Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The colletion is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection, 2003-2006, Ms2006-024, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes
Abstract:
The collection consists of a timeline and copies of documentation about Robert Creede Taylor, a former student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and his family during the years 1866 to 1915 gathered by R. C. Taylor's great-grandson.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection, 2003-2006, Ms2006-024, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of copies of documentation about Robert Creede Taylor and his family during the years 1866 to 1915 gathered by R. C. Taylor's great-grandson Stephen Taylor. The research resulted in an unpublished timeline called "Robert Creede Taylor of Christiansburg, Va .... A timeline of his life", additional supporting copied research material, recent research correspondence, and a CD with scans of his great-grandmother's newspaper scrapbook. Photocopied documents are from many sources, including newspapers, historic and recent photographs, census reports, yearbooks, pamphlets, legal papers, land plats, and correspondence.

Biographical / historical:

Robert Creede Taylor (1866-1915) lived in Montgomery County, Virginia, most of his life. He attended Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Virginia Tech) in the 1880s and, thereafter, worked in Roanoke before moving to Christiansburg in 1893. He married Helen May Pelton (1873-1942), and they had three children. Taylor died in 1915 after a long illness and is buried alongside his wife in Sunset Cemetery in Christiansburg.

The Taylors are related to many other Montgomery County and Roanoke families, and these families and their involvement in area organizations are mentioned in the collection.

External Source: "Robert Creede Taylor", Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55637562/robert-creede-taylor

Acquisition information:
The Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in December 2006.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection was completed in October 2023.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard