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In 1994, every Loudoun County Extension Homemaker Club member was invited to attend a meeting to discuss the future of the club and voted to disband.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Loudoun County Extension Homemakers Club developed as an arm of the United States Department of Agriculture Extension Services [USDA]. Funded and overseen by a partnership of federal, state, and local governments, Extension Services were first established as a nationwide system in 1914 by the Smith-Lever Act. The Extension Services were designed to aid farmers by providing educational classes in homemaking to white farm women. The program quickly took off and by 1915, 335 home economics schools were held for 21,000 farm women all over the country. In 1936, a group of Extension homemakers met with the USDA in order to form the National Extension Homemakers Council to further promote educational efforts. Extension Homemakers clubs were segregated, leading many black communities to form their own clubs, such as the Housekeeper's Club formed in Aldie, Virgina in 1914. ","Loudoun County home demonstrations were first organized by Grace Heyl (1901-1991), the county's Home Demonstration Agent, in 1923. By 1926, ten Extension Homemakers clubs were established in the county. In that same year, representatives of the existing Extension Clubs, a county agent, and a district representative all came together in order to create a Loudoun County Extension Homemakers Council. The council was composed of ten members and grew as the number of clubs in the county grew. By 1975 there were fifteen clubs and approximately 300 homemakers. ","The Homemakers Club served as a place where women came together to learn sewing, quilting, cooking, housekeeping techniques, and various other homemaking skills; later the Club evolved. It became a source of discussion of gender roles, volunteer work, and of leadership among women. In 1994, every Loudoun County Extension Homemaker Club member was invited to attend a meeting to discuss the future of the club and voted to disband.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the records of the Loudoun County Extension Homemakers Club. It includes minutes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, newsletters, correspondence, agendas, event pamphlets, recipes, attendance, speeches, information on club activities, as well as information on the history of the club.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe earliest records of the club's activities are in the form of minutes beginning in 1926 and ending in 1947. The minutes preserved by the Club are photocopies; the whereabouts of the original minutes are unknown. Minutes are arranged which each new year beginning in December and concluding in November. After 1985, only scattered minutes are available.  Scrapbooks dating between 1961 and 1994 are included in this collection, and include photographs and ephemera as well as \"Achievement Day\" materials and yearbooks. \"Achievement Day\" was an annual event where club members celebrated their accomplishments and activities from the previous year. Loose items were removed from each scrapbook and foldered for better preservation of the materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few abbreviations are used over the course of this collection. Loudoun County is abbreviated to \"LoCo\" and Extension Homemakers is has been abbreviated to \"E.H.\" This is an open collection and additional material may be received.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the records of the Loudoun County Extension Homemakers Club. It includes minutes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, newsletters, correspondence, agendas, event pamphlets, recipes, attendance, speeches, information on club activities, as well as information on the history of the club.","The earliest records of the club's activities are in the form of minutes beginning in 1926 and ending in 1947. The minutes preserved by the Club are photocopies; the whereabouts of the original minutes are unknown. Minutes are arranged which each new year beginning in December and concluding in November. After 1985, only scattered minutes are available.  Scrapbooks dating between 1961 and 1994 are included in this collection, and include photographs and ephemera as well as \"Achievement Day\" materials and yearbooks. \"Achievement Day\" was an annual event where club members celebrated their accomplishments and activities from the previous year. Loose items were removed from each scrapbook and foldered for better preservation of the materials. ","A few abbreviations are used over the course of this collection. Loudoun County is abbreviated to \"LoCo\" and Extension Homemakers is has been abbreviated to \"E.H.\" This is an open collection and additional material may be received.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThis collection contains the records of the Loudoun County Extension Homemakers Club. It includes minutes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, newsletters, correspondence, agendas, event pamphlets, recipes, attendance, speeches, information on club activities, as well as information on the history of the club.   \n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["This collection contains the records of the Loudoun County Extension Homemakers Club. It includes minutes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, newsletters, correspondence, agendas, event pamphlets, recipes, attendance, speeches, information on club activities, as well as information on the history of the club.   \n"],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":49,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:28:43.056Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viletbl_viletbl00295_c01_c01"}},{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00246_c01_c01","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"1","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viletbl_viletbl00246_c01_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00246_c01_c01","ref_ssm":["viletbl_viletbl00246_c01_c01"],"id":"viletbl_viletbl00246_c01_c01","ead_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00246","_root_":"viletbl_viletbl00246","_nest_parent_":"viletbl_viletbl00246_c01","parent_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00246_c01","parent_ssim":["viletbl_viletbl00246","viletbl_viletbl00246_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viletbl_viletbl00246","viletbl_viletbl00246_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Rust Family Papers, \n 1791-2009, n.d.","Item"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Rust Family Papers, \n 1791-2009, n.d.","Item"],"text":["Rust Family Papers, \n 1791-2009, n.d.","Item","1"],"title_filing_ssi":"1\n\t\t","title_ssm":["1\n\t\t"],"title_tesim":["1\n\t\t"],"normalized_title_ssm":["1"],"component_level_isim":[2],"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"collection_ssim":["Rust Family Papers, \n 1791-2009, n.d."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":7,"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"sort_isi":2,"_nest_path_":"/components#0/components#0","timestamp":"2026-04-30T21:29:00.097Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00246","ead_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00246","_root_":"viletbl_viletbl00246","_nest_parent_":"viletbl_viletbl00246","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/tbl/viletbl00246.xml","title_ssm":["Rust Family Papers, \n 1791-2009, n.d.\n"],"title_tesim":["Rust Family Papers, \n 1791-2009, n.d.\n"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["M 087\n"],"text":["M 087\n","Rust Family Papers, \n 1791-2009, n.d.","."," \nClark, Edwin H. An Informal History of The Rust Nature Sanctuary: The Place and the People.  Chevy Chase, MD : Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, 2007.\n\n","\nRust, Ellsworth Marshall.  Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the descendants of William Rust, 1654-1974. Washington, DC: Ellsworth Marshall Rust, 1940.\n","\nRust Family Papers, 1791-2009, n.d. (M 087), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.\n","The Rust family, a prominent family in the United States, Virginia, Loudoun County, and Leesburg, descends from William Rust (1642-1697), who emigrated from Suffolk County, England to Westmoreland County, VA in approximately 1650.  Rusts have also intermarried with other prominent Virginia families, notably the \"Stratford\" Lee family, of Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) and Robert E. Lee (1807-1870).  \n","General George Rust (1788-1857), a prominent Loudoun County gentleman, Superintendent United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry during the Andrew Jackson administration, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, built the house known as \"Rockland\" in Leesburg in 1822. The house is considered one the finest Federal plantation dwellings in the area and is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register. Gen. Rust's son, Col. Armistead T. M. Rust (1820-1887), was an 1842 West Point graduate who served with the 19th Virginia infantry during the Civil War. His death in 1887 left his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921), with 14 children and a large debt. Displaying tremendous diligence and business acumen, she repaid the debt and educated their minor children. Several of their children had great success in the engineering industry in the twentieth century.  In 1900, Edwin Grey Rust (1869-1925) invented the Rust Boiler, which minimized the buildup of coal dust and scale in a steam boiler. In 1913, brothers Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954), Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939), and Ellsworth Marshall (E.M.) Rust (1879-1946), founded the Rust Engineering Company.  The company designed and built factories and manufacturing plants until its sale in 1967.  From 1914-1934, brothers Henry Bedinger (1872-1936) and William Fitzhugh Rust (1874-1940) served as President and Vice President, respectively, of the Koppers Company.","The Rust family has also been one of Loudoun County's most generous philanthropists.  In 1986, William F. Rust Jr. (1914-1991) and his wife, Margaret Dole Rust (1918-1995), gave 141 acres to Leesburg to build Ida Lee Park (named after William F. Rust Jr's grandmother) and Rust Library. In 2000, their children donated the Rust manor house to the Audubon Naturalist Society to create the Rust Nature Sanctuary in Leesburg.","E.M. Rust edited and published Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the descendants of William Rust, 1654-1940.  