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Christian was also a member and leader of numerous\n         funeral directors' and fraternal organizations, including the\n         Masonic Home of Virginia. He had a hand in the initial\n         organization of the Virginia Game Protective Association, the\n         National Funeral Directors' Association (1883), the Virginia\n         Funeral Directors Association (1887), and the United States\n         College of Embalming (1889). In 1894 Christian co-authored a\n         bill to regulate the practice of embalming in Virginia, a bill\n         which became law that same year and inititated the\n         establishment of the first state examining board of embalming\n         in the United States. Christian also served in the Virginia\n         National Guard: he entered the Virginia Volunteers as a\n         private in 1872 and retired 26 years later with the rank of\n         major. On 5 October 1881, he married his first wife Isabella\n         \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. With her, Christian had three\n         children. She died in 1928, and he married second, Katherine\n         Dubose, who died 2 October 1935. The elder Christian died on\n         13 November 1935 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.","Langdon Taylor Christian, Jr., was born on 28 August 1893,\n         the first son and youngest child of Langdon Taylor Christian\n         and his first wife Isabelle \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. Christian\n         graduated from McGuire's University School and became a\n         partner in his father's business by 1920. Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.","Records, 1912-1986 (bulk 1924-1986), of the clientele of\n         the Richmond, Virginia, funeral home organized and owned by L.\n         T. Christian (1853-1935) and later his son L. T. Christian,\n         Jr. (1893-1975). Within each client/decedent's file are\n         documents pertinent to their death, burial, and/or\n         disinterment. 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Obituaries and other newspaper\n         clippings concerning their death are also included for most\n         decedents. There are also handwritten notes containing other\n         information concerning the funeral arrangements in the\n         decedent's file. These notes may include drafts of obituaries,\n         lists of funeral attendants and pallbearers, registers of\n         funeral and memorial visitors, and burial plot locations.","Correspondence principally consists of letters, phone\n         messages, and telegrams exchanged between the funeral home and\n         the decedent's family members, estate administrators, and/or\n         executors, attorneys, government officials, and other funeral\n         homes. The correspondence concerns funeral arrangements,\n         payments or past debt on a funeral, gratitude for services\n         provided, and logistics of transport of the decedent. Receipts\n         and invoices often accompany the correspondence and note\n         charges for corpse transport, floral arrangements, embalming,\n         obituary notices, cemetery fees, federal (National\n         Cemeteries), state and city burial certificates and permits,\n         interment, and other funeral home costs. Other receipts and\n         invoices billed by other funeral businesses (i.e. cemeteries\n         and mortuaries) are also contained herein. Also interspersed\n         throughout this collection are medical examiner's (autopsy)\n         reports and embalmer's reports which note and often explain\n         cause of death. Embalmer's reports contain extensive detail\n         concerning mortuary cosmetology and the process of preparation\n         of the dead.","Military records and correspondence with military officials\n         often is included in the files for decedents who were veterans\n         of the United States Armed Services. These include soldiers\n         who died overseas during World War II, initially were buried\n         in foreign gravesites, and, after the war, were disinterred\n         and reinterred in Richmond with services provided by the L. T.\n         Christian Funeral Home. Both death and reinterment/funeral\n         service dates for these decedents are located in the file, but\n         they are organized chronologically according to the year they\n         were serviced by L. T. Christian Funeral Home. Similarly,\n         decedents who did not serve in the military but were\n         disinterred, relocated, and reinterred by the funeral home\n         have been filed according to the year they were\n         disinterred.","Other items in the collection include advertisements and\n         pamphlets provided by funeral businesses to the funeral home,\n         casket warranty certificates, coffin plates, dog tags,\n         oversize tombstone wax rubbings, and oversize sketches of\n         tombstone art.","Business records\n         collection, Acc. 34483.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["34483"],"normalized_title_ssm":["L. T. Christian Funeral Home Records,\n          \n         1912-1986"],"collection_title_tesim":["L. T. Christian Funeral Home Records,\n          \n         1912-1986"],"collection_ssim":["L. T. 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His elementary education consisted of four months at\n         a private school in Richmond, Virginia, but did not progress\n         beyond basic reading and math. During his early teens, he\n         commenced working on a farm in Charles City County and never\n         returned to school. At the age of eighteen, he left his\n         parents' farm and came to Richmond where he worked for two\n         years in a tobacco factory. In 1872 Christian entered\n         employment with John A. Belvin, who owned the leading\n         furniture and undertaking business in Richmond. Christian\n         applied himself in this endeavour as a fine finisher,\n         varnisher, and cabinet maker, and when Belvin died in 1880\n         Christian succeeded him and reorganized the business to bear\n         his name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. T. Christian became widely known as a funeral director\n         