Miller, Gordon W. collection, 1787-2005.

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Miller, Gordon W. collection, 1787-2005.

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These materials were gathered by Gordon W. Miller, History Reference Librarian at James Madison University's Carrier Library from 1977-2003, during more than a decade of research on the life of Gabriel Thomas Barbee and in particular Barbee's role as primary organizer of the Virginia Farmers' Alliance, 1887-1894. Photocopies of materials documenting Gabriel T. Barbee's influence in the Virginia Farmers' Alliance, 1887-1894.

2/3 Hollinger box (16 folders)

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National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union

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Barbee, Gabriel Thomas, 1814-1908

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Miller, Gordon W.

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Gabriel Thomas Barbee was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, in 1814. In 1834 he moved to Petersburg in Hardy County (then Virginia, now West Virginia), where he worked as a merchant and a dealer in land. He served in the Virginia Senate from 1847-1851. In 1887, after a trip to Texas where he came into contact with Farmers Alliance leaders, Barbee began holding meetings in Bridgewater to form a sub-alliance in Virginia. For the next three years he devoted most of his...