Papers of the Minor family [manuscript] 1721-1957.

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Papers of the Minor family [manuscript] 1721-1957.

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Genealogies of Jesse Lewis Maury and Lucy Jane (Price) and issue, and of the Berkeley (of Barn Elms), Carter, Champe, Conway, Fontaine, Jefferson, Minor, Morris, and Overton families; also genealogy relating George Washington and Robert E. Lee to Queen Elizabeth II; correspondence and business records, 1802-1957, mainly concerning Berkeley Minor, Lilian Forbes (Lyman) "Mrs. Jas. F. Minor", Susan Watson (Fontaine) "Mrs. Carter Nelson Berkeley Minor", and James Fontaine Minor, dealing chiefly with family matters, the Civil War and the University of Virginia; James Fontaine Minor's notebooks; biographical sketches of Charles Landon Carter Minor and Dr. Carter Berkeley of "Edgewood", Hanover, Co.; appendix of the History of the Virginia Company of London; Berkeley Minor's autograph book for Delta Kappa Epsilon, Eta Chapter, University of Virginia , and the Jefferson Society at the University of Virginia; "Recollections of the evacuation of Richmond," 1880, by Judge John Archibald Campbell; notebook, 1876-1877, of James W. Watson, IV, University of Virginia; diary, 1911, of James Fontaine Minor; Letters & Reminiscences of the War for Independence in the South, n.d., of Berkeley Minor; Memoirs of a Huguenot family, 1721-1722, by Jacques Fontaine; a history of Albemarle County, Va., and its court house with comments by Thomas Perkins Abernethy; and a printing block of an unidentified family member.

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Virginia Company of London

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Campbell, John Archibald, 1811-1889

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Lawyer and state legislator, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama; associate judge, U.S. Supreme Court, 1853-1861; assistant secretary of war, Confederate Army, 1862-1865. From the description of Papers, 1865 Jan.-April. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27989428 John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889), Justice U.S. Supreme Court (1853-1861). From the description of John Archibald Campbell papers, 1842-1843, 1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Morris family.

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Fontaine family.

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Minor family.

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Fontaine, James, b. 1658

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Lyman, Lilian Forbes, "Mrs. Jas. F. Minor."

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University of Virginia. Jefferson Society

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Samuel Taylor Evans from Christiansburg, Va., was later a surgeon in the U.S. Navy. From the description of Invitation to the Intermediate Celebration of the Jefferson Society, 1868 April 13. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 144719572 ...

Fontaine, Susan Watson, "Mrs. Carter Nelson Berkeley Minor."

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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...

Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Price, Lucy Jane.

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Minor, Berkeley, 1842-1930

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Champ family.

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Minor, Charles L. C. (Charles Landon Carter), 1835-1903

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Charles Landon Carter Minor was born December 3, 1835 in Hanover, Virginia to Lucius H. Minor and Catherine Frances Berkeley Minor. Charles Minor attended the University of Virginia, graduating with a Mater of the Arts in 1858. During the Civil War, Minor served under Stonewall Jackson and saw action at Manassas and in battles around Richmond. Following the war he started a private school, but soon was offered and accepted the position of President at the Maryland Agricultural Colle...

Overton family.

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Delta Kappa Epsilon. Eta Chapter (University of Virginia)

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Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 1890-1975

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Thomas Perkins Abernethy was a teacher who attended the College of Charleston (1908-1912) and received his M.A. and Ph. D. from Harvard University (1914-1916). He taught at Marion Institute (1912-1914, 1919), Woman's College of Alabama (1916-1917), and served as a second lieutenant during World War I. From the description of The formative period in Alabama, 1815-1828, dissertation, [19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122538556 Historian and chairman of the University of V...

Jefferson family.

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Berkeley, Carter, Dr., 1768-1839.

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Carter family.

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Watson, James W., IV, 1854-1883.

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Conway family.

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Minor, James Fontaine, 1876-1961.

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Maury, Jesse Lewis.

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Barclay family.

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