Papers, 1815-1896.

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Papers, 1815-1896.

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Business letters of Hunter concerning his work for the turnpike company; partial record of a toll-gate keeper, 1844-1845; letters from Hunton to his son, Henry, a student at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1855-1858, and Henry Hunton's student letters with comments on expenses, traveling, tuition, school living condition, the curriculum, and the personality of the professors, among whom are Benjamin S. Ewell, Silas Totten, and Thomas T.L. Snead; letters pertaining to Henry Hunton's marriage to Mary P. Carter, of Westmoreland County; letters from Philadelphia, where Henry later studied art, with comments on his teacher, James Reid Lambdin; letters from Charles Hunton, showing opposition to secession and his antipathy toward such events as John Brown's Raid; and postwar letters by the younger sisters of Henry and Mary Hunton, concerning social and home life during Reconstruction.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Hunton, Charles H.

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Employed by the Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike Company; resident of Buckland (Prince William Co.), Va. From the description of Papers, 1815-1896. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19851323 ...

Totten, Silas, 1804-1873.

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Silas Totten served as the second president of the State University of Iowa, from 1859 to 1862. The outlook for the future of the university was very discouraging when Totten assumed the presidency. The treasury was empty, most courses were temporarily closed, land sales to raise funds were not proceeding as expected, and tensions leading to the Civil War were mounting. Amid these difficulties, the university's Board of Trustees elected Totten and requested that he prepare a new plan of organiza...

Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889

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James Reid Lambdin was born on May 10, 1807, in Pittsburgh, Pa. He was the son of James and Prudence Lambdin and the brother of Samuel H. Lambdin. He moved to Philadelphia, Pa. in 1823 to pursue a career as an artist under the tutelage of Thomas Sully. He returned to Pittsburgh by 1826 and opened the Pittsburgh Museum of Natural History and Gallery of Fine Art, modeled after Charles Willson Peale's museum in Philadelphia. His collection, which included over fifty paintings and 400 fossils, was w...

Ewell, Benjamin Stoddart, 1810-1894.

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Hunton, Henry.

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Hunton, Mary P. Carter.

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Snead, Thomas T. L.

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Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike Company.

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Hunton family.

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College of William and Mary.

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