Samuel Hairston Papers, . 1877-1957

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Samuel Hairston Papers, . 1877-1957

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Samuel Hairston was a dairy farmer, real estate broker, railroad director, and Virginia agricultural official, of Pittsylvania County, Va. Oak Hill, The collection includes correspondence, business papers, and family letters of Hairston, his wife, May Jopling Hairston, and their seven children. Among the family letters are letters, 1897-1898, from Samuel Hairston to May Jopling, during their courtship; love-letters and personal correspondence, 1898-1931, between Samuel J. Hairston and his wife; and letters, beginning in 1918, many of which are undated, from the children of Samuel and May Hairston to their parents, while the children were at preparatory schools and colleges, including Salem Academy and College, Virginia Episcopal School, Fishburne Military School, Virginia Military Institute, Duke University, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Moravian Seminary and College for Women, and Columbia University. Business papers relate to Hairston's interests in dairy farming, livestock, real estate, the Democratic Party, the Danville and Western Railroad, and the Virginia Board of Agriculture. Also included are papers, 1909-1911, of James Rufus Jopling, bank president, about the construction of the First National Bank, Danville County, Va.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Hairston, Samuel, b. 1865.

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Samuel Hairston (born 1865) was a dairy farmer; director of the Danville and Western Railway, the Bank of Stokes County, Walnut Cove, N.C., and the Piedmont Trust Bank, Martinsville, Va.; and member of the Virginia Board of Agriculture. He also had business interests in Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills and the Martinsville Land and Improvement Company. Hairston was born at Oak Hill, Pittsylvania County, Va., to George Hairston and Anne Elizabeth Lash. He married May Jopling, daughter of Jame...