Papers of John Crafford Parker [manuscript] 1874-1936.

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Papers of John Crafford Parker [manuscript] 1874-1936.

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The collection consists chiefly of case files from Parker's law practise and insurance business in Franklin, Va. The files contain correspondence, legal documents, financial papers, and notes. Most of the cases concern estate settlement, bankruptcy, debt collection, divorce, and receivership. Parker's work as attorney for Camp Manufacturing Co., Franklin, Va. and as local counsel for the Southern Co. treasurer and member of the General Conference's Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South are prsent, The collection also contains a postal album, a nutrition notebook, bar exam coaching notes, a draft of the Franklin Academy Company's charter application and ledgers to insurance policies, guardianship accounts, estate settlements and stocks. Parker's personal correspondence touches on state and national politics, the Methodist church, investments in Cuba, neutrality and World I, and his family and friends. Included are letters from John Steward Bryan, William Jennings Bryan (on divisions in the Democratic Party, 1900), Richard Evelyn Byrd, James Cannon, John Wood Fishburne, John Warwick Daniel, Edward Everett Holland, Eppa Hunton, William Atkinson Jones, William Alexander Lambeth, William Minor Lile, J.E. McCulloch of the Southern Sociological Conference, John Barbee Minor, Raleigh Colston Minor, Andrew Jackson Montague, Charles Triplett O'Ferrell, John Garland Pollard, Edward Watts Saunders, Henry Carter Stuart, James Hoge Tyler, and Henry St. George Tucker.

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