Robert Walker Withers papers, 1794-1890 (bulk 1820-1853).

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Robert Walker Withers papers, 1794-1890 (bulk 1820-1853).

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Papers of Withers include two volumes contain varied accounts and memoranda pertaining to his medical practice and sale of drugs; his lumber and flour mills; agricultural methods; plantation and household expenditures; costs of river transportation; weather; and birth records of the family, slaves, and race horses. The other volumes include an album, 1837-1839, of Miss Maria Withers, and five notebooks of Robert Walker Withers, Jr. (b. 1834), containing his class notes while a student at the University of Virginia, 1852-1853. Two of the latter volumes have been used as scrapbooks. Also available, on microfilm, are scattered business letters, 1820-1890, pertaining to Robert Withers's various business enterprises and to his research in an effort to construct a steam engine fed by artesian wells to power a cotton factory.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Withers family.

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Withers, Robert Walker, 1798-1854.

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Robert Walker Withers was a physician, planter, and businessman of Greene and Hale counties, Ala. From the description of Robert Walker Withers papers, 1794-1890 (bulk 1820-1853). WorldCat record id: 25280923 From the guide to the Robert Walker Withers Papers, 1794-1890, (bulk 1820-1853), (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Withers, Robert Walker, b. 1834.

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