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A History Of The Nansemond River, Virginia, Peter R. Neal

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The northern branch of the Nansemond abounds in scenery of the most picturesque and romantic description, and is well deserving the attention of Nature's admirers. The stream is of fresh water, winding some three or four miles in a northwesterly direction from Suffolk, and its average width is about fifty feet. In ascending its intricate windings, you are surprised at the different aspects presented to view. In some instances, the tall and majestic junipers are entirely submerged at the base, and, as you proceed, an elevation will suddenly appear, as if by magic, rising perpendicularly from the river at least …

The Life Of William Wirt Henry, Harvie J. Skelton

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Many great historians contribute much to our heritage, literature and history, but the people of the United States of America fail to remember or recognize these men for their contributions because a historian's life is not considered exciting enough to write about. In the following chapters this author will attempt to bring to light the life of a courageous, dedicated man.

William Wirt Henry is probably best known for his literary masterpiece, The Life, Letters and Correspondence of Patrick Henry. His works and activities beyond that are numerous, but not generally known. Mr. Henry lived during this country's most turbulent's …

An Investigation Of The History Of The Virginia Manufactory Of Arms, James N. Haskett

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The first years of freedom were not calm ones for the people of the new Republic. This was as true in Virginia as elsewhere. in the State itself there was the ever present danger of slave insurrection and the Wars of the French Revolution which raged in Europe were in grave danger of spreading into this hemisphere. This situation caused the State to make provisions to secure four thousand stands of farms for its militia in 1796. This proved to be a very difficult task, for the European hostilities had seriously limited the amount of arms available.

Though Virginia had …

C. Fair Brooks, Preston W. Doyle

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"The wheel was the crowning achievement of prehistoric carpentry..." Since the discovery of the wheel and its part in revolutionizing transportation for the individual, it has been destined to play a leading role in transportation as an industry.

At the conclusion of the Civil War the era was marked by expansion in industry and agriculture. This expansion was possible through transportation. At the front was the railroad, but the horse and wagon method of transport was behind the scenes, playing an active role, and destined to rise to the front with the introduction of the combustion engine.

In the South, …

The National Retail Credit Association: An Experiment In Cooperation For Retail Credit Control, Barbara Tharpe

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With the use of consumer credit becoming more and more widespread, there has been a growing feeling that its use should be controlled. This is an examination of the fundamental developments in the history of the National Retail Credit Association, the leading association of retail credit men, giving special consideration to the idea of credit control. The credit abuses before any form of cooperation or control evolved are presented in the first chapter. Then, the part that the NRCA played in bringing about the cooperation of retail credit men is treated . The NRCA was the first to suggest voluntary …

The Attempt To Build A Town At Westham, Anne Skinner

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The history of the region of Westham is largely the history of the fortunes of William Randolph and his descendants. Virginia's gain was great when the first William Randolph, a young man of twenty-two, lett England in 1673 and settled on the banks of the James at Turkey Island. Randolph was a gentleman of an old Northampton family and he quickly gained social and political prominence. His position was heightened when he married Mary Isham, the daughter of Henry Isham who owned Bermuda Hundred. In his first year in Virginia William Randolph succeeded his uncle, Henry Randolph, as clerk of …

The Colonial Sources Of George Mason's Declaration Of Rights, Louise Ellyson Wiley

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I am attempting in this paper to describe the colonial ideas and institutions, which must have influenced George Mason in the writing of his Declaration of Rights for the Virginia Convention of 1776. First, I will show the effect of European thought and customs in the colonies. The English liberal tradition, which culminated in the seventeenth century struggle for civil liberties and a constitutional monarchy, is quite important. Since the Declaration of Rights can not be understood unless its immediate background is known, I will discuss the more American aspects of colonial life, which must have affected George Mason's political …

Negro Education In The City Of Richmond, Louis Brenner

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Administrative Reorganization Of The Government Of The State Of Virginia Under Governor Byrd, Robert Greg Barr

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Administrative reorganization is a tremendous subject. In the final analysis, it involves the history of administrative organization, proposals for its improvement, reforms in its structure, desirability of further changes, and the adequacy and beneficial effects of changes already instituted, as well as the broad ramifications of governmental theory inextricably related to any scheme of administrative structure. It is a study of the entire executive branch of a government in all its aspects. These subjects offer interesting fields of research for the student of government and history, as well as the student of economics in some instances. Exploitation of the opportunities …

History Of The Richmond Public Library, A. Simpson Williams Jr.

