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 Dora Travis Armistead (1890-1979) and Rowland Cara Armistead, sisters of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes letters, personal, financial and business papers of Cary Peyton Armistead (1856-1901), father of Dora and Cara, Steward of Eastern Lunatic Asylum (now Eastern State Hospital), and prominent local Episcopal Church and school leader; 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, elementary school teachers; along with materials related to relatives in the Armistead family, most notably Gregory Armistead, brother, who died at an early age; and Julia Maria Armistead (1858-1897), sister of Cary Peyton. The papers pertain primarily to Armistead family finances, health and personal affairs, the financial operation of the asylum/hospital, and school and church issues. Also included are a number of undated and unlabeled photographs, schoolwork of the Armistead siblings as children and college students, letters to Cary Peyton from College of William and Mary Presidents Benjamin S. Ewell and Lyon G. Tyler, and a long series of letters to Cary Champion from girlfriend Ruth Conkey.

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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 ...

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 Peyton, 1856-1901

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Armistead, Rowland Cara

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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 Family

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Armistead, Gregory

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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) ...

Conkey, Ruth

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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, 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) ...

The Model School (Williamsburg, Va.)

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Charles, John S., 1851-1930.

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Charles was a long-term Williamsburg resident and attended the College of William and Mary; teacher and principal of the Matthew Whaley School. From the description of Recollections of Williamsburg : as it appeared at the beginning of the Civil War and just previously thereto, with some incidents in the life of its citizens. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 14633904 ...

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...

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...

Blackstone Female Institute (Va.)

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