The book traces the descendants of William Rust from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.   In order to produce the book, E.M. Rust engaged professional researchers and genealogists, and contacted libraries, court houses, historical societies, and distant relatives all over the United States.  The book was privately published and distributed to libraries and Rust family members.","The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. Rust in the process of researching his book, Rust of Virginia, as well as materials related to the publication and distribution of the book.  The collection is divided into three series.  Series 1 contains correspondence, and Series 2 contains research materials and other documents, and Series 3 contains a bound book of family portraits.","Series 1 contains correspondence of the Rust family dating from 1791-2009.  The letters are organized chronologically.  Much of the earliest correspondence includes letters written by General George Rust and between Hancock Lee (1797-1860) and his son, James Kendall Lee (1829-1861).  Some of the letters are original, and some are handwritten copies.  Many have typescript copies with notes by E.M. Rust. Topics addressed in the letters include the European conflict of 1848, the Mexican War, education at Princeton University, development of Virginia's internal railroad system, family relationships in the City of Richmond, political campaign issues, mid-Atlantic travel accommodations, and others.  The bulk of correspondence from 1900-1940 is related to genealogical research.  Correspondents include members of the Rust family (including Una Owen (1888-1979), E.M. Rust and Stirling Murray Rust) as well as genealogists and researchers.  Correspondence dating from 1940-1942 concerns the distribution of Rust of Virginia to libraries, historical societies, and other institutions throughout the United States.  From 1943 on, the correspondence deals with sales of Rust of Virginia to interested parties, as well as corrections and additions to the book.","Series 2 consists of research materials used by E.M. Rust to write Rust of Virginia.  It contains copious notes, excerpts from court records, family histories, memoranda, and other materials compiled by and for Una Owen and E.M. Rust.  Also included are surveys sent to members of the Rust family all over the United States, ancestry charts and family trees, and other materials, including an early nineteenth century document concerning the publication of The Constitution and Regulations of the Society of Ancient Masons.  In addition, there is a memoir written by E.M. Rust's sister, Ida Lee Rust Follett (1867-1950), about her childhood at \"Rockland\" in Leesburg.","Series 3 consists of a bound book of portraits of Colonel Armistead Thomson Mason Rust, C.S.A. (1820-1887), Ida Lee Rust (1840-1921), and their family and children.  Portraits include: Laurence Rust (1850-1895) and Evelyn Jenkins (1857-1938); Edward Jennings Lee (1877-1939) and Rebecca Lawrence Rust (1855-1882); Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. (1862-1941) and Annie Weems Ridout (1864-1951); George Rust (1868-1940) and Gertrude Roberts (1872-1951); Edwin Gray Rust (1869-1925) and Margaret DeHuff Meiley 1872-1966); Henry Bedinger Rust (1972-1936) and Elizabeth Sage Watkins (1879-1970); William Fitzhugh Rust (1872-1940) and Mary Elizabeth Lee Fleming (1886-1967); Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939) and Ethel Morrow Snyder (1882-1969); Ellsworth Marshall Rust (1879-1946) and Eva Thompson Manigault (1976-1945); Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954) and Mary Hilton Coburn (1878-1979); William Meade Coulling (1859-1932) and Henrietta Lee Rust (1864-1932); Thomas Washington Edwards(1854-1927) and Lily Southgate Rust (1867-1937); John Dawson Follett (1869-1918) and Ida Lee Rust (1867-1950).","Arrangement\n Chronological\n","The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. 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(M 087), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Rust family, a prominent family in the United States, Virginia, Loudoun County, and Leesburg, descends from William Rust (1642-1697), who emigrated from Suffolk County, England to Westmoreland County, VA in approximately 1650.  Rusts have also intermarried with other prominent Virginia families, notably the \"Stratford\" Lee family, of Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) and Robert E. Lee (1807-1870).  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral George Rust (1788-1857), a prominent Loudoun County gentleman, Superintendent United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry during the Andrew Jackson administration, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, built the house known as \"Rockland\" in Leesburg in 1822. The house is considered one the finest Federal plantation dwellings in the area and is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register. Gen. Rust's son, Col. Armistead T. M. Rust (1820-1887), was an 1842 West Point graduate who served with the 19th Virginia infantry during the Civil War. His death in 1887 left his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921), with 14 children and a large debt. Displaying tremendous diligence and business acumen, she repaid the debt and educated their minor children. Several of their children had great success in the engineering industry in the twentieth century.  