Papers of Robert Addison Schoolfield, 1855-1973.

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Papers of Robert Addison Schoolfield, 1855-1973.

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Copies of correspondence, 1918-1931, compiled by Robert E. King for his biography of Schoolfield constitute the major portion of the collection. The letters document the growing estrangement between Schoolfield, as chairman of the board, and Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, as president and treasurer, over the management of the mills. The collection also contains scattered personal correspondence of Schoolfield and his family, 1855-1951, some personal financial papers including his will and an account of his estate, a copy of the mills' 1882 charter and later amendments, a 1912 court opinion in Winfree vs. Riverside Cotton Mills Co., the 1927 by-laws, and a 1932 balance sheet for the mills. In addition there are notes, drafts, and essays on Schoolfield's entire career, edited from his own fragmentary sketches by his daughter, Bland Schoolfield Church, to refute the representation of the Schoolfield-Fitzgerald controversy in Mill on the Dan: a history of Dan River Mills, 1882-1950, by Robert Sidney Smith. Of interest in the family correspondence are descriptions of a Methodist conference in Selma, Alabama, 1857, and an epidemic at Hollins College, Hollins, Va., 1864.

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University of Virginia. Library

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