and he soon entered politics. He was a member of the Richmond\n         city council for 10 years beginning in 1888. From 1900 to 1904\n         he served as a delegate from Richmond in the Virginia General\n         Assembly. Christian was also a member and leader of numerous\n         funeral directors' and fraternal organizations, including the\n         Masonic Home of Virginia. He had a hand in the initial\n         organization of the Virginia Game Protective Association, the\n         National Funeral Directors' Association (1883), the Virginia\n         Funeral Directors Association (1887), and the United States\n         College of Embalming (1889). In 1894 Christian co-authored a\n         bill to regulate the practice of embalming in Virginia, a bill\n         which became law that same year and inititated the\n         establishment of the first state examining board of embalming\n         in the United States. Christian also served in the Virginia\n         National Guard: he entered the Virginia Volunteers as a\n         private in 1872 and retired 26 years later with the rank of\n         major. On 5 October 1881, he married his first wife Isabella\n         \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. With her, Christian had three\n         children. She died in 1928, and he married second, Katherine\n         Dubose, who died 2 October 1935. The elder Christian died on\n         13 November 1935 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLangdon Taylor Christian, Jr., was born on 28 August 1893,\n         the first son and youngest child of Langdon Taylor Christian\n         and his first wife Isabelle \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. Christian\n         graduated from McGuire's University School and became a\n         partner in his father's business by 1920. Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Langdon Taylor Christian, also known as Major Langdon\n         Taylor Christian, was born on 26 May 1853, son of William\n         Edmund (1817-1865), a farmer, and Anne Elizabeth (Taylor)\n         Christian (1831-1863) of New Kent County, Virginia. In 1858\n         Christian moved with his family to Charles City County,\n         Virginia. His elementary education consisted of four months at\n         a private school in Richmond, Virginia, but did not progress\n         beyond basic reading and math. During his early teens, he\n         commenced working on a farm in Charles City County and never\n         returned to school. At the age of eighteen, he left his\n         parents' farm and came to Richmond where he worked for two\n         years in a tobacco factory. In 1872 Christian entered\n         employment with John A. Belvin, who owned the leading\n         furniture and undertaking business in Richmond. Christian\n         applied himself in this endeavour as a fine finisher,\n         varnisher, and cabinet maker, and when Belvin died in 1880\n         Christian succeeded him and reorganized the business to bear\n         his name.","L. T. Christian became widely known as a funeral director\n         and he soon entered politics. 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Christian also served in the Virginia\n         National Guard: he entered the Virginia Volunteers as a\n         private in 1872 and retired 26 years later with the rank of\n         major. On 5 October 1881, he married his first wife Isabella\n         \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. With her, Christian had three\n         children. She died in 1928, and he married second, Katherine\n         Dubose, who died 2 October 1935. The elder Christian died on\n         13 November 1935 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.","Langdon Taylor Christian, Jr., was born on 28 August 1893,\n         the first son and youngest child of Langdon Taylor Christian\n         and his first wife Isabelle \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. Christian\n         graduated from McGuire's University School and became a\n         partner in his father's business by 1920. Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords, 1912-1986 (bulk 1924-1986), of the clientele of\n         the Richmond, Virginia, funeral home organized and owned by L.\n         T. Christian (1853-1935) and later his son L. T. Christian,\n         Jr. (1893-1975). Within each client/decedent's file are\n         documents pertinent to their death, burial, and/or\n         disinterment. 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Receipts\n         and invoices often accompany the correspondence and note\n         charges for corpse transport, floral arrangements, embalming,\n         obituary notices, cemetery fees, federal (National\n         Cemeteries), state and city burial certificates and permits,\n         interment, and other funeral home costs. Other receipts and\n         invoices billed by other funeral businesses (i.e. cemeteries\n         and mortuaries) are also contained herein. Also interspersed\n         throughout this collection are medical examiner's (autopsy)\n         reports and embalmer's reports which note and often explain\n         cause of death. Embalmer's reports contain extensive detail\n         concerning mortuary cosmetology and the process of preparation\n         of the dead.","Military records and correspondence with military officials\n         often is included in the files for decedents who were veterans\n         of the United States Armed Services. 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He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.","Records, 1912-1986 (bulk 1924-1986), of the clientele of\n         the Richmond, Virginia, funeral home organized and owned by L.\n         T. Christian (1853-1935) and later his son L. T. Christian,\n         Jr. (1893-1975). Within each client/decedent's file are\n         documents pertinent to their death, burial, and/or\n         disinterment. 