Papers of the Bondurant and Morrison Families, 1787-1935.

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Papers of the Bondurant and Morrison Families, 1787-1935.

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Morrison family papers, 1813-1860, primarily concern the Rev. James Morrison, his family, the Presbyterian Church, education and student life at the University of North Carolina, pastorates in North Carolina and in Virginia particularly at New Providence and Christiansburg, and the Bellevue School, Rockbridge County, Va. There is information on churches at Tinkling Springs, (Augusta County), Leesburg, Winchester, Lewisburg and Christiansburg, Va. Of particular interest are letters, 1817-1821, between Morrison and Elam Morrison, a divinity student at Princeton College. Other letters discuss politics including the election of 1824, the annexation of Texas, the Democratic Party, and the election of 1860; a John Gough temperance meeting, and student life at the University of Virginia, Hampden-Sydney College, Union Theological Seminary, and Washington College. Papers of Alexander J. Bondurant, his father Thomas M. Bondurant, and his son Alexander Lee Bondurant include correspondence concerning family genealogy; the Civil War including reaction to the death of "Stonewall" Jackson, and the flight of Confederate government officials; politics and school administration in Buckingham County, Va.; land and immigrant land schemes including the James River Valley Immigration Society and the Virginia Land and Immigrant Company; Virginia iron ore and mineral rights; and tobacco culture in Australia. There are also clippings and editorials from the Richmond Whig, 1867, regarding Virginia and national politics; an 1820 map of the Cohalia district in Alabama showing the route of the Federal Road; an 1885 census of African-American children in Buckingham County, Va.; photographs; advertisements; calling cards; and real estate broadsides.

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Morrison, James, 1797-1870,

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Bondurant, Alexander Joseph, 1836-1910,

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Martin, Thomas S. (Thomas Staples), 1847-1919

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U. S. Senator from Virginia. From the description of Thomas Staples Martin letters to William Wood Fenwick [manuscript], 1888. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 433616030 Thomas Staples Martin was born in Scottsville, Va. July 29, 1847. He served in the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets in the Civil War. He practiced law and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served until his death November 12, 1919. From the descripti...

Plumer, William S. (William Swan), 1802-1880

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Presbyterian clergyman, founder of the "Watchman of the South," and professor of theology at the Theological Seminary in Columbia, S.C. From the description of Letters, 1859-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39390412 ...

Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908

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William Henry Ruffner was born February 11, 1824, the son of Henry Ruffner, a Presbyterian minister and college president. He graduated from Washington College (Lexington, Va.) where his father served, in 1842. Ruffner attended Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Va.) in 1845 and 1846, and graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1847. He married Harriet Anne Gray of Collicello, Va. in 1850. Ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1852, he served for a year as pastor of Seventh P...

Brown, Samuel, 1766-1818,

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Bondurant, Alexander Lee, 1865-1937.

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McFarland, Francis, 1788-1871

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Presbyterian Minister of Augusta County, Va. From the description of Papers of Francis McFarland [manuscript] 1815-1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970613 Francis McFarland was pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Augusta County, Virginia, 1823-1835 and 1841-1871, and corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education, 1835-1841. In 1856, McFarland was elected General Assembly Moderator of the...

Bondurant, Thomas Moseley, 1797-1862

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Smith, B. M. (Benjamin Mosby), 1811-1893

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Bondurant, Emily McFarland Morrison, b. 1837,

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