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NOTES TO V. THE LIBRARIANS OF THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS.
The abbreviations indicated below are used for the materials which are
most frequently referred to in the footnotes for this section.
Alumni Bulletin. Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia, Vol. 1-7,
1894(May)-1900; new series, vol. 1-7, 1901-1907; third series, vol. 1-17,
1908-1924.
Alumni News. University of Virginia Alumni News. Vol. 1(1913)-present.
Barringer-Garnett-Page. University of Virginia: Its History, Influence,
Equipment and Characteristics, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits
of Founders, Benefactors, Officers, and Alumni, Editorial Staff... Paul
Brandon Barringer, James Mercer Garnett, Rosewell Page... New York,
Lewis Publishing Company, 1904. Two volumes.
Bruce. Bruce, Philip Alexander. History of the University of Virginia,
1819-1919. New York, Macmillan, c1920-1922. Five volumes.
Cappon. Cappon, Lester J. Virginia Newspapers 1821-1935: A Bibliography
with Historical Introduction and Notes. New York, Appleton-Century, 1936.
Monograph no. 22 of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences,
University of Virginia.
Culbreth. Culbreth, David Marvel Reynolds. The University of Virginia:
Memories of Her Student-Life and Professors. New York, Neale, 1908.
Faculty Library Committee Minutes. Typewritten minutes of meetings of the
Faculty Library Committee, beginning in 1907. These are located in the
General Office of the Alderman Library.
Faculty Minutes. Manuscript minutes of meetings of the University of
Virginia Faculty. These are among the University Archives in the Alderman
Library.
Patton, Glimpses. Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J. The University
of Virginia: Glimpses of its Past and Present, Lynchburg, Bell, c1900.
Schele de Vere. Schele de Vere, Maximilian. Students of the University of
Virginia: A Semi-Centennial Catalogue... Baltimore, c1878.
University Catalogue. Issued annually from 1825. Began as A Catalogue of
the Officers and Students of the University of Virginia. Now appears as
University of Virginia Record: Catalogue.
Visitors' Minutes. Manuscript minutes of meetings of the University of
Virginia Board of Visitors. These are among the University Archives in the
Alderman Library.
430. Culbreth, p. 454. For sketch of David M. R. Culbreth, see Barringer-Garnett-Page,
vol. 2, pp. 123, 124.
JOHN VAUGHAN KEAN
431. In the manuscript collection at the Alderman Library there are letters
of application for the library position from A. MacDonald of Philadelphia
(6 December 1824), from John L. Thomas of Charlottesville(8 January 1825),
from William H. Elliott of Charlotte Court House, Virginia(31 December 1825),
from John A. Taliaferro of Charlottesville(15 January 1826), and from Mann
A. Page of Fredericksburg(16 January 1826).
432. Andrew Kean, Charlottesville, to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1825.
This letter is in the Alderman Library manuscript collection. The quotation
concerning John Vaughan Kean's previous education is from that letter.
433. Hackle, Emma Jeane. Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Chief of the Bureau of
War, Confederate War Department: A Biographical Study. A Thesis Presented
to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the
Degree of Master of Arts, August 1952. Miss Hackle had access to Kean
family papers through Dr. Robert Hill Kean.
434. The expression "beloved old Doctor" is taken from Wight, Richard
Cunningham, The Story of Goochland, Enlarged edition, Richmond, 1943, p. 68.
435. Anderson, L. B., Brief Biographies of Virginia Physicians of Olden
Times, Richmond, 1889, p. 6; Wingfield, Marshall, A History of Caroline
County, Virginia, Richmond, 1924, p. 157 (this sketch of John Vaughan Kean
borrows largely from Anderson); Miss Hackle's thesis, which seems to verify
fully the story of the offer of the professorship of medicine at the University
of Virginia.
436. University Catalogue, session of 1825, p. 5.
437. The "Napoleon" title is found in Wight, Richard Cunningham, The Story
of Goochland, Enlarged edition, Richmond, 1943, p. 68.
438. The birth (1803) and death (1876) dates are accepted from Miss Hackle's
thesis, which is based on family records. Marshall Wingfield gives the
birth date as 1802.
439. The pupil was L. R. Anderson, and the Latin description of Kean's
manner is given on page one of his Brief Biographies of Virginia Physicians
of Olden Times. The Marshall Wingfield book borrows from Anderson.
440. Barringer-Garnett-Page, vol. 1, pp. 384-385; Brock, Robert Alonzo,
Virginia and Virginians ... Richmond, 1888, vol. 2, pp. 571, 572;
Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 221; vol. 4, p. 198. A Civil War diary kept by R.G.H.
Kean and presented to the University Library by General Kean and his son
is in process of being edited for publication by Prof. Edward Younger of
the University of Virginia Faculty.
441. General Kean received an M.D. degree from the University of Virginia
in 1883. For an outline of his career see Who's Who in America, vol. 26,
1950-1951, p. 1445. He died in September 1950, and is buried at Monticello.
