{"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Jefferson+County+%28W.+Va.%29+--+History.\u0026view=compact","last":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Jefferson+County+%28W.+Va.%29+--+History.\u0026page=1\u0026view=compact"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":1,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"vihi_vih00012","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00012#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of correspondence concerning his legal and political career; records of his law practice, including materials concerning the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad Company; political files relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026amp; Mechanical Association. Also includes papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920), consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal documents concerning his law practice and his service in the U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of Berkeley County, Va. (now W. 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(Charles James), 1847-\n         1929.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884.","Faulkner, James, 1776-1817..","Jefferson County (W. Va.) -- History.","Lawyers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Lawyers -- West Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad\n         Company.","Merchants -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- West Virginia -- History --\n         19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1900.","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 19th\n         century.","Waggener, Andrew, 1843-1813.","West Virginia. Constitutional Convention\n         (1872)","West Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1900.","Whig Party (U.S.)","Wickahm, John, 1763-1839.","12,000 (ca.) items.","The Faulkner Family papers are arranged into six series by\n         individual and subseries by subject or document type where\n         necessary. A seventh series contains volumes added after the\n         initial processing was completed.","Of Berkeley County, W. Va. Represented in the collection\n         are James Faulkner (1776-1817), of Martinsburg, Va. (now W.\n         Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n         James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n         served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n         U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n         Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n         \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n         judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899.","The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n         of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n         Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n         have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n         economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n         state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n         Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n         Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n         dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n         trade under his own name. His personal and business\n         correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n         separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n         Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n         correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n         Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n         Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n         also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n         folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n         orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n         Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n         tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n         Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n         Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n         risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n         artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n         Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n         materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n         Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n         book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n         service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n         concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n         1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n         Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n         James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n         materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n         concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n         Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n         son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n         Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n         development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n         Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n         while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n         Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n         Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n         the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n         Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n         father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n         1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n         Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n         commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n         Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n         and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n         third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n         Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n         list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n         attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n         the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n         primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n         Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n         James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n         concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n         adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n         records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n         land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n         from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n         Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n         portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n         at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n         miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n         on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n         services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n         court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n         including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n         relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n         items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n         client (records of legal services provided over time not\n         necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n         estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n         court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n         pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n         contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n         Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n         Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n         in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n         Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n         County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n         Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n         James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n         Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n         of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n         Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n         Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n         Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n         (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n         and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n         complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n         settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n         career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n         House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n         materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n         serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n         commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n         records of that mission include documents signed by William\n         Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n         commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n         papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n         presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n         for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n         69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n         congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n         certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n         Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n         at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n         bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n         and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n         party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n         Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n         charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n         1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n         71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n         circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n         accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n         Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n         of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n         minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n         of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n         but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n         biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n         and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n         full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n         several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n         for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n         primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n         Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n         broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n         Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n         of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n         Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n         to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n         served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n         the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n         contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n         (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n         records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n         service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n         the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n         as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n         petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n         voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n         U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n         76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n         personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n         and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n         Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n         Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n         Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n         at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n         a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n         concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n         1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n         clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n         (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n         include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n         commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n         claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n         1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n         and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n         Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n         Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n         younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n         case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n         from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n         circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n         records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n         letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n         senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n         politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n         (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n         Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n         Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n         (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n         Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n         Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n         Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n         became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n         correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n         of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n         School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n         Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n         \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n         Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n         entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n         Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n         Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n         unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n         1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n         Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n         Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n         S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n         James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n         the end of the collection.","Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n         Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n         correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n         records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n         the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n         counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n         the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n         relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n         and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n         for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n         U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n         concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n         1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n         \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n         Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n         papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n         consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n         documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n         U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n         records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n         of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n         correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n         records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.).","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 F2735 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"collection_title_tesim":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"collection_ssim":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift/purchase of Dr. Thornton Tayloe Perry, Washington,\n            D.C., and Mrs. Barclay K. Read, McLean, Va., in 1984.\n            Formerly a part of the collections of Thornton Tayloe Perry\n            II of Charles Town, W. Va."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.","Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- History.","Berkeley County Agricultural and Mechanics\n         Association (Berkeley County, W. Va.)","Boyd, Elisha, 1769- 1841.","Democratic Party (U.S.)","Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-\n         1929.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884.","Faulkner, James, 1776-1817..","Jefferson County (W. Va.) -- History.","Lawyers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Lawyers -- West Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad\n         Company.","Merchants -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- West Virginia -- History --\n         19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1900.","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 19th\n         century.","Waggener, Andrew, 1843-1813.","West Virginia. 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(now W.\n         Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n         James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n         served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n         U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n         Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n         \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n         judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Of Berkeley County, W. Va. Represented in the collection\n         are James Faulkner (1776-1817), of Martinsburg, Va. (now W.\n         Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n         James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n         served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n         U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n         Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n         \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n         judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n         of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n         Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n         have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n         economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n         state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n         Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n         Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. The company\n         dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n         trade under his own name. His personal and business\n         correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n         separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. and James\n         Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n         correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n         Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n         Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n         also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n         folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n         orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026amp; Co. of\n         Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n         tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n         Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n         Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n         risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n         artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n         Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n         materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n         Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n         book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n         service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n         concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n         1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n         Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n         James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n         materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n         concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n         Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n         son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n         Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n         development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n         Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n         while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n         Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n         Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n         the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n         Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n         father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n         1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026amp; Warner in\n         Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n         commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n         Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n         and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n         third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n         Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n         list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n         attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n         the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n         primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n         Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n         James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n         concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n         adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n         records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n         land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n         from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n         Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n         portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n         at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n         miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n         on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n         services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n         court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n         including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n         relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n         items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n         client (records of legal services provided over time not\n         necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n         estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n         court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n         pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n         contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n         Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n         Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n         in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n         Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n         County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n         Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n         James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n         Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n         of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the more important clients for whom Charles James\n         Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio\n         Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n         Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n         (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n         and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n         complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n         settlements is filed in Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n         career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n         House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n         materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n         serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n         commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n         records of that mission include documents signed by William\n         Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n         commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n         papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n         presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n         for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n         69).