In 1900, Edwin Grey Rust (1869-1925) invented the Rust Boiler, which minimized the buildup of coal dust and scale in a steam boiler. In 1913, brothers Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954), Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939), and Ellsworth Marshall (E.M.) Rust (1879-1946), founded the Rust Engineering Company.  The company designed and built factories and manufacturing plants until its sale in 1967.  From 1914-1934, brothers Henry Bedinger (1872-1936) and William Fitzhugh Rust (1874-1940) served as President and Vice President, respectively, of the Koppers Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Rust family has also been one of Loudoun County's most generous philanthropists.  In 1986, William F. Rust Jr. (1914-1991) and his wife, Margaret Dole Rust (1918-1995), gave 141 acres to Leesburg to build Ida Lee Park (named after William F. Rust Jr's grandmother) and Rust Library. In 2000, their children donated the Rust manor house to the Audubon Naturalist Society to create the Rust Nature Sanctuary in Leesburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE.M. Rust edited and published Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the descendants of William Rust, 1654-1940.  The book traces the descendants of William Rust from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.   In order to produce the book, E.M. Rust engaged professional researchers and genealogists, and contacted libraries, court houses, historical societies, and distant relatives all over the United States.  The book was privately published and distributed to libraries and Rust family members.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Rust family, a prominent family in the United States, Virginia, Loudoun County, and Leesburg, descends from William Rust (1642-1697), who emigrated from Suffolk County, England to Westmoreland County, VA in approximately 1650.  Rusts have also intermarried with other prominent Virginia families, notably the \"Stratford\" Lee family, of Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) and Robert E. Lee (1807-1870).  \n","General George Rust (1788-1857), a prominent Loudoun County gentleman, Superintendent United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry during the Andrew Jackson administration, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, built the house known as \"Rockland\" in Leesburg in 1822. The house is considered one the finest Federal plantation dwellings in the area and is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register. Gen. Rust's son, Col. Armistead T. M. Rust (1820-1887), was an 1842 West Point graduate who served with the 19th Virginia infantry during the Civil War. His death in 1887 left his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921), with 14 children and a large debt. Displaying tremendous diligence and business acumen, she repaid the debt and educated their minor children. Several of their children had great success in the engineering industry in the twentieth century.  In 1900, Edwin Grey Rust (1869-1925) invented the Rust Boiler, which minimized the buildup of coal dust and scale in a steam boiler. In 1913, brothers Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954), Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939), and Ellsworth Marshall (E.M.) Rust (1879-1946), founded the Rust Engineering Company.  The company designed and built factories and manufacturing plants until its sale in 1967.  From 1914-1934, brothers Henry Bedinger (1872-1936) and William Fitzhugh Rust (1874-1940) served as President and Vice President, respectively, of the Koppers Company.","The Rust family has also been one of Loudoun County's most generous philanthropists.  In 1986, William F. Rust Jr. (1914-1991) and his wife, Margaret Dole Rust (1918-1995), gave 141 acres to Leesburg to build Ida Lee Park (named after William F. Rust Jr's grandmother) and Rust Library. In 2000, their children donated the Rust manor house to the Audubon Naturalist Society to create the Rust Nature Sanctuary in Leesburg.","E.M. Rust edited and published Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the descendants of William Rust, 1654-1940.  The book traces the descendants of William Rust from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.   In order to produce the book, E.M. Rust engaged professional researchers and genealogists, and contacted libraries, court houses, historical societies, and distant relatives all over the United States.  The book was privately published and distributed to libraries and Rust family members."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. Rust in the process of researching his book, Rust of Virginia, as well as materials related to the publication and distribution of the book.  The collection is divided into three series.  Series 1 contains correspondence, and Series 2 contains research materials and other documents, and Series 3 contains a bound book of family portraits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 contains correspondence of the Rust family dating from 1791-2009.  The letters are organized chronologically.  