Dora and Cara Armistead Papers 1880-1950

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Dora and Cara Armistead Papers 1880-1950

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Papers from the household of DoraTravis Armistead (1890-1979) and Rowland Cara Armistead, sisters of Williamsburg,Virginia. Includes letters, personal, financial and business papers of Cary PeytonArmistead (1856-1901), father of Dora and Cara, Steward of Eastern Lunatic Asylum(now Eastern State Hospital), and prominent local Episcopal Church and schoolleader; Eudora Ester Armistead (d. 1940), mother; Cary Champion Armistead (d. 1944),brother, and lawyer for a time in Detroit, Michigan; Meriwether Irving Armistead (d.1945), brother, and lawyer in Williamsburg; and Dora and Cara Armistead, elementaryschool teachers; along with materials related to relatives in the Armistead family,most notably Gregory Armistead, brother, who died at an early age; and Julia MariaArmistead (1858-1897), sister of Cary Peyton. The papers pertain primarily toArmistead family finances, health and personal affairs, the financial operation ofthe asylum/hospital, and school and church issues. Also included are a number ofundated and unlabeled photographs, schoolwork of the Armistead siblings as childrenand college students, letters to Cary Peyton from College of William and MaryPresidents Benjamin S. Ewell and Lyon G. Tyler, and a long series of letters to CaryChampion from girlfriend Ruth Conkey.

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Armistead, Maria, 1858-1897

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Dora Travis Armistead From the guide to the Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, 1880-1950, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Conkey, Ruth

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Armistead Family

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Armistead, Cary Peyton, 1856-1901

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Dora Travis Armistead From the guide to the Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, 1880-1950, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Armistead, Meriwether Irving, d. 1945

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Dora Travis Armistead From the guide to the Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, 1880-1950, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Armistead, Cary Champion, d. 1944

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Dora Travis Armistead From the guide to the Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, 1880-1950, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894

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James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of Commodore James Barron (1769-1851) and son of Wilton Hope and Jane Armistead (Barron) Hope (1791-1862). James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was the commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Annie Beverley Whiting (1825-1920) in 1857. The couple had two daughters, Jane ("Janey" or "Jennie") Barron Hope (b. 1859?) and Ann ("Nanny") Hope. James Barron Hope i...

Armistead, Dora Travis, 1890-1979.

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Dora Travis Armistead From the guide to the Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, 1880-1950, (Special Collections Research Center) ----- From the description of Dora and Cara Armistead Papers 1880-1950. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 607903626 ...

Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935

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Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler. Educated at the University of Virginia, he was a lawyer, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and served as president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 to 1919. From the description of Scrapbook, ca. 1885-1889. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 42447061 Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife Julia Gardi...

Armistead, Gregory

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Armistead, Rowland Cara

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