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n         congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n         certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n         Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n         at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n         bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n         and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n         party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n         Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n         charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n         1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n         71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n         circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n         accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n         Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n         of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n         minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n         of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n         but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n         biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n         and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n         full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n         several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n         for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n         primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n         Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n         broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n         Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n         of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n         Virginians alike (Box 73).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n         to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n         served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n         the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n         contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n         (printed) and news clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n         records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n         service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n         the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n         as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n         petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n         voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n         U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n         76-77).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n         personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n         and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad\n         Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026amp;\n         Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n         Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n         at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n         a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n         concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n         1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n         clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n         (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n         include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n         commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n         claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n         1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n         and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n         Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n         Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n         younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n         case files, and personal miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n         from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n         circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n         records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n         letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n         senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n         politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n         (Boxes 87-88).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral small folders of papers concern Charles James\n         Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n         Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n         (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n         Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n         Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n         Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n         became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n         correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n         of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n         School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n         Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n         \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n         Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n         entirely financial in nature (Box 93).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n         Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n         Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n         unclassified miscellany round out the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n         1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n         Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n         Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n         S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n         James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n         the end of the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n         of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n         Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n         have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n         economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n         state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n         Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n         Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n         dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n         trade under his own name. His personal and business\n         correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n         separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n         Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n         correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n         Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n         Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n         also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n         folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n         orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n         Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n         tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n         Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n         Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n         risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n         artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n         Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n         materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n         Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n         book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n         service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n         concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n         1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n         Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n         James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n         materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n         concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n         Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n         son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n         Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n         development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n         Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n         while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n         Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n         Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n         the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n         Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n         father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n         1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n         Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n         commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n         Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n         and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n         third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n         Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n         list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n         attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n         the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n         primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n         Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n         James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n         concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n         adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n         records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n         land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n         from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n         Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n         portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n         at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n         miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n         on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n         services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n         court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n         including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n         relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n         items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n         client (records of legal services provided over time not\n         necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n         estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n         court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n         pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n         contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n         Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n         Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n         in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n         Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n         County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n         Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n         James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n         Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n         of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n         Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n         Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n         Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n         (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n         and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n         complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n         settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n         career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n         House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n         materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n         serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n         commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n         records of that mission include documents signed by William\n         Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n         commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n         papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n         presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n         for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n         69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n         congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n         certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n         Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n         at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n         bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n         and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n         party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n         Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n         charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n         1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n         71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n         circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n         accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n         Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n         of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n         minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n         of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n         but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n         biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n         and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n         full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n         several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n         for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n         primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n         Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n         broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n         Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n         of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n         Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n         to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n         served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n         the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n         contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n         (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n         records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n         service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n         the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n         as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n         petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n         voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n         U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n         76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n         personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n         and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n         Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n         Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n         Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n         at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n         a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n         concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n         1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n         clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n         (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n         include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n         commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n         claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n         1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n         and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n         Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n         Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n         younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n         case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n         from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n         circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n         records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n         letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n         senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n         politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n         (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n         Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n         Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n         (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n         Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n         Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n         Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n         became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n         correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n         of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n         School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n         Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n         \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n         Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n         entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n         Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n         Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n         unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n         1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n         Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n         Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n         S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n         James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n         the end of the collection."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eChiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n         Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n         correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n         records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n         the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n         counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n         the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n         relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n         and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n         for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n         U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n         concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n         1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n         \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n         Agricultural \u0026amp; Mechanical Association. Also includes\n         papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n         consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n         documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n         U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n         records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n         of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n         correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n         records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.).\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n         Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n         correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n         records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n         the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n         counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n         the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n         relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n         and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n         for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n         U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n         concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n         1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n         \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n         Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n         papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n         consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n         documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n         U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n         records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n         of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n         correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n         records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.)."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:36:38.951Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00012","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00012","_root_":"vihi_vih00012","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00012","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00012.xml","title_ssm":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"title_tesim":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 F2735 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 F2735 a FA2","Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954","Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.","Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- History.","Berkeley County Agricultural and Mechanics\n         Association (Berkeley County, W. Va.)","Boyd, Elisha, 1769- 1841.","Democratic Party (U.S.)","Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-\n         1929.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884.","Faulkner, James, 1776-1817..","Jefferson County (W. Va.) -- History.","Lawyers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Lawyers -- West Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad\n         Company.","Merchants -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- West Virginia -- History --\n         19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1900.","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 19th\n         century.","Waggener, Andrew, 1843-1813.","West Virginia. Constitutional Convention\n         (1872)","West Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1900.","Whig Party (U.S.)","Wickahm, John, 1763-1839.","12,000 (ca.) items.","The Faulkner Family papers are arranged into six series by\n         individual and subseries by subject or document type where\n         necessary. A seventh series contains volumes added after the\n         initial processing was completed.","Of Berkeley County, W. Va. Represented in the collection\n         are James Faulkner (1776-1817), of Martinsburg, Va. (now W.