Papers of the Noland family [manuscript] 1774 [1813-1899] 1947.

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Papers of the Noland family [manuscript] 1774 [1813-1899] 1947.

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The collection contains the papers of the Noland family of Airwell, Hanover County, Virginia, particularly Callender St. George Noland, his parents William Noland and Catherine Noland, his wife Mary Edmonia Noland, and their children Nelson B. Noland, Francis Noland, William Churchill Noland, and Margaret B. Noland, as well as of the Rev. John Cooke, guardian of Mary E. B. Noland. In the papers are Cooke's guardianship accounts for Mary E. B. Noland, some letters from him and two diaries, 1831 and 1854. Callender St. George Noland's papers cover his career in the U. S. Navy including an Everglades expedition, 1841, and charges brought against him for flogging two Marine privates, 1842, his life at Airwell, and his Civil War service in the artillery at Ft. Powhatan and later in the Confederate Naval Department. Letters of Nelson B. Noland describe life at the Virginia Military Institute during the Civil War briefly mentioning preparation for the battle of New Market, his work on the Peruvian Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon, 1872-74, and his later efforts to receive payment, his work for the Boston Silver Company, St. John's, Summit County, Colorado and as mining engineer in Kokomo, Colorado. Letters of Francis Noland describe teaching at Strawberry Plains, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Gainesville, Alabama, frontier life in Commanche, Texas and Kokomo, Colorado where he worked for the Summit County Times and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, including Indian trouble, claim jumping, murder, and lynching, and life in Norfolk, Virginia where he worked for the Norfolk, Virginian, Norfolk Landmark, and Portsmouth Times before becoming chief of ordnance, U. S. Navy, 1886. In Norfolk he described local personalities, politics, foreign vessels in port, the 1885 bank failure and his naval duties. Several of his articles and essays are included. Letters of William Churchill Noland describe life as a student at Episcopal High, Fairfax Co., Va., as an architectural student with the firm of Theophilus Chandler, Philadelphia and employee of Edward H. Kendall, New York. Drawings and a commonplace book are included. The collection also contains Confederate tax records, some Confederate souvenirs and testimony in the 1863 army court martial, accounts of Nelson Berkeley and Lewis Berkeley for estate settlements of Thomas N. Berkeley and Carter B. Berkeley and the guardianship of Elizabeth Edmonia Berkeley, slave lists and accounts from Airwell and Dewberry, Hanover County, Virginia including a sermon and a slave insurance policy, Berkeley and Noland family accounts, school essays and exams, diaries, carpenter's and builder's time and memoranda book, and photographs. In the correspondence are routine Naval business letters from George Bancroft, James Cochran Dobbin, John Young Mason, George Campbell Read, Abel Parker Upshur, and Levi Woodbury. Other correspondents include Thomas Nelson Page, Lewis D. Aylette, Philip Pendleton Cooke, F.C. Galt, George T. McDonald, A.J. Milliken, E.T.D. Myers, James H. Rocelle, J.F. Spofford, and John Randolph Tucker.

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Noland, Francis, d. 1898.

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Galt, F. C.,

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Kendall, Edward Hale, 1842-1901

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Dobbin, James C. (James Cochran), 1814-1857

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James C. Dobbin (1814-1857) of Fayetteville, N.C., was a lawyer, state legislator, and secretary of the United States Navy under President Pierce. From the guide to the James C. Dobbin Letters, ., 1852-1856, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Dobbin was Secretary of the Navy, 1853-1857, and helped to reorganize the Navy. From the description of Letter, September 6, 1853. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id:...

Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922

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Author, diplomat. From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1878-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823870 From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript] 1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647949629 Virginia author; U.S. ambassador to Italy. From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1889-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813209 ...

Read, George C. (George Campbell), 1787-1862

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Read was CO, East India Squadron (1840), Africa Squadron (1846), and Mediterranean Squadron (1855). From the description of Letter, January 22, 1848. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 46357742 Epithet: Captain of the USS 'Constellation' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000083 George Campbell Read (1787-1862) was an officer in the U.S. Navy. From the description of...

Berkeley, Nelson.

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Cook family.

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Tucker, John Randolph

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Confederate naval officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Winchester, to R. M. T. Hunter, 1853 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573413 ...

Noland, Nelson Berkeley, 1846-1913

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Noland, Margaret B.

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Episcopal High School (Fairfax County, Va.)

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Upshur, A. P. (Abel Parker), 1790-1844

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Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 - February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from Virginia. Upshur was active in Virginia state politics and later served as Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State during the Whig administration of President John Tyler. From the description of Letter, February 9, 1842. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 18168810 U.S. secretary of the navy, jurist, and Virginia public official. From the description...

Philip Pendleton Cooke

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Spofford, J. F.,

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Noland, Callender St. George, 1816-1879

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Rocelle, James H.,

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Aylette, Lewis D.,

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Confederate States of America. Navy Dept.

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Noland, William, 1775-1855.

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Student at Dickinson College. From the description of Notebooks of William Noland [manuscript] 1792-1793. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647962390 ...

Mason, John Y. (John Young), 1799-1859

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John Young Mason, from Greensville County, Va., was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia, 1831-1837; served as secretary of the Navy, 1844-1845 and 1846-1849; was attorney general of the United States, March 1845-September 1846; and served as United States minister plenipotentiary to France, 1854-1859. From the guide to the John Y. Mason Papers, 1843-1898, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection...

Noland, Catherine Callender, 1775?-1849.

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Noland, Mary Edmonia Berkeley, 1823-1901

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Nolan family.

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Peruvian Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon.

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Berkeley, Elizabeth Edmonia Churchill, 1817-1835.

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Berkeley, Lewis.

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Milliken, A. J.,

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Myers, E. T. D.,

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McDonald, George T.,

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Cooke, John, Reverend.

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Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851

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Lawyer, governor of New Hampshire, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of the Navy, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and U.S. Supreme Court justice. From the description of Letters, 1813-1851. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963939 U.S. senator from and governor of New Hampshire, U.S. secretary of the navy, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and Supreme Court justice, and lawyer. From the description of Levi Woodbury family papers, 1638-191...

Chandler, Theophilus P. (Theophilus Parsons), 1845-1928

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"Rencourt" was the Wilmington, Del., home of Alexis I. du Pont and his family. It was designed by Pennsylvania architect Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr., built in 1890 and demolished in the 1950s. From the description of Plans of "Rencourt," 1890. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 775014539 Theophilus P. Chandler was born in Boston, Massachussetts and studied one year at Harvard University and later at the Atelier Vaudremer in Paris. He worked in Boston architec...

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Army of Northern Virginia. Artillery.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Noland, William Churchill.

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United States. Navy. Ordnance Dept.

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