Much of the earliest correspondence includes letters written by General George Rust and between Hancock Lee (1797-1860) and his son, James Kendall Lee (1829-1861).  Some of the letters are original, and some are handwritten copies.  Many have typescript copies with notes by E.M. Rust. Topics addressed in the letters include the European conflict of 1848, the Mexican War, education at Princeton University, development of Virginia's internal railroad system, family relationships in the City of Richmond, political campaign issues, mid-Atlantic travel accommodations, and others.  The bulk of correspondence from 1900-1940 is related to genealogical research.  Correspondents include members of the Rust family (including Una Owen (1888-1979), E.M. Rust and Stirling Murray Rust) as well as genealogists and researchers.  Correspondence dating from 1940-1942 concerns the distribution of Rust of Virginia to libraries, historical societies, and other institutions throughout the United States.  From 1943 on, the correspondence deals with sales of Rust of Virginia to interested parties, as well as corrections and additions to the book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 consists of research materials used by E.M. Rust to write Rust of Virginia.  It contains copious notes, excerpts from court records, family histories, memoranda, and other materials compiled by and for Una Owen and E.M. Rust.  Also included are surveys sent to members of the Rust family all over the United States, ancestry charts and family trees, and other materials, including an early nineteenth century document concerning the publication of The Constitution and Regulations of the Society of Ancient Masons.  In addition, there is a memoir written by E.M. Rust's sister, Ida Lee Rust Follett (1867-1950), about her childhood at \"Rockland\" in Leesburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 consists of a bound book of portraits of Colonel Armistead Thomson Mason Rust, C.S.A. (1820-1887), Ida Lee Rust (1840-1921), and their family and children.  Portraits include: Laurence Rust (1850-1895) and Evelyn Jenkins (1857-1938); Edward Jennings Lee (1877-1939) and Rebecca Lawrence Rust (1855-1882); Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. (1862-1941) and Annie Weems Ridout (1864-1951); George Rust (1868-1940) and Gertrude Roberts (1872-1951); Edwin Gray Rust (1869-1925) and Margaret DeHuff Meiley 1872-1966); Henry Bedinger Rust (1972-1936) and Elizabeth Sage Watkins (1879-1970); William Fitzhugh Rust (1872-1940) and Mary Elizabeth Lee Fleming (1886-1967); Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939) and Ethel Morrow Snyder (1882-1969); Ellsworth Marshall Rust (1879-1946) and Eva Thompson Manigault (1976-1945); Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954) and Mary Hilton Coburn (1878-1979); William Meade Coulling (1859-1932) and Henrietta Lee Rust (1864-1932); Thomas Washington Edwards(1854-1927) and Lily Southgate Rust (1867-1937); John Dawson Follett (1869-1918) and Ida Lee Rust (1867-1950).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement encodinganalog=\"351\"\u003e\n\u003chead\u003eArrangement\n\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChronological\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/arrangement\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. Rust in the process of researching his book, Rust of Virginia, as well as materials related to the publication and distribution of the book.  The collection is divided into three series.  Series 1 contains correspondence, and Series 2 contains research materials and other documents, and Series 3 contains a bound book of family portraits.","Series 1 contains correspondence of the Rust family dating from 1791-2009.  The letters are organized chronologically.  Much of the earliest correspondence includes letters written by General George Rust and between Hancock Lee (1797-1860) and his son, James Kendall Lee (1829-1861).  Some of the letters are original, and some are handwritten copies.  Many have typescript copies with notes by E.M. Rust. Topics addressed in the letters include the European conflict of 1848, the Mexican War, education at Princeton University, development of Virginia's internal railroad system, family relationships in the City of Richmond, political campaign issues, mid-Atlantic travel accommodations, and others.  The bulk of correspondence from 1900-1940 is related to genealogical research.  Correspondents include members of the Rust family (including Una Owen (1888-1979), E.M. Rust and Stirling Murray Rust) as well as genealogists and researchers.  Correspondence dating from 1940-1942 concerns the distribution of Rust of Virginia to libraries, historical societies, and other institutions throughout the United States.  From 1943 on, the correspondence deals with sales of Rust of Virginia to interested parties, as well as corrections and additions to the book.","Series 2 consists of research materials used by E.M. Rust to write Rust of Virginia.  It contains copious notes, excerpts from court records, family histories, memoranda, and other materials compiled by and for Una Owen and E.M. Rust.  Also included are surveys sent to members of the Rust family all over the United States, ancestry charts and family trees, and other materials, including an early nineteenth century document concerning the publication of The Constitution and Regulations of the Society of Ancient Masons.  