\n         Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n         James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n         served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n         U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n         Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n         \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n         judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899.","The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n         of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n         Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n         have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n         economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n         state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n         Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n         Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n         dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n         trade under his own name. His personal and business\n         correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n         separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n         Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n         correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n         Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n         Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n         also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n         folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n         orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n         Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n         tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n         Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n         Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n         risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n         artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n         Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n         materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n         Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n         book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n         service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n         concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n         1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n         Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n         James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n         materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n         concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n         Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n         son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n         Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n         development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n         Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n         while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n         Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n         Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n         the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n         Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n         father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n         1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n         Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n         commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n         Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n         and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n         third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n         Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n         list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n         attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n         the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n         primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n         Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n         James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n         concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n         adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n         records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n         land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n         from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n         Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n         portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n         at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n         miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n         on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n         services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n         court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n         including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n         relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n         items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n         client (records of legal services provided over time not\n         necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n         estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n         court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n         pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n         contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n         Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n         Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n         in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n         Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n         County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n         Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n         James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n         Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n         of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n         Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n         Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n         Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n         (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n         and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n         complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n         settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n         career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n         House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n         materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n         serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n         commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n         records of that mission include documents signed by William\n         Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n         commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n         papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n         presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n         for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n         69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n         congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n         certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n         Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n         at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n         bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n         and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n         party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n         Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n         charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n         1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n         71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n         circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n         accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n         Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n         of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n         minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n         of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n         but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n         biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n         and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n         full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n         several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n         for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n         primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n         Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n         broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n         Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n         of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n         Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n         to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n         served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n         the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n         contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n         (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n         records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n         service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n         the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n         as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n         petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n         voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n         U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n         76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n         personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n         and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n         Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n         Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n         Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n         at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n         a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n         concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n         1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n         clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n         (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n         include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n         commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n         claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n         1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n         and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n         Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n         Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n         younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n         case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n         from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n         circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n         records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n         letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n         senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n         politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n         (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n         Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n         Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n         (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n         Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n         Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n         Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n         became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n         correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n         