. Cabell, William M. Cabell, Philip St. George Cocke, John Warwick Daniel, Alfred T. Harris, John Bell Henneman, Bolling Hubard, Lyttleton E. Hubard, Sallie Edmunds Hubard, William Bolling Hubard, Thomas Staples Martin, Septimia Ann Randolph Meikleham, Richard McIlwaine, Henry Chester Parsons, Henry Smith Pritchett, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Buckner Thruston, John Randolph Tucker and Lewis N. Whittle.
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