In addition, there is a memoir written by E.M. Rust's sister, Ida Lee Rust Follett (1867-1950), about her childhood at \"Rockland\" in Leesburg.","Series 3 consists of a bound book of portraits of Colonel Armistead Thomson Mason Rust, C.S.A. (1820-1887), Ida Lee Rust (1840-1921), and their family and children.  Portraits include: Laurence Rust (1850-1895) and Evelyn Jenkins (1857-1938); Edward Jennings Lee (1877-1939) and Rebecca Lawrence Rust (1855-1882); Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. (1862-1941) and Annie Weems Ridout (1864-1951); George Rust (1868-1940) and Gertrude Roberts (1872-1951); Edwin Gray Rust (1869-1925) and Margaret DeHuff Meiley 1872-1966); Henry Bedinger Rust (1972-1936) and Elizabeth Sage Watkins (1879-1970); William Fitzhugh Rust (1872-1940) and Mary Elizabeth Lee Fleming (1886-1967); Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939) and Ethel Morrow Snyder (1882-1969); Ellsworth Marshall Rust (1879-1946) and Eva Thompson Manigault (1976-1945); Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954) and Mary Hilton Coburn (1878-1979); William Meade Coulling (1859-1932) and Henrietta Lee Rust (1864-1932); Thomas Washington Edwards(1854-1927) and Lily Southgate Rust (1867-1937); John Dawson Follett (1869-1918) and Ida Lee Rust (1867-1950).","Arrangement\n Chronological\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. 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An Informal History of The Rust Nature Sanctuary: The Place and the People.  Chevy Chase, MD : Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, 2007.\n\n","\nRust, Ellsworth Marshall.  Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the descendants of William Rust, 1654-1974. Washington, DC: Ellsworth Marshall Rust, 1940.\n","\nRust Family Papers, 1791-2009, n.d. (M 087), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.\n","The Rust family, a prominent family in the United States, Virginia, Loudoun County, and Leesburg, descends from William Rust (1642-1697), who emigrated from Suffolk County, England to Westmoreland County, VA in approximately 1650.  Rusts have also intermarried with other prominent Virginia families, notably the \"Stratford\" Lee family, of Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) and Robert E. Lee (1807-1870).  \n","General George Rust (1788-1857), a prominent Loudoun County gentleman, Superintendent United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry during the Andrew Jackson administration, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, built the house known as \"Rockland\" in Leesburg in 1822. The house is considered one the finest Federal plantation dwellings in the area and is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register. Gen. Rust's son, Col. Armistead T. M. Rust (1820-1887), was an 1842 West Point graduate who served with the 19th Virginia infantry during the Civil War. His death in 1887 left his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921), with 14 children and a large debt. Displaying tremendous diligence and business acumen, she repaid the debt and educated their minor children. Several of their children had great success in the engineering industry in the twentieth century.  In 1900, Edwin Grey Rust (1869-1925) invented the Rust Boiler, which minimized the buildup of coal dust and scale in a steam boiler. In 1913, brothers Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954), Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939), and Ellsworth Marshall (E.M.) Rust (1879-1946), founded the Rust Engineering Company.  The company designed and built factories and manufacturing plants until its sale in 1967.  From 1914-1934, brothers Henry Bedinger (1872-1936) and William Fitzhugh Rust (1874-1940) served as President and Vice President, respectively, of the Koppers Company.","The Rust family has also been one of Loudoun County's most generous philanthropists.  In 1986, William F. Rust Jr. (1914-1991) and his wife, Margaret Dole Rust (1918-1995), gave 141 acres to Leesburg to build Ida Lee Park (named after William F. Rust Jr's grandmother) and Rust Library. In 2000, their children donated the Rust manor house to the Audubon Naturalist Society to create the Rust Nature Sanctuary in Leesburg.","E.M. Rust edited and published Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the descendants of William Rust, 1654-1940.  The book traces the descendants of William Rust from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.   In order to produce the book, E.M. Rust engaged professional researchers and genealogists, and contacted libraries, court houses, historical societies, and distant relatives all over the United States.  The book was privately published and distributed to libraries and Rust family members.","The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. Rust in the process of researching his book, Rust of Virginia, as well as materials related to the publication and distribution of the book.  The collection is divided into three series.  Series 1 contains correspondence, and Series 2 contains research materials and other documents, and Series 3 contains a bound book of family portraits.","Series 1 contains correspondence of the Rust family dating from 1791-2009.  The letters are organized chronologically.  