His son, Robert Hill Kean, received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the
University in 1938. Father and son received elections to the Raven Society
that same year, 1938.
442. See indices to Annual Reports of the Archivist, University of Virginia
Library.
WILLIAM WERTENBAKER
443. Wertenbaker's connection with the Library covered a span of fifty-six
years, 1826 to 1882. His active service as Librarian was in three parts,
of five years(1826-1831), twenty-two years(1835-1857), and sixteen years
(1865-1881), a total of forty-three years. Miss Dinwiddie holds the record
for the longest continuous term of service, thirty-nine years(1911-1950).
During all except the first year she was Assistant Librarian.
444. There are special authorities for a number of the details about William
Wertenbaker. The first is a letter of 17 July 1952 from Prof. Thomas
Jefferson Wertenbaker, a grandson of the Librarian. The letter is filed
with these footnotes. The second is a memorial to William Wertenbaker,
dated 12 June 1882, in volume two of the Sessional Records of the Charlottesville
Presbyterian Church. See footnote 463 for the text of the
memorial.
445. Rawlings, Mary, The Albemarle of Other Days, Charlottesville, 1925,
pp. 39-45.
446. The tradition is mentioned on page 100 of Richard McIlwaine's Memories
of Three Score Years and Ten, New York, 1908.
447. See articles by William Wertenbaker's son, Charles Christian
Wertenbaker, in Alumni Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 1, May 1897, p. 21, and in
Alumni News, vol. 2, no. 9, 7 January 1914, p. 104. See also Bruce, vol. 2,
p. 198.
448. Rawlings, Mary, The Albemarle of Other Days, Charlottesville, 1925,
p. 67; also the Presbyterian Church Memorial of 12 June 1882. The militia
company was commanded by Capt. Triplett T. Estes of Nelson.
449. See article on John Hartwell Cocke by Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., in
Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 4, pp. 253, 254.
450. Bruce, vol. 1, p. 119 (Trustee of Albemarle Academy); p. 121 (Visitor
of Central College); p. 190 (Proctor of Central College); p. 238 (Bursar
of the University).
451. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 331; Patton, John Shelton, Jefferson, Cabell and
the University of Virginia, New York, 1906, p. 275.
452. Bruce, vol. 1, pp. 188-190.
453. The document is number 1438 of the Jefferson Papers in the Alderman
Library.
454. See page 16 of this historical sketch and footnote 79.
455. In an article "Early Days of the University" in Alumni Bulletin, vol. 4,
no. 1, May 1897, beginning on page 21, his son, Charles Christian
Wertenbaker, stated: "My mother, Louisiana Timberlake, of Poplar Plains,
Caroline County, also came to the University in 1825, accompanying her
sister, Mrs. Warner Minor. Mr. Minor was one of the six University hotel
keepers in 1825, and occupied the central pavilion on the West Range, now
the Hall of the Jefferson Society. My parents were married at Poplar Plains,
in 1829, by the Rev. Addison Lewis, and lived on the East Range...
456. Bruce, vol. 2, pp. 185, 199-201.
457. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 198.
458. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 199, footnote; Faculty Minutes, 16 July 1831.
459. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 199.
460. Faculty Minutes, 10 September 1831. This minute records his resignation
as Secretary of the Faculty. The University Catalogue for 1829-1830 lists
Wertenbaker as Assistant Proctor, but the Catalogue for 1830-1831 does not.
461. Visitors' Minutes, 8 July 1835.
462. The University Catalogues during 1848-1861 list the names of the Hotel
Keepers. Wertenbaker's name appears in the Catalogue for the session 18541855.
His resignation from that position is recorded in Visitors' Minutes,
29 June 1855.
463. McIlwaine, Richard, Memories of Three Score Years and Ten, New York,
1908, p. 100. The following memorial was entered for 12 June 1882 in volume
two of the Sessional Records of the Charlottesville Presbyterian Church.
It is signed by the Rev. George L. Petrie who was Pastor and Clerk of the
Session. The text is an uncorrected copy of a microfilm (M227) that was
read with considerable difficulty.
The committee appointed to prepare a paper with reference to
the death of our esteemed brother, William Wertenbaker, presented
the following, which was approved and ordered to be recorded.
In Memoriam — William Wertenbaker, late a Member of this
Session, died suddenly at his residence near the University on
Friday the 7th of April 1882, and the surviving members of the
Session esteem it to be their duty and privilege to place on
their records some Memorial, though brief and simple, of his life
and character.
Mr. Wertenbaker was the son of Christian and Mary Wertenbaker.
The former was of German descent and was born in Bladenburg,
457. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 198. The expression "chield among them taking
notes" is borrowed from stanza I of Robert Burns' "On the Late Captain
Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland":
I rede you tent it:
A chield's amang you takin' notes,
And faith he'll prent it."
