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Start Over Date range 1909 Subjects Montgomery County (Va.)

George W. L. Kabrich Family Papers 0.25 Cubic Feet 1 box

Kabrich, George Washington Lewis, b. 1824
The George W. L. Kabrich Family Papers, 1850-1947 [bulk 1850-1904], contain correspondence, legal records, financial records, and religious documents. The collection documents the personal and professional life of George W. L. Kabrich, who taught school and Sunday school, worked as Overseer of the Poor for Blacksburg Township, and was on church councils for local Lutheran churches. Items also relate to George's father-in-law John Surface, his daughter Effie Kabrich, and others. An item of note is a Rat Belt which is believed to have belonged to Robert H. Kabrich, the grandson of George's brother Issiah.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Harvey Lee Price Papers 1.67 Cubic Feet 5 boxes and 1 oversize folder

Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951
The Harvey Lee Price Papers contain handwritten notes and genealogies of various Montgomery County families which Price used to write his four volume series Outlines of Montgomery County Families. Also included are Price's subject files on the county and Virginia and his diplomas from VPI.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Henry H. Hill Collection 1.0 Cubic Feet 5 boxes

Hill, Henry Harris, 1880-1954
The Henry H. Hill collection consists of historical and genealogical research compiled by Hill during his lifetime in southwest Virginia. Hill (1880-1954) was an alumni and professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Huff-Hylton Families Papers 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

Hylton, Lorenzo Dow, 1830-1864
The Huff-Hylton Families Papers consists of items from the early 1800s through the American Civil War pertaining to the business and personal lives of Samuel Huff, Lorenzo Dow Hylton, and their families in Montgomery (now Floyd) County, Virginia. Materials include promissory notes, correspondence, an indenture for land, and genealogical information.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Independent Order of St. Luke Records 1.1 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

Independent Order of St. Luke (Blacksburg, Va.)
The bulk of the materials in the Independent Order of St. Luke Records, a social-welfare organization for African Americans, consist of handbooks, correspondence, receipts, programs, membership records, annual reports, and assessment reports of the Order, collected primarily from members in Blacksburg, Virginia. Also includes the minutes (1920-1938) of the Blacksburg chapters of the Busy Bee and Maggie L. Walker (Secretary of the Independent Order of St. Luke) Circles.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Isaac White Letters 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box, 1 oversize folder

Snead, Bess Duvall White
The collection consists of letters written mostly by Isaac White (1837-1889) to his wife, Mary Virginia "Jinnie" Day White, while he served with the Confederate Army as an assistant surgeon during the American Civil War. Many of the letters are written while encamped along the Shenandoah Valley. Other papers include literature gathered by Bess Duvall White Snead, White's grand-daughter, in her search for military information about Isaac White.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

J.H. Slusser & Son Store Ledger 0.4 Cubic Feet 1 box

John H. Slusser and Son Coal Company
"Store Book, no. 5, 1912" includes account listings for the J.H. Slusser & Son Coal Company store from 1902 through 1909. John H. Slusser was born in Blacksburg, Virginia on August 28, 1840. Slusser purchased a coal mine on Coal Bank Hollow Road in Blacksburg. The coal company was taken over by John Slusser's son, Murry, after his death in 1909. The M.C. Slusser Coal Company ran the mine until 1950 and served the surrounding areas, include coal supplies for the nearby Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

John Murray Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Murray, John, 1909-2002
The John Murray Papers document the participation of John Murray, a Virginia Tech chemistry professor from 1942 to 1971, in Virginia's ornithological community. Collected materials include manuscript articles, scholarly correspondence, and bird watching logs which focus largely on Montgomery County, Virginia.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

John Nicolay Papers 1.4 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

Nicolay, John
The John Nicolay Papers include oral history tapes, slides, original documents and historical photographs of the area by Earl Palmer. In addition, there is material from Moutainside Magazine, edited by Nicolay from 1983 to 1984, such as writings by Beverly Brinlee, Jess Carr, Fred Waage, and William White.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Joseph F. Ware Collection 0.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Ware, Joseph F., 1880-1969
The collection contains 102 letters from Joseph F. Ware to his wife, Susie, in Blacksburg, Virginia, while he was serving overseas during and after World War I. The other significant portion of this collection contains nearly 200 photographs.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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