This book of Thomas D. Ranson (Law 1868), a Staunton, VA, attorney, contains a name index in the front; numbered pages are headed by client name; dates are given in the left margin and action or activity described to the right of them. Entries cease after page 189.
This book was a gift of Judge George M. (1936) and his wife Marion Lee Cochran in 1997.
Thomas D. Ranson, UVA Law 1868, was born 19 May 1843 near Charleston, West Virginia. In 1861 he joined the Confederate Army, and fought under the orders of generals Robert E. Lee and J. E. B. Stuart. He was captured by the Union Forces in 1864 and was imprisoned at Fort McHenry. After his release in 1865, he farmed and in 1868 he got his law degree from the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Staunton, VA, until 1918.