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In writing this history of the Richmond Public Library, l felt it necessary to trace very briefly the library movement in the City of Richmond up to and including the final drive for a Public Library.

George Wythe : A Biographical Sketch, Harold G. Owens

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George Wythe is not nearly as well known or appreciated by Virginians as he should be. It is surprising how little has been done in Virginia in remembrance of him, who left so much for his state and for his country. In this thesis, which is more than an eulogy, I have attempted to show just how important George Wythe was to the development of our state and to the growth of the American Republic. If this paper ever finds its way into the hands of one reader who has never heard of George Wythe, its purpose will have been …

History Of The National Retail Credit Association, Elizabeth Redford

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With the ever increasing use of credit in our present day economy, it is only fitting that our attention be directed to an organization which, although established less than thirty years ago, has come to be one of the most important institutions in our modern credit economy. This institution is the National Retail Credit Association which was established for the expressed purpose of bettering credit conditions in the field of retall trade. As far as we are able to determine, no complete history of this organization has been published, and it is for this reason that I have endeavored in …

The Reflection Of The United States Steel Corporation In America's Industrial Drama, Ethne Flanagan

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We need only to open our eyes and cast a glance about us to recognize that our modern twentieth century life is girded with steel. Steel is the very key product of the present era of the evolution of man. In the beginning it was stone, then bronze, and then iron, but today it is steel which conditions the industrialized political, economic, and social life of our country.

Seafaring Virginia, Edith M. Harker

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It is the desire of the writer to create in you a growing interest in the part of the waters through and around Virginia played in her sea going life. Her home ports, shipping, builders, owners, names of vessels, cargoes, distant ports, dangers, and westward eyes.

Most of the material has come from the Virginia Gazettes of 1736 through 1766. The bibliography acknowledges the remainder.

Buie's Creek Must Live : The Story Of How Dr. J. A. Campbell Built A Junior College Out Of A Small One Room School House, Paul J. Harrell

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In the sphere of education, North Carolina is perhaps the most progressive state of the South. To carry out its extensive program, it has a well equipped system of primary and secondary schools, many junior and senior colleges and a large State University.

Campbell College, one of its well known junior colleges, stands as a monument to a man who dared to "lose his life" in the service of youth. He gave of his time, talent, and money to the building of an institution where poor boys and girls might receive an education. The spirit of Dr. J.A. Campbell lives …

The James River And Kanawha Canal Company, Lucien Warner Bingham

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In the early colonial days when Governor Spottswood, with his Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, ventured to cross the mountains, then a barrier between Virginia and the territory west, he realized the necessity of a water way to connect the two portions of the state so that the products of the western part could be brought to the Atlantic coast, both for the use of that portion of Virginia then being settled by the white man and for shipment to foreign countries. Yet he was so occupied with other interests that he could do nothing for the achievement of such …

Slave Life In Virginia Between 1736-1776 As Shown In The Advertisements Of The Virginia Gazettes, Florence Lafoon

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Newspapers are an invaluable index to a period and the personalized Virginia Gazettes are particularly revealing of the attitudes of the Colonial period. Although the advertisements for runaway slaves give more of the master's feeling for the slave than the life of the slave himself, it is hoped that the writer has sufficiently drawn forth the inferences toward this latter point to make all that is available clear. There are no copies of the Virginia Gazette between the years 1739/40 - 1744/45, and 1746 - 1766. This would make a great difference to a chronology of any kind, but the …

The Development Of The Peanut Industry In Nansemond County, Parker E. Brown

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Contrary to popular belief only a smell percentage of the world supply of peanuts is raised in the United States. The greater portion of them are produced in opain and China and shipped to this country to be used in manufacturing.

Fitzhugh Lee, Hunter W. Martin

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It might well note that Fitzhugh seems to be the last of his clan to demonstrate those qualities of leadership, which raise one above the common herd, for in a changing and growing America the family has today become obscure and from it has arisen no recent leader.

Public Life Of Peyton Randolph, Sidney Barney

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Randolph was a man well read in law, and a person whose opinions were often asked and highly esteemed. He was a very large and inert man and this fact caused him to get less business than he could have ordinarily obtained. Randolph was well read and up to date on all political affairs. While in office, he endeavored to carry out the duties to the best of his abilities, and his work was rarely criticized. A good example of his work and philosophy can be found in the Fredericksburg Resolutions of 1775, in which he laid down the principles …

A History Of The First Kent Baptist Church, Kent Cliffs, New York, 1810-1910, Gordon M. Christensen

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On a rural hillside overlooking the Boyds Corners Reservoir stands The First Kent Baptist Church. Kent Cliffs, the hamlet which it serves, is located in the western end of the town of Kent, in the approximate center of the county of Putnam, New York.

