John Howe Peyton Letter, 1821

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John Howe Peyton Letter, 1821

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00747.xml

The collecton consists of a letter from Peyton in Staunton to his first wife's mother, Elizabeth Preston Madison (1762-1837) at Fotheringay, Montgomery County, Virginia.

0.1 cu. ft.; 1 folder

eng,

Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Peyton, John Howe, 1778-1847,

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John Howe Peyton was born in Stony Hill, Stafford County, Virginian on April 3, 1778. He attended the College of New Jersey at Princeton, graduated in 1797. He passed the bar and became a lawyer in 1799, focusing on criminal law. He worked as deputy US Attorney for the western district of Virginia. He turned down several nominations, one to congress in 1820 and a judgeship in 1824. He later became a state senator (1839-45), and founder of the Virginia Female Institute at Staunton. I...