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He was a member of the Richmond\n         city council for 10 years beginning in 1888. From 1900 to 1904\n         he served as a delegate from Richmond in the Virginia General\n         Assembly. Christian was also a member and leader of numerous\n         funeral directors' and fraternal organizations, including the\n         Masonic Home of Virginia. He had a hand in the initial\n         organization of the Virginia Game Protective Association, the\n         National Funeral Directors' Association (1883), the Virginia\n         Funeral Directors Association (1887), and the United States\n         College of Embalming (1889). In 1894 Christian co-authored a\n         bill to regulate the practice of embalming in Virginia, a bill\n         which became law that same year and inititated the\n         establishment of the first state examining board of embalming\n         in the United States. 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Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Langdon Taylor Christian, also known as Major Langdon\n         Taylor Christian, was born on 26 May 1853, son of William\n         Edmund (1817-1865), a farmer, and Anne Elizabeth (Taylor)\n         Christian (1831-1863) of New Kent County, Virginia. In 1858\n         Christian moved with his family to Charles City County,\n         Virginia. 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His elementary education consisted of four months at\n         a private school in Richmond, Virginia, but did not progress\n         beyond basic reading and math. During his early teens, he\n         commenced working on a farm in Charles City County and never\n         returned to school. At the age of eighteen, he left his\n         parents' farm and came to Richmond where he worked for two\n         years in a tobacco factory. In 1872 Christian entered\n         employment with John A. Belvin, who owned the leading\n         furniture and undertaking business in Richmond. Christian\n         applied himself in this endeavour as a fine finisher,\n         varnisher, and cabinet maker, and when Belvin died in 1880\n         Christian succeeded him and reorganized the business to bear\n         his name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eL. T. Christian became widely known as a funeral director\n         and he soon entered politics. He was a member of the Richmond\n         city council for 10 years beginning in 1888. From 1900 to 1904\n         he served as a delegate from Richmond in the Virginia General\n         Assembly. Christian was also a member and leader of numerous\n         funeral directors' and fraternal organizations, including the\n         Masonic Home of Virginia. He had a hand in the initial\n         organization of the Virginia Game Protective Association, the\n         National Funeral Directors' Association (1883), the Virginia\n         Funeral Directors Association (1887), and the United States\n         College of Embalming (1889). In 1894 Christian co-authored a\n         bill to regulate the practice of embalming in Virginia, a bill\n         which became law that same year and inititated the\n         establishment of the first state examining board of embalming\n         in the United States. Christian also served in the Virginia\n         National Guard: he entered the Virginia Volunteers as a\n         private in 1872 and retired 26 years later with the rank of\n         major. On 5 October 1881, he married his first wife Isabella\n         \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. With her, Christian had three\n         children. She died in 1928, and he married second, Katherine\n         Dubose, who died 2 October 1935. The elder Christian died on\n         13 November 1935 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLangdon Taylor Christian, Jr., was born on 28 August 1893,\n         the first son and youngest child of Langdon Taylor Christian\n         and his first wife Isabelle \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. Christian\n         graduated from McGuire's University School and became a\n         partner in his father's business by 1920. Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Langdon Taylor Christian, also known as Major Langdon\n         Taylor Christian, was born on 26 May 1853, son of William\n         Edmund (1817-1865), a farmer, and Anne Elizabeth (Taylor)\n         Christian (1831-1863) of New Kent County, Virginia. In 1858\n         Christian moved with his family to Charles City County,\n         Virginia. His elementary education consisted of four months at\n         a private school in Richmond, Virginia, but did not progress\n         beyond basic reading and math. During his early teens, he\n         commenced working on a farm in Charles City County and never\n         returned to school. At the age of eighteen, he left his\n         parents' farm and came to Richmond where he worked for two\n         years in a tobacco factory. In 1872 Christian entered\n         employment with John A. Belvin, who owned the leading\n         furniture and undertaking business in Richmond. Christian\n         applied himself in this endeavour as a fine finisher,\n         varnisher, and cabinet maker, and when Belvin died in 1880\n         Christian succeeded him and reorganized the business to bear\n         his name.","L. T. Christian became widely known as a funeral director\n         and he soon entered politics. 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Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords, 1912-1986 (bulk 1924-1986), of the clientele of\n         the Richmond, Virginia, funeral home organized and owned by L.\n         T. Christian (1853-1935) and later his son L. T. Christian,\n         Jr. (1893-1975). Within each client/decedent's file are\n         documents pertinent to their death, burial, and/or\n         disinterment. 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Receipts\n         and invoices often accompany the correspondence and note\n         charges for corpse transport, floral arrangements, embalming,\n         obituary notices, cemetery fees, federal (National\n         Cemeteries), state and city burial certificates and permits,\n         interment, and other funeral home costs. Other receipts and\n         invoices billed by other funeral businesses (i.e. cemeteries\n         and mortuaries) are also contained herein. Also interspersed\n         throughout this collection are medical examiner's (autopsy)\n         reports and embalmer's reports which note and often explain\n         cause of death. Embalmer's reports contain extensive detail\n         concerning mortuary cosmetology and the process of preparation\n         of the dead.","Military records and correspondence with military officials\n         often is included in the files for decedents who were veterans\n         of the United States Armed Services. 