Here in the foothills of the Berkshires and fifty-two miles north of Columbus Circle in the heart of New York City, this rural church serves a community of approximately one hundred families. However, due to the influx of summer residents escaping the heat of the city, the population of Kent Cliffs more than doubles from June …

The Public Life Of Edmund Randolph, H. J. Gordon Jr.

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In this paper I shall make no attempt to treat any portion of the private life of Mr. Randolph. His family and domestic affairs will be ignored completely. Only those portions of his life spent in the service of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or the Federal Union shall enter into the reader's ken. And that story alone is long enough and distinguished enough.

We first encounter Edmund Randolph in this paper when he enters the Continental Army as Aide-de-Camp to General Washington, and part from his as he sadly pens his resignation from the office of Secretary of State. I …

Balthasar Hubmaier, James Hardwood Barnett Iii

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Balthasar Hubmaier stands as one of the great unknowns of the Reformation. Only in the Baptist annals is he treated to any extent. Perhaps the reason lies in the fact that the Anabaptists were very much in the minority throughout the Reformation. They never had even a city which might be called Baptist, much less a nation. To be sure a great number of them lived at Waldshut for a while and then at Nikolsburg under the protection of some Moravian lords. But this happy state did not last long. Perchance, it is because of this that C.J.H. Hayes in …

The Political Career Of Sir John Harvey : Governor Of Virginia From 1629 To 1639, Merrill R. Stewart

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Sir John Harvey first became connected with the colony of Virginia in 1623, when he was appointed to a commission to investigate the administration of the colony. James I, having had numerous disagreements with the London Company, owing to the subscription to a different political philosophy by its leaders, had determined to have the colony of Virginia for the crown. He used the fiction of colonial expansion to gain popular approval and bad administration on the part of those in control for his reason. The purpose of this board was to gain sane sort of evidence to give justification for …

William Evelyn Cameron : A Biography, Robert E. Leitch

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William Evelyn Cameron was born in Petersburg, Virginia, November 29th. His father, Walker Anderson Cameron, was a cotton broker, descended from Sir Ewan Lochiei, the celebrated chief of Clan Cameron in Scotland.

Among Cameron's distinguished progenitors were Benjamin Harrison, who settled in Virginia in 1630, and was Secretary to the Colony; Sir Dudley Diggs, Master of the Rolla to King Charles l; Colonel William Byrd of Westover; and Edmund Jenings, deputy-governor of the colony from 1706 to 1710.

A History Of The Origin And Growth Of Sandston Virginia, Paul E. Nauman

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The Emigration Of The French Huguenots To Virginia, Samuel W. Laughon

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The Huguenots, though they were not known by this nomenclature until later, had their origin in France about the middle of the sixteenth century, nearly 400 years ago. As pioneers in the field of absoute libery, the Huguenots probably rendered their greatest sergvice to the world. From the beginning, their slogan has ever been: "An open Bible, freedom of conscience, political and religious liberty."

Greek And Roman Child Life As Represented In Some Greek And Latin Authors, Anne Louise Sanford

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In the following study I have attempted to present a picture of Greek and Roman child life as it is represented in some Greek and Latin authors. Most of my material has been derived from well known authors such as Homer, Plato, Quintilian, etc. But there has been an attempt to enlarge my scope by consulting some other Greek and Latin authors easily available in the University of Richmond Library, the Richmond Public Library and the Virginia state Library. In my general discussion I have drawn freely on available works which would be helpful for elucidation and comparison.

Economic And Social Implications Of The Southern Literary Messenger 1834-1864, James E. King

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From 1774 to 1824 Virginia played the most conspicuous role in creating and directing a union of democratic states. In 1861 there is the anomaly of the Old Dominion occupying the stellar position in an attempt to disrupt the confederation which was her hands-work. No amount of explanation as to economic interests, slavery, abolitionism or frustration seems in the last analysis, adequate in understanding this great transition. When reasonable arguments are exhausted and there is yet no central solution to the problem, there remains only the catholic element of change as a conclusion.

Reconstruction In Richmond City Government, Philip Turner King

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By 1870 the "corner" had been rounded. The end of reconstruction was in full view and was momentarily expected. Still, the hope for the reestablishment of Virginia's former status was based entirely upon rumor. It was a period when people held their breaths. Readmission was being fought bitterly in the congress. To Sumner the election in Virginia had been just one big fraud and the state was still "smoking with rebellion.