of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n         School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n         Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n         \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n         Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n         entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n         Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n         Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n         unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n         1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n         Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n         Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n         S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n         James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n         the end of the collection.","Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n         Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n         correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n         records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n         the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n         counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n         the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n         relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n         and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n         for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n         U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n         concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n         1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n         \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n         Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n         papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n         consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n         documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n         U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n         records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n         of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n         correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n         records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.).","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 F2735 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"collection_title_tesim":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"collection_ssim":["Faulkner Family Papers, \n          \n         1737-1954"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift/purchase of Dr. Thornton Tayloe Perry, Washington,\n            D.C., and Mrs. Barclay K. Read, McLean, Va., in 1984.\n            Formerly a part of the collections of Thornton Tayloe Perry\n            II of Charles Town, W. Va."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.","Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- History.","Berkeley County Agricultural and Mechanics\n         Association (Berkeley County, W. Va.)","Boyd, Elisha, 1769- 1841.","Democratic Party (U.S.)","Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-\n         1929.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884.","Faulkner, James, 1776-1817..","Jefferson County (W. Va.) -- History.","Lawyers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Lawyers -- West Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad\n         Company.","Merchants -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Political campaigns -- West Virginia -- History --\n         19th century.","Practice of law -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1900.","Virginia -- Politics and government -- 19th\n         century.","Waggener, Andrew, 1843-1813.","West Virginia. Constitutional Convention\n         (1872)","West Virginia -- Politics and government --\n         1865-1900.","Whig Party (U.S.)","Wickahm, John, 1763-1839."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.","Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- History.","Berkeley County Agricultural and Mechanics\n         Association (Berkeley County, W. Va.)","Boyd, Elisha, 1769- 1841.","Democratic Party (U.S.)","Faulkner, Charles J. (Charles James), 1847-\n         1929.","Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884.","Faulkner, James, 1776-1817..","Jefferson County (W. 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(now W.\n         Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n         James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n         served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n         U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n         Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n         \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n         judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Of Berkeley County, W. Va. Represented in the collection\n         are James Faulkner (1776-1817), of Martinsburg, Va. (now W.\n         Va.), merchant; lawyer Elisha Boyd (1796-1841), a friend of\n         James Faulkner; lawyer Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), who\n         served in both houses of the Virginia legislature and in the\n         U.S. House of Representatives for both Virginia and West\n         Virginia; and Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1929) of\n         \"Boydville,\" Berkeley County, lawyer and West Virginia circuit\n         judge, and U.S. Senator, 1887-1899."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n         of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n         Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n         have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n         economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n         state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n         Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n         Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. The company\n         dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n         trade under his own name. His personal and business\n         correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n         separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026amp; Co. and James\n         Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n         correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n         Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n         Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n         also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n         folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n         orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026amp; Co. of\n         Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n         tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n         Baltimore, Md.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n         Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n         risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n         artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n         Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n         materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n         Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n         book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n         service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n         concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n         1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n         Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n         James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n         materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n         concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n         Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n         son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n         Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n         development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n         Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n         while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n         Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n         Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n         the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n         Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n         father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n         1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026amp; Warner in\n         Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n         commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n         Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n         and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n         third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n         Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n         list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n         attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n         the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n         primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n         Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n         James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n         concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n         adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n         records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n         land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n         from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n         Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n         portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n         at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n         miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n         on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n         services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n         court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n         including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n         relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n         items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n         client (records of legal services provided over time not\n         necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n         estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n         court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n         pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n         contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n         Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n         Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n         in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n         Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n         County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n         Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n         James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n         Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n         of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the more important clients for whom Charles James\n         Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio\n         Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n         Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n         (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n         and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n         complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n         settlements is filed in Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n         career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n         House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n         materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n         serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n         commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n         records of that mission include documents signed by William\n         Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n         commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n         papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n         presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n         for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n         69).