Papers : of the Robertson family, 1786-1930.

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Papers : of the Robertson family, 1786-1930.

The collection includes correspondence, 1848-1889, of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (1807-1891), a Staunton, Va., attorney who also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore. Correspondence primarily concerns Whig Party politics on the national and state levels and includes communications from John Jordan Crittenden, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, and Robert Charles Winthrop, and fifteen letters, 1851-1853, from Millard Fillmore (in part, concerning Dorothea Dix and the U.S. Capitol). Also, includes correspondence, 1881-1930, accounts, land records and miscellaneous materials of Staunton, Va., attorney Alexander Farish Robertson (1853-1938), concerning his personal life and professional career; and records, ca. 1900-1902, of Alexander Stuart Robertson (1884- 1973) as a student at the Woodberry Forest School and the University of Virginia. Also, includes a diary, 1902-1904, of Susan Baldwin (Robertson) Cochran (b. 1887) of Staunton, Va., kept while a student at the Virginia Female Institute (later Stuart Hall, Staunton, Va.), correspondence, and a 1903 script for a play presented by the Orkney Springs Stock Company; and correspondence, ca. 1910, and a scrapbook kept by Mary Stuart (Robertson) Beard (1895-1963) while a student at Stuart Hall, Staunton, Va. Also, includes account books, 1859-1869, and loose accounts concerning the law practice of George Moffett Cochran (1832-1900) of Staunton, Va.

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Virginia Historical Society Library

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Cochran, George, 1835-1901

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Constable of Washington township, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1830-1832. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39330932 ...

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Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891

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Cochran, Susan Baldwin Robertson, b. 1887.

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Stuart Hall (Staunton, Va.)

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Robertson family.

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Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863

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Beard, Mary Stuart Robertson, 1895-1963.

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Robertson, Alexander Farish, 1853-1938

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Orkney Springs Stock Company.

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