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Ellyson, J. Taylor (James Taylor), 1847-1919. Papers of James Taylor Ellyson 1865, 1896-1910.

Title: Papers of James Taylor Ellyson 1865, 1896-1910.

The collection contains correspondence, news clippings, financial papers, political papers, Civil War service papers, invitations and papers pertaining to the 1907 Jamestown Exposition. Business and political correspondence discuss the Democratic Party in Virginia; Ellyson's successful campaign for Lieutenant Governor in 1905; the Tennessee Railroad Company; the Southern Commercial Congress; the Old Dominion Building and Loan Association; the Joseph Bryan Memorial Association; Richmond College; the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association; the Jamestown Exposition of 1907; the United Confederate Veterans; the Y.M.C.A.; the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Civil War Papers include the last muster roll of 2nd Comany, Richmond Howitzers, Appomattox, Va., 1865, listing killed, wounded, prisoners, deserters and "faithful." Correspondents include Edwin Anderson Alderman, Wyndham Bolling Blanton, F.W. Boatwright, Stith Bolling, John Thompson Brown, Philip Alexander Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Joseph Button, Richard Evelyn Byrd, B.F. Buchanan, George C. Cabell, James Alston Cabell, William Ewan Cameron, J. Lawrence Campbell, James Cannon, Jr., Charles Creighton Carlin, J.C. Carpenter, Julian S. Carr, J.C. Carrington, William E. Carson, James R. Caton, J.A.C. Chandler, W.D. Chesterman, Lucian Howard Cocke, and Walter Scott Copeland. Also John Warwick Daniel, Charles Hall Davis, T.J. Downing, Melville Egleston, Sydney P. Epes, Clement A. Evans, Elbert W.R. Ewing, H.C. Featherston, Henry Delaware Flood, H.W. Flournoy, Douglas Southall Freeman, W.W. Fuller, D.C. Gallaher, James Mercer Garnett, William A. Garrett, John T. Goolrick, Armistead Churchill Gordon, Bennett Taylor Gordon, Reuben Lindsay Gordon, Raleigh T. Green, Don Peters Halsey, James Hay, William Paul Hilton, Henry Holt, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Edmund Wilcox Hubard, Eppa Hunton, and J. Hallett Hyatt. Also Robert Tate Irvine, Claggett Bennett Jones, William Atkinson Jones, Thomas S. Kenan, George B. Keezell, Charles W. Kent, John W. Kincheloe, C.W. Koiner, John Lamb, Francis Rives Lassiter, Joseph T. Lawless, Greenlee Davidson Letcher, Henry Thompson Louthan, J.B. McCabe, William Gordon McCabe, Marshall McCormick, William T. McCue, Richard McIlwaine, Norman Mack, William Hodges Mann, Thomas Staples Martin, Wyndham Robertson Meredith, Kate Minor, R.C.L. Moncure, Andrew Jackson Montague, H[enry?] L[ymnan?] Morehouse, Thomas Taylor Munford, and Albert Cook Myers. Also Beverley Bland Munford, Peter Johnston Otey, Rosewell Page, Thomas Nelson Page, Camm Patteson, Howard Pyle, Cuyler Reynolds, Randolph P. Rixey, Floyd H. Roberts, Bird Robinson, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Charles Hill Rylnad, George Scott Shackelford, G.T. Shepperd, Abram P. Staples, Edward L. Stone, J. Taylor Stratton, Aubrey Ellis Strode, Henry Carter Stuart, Claude Augustus Swanson, George Braxton Taylor, Alfred P. Thom, Henry St. George Tucker, Whitmell P. Tunstall, John P. Turpin, James Hoge Tyler, John C. Underwood, Legh Watts, Junius Edgar West, Irving P. Whitehead, William E. Wiatt, Joseph Willard, E.W. Winfrey, James Blair Winston, and Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 1,500 items.

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Roller, John E. Papers, 1901.

Title: Papers, 1901.

The Roller items concern General Roller's campaign to be elected to represent Rockingham County at the Constitutional Convention of 1901-02. His efforts were unsuccessful. Some of the items are undated.

ArchivalResource: 14 p.

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Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931. Papers pertaining to the history of the education of women in Virginia [manuscript], 1910-1914, 1940.

Title: Papers pertaining to the history of the education of women in Virginia [manuscript], 1910-1914, 1940.

The collection contains eight student essays on the lack of higher education opportunities for women. All are unsigned and identified only by number. The collection also contains correspondence on the establishement of a co-ordinate college for women at Charlottesville, 1910-1916, encluding letters to or from Edwin A. Alderman, Lucy L. Davis, George B. Keezel, Alice J. Kyle, J. C. Moss, Mary Cooke Branch Munford, Mrs. C. T. Rucker, and Ormond Stone. The collection also contains draft minutes for the Woman's Committee for the Sixth Congressional District, 1914, on the issue of a co-ordinate college for women; lists of newspapers and legislators in the 6th district; a draft of a summary on the actions of the University of Virginia; multiple copies of a flier "A state college for women at the University of Virginia"; and a portion of an article on "The higher education of women in the United States," ca. 1911. Miscellaneous items include the Golden Jubilee Song of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1940; and assorted newsclippings, 1911-1914 on a co-ordinate college.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25 items.

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