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n         congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n         certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n         Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n         at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n         bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n         and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n         party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n         Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n         charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n         1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n         71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n         circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n         accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n         Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n         of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n         minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n         of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n         but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n         biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n         and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n         full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n         several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n         for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n         primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n         Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n         broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n         Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n         of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n         Virginians alike (Box 73).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n         to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n         served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n         the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n         contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n         (printed) and news clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n         records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n         service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n         the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n         as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n         petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n         voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n         U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n         76-77).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n         personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n         and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad\n         Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026amp;\n         Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n         Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n         at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n         a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n         concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n         1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n         clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n         (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n         include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n         commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n         claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n         1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n         and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n         Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n         Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n         younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n         case files, and personal miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n         from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n         circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n         records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n         letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n         senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n         politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n         (Boxes 87-88).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral small folders of papers concern Charles James\n         Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n         Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n         (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n         Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n         Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n         Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n         became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n         correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n         of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n         School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n         Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n         \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n         Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n         entirely financial in nature (Box 93).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n         Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n         Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n         unclassified miscellany round out the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n         1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n         Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n         Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026amp; Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n         S. Lauck \u0026amp; Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n         James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n         the end of the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Faulkner family papers cover three generations of one\n         of the most influential families in Berkeley County, West\n         Virginia. Merchants and lawyers in Martinsburg, the Faulkners\n         have traditionally taken an active part in the social,\n         economic, political and judicial affairs of their county, the\n         state of Virginia, and West Virginia, and the nation.","James Faulkner (1776-1817), an Irish immigrant, settled in\n         Martinsburg and in 1796 formed a partnership with merchant\n         Michael McKewan as James Faulkner \u0026 Co. The company\n         dissolved after two years, but James Faulkner continued to\n         trade under his own name. His personal and business\n         correspondence and financial records are mixed, however\n         separate folders cover both James Faulkner \u0026 Co. and James\n         Faulkner's later mercantile activities. Among James Faulkner's\n         correspondents are Mathew Carey, Dr. Richard McSherry of\n         Martinsburg, Virginia congressman James Stephenson, and Mason\n         Locke Weems; a letterbook, 1799-1800, kept by James Faulkner\n         also contains mercantile accounts, 1806-1807. The mercantile\n         folders include not only licences, legal notices and store\n         orders, but also records, 1795-1796, of John Tabb \u0026 Co. of\n         Martinsburg and materials concerning the same of lottery\n         tickets (especially for the Vaccine Institution Lottery in\n         Baltimore, Md.).","For many years James Faulkner served as an officer in the\n         Virginia Militia. By the opening of the War of 1812, he had\n         risen to the rank of major and commanded the Virginia\n         artillery at Fort Barbour in Norfolk and at the Battle of\n         Craney Island. His military records include early commissions,\n         materials concerning the Martinsburg Independent Blues, 3rd\n         Artillery Regiment, and must rolls and returns, an orderly\n         book, letters and other items concerning James Faulkner's\n         service in the War of 1812 (Box 9).","Also found among James Faulkner's papers are land records\n         concerning Martinsburg and Berkeley County; an account book,\n         1811-1820, kept in part by James Faulkner as president of the\n         Berkeley County Overseers of the Poor; an account and will of\n         James Faulkner's father-in-law William Mackey; and estate\n         materials, including an inventory, loose accounts, and records\n         concerning a monument to James Faulkner in Martinsburg.","Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), a contemporary and friend of James\n         Faulkner, and eventually father-in-law to James Faulkner's\n         son, Charles James Faulkner, was a prominent lawyer of\n         Martinsburg, involved in politics and local economic\n         development. His papers include correspondence, notably with\n         Richmond lawyer John Wickham, and with Charles James Faulkner\n         while both served in the Virginia legislature; land records in\n         Berkeley County and Martinsburg; and legal materials from\n         Elisha Boyd's law practice in the Berkeley County Court and\n         the Virginia Superior Count of Chancery at Winchester. Also,\n         Elisha Boyd's papers contain records of Andrew Waggener,\n         father of Elisha Boyd's first wife, including records,\n         1795-1800, of the mercantile firm of Waggener \u0026 Warner in\n         Berkeley County; records concerning Elisha Boyd's service as\n         commander of the 4th Regiment and 10th Brigade of Virginia\n         Militia; estate materials including a will, deed, notes, etc.;\n         and miscellany. There are also a few items for Elisha Boyd's\n         third wife, Elizabeth Hill (Byrd) Boyd, and his son, Rev.\n         Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) is certainly the key\n         figure in this collection. There is some internal evidence\n         that Charles James Faulkner was born \"James F. Faulkner\" (see\n         James Faulkner's accounts, especially 1815, inventory of\n         estate, and the will of William Mackey), but changed his name\n         sometime before 1825. He attended Georgetown College and then\n         read law at the prestigious school of Henry St. George Tucker\n         at Winchester. He began to practice in Martinsburg about 1827.\n         He entered politics shortly thereafter and remained active\n         throughout the rest of his life, as the following paragraphs\n         will indicate.","Among Charles James Faulkner's other papers (for a full\n         list see guide) are records kept by John Weller, a fellow\n         attorney who acted as Charles James Faulkner's agent during\n         the latter's mission to France (see below). The records\n         primarily concern the maintenance of the \"Boydville\" estate in\n         Martinsburg, built by Elisha Boyd and inherited by Charles\n         James Faulkner's wife. Boxes 45-46 contain additional records\n         concerning \"Boydville,\" particularly the acquisition of\n         adjoining lands and contracts with laborers and tenants; and\n         records of Charles James Faulkner's purchases and sales of\n         land in Frederick County, Va. (the \"Glengary\" farm obtained\n         from John Rogers Cooke in partnership with Philip Clayton\n         Pendleton), Berkeley County, and Martinsburg.","Charles James Faulkner's law practice comprises the largest\n         portion of his papers. Box 47 contains notes kept as a student\n         at the Winchester Law School, 1825-1826, and general\n         miscellany of his practice such as licences, accounts, notes\n         on law, etc. The papers involving actual litigation or other\n         services for clients are divided into several groups: by\n         court, into case files (records of four or more items,\n         including writs, summonses, proceedings, bills, notes, etc.,\n         relating to specific cases) and suit papers (three or less\n         items per lawsuit basically arranged chronologically); by\n         client (records of legal services provided over time not\n         necessarily involving litigation); And by estate (including\n         estate settlements in which Charles James Faulkner served as\n         court-appointed administrator and settlements involving\n         pension claims for service in the Revolutionary War). Box 65\n         contains records kept by Charles James Faulkner and Edmund\n         Pendleton as trustees for the Martinsburg mercantile firm of\n         Lauck \u0026 Stephen. Charles James Faulkner practiced chiefly\n         in the Berkeley County Court, Circuit Superior Court, and\n         Circuit Court; the Jefferson County Circuit Court; Morgan\n         County Circuit Court; and West Virginia Supreme Court of\n         Appeals. One interesting folder (Box 59) concerns Charles\n         James Faulkner's appearance as counsel for W. Va. in the U.S.