Charlottesville in 1877 [manuscript] 1940.

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Charlottesville in 1877 [manuscript] 1940.

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In his reminiscences Waddell discusses Charlottesville, Va. as he remembered it in his boyhood. He briefly describes the area covered by the town itself, the major residential streets, the large farms surrounding the town, local businesses, prominent local lawyers and physicians, hotels, and private schools. He remembers the cold winter of 1880, various neighbors, politicians who visited his father (editor of the Weekly Chronicle) and accompanying his mother to visit President Hayes' family. With the reminiscences is a copy of a letter from W. W. Waddell to "Mrs. Waddell," 1863 March 27, regarding life in the Confederate Army, including snow, sickness and bad food.

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Waddell, William Wirt, 1870-1941.

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Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...