Papers of Leonidas Baugh [manuscript], 1819-1930.

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Papers of Leonidas Baugh [manuscript], 1819-1930.

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The collection contains correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical data, photographs and political papers. Correspondence of Baugh often concerns Abingdon and Washington County, Va., politics, particularly the Funder-Readjustor controversy over the Virginia debt. Other topics include internal improvements, the California gold rush, the literary fund and politics in 1851, and school teaching in Alaska, 1925. Financial and legal papers pertain to estate settlements, nail and iron production, wool carding, tanning, harness and shoe making, newspapers "The banner" and the "Abingdon democrat," and other business ventures in Abingdon and Washington County. Political papers, chiefly re the debt controversy, include broadsides, speeches by Frank G. Ruffin, Justin S. Morrill and others, tickets, election returns, registered voters lists, and editorials. With these are some children's school records, unidentified photographs, a copy of the military record of a black man, Henderson Wells, genealogical material re the Crawford family, Abingdon property assessments, 1880, and some financial and legal papers of the Whitehead family. Correspondents include Isaac Chapman Fowler, Abram Fulkerson, and Fayette McMullin.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Baugh, Leonidas, 1816-1884.

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Abingdon, Va., businessman; editor of the "Abingdon democrat." From the description of Papers of Leonidas Baugh [manuscript], 1819-1930. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647825799 ...

Whitehead family.

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McMullin, Fayette, 1805-1880

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Fayette McMullin was the second Washington Territorial Governor. He was a politician, coach driver, teamster, farmer, banker from Virginia and Washington State. Lafayette "Fayette" McMullin was born on May 18, 1805 in Bedford Co., VA. Fayette's father had established a successful wagon train and coach line from Bedford to Estillville (now Gate City), VA which transported passengers, mail and goods along the line. Fayette became a coach driver for the line and settled in Scott County, VA. He marr...

Fulkerson, Abram, 1834-1902

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Abram Fulkerson was a leading figure in the Readjuster Party which favored a scaling-down of Virginia's bonded indebtedness following the Civil War. He served in the House of Delegates from Washington County from 1871-1875 and 1885 to 1887; in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1881-1883; in the state Senate from 1877 to 1880, representing Washington and Smythe counties. From the description of Notes. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122481428 Abram Fulkerson was born on 1...

Wells, Henderson, 1860-

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Fowler, Isaac Chapman, 1831-

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Crawford family.

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Virginia. County court (Washington County)

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Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898

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Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898), merchant, U.S. Representative and Senator from Vermont, authored the Morrill Tariff Act (1861) and the Land Grant College Act (1862). He chaired the Senate Finance Committee for many years (1877-79, 1881-93, 1895-98). From the description of Justin Smith Morrill Papers, 1825-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387635 Justin S. Morrill was a congressman and financier. From the guide to the Justin S. Morrill papers, 1814-1937, ...

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...

Lipford, Mantz and Company.

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Baugh, Ethel B.

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James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)

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Emory and Henry College

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Massey, John E. (John Edward), 1819-1901

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Lawyer, Baptist clergyman, resident of Albemarle Co., Va., and later, state legislator and lieutenant-governor of Va. From the description of Papers, 1776-1901. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36492112 Baptist clergyman, politician. From the description of Letter to William Mahone [manuscript], 1881 April 13. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821169 ...

Mahone, William, 1826-1895

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Confederate Army officer, railroad administrator, politician. From the description of Papers, 1853-1895; (bulk 1876-1892). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 23371607 Politician and senator, leader in "Readjuster" movement to readjust state debt. From the description of Letter : Petersburg, to Merideth Watson, Nottoway County, 1880 April 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539121 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia...

Ruffin, Frank G.

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Francis ("Frank") Gildart Ruffin (1816-1892), was a planter of Chesterfield County, Va., Confederate colonel, 2nd auditor of Virginia, editor, and political writer. Ruffin served as chairman of the Virginia Sinking Fund Commission, secretary of the Miller Manual Labor School, and editor of the Richmond (Va.) "Dispatch." Other prominent family members represented in the collection include Ruffin's uncle, Albert G. Ruffin (d. 1829), lawyer in Mississippi and Alabama and planter in Hanover County, ...