\n         Supreme Court in an action by Virginia to recover the counties\n         of Berkeley and Jefferson in 1870.","Among the more important clients for whom Charles James\n         Faulkner maintained files were the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio\n         Railroad Company (see also correspondence with J. W. Garrett,\n         Louis McLane and Thomas Swann); Bank of the Valley in Virginia\n         (see also correspondence with Henry M. Brent, Hamilton G. Fant\n         and Charles Webb); and the Hagerstown Bank, Hagerstown, Md. A\n         complete list of case files, client files, and estate\n         settlements is filed in Box 47.","Charles James Faulkner entered politics early in his\n         career. The folders covering his first service in the Virginia\n         House of Delegates and State Senate include campaign\n         materials, speeches, resolutions and printed documents. While\n         serving in the House, Charles James Faulkner was appointed\n         commissioner to settle Virginia's boundary with Maryland. His\n         records of that mission include documents signed by William\n         Byrd II and reports Charles James Faulkner issued as\n         commissioner. His Whig party activities were wide ranging; his\n         papers contain materials from the 1840 and 1844 Whig\n         presidential campaigns in Virginia, an unsuccessful campaign\n         for Congress in 1843, and various political speeches (Box\n         69).","Charles James Faulkner entered Congress in 1851. His\n         congressional files contain campaign materials, election\n         certificates, records as chairman of the House Committee on\n         Military Affairs (he took particular interest in the armories\n         at Springfield, Mass., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and in\n         bolstering the U.S. Army), printed items and news clippings,\n         and a large file of miscellany (Box 70). While serving in\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner switched to the Democratic\n         party. He accepted the post of chairman of the National\n         Democratic Resident Committee in Washington, D.C., which was\n         charged with organizing \"grassroots\" support in the summer of\n         1856 for the election of James Buchanan as president (Boxes\n         71-72). The materials, arranged chronologically, include\n         circulars, committee correspondence and financial\n         accounts.","A grateful President Buchanan appointed Charles James\n         Faulkner Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1860 upon the death\n         of fellow Virginian John Young Mason. The records kept as\n         minister to France include correspondence (primarily letters\n         of introduction and American claims against French citizens,\n         but with some official dispatches), credentials, invitations,\n         biographical sketches of Charles James Faulkner (in French)\n         and news clippings (Box 73). Charles James Faulkner served a\n         full year, returned to Washington, and was arrested for\n         several months in 1861, in effect as a political prisoner held\n         for the exchange of a prominent northern congressman.","After his release, Charles James Faulkner remained\n         primarily in Virginia and served for a time on the staff of\n         Confederate General Thomas J. (\"Stonewall\") Jackson. A lengthy\n         broadside in the collection served to explain Charles James\n         Faulkner's activities in those years, but brought forth howls\n         of protest from former Confederates and pro-Union West\n         Virginians alike (Box 73).","With the close of the war, Charles James Faulkner struggled\n         to regain a position of standing in West Virginia politics. He\n         served in the 1872 Constitutional Convention as chairman of\n         the committees on the judiciary and on revision. Boxes 74-75\n         contain speeches, documents, resolutions, judiciary plans\n         (printed) and news clippings.","Charles James Faulkner returned to Congress in 1875. His\n         records contain election materials, materials concerning his\n         service on a three-man Committee to Investigate the Affairs of\n         the Red Cloud Indian Agency (July-November 1875), papers kept\n         as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,\n         petitions and applications, constituent requests, lists of\n         voters, clippings and miscellany. After his retirement from\n         Congress, Charles James Faulkner unsuccessfully ran for the\n         U.S. Senate and the office of governor of West Virginia (Boxes\n         76-77).","The few remaining boxes cover Charles James Faulkner's\n         personal life and economic activities. He served as president\n         and chief counsel of the Martinsburg \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n         Co., president of the Berkeley County Agricultural \u0026\n         Mechanical Association, president of the West Virginia\n         Historical Society, and regent of the West Virginia University\n         at Morgantown (Box 78). Miscellany includes papers concerning\n         a former servant at \"Boydville,\" Mary McGuire; letters\n         concerning Charles James Faulkner's visit to Great Britain in\n         1846; schools and education (including addresses); news\n         clippings; freemason materials; and estate records.","Charles James Faulkner's wife, Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner\n         (d. 1894) lived at \"Boydville\" most of her life. Her papers\n         include correspondence; an account book and loose accounts; a\n         commonplace book kept in France, 1860; records concerning a\n         claim against the U.S. government for damages at \"Boydville,\"\n         1863-1865; and personal miscellany (Box 81).","Elisha Boyd Faulkner (b. 1841) lawyer, W. Va. legislator\n         and judge, was the Faulkner's eldest son. He practiced law in\n         Hopkinsville, Ky., after the Civil War, but returned to\n         Martinsville in the 1870s to practice in partnership with his\n         younger brother. Box 82 contains his correspondence, a few\n         case files, and personal miscellany.","Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929) inherited \"Boydville\"\n         from his mother. He practiced law, served as a West Virginia\n         circuit judge, and entered the U.S. Senate in 1887. His\n         records as a senator (arranged chronologically) include\n         letters from constituents, petitioners, fellow Democrats and\n         senators concerning congressional activities and Democratic\n         politics; speeches and printed items; and news clippings\n         (Boxes 87-88).","Several small folders of papers concern Charles James\n         Faulkner's first wife, Sallie Winn (d.1891) of\n         Charlottesville, Va., her mother Mary Jane (Garrett) Winn\n         (1818-1869), and her brother John Winn (b. 1838?). Mrs.\n         Faulkner's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Winn (b. 1840?) lived in\n         Martinsburg for many years. She was a popular belle in\n         Charlottesville in the immediate postwar years, and later\n         became a teacher in West Virginia. Her papers include\n         correspondence, accounts, a commonplace book, ca.1867, records\n         of her teaching career, 1873-1880, at the Martinsburg Grammar\n         School, and personal miscellany (Boxes 90-93). Another sister,\n         Ellen Watson Winn (1842?-1893) cared for the children at\n         \"Boydville\" after Mrs. Faulkner's death. Papers of the second\n         Mrs. Faulkner, Virginia Fairfax Whiting (1867-1938), are\n         entirely financial in nature (Box 93).","Box 94 contains a few items each for Charles James\n         Faulkner's sisters and their husbands, and his children.\n         Miscellaneous Berkeley and Jefferson county records and some\n         unclassified miscellany round out the collection.","Lastly, volumes transferred to this collection in April\n         1986, including account books for James Faulkner (1779-1817),\n         Elisha Boyd (1769-1841), Andrew Waggener, Charles James\n         Faulkner (1806-1884), Lauck \u0026 Stephen, Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), Isaac S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Winchester, Va., Isaac\n         S. Lauck \u0026 Co., Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), and Charles\n         James Faulkner (1847-1929) are filed on the open shelves at\n         the end of the collection."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eChiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n         Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n         correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n         records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n         the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n         counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n         the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n         relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n         and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n         for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n         U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n         concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n         1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n         \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n         Agricultural \u0026amp; Mechanical Association. Also includes\n         papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n         consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n         documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n         U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n         records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n         of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n         correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n         records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.).\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Chiefly papers, 1826-1884, of\n         Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884), consisting of\n         correspondence concerning his legal and political career;\n         records of his law practice, including materials concerning\n         the disagreement between Virginia and West Virginia over the\n         counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, and materials concerning\n         the Baltimore \u0026 Ohio Railroad Company; political files\n         relating to his activities in the Whig and Democratic parties\n         and including campaign materials for Virginia elections and\n         for the presidential election of 1856, papers relating to his\n         U.S. ambassadorship to France, 1859-1861, and materials\n         concerning the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n         1872; and miscellaneous items relating to the Martinsburg\n         \u0026 Potomac Railroad Company and the Berkeley County\n         Agricultural \u0026 Mechanical Association. Also includes\n         papers, 1866-1915, of Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (1847-1920),\n         consisting of correspondence, financial records, and legal\n         documents concerning his law practice and his service in the\n         U.S. Senate, 1887-1899; papers, 1793-1816, of Martinsburg, Va.\n         (now W. Va.), merchant James Faulkner (1776-1817), including\n         records of his service in the Virginia militia during the War\n         of 1812; papers of lawyer Elisha Boyd, including\n         correspondence with Richmond, Va., lawyer John Wickham; and\n         records of Boyd's father-in-law, merchant Andrew Waggener of\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. 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