Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1916-1995 (bulk 1941-1985).

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Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1916-1995 (bulk 1941-1985).

Correspondence, papers, and printed material pertain to Stone and her political career and interest in women's and youth issues. Correspondence of Stone, her husband and children is chiefly personal. Burgundy Farm Country Day School papers contain organizational papers, by-laws, correspondence, brochures, scattered issues of Burgundy Voices and fund-raising material. League of Women Voters papers contain tributes to Anna Lord Strauss, a letter regarding Belle Sherwin, and publications. Material on women's and youth issues contains her article "Women as citizens," 1947. The papers also contain anecdotes and quotes for speeches; biographical sketches; genealogies of the Alspach, Bittle, Haeseler, Heisy, and Pfautz families; clippings about Mrs. Stone including obituaries; photographs; and political ephemera, chiefly press releases and fliers. Of interest in the latter is a brief letter of endorsement, 1961, from J. Lindsay Almond.

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League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Strauss, Anna Lord, 1899-1979

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Sherwin, Belle, 1868-1955

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League of Women Voters of Virginia

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The League of Women Voters of Virginia was originally founded as the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia 9 November 1909. During the passage of the 19th Amendment which allowed women to vote, the League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in Chicago, Illinois, 14 February 1920. The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia served as the forerunner of the League of Women Voters of Virginia which was established 9 September 1920. The League of Women Voters of Virginia encourages women to partici...

Alspaugh family.

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Haeseler family.

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Foote family.

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Bittle family.

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Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

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Lawyer, of Roanoke and Richmond, Va.; Roanoke City Hustings Court judge; member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1945-1948; Attorney General of Virginia, 1948-1957; Governor of Virginia, 1959-1962; judge, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1963-1986. From the description of Papers, 1850-1987. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 33953204 Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Mari...

Heisey family.

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Stone, Kathryn H. (Kathryn Haeseler), 1906-1995

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Virginia state delegate from Arlington County, Va. From the description of Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1916-1995 (bulk 1941-1985). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647867971 From the description of Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1881-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833379 Va. State delegate from Arlington Co., Va. From the description of Papers of Kathryn H. Stone [manuscript], 1...

Burgundy Farm Country Day School.

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