Papers of Lunsford Lomax Lewis, 1865-1881.

Lewis, Lunsford Lomax, 1846-1920.

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Lunsford Lomax Lewis, Virginia jurist and Republican politician. Having studied in Center College (Ky.) and University of Virginia, he was admitted to the bar and entered practice at Culpeper in 1869. Soon he received the appointment of the commonwealth attorney, and later was appointed U.S. district attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia. Since 1882 he presided in the state Supreme Court of Appeals, and in 1905 was the Republican nominee for governor of Virginia. Lunsford Lomax Lewis was ...

Botts, John Minor, 1802-1869

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Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia to prominent lawyer Benjamin Gaines Botts (1776 - 1811) and his wife Jane Tyler Botts (1782 - 1811). Both of his parents died in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 1811, so John and his siblings were raised by relatives in Fredericksburg. Botts attended the common schools in Richmond, Virginia, then studied law. He married Mary Whiting Blair (1801-1841), and they had several children. Two sons (John and Alexander) died very young; their firstborn son...

Lewis, John Francis, 1818-1895

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Va. politician. From the description of Correspondence, 1874-1894. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36200110 ...

Republican Party (Va.)

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Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888

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Illustrator and army officer; used pseudonym Porte Crayon. From the description of Drawings, 1861 Jul 23 and 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959762 Soldier; writer and illustrator under the pseudonym "Porte Crayon"; U. S. consul in Mexico, 1879. From the description of Papers of David Hunter Strother [manuscript], 1876, 1885. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647975841 Epithet: Clothier, of York British Library...

United States. District Attorney (Virginia : Eastern District)

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Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914

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Wirt County was named for William Wirt, who gained fame in Virgtinia as a lawyer and perhaps is best known for his role in the prosecution of Aaron burr for treason. It was created in 1848 from sections of Wood and Jackson Counties. Wirt County was one of the fifty western Virginia counties to form the state of West Virginia in 1863. From the guide to the Wirt County (W. Va.) plat and land survey, 1860, (The Library of Virginia) Northumberland County was formed in 1645 from ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...