David A. Bucher Papers
Access and use
- Location of collection:
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Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem LibraryCollege of William and Mary400 Landrum DrivePO 8795Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
- Contact for questions and access:
- Email: spcoll@wm.eduPhone: (757) 221-3090Fax: (757) 221-5440Web: swem.wm.edu/scrc
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
- Terms of access:
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Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
- Preferred citation:
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David A. Bucher Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 1.50 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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David A. Bucher Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Papers, 1769-1912, including letters, 1861-1874, written to David A. Bucher, dentist of Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania and later, of Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia. The letters are from relatives and friends in Bridgewater, Virginia, Martinsburg, West Virginia, Hancock, Maryland, Orbisonia, Carlisle, McConnellsburg, Gettysburg and Round Grove, Pennsylvania and Polk City, Iowa. One letter concerns the Battle of Gettysburg.
Collection also includes legal documents; voting list, 1789; delinquent tax list, 1792, of Berkeley County, Va. [W. Va.]; land grants; and records, 1870, of the Grand Division of Virginia Sons of Temperance.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchase
- Physical description:
- 429 items
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Dentistry--Virginia--History--19th century
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Legal documents
Temperance--History--19th century
Temperance--Societies, etc
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Agendas (administrative records)
Correspondence
Voters' lists - Names:
- Sons of Temperance of North America
- Places:
- Berkeley County (W.Va.)--History
Bridgewater (Va.)--History--19th century
Rockingham County (Va.)--History--19th century