Much of the earliest correspondence includes letters written by General George Rust and between Hancock Lee (1797-1860) and his son, James Kendall Lee (1829-1861).  Some of the letters are original, and some are handwritten copies.  Many have typescript copies with notes by E.M. Rust. Topics addressed in the letters include the European conflict of 1848, the Mexican War, education at Princeton University, development of Virginia's internal railroad system, family relationships in the City of Richmond, political campaign issues, mid-Atlantic travel accommodations, and others.  The bulk of correspondence from 1900-1940 is related to genealogical research.  Correspondents include members of the Rust family (including Una Owen (1888-1979), E.M. Rust and Stirling Murray Rust) as well as genealogists and researchers.  Correspondence dating from 1940-1942 concerns the distribution of Rust of Virginia to libraries, historical societies, and other institutions throughout the United States.  From 1943 on, the correspondence deals with sales of Rust of Virginia to interested parties, as well as corrections and additions to the book.","Series 2 consists of research materials used by E.M. Rust to write Rust of Virginia.  It contains copious notes, excerpts from court records, family histories, memoranda, and other materials compiled by and for Una Owen and E.M. Rust.  Also included are surveys sent to members of the Rust family all over the United States, ancestry charts and family trees, and other materials, including an early nineteenth century document concerning the publication of The Constitution and Regulations of the Society of Ancient Masons.  In addition, there is a memoir written by E.M. Rust's sister, Ida Lee Rust Follett (1867-1950), about her childhood at \"Rockland\" in Leesburg.","Series 3 consists of a bound book of portraits of Colonel Armistead Thomson Mason Rust, C.S.A. (1820-1887), Ida Lee Rust (1840-1921), and their family and children.  Portraits include: Laurence Rust (1850-1895) and Evelyn Jenkins (1857-1938); Edward Jennings Lee (1877-1939) and Rebecca Lawrence Rust (1855-1882); Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. (1862-1941) and Annie Weems Ridout (1864-1951); George Rust (1868-1940) and Gertrude Roberts (1872-1951); Edwin Gray Rust (1869-1925) and Margaret DeHuff Meiley 1872-1966); Henry Bedinger Rust (1972-1936) and Elizabeth Sage Watkins (1879-1970); William Fitzhugh Rust (1872-1940) and Mary Elizabeth Lee Fleming (1886-1967); Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939) and Ethel Morrow Snyder (1882-1969); Ellsworth Marshall Rust (1879-1946) and Eva Thompson Manigault (1976-1945); Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954) and Mary Hilton Coburn (1878-1979); William Meade Coulling (1859-1932) and Henrietta Lee Rust (1864-1932); Thomas Washington Edwards(1854-1927) and Lily Southgate Rust (1867-1937); John Dawson Follett (1869-1918) and Ida Lee Rust (1867-1950).","Arrangement\n Chronological\n","The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. 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Armistead T. M. Rust (1820-1887), was an 1842 West Point graduate who served with the 19th Virginia infantry during the Civil War. His death in 1887 left his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921), with 14 children and a large debt. Displaying tremendous diligence and business acumen, she repaid the debt and educated their minor children. Several of their children had great success in the engineering industry in the twentieth century.  In 1900, Edwin Grey Rust (1869-1925) invented the Rust Boiler, which minimized the buildup of coal dust and scale in a steam boiler. In 1913, brothers Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954), Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939), and Ellsworth Marshall (E.M.) Rust (1879-1946), founded the Rust Engineering Company.  The company designed and built factories and manufacturing plants until its sale in 1967.  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Lee (1807-1870).  \n","General George Rust (1788-1857), a prominent Loudoun County gentleman, Superintendent United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry during the Andrew Jackson administration, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, built the house known as \"Rockland\" in Leesburg in 1822. The house is considered one the finest Federal plantation dwellings in the area and is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register. Gen. Rust's son, Col. Armistead T. M. Rust (1820-1887), was an 1842 West Point graduate who served with the 19th Virginia infantry during the Civil War. His death in 1887 left his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921), with 14 children and a large debt. Displaying tremendous diligence and business acumen, she repaid the debt and educated their minor children. Several of their children had great success in the engineering industry in the twentieth century.  In 1900, Edwin Grey Rust (1869-1925) invented the Rust Boiler, which minimized the buildup of coal dust and scale in a steam boiler. In 1913, brothers Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954), Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939), and Ellsworth Marshall (E.M.) Rust (1879-1946), founded the Rust Engineering Company.  The company designed and built factories and manufacturing plants until its sale in 1967.  From 1914-1934, brothers Henry Bedinger (1872-1936) and William Fitzhugh Rust (1874-1940) served as President and Vice President, respectively, of the Koppers Company.","The Rust family has also been one of Loudoun County's most generous philanthropists.  In 1986, William F. Rust Jr. (1914-1991) and his wife, Margaret Dole Rust (1918-1995), gave 141 acres to Leesburg to build Ida Lee Park (named after William F. Rust Jr's grandmother) and Rust Library. In 2000, their children donated the Rust manor house to the Audubon Naturalist Society to create the Rust Nature Sanctuary in Leesburg.","E.M. Rust edited and published Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the descendants of William Rust, 1654-1940.  The book traces the descendants of William Rust from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.   In order to produce the book, E.M. Rust engaged professional researchers and genealogists, and contacted libraries, court houses, historical societies, and distant relatives all over the United States.  The book was privately published and distributed to libraries and Rust family members."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. Rust in the process of researching his book, Rust of Virginia, as well as materials related to the publication and distribution of the book.  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Also included are surveys sent to members of the Rust family all over the United States, ancestry charts and family trees, and other materials, including an early nineteenth century document concerning the publication of The Constitution and Regulations of the Society of Ancient Masons.  In addition, there is a memoir written by E.M. Rust's sister, Ida Lee Rust Follett (1867-1950), about her childhood at \"Rockland\" in Leesburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 consists of a bound book of portraits of Colonel Armistead Thomson Mason Rust, C.S.A. (1820-1887), Ida Lee Rust (1840-1921), and their family and children.  Portraits include: Laurence Rust (1850-1895) and Evelyn Jenkins (1857-1938); Edward Jennings Lee (1877-1939) and Rebecca Lawrence Rust (1855-1882); Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. (1862-1941) and Annie Weems Ridout (1864-1951); George Rust (1868-1940) and Gertrude Roberts (1872-1951); Edwin Gray Rust (1869-1925) and Margaret DeHuff Meiley 1872-1966); Henry Bedinger Rust (1972-1936) and Elizabeth Sage Watkins (1879-1970); William Fitzhugh Rust (1872-1940) and Mary Elizabeth Lee Fleming (1886-1967); Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (1877-1939) and Ethel Morrow Snyder (1882-1969); Ellsworth Marshall Rust (1879-1946) and Eva Thompson Manigault (1976-1945); Stirling Murray Rust (1881-1954) and Mary Hilton Coburn (1878-1979); William Meade Coulling (1859-1932) and Henrietta Lee Rust (1864-1932); Thomas Washington Edwards(1854-1927) and Lily Southgate Rust (1867-1937); John Dawson Follett (1869-1918) and Ida Lee Rust (1867-1950).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement encodinganalog=\"351\"\u003e\n\u003chead\u003eArrangement\n\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChronological\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/arrangement\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and other materials collected and created by E.M. 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Topics addressed in the letters include the European conflict of 1848, the Mexican War, education at Princeton University, development of Virginia's internal railroad system, family relationships in the City of Richmond, political campaign issues, mid-Atlantic travel accommodations, and others.  The bulk of correspondence from 1900-1940 is related to genealogical research.  Correspondents include members of the Rust family (including Una Owen (1888-1979), E.M. Rust and Stirling Murray Rust) as well as genealogists and researchers.  Correspondence dating from 1940-1942 concerns the distribution of Rust of Virginia to libraries, historical societies, and other institutions throughout the United States.  From 1943 on, the correspondence deals with sales of Rust of Virginia to interested parties, as well as corrections and additions to the book.","Series 2 consists of research materials used by E.M. Rust to write Rust of Virginia.  It contains copious notes, excerpts from court records, family histories, memoranda, and other materials compiled by and for Una Owen and E.M. Rust.  Also included are surveys sent to members of the Rust family all over the United States, ancestry charts and family trees, and other materials, including an early nineteenth century document concerning the publication of The Constitution and Regulations of the Society of Ancient Masons.  In addition, there is a memoir written by E.M. Rust's sister, Ida Lee Rust Follett (1867-1950), about her childhood at \"Rockland\" in Leesburg.","Series 3 consists of a bound book of portraits of Colonel Armistead Thomson Mason Rust, C.S.A. (1820-1887), Ida Lee Rust (1840-1921), and their family and children.  Portraits include: Laurence Rust (1850-1895) and Evelyn Jenkins (1857-1938); Edward Jennings Lee (1877-1939) and Rebecca Lawrence Rust (1855-1882); Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. 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