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Christian also served in the Virginia\n         National Guard: he entered the Virginia Volunteers as a\n         private in 1872 and retired 26 years later with the rank of\n         major. On 5 October 1881, he married his first wife Isabella\n         \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. With her, Christian had three\n         children. She died in 1928, and he married second, Katherine\n         Dubose, who died 2 October 1935. The elder Christian died on\n         13 November 1935 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.","Langdon Taylor Christian, Jr., was born on 28 August 1893,\n         the first son and youngest child of Langdon Taylor Christian\n         and his first wife Isabelle \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. Christian\n         graduated from McGuire's University School and became a\n         partner in his father's business by 1920. 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Receipts\n         and invoices often accompany the correspondence and note\n         charges for corpse transport, floral arrangements, embalming,\n         obituary notices, cemetery fees, federal (National\n         Cemeteries), state and city burial certificates and permits,\n         interment, and other funeral home costs. Other receipts and\n         invoices billed by other funeral businesses (i.e. cemeteries\n         and mortuaries) are also contained herein. Also interspersed\n         throughout this collection are medical examiner's (autopsy)\n         reports and embalmer's reports which note and often explain\n         cause of death. Embalmer's reports contain extensive detail\n         concerning mortuary cosmetology and the process of preparation\n         of the dead.","Military records and correspondence with military officials\n         often is included in the files for decedents who were veterans\n         of the United States Armed Services. 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Christian was also a member and leader of numerous\n         funeral directors' and fraternal organizations, including the\n         Masonic Home of Virginia. He had a hand in the initial\n         organization of the Virginia Game Protective Association, the\n         National Funeral Directors' Association (1883), the Virginia\n         Funeral Directors Association (1887), and the United States\n         College of Embalming (1889). In 1894 Christian co-authored a\n         bill to regulate the practice of embalming in Virginia, a bill\n         which became law that same year and inititated the\n         establishment of the first state examining board of embalming\n         in the United States. Christian also served in the Virginia\n         National Guard: he entered the Virginia Volunteers as a\n         private in 1872 and retired 26 years later with the rank of\n         major. On 5 October 1881, he married his first wife Isabella\n         \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. With her, Christian had three\n         children. She died in 1928, and he married second, Katherine\n         Dubose, who died 2 October 1935. The elder Christian died on\n         13 November 1935 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.","Langdon Taylor Christian, Jr., was born on 28 August 1893,\n         the first son and youngest child of Langdon Taylor Christian\n         and his first wife Isabelle \"Belle\" Beverley Brown. Christian\n         graduated from McGuire's University School and became a\n         partner in his father's business by 1920. Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.","Records, 1912-1986 (bulk 1924-1986), of the clientele of\n         the Richmond, Virginia, funeral home organized and owned by L.\n         T. Christian (1853-1935) and later his son L. T. Christian,\n         Jr. (1893-1975). Within each client/decedent's file are\n         documents pertinent to their death, burial, and/or\n         disinterment. 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Receipts\n         and invoices often accompany the correspondence and note\n         charges for corpse transport, floral arrangements, embalming,\n         obituary notices, cemetery fees, federal (National\n         Cemeteries), state and city burial certificates and permits,\n         interment, and other funeral home costs. Other receipts and\n         invoices billed by other funeral businesses (i.e. cemeteries\n         and mortuaries) are also contained herein. Also interspersed\n         throughout this collection are medical examiner's (autopsy)\n         reports and embalmer's reports which note and often explain\n         cause of death. Embalmer's reports contain extensive detail\n         concerning mortuary cosmetology and the process of preparation\n         of the dead.","Military records and correspondence with military officials\n         often is included in the files for decedents who were veterans\n         of the United States Armed Services. 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Upon his father's\n         death in 1935, Christian assumed the presidency of the funeral\n         home, a position he held until his retirement in June 1974.\n         Christian like his father was affiliated with a number of\n         fraternal and funeral director's organizations including the\n         National Funeral Directors Association. He married Ruth\n         Ashmore Valentine and the couple had two children. He died 23\n         October 1975 and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Langdon Taylor Christian, also known as Major Langdon\n         Taylor Christian, was born on 26 May 1853, son of William\n         Edmund (1817-1865), a farmer, and Anne Elizabeth (Taylor)\n         Christian (1831-1863) of New Kent County, Virginia. In 1858\n         Christian moved with his family to Charles City County,\n         Virginia. 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