Maryland. The latter was Miss Grady of Caroline County, Virginia.
Our late friend and brother was born in Milton, in the County
of Albemarle, on the 1st of June 1797. When only 14 years of age
he became the efficient Assistant of the Clerk of the County of
Albemarle. Whilst thus employed, the War of 1812 began, and he
soon entered the service of his country as a volunteer in the
Company of Capt. Estes of Nelson, which formed a part of the Brigade
commanded by Gen. John H. Cocke, late of Bremo in the County
of Fluvanna. After the war Mr. Wertenbaker was again employed
in the Clerk's office, where he continued for some years, and then
served for one or more years as Deputy Sheriff of the County of
Albemarle. This position he left at the opening of the University
in 1825, and became a student of Law at the Institution under
John Tayloe Lomax, the first Law Professor and afterwards one of
the brightest ornaments of the Virginia Judiciary. In the summer
of 1826, however, through the influence of Thos. Jefferson, who
knew him well and esteemed him highly, he was appointed Librarian
of the University, and then the course of his life was changed
and thenceforward the University was to be the scene of his labors
and his usefulness, as well as the object of his pride and devoted
affection. This position he held during the remainder of his life
with the exception of a few years; and for many years he was also
Secretary of the Faculty. And the duties of both Stations were so
discharged by him as not only to give entire satisfaction to the
distinguished men with whom as Visitors and Professors during the
long period he was in such intimate and honored association, —
but also to win the respect and confidence and friendship as well
of the great body of the Alumni of the University in whose progress
and standing whilst there and their success and welfare in
after life he exercised and manifested the deepest interest.
For a year or two previous to his death, Mr. Wertenbaker
was unable from age and declining health to discharge the active
duties of Librarian, and they were devolved upon an Assistant.
But whilst doing this, the Board of Visitors did honor to themselves
and afforded substantive and touching evidence of their
high appreciation of more than half a century's faithful and
efficient service, by continuing his salary undiminished as long
as he lived.
Mr. Wertenbaker connected himself with the Presbyterian Church
of Charlottesville on the 26th day of November 1842 — the Rev.
Wm. S. White being then its Pastor, and on the 10th day of February
1844 he was elected a Member of this Session.
Our friend and brother has now closed his long and useful life;
and we desire now to record our testimony founded partly on tradition
of the community and to a large extent on our own observation,
to the great intelligence, integrity, and fidelity with which he
met and discharged the duties imposed on him in the various stations
which he filled, as well as to the quiet and unostentatious and
unobtrusive but steady and consistent Christian character which
marked his life for more than forty years.
And finally in token of our sorrow for his death, and our
respect for his memory:-
Resolved, First — That the foregoing tribute of personal and
Christian regard be spread on the records of the Session
Second — That the same be read to the Congregation at the
convenience of the Pastor, — and
Third — That a Copy thereof be communicated by the Clerk of
the Session to the family of the deceased, with assurances of
our tender sympathy in their bereavement.
464. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 290; vol. 3, pp. 27, 131, 132; vol. 4, pp. 109, 110.
465. See page 27 of this historical sketch.
466. There seems to be no record of Wertenbaker's appointment as Secretary
of the Board of Visitors. But Visitors' Minutes, 28 June 1866, fixed the
salary of the Librarian and the two Secretaries combined, as $800.
Wertenbaker resigned as Secretary of the Board of Visitors in 1871 —
Visitors' Minutes, 27 and 29 June 1871 — and his salary was then reduced
to $700. See also Visitors' Minutes, 19 September 1872.
467. Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 269, 270.
468. See letter of 17 July 1852 from Prof. Thomas J. Wertenbaker, which
is filed with these notes.
469. See page 46A of this historical sketch and the "Dancing in the Rotunda"
supplement to the footnotes.
470. Bruce, vol. 4, p. 55; Faculty Minutes, 18 June 1879; Visitors' Minutes,
3 July 1879 and 29 June 1881.
471. Culbreth, p. 455. The faculty resolutions at the time of his death
are recorded in Faculty Minutes, 1 May 1882, and on the last page of the
University Catalogue for the session of 1881-1882. His death occurred
on 7 April 1882.
472. University Catalogue, session of 1882-1883, p. 55.
473. Faculty Minutes, 1 December 1868, See footnote 172.
474. Bruce, vol. 4, p. 55.
475. Bruce, vol. 5, p. 231; Patton, Glimpses, p. 18: Smith, Francis H., in
Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 7, no. 2, April 1914, p. 166.
Patton says the portrait was painted at one sitting. It is now hung in
the Bayly Museum.
476. Bohn Album for 1859, engraving of Secretary of the Faculty.
477. Barringer, Paul B., The Natural Bent, Chapel Hill, c1949, p. 200.
478. In Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 7, no. 2, April 1914, pp. 160166.
479. Culbreth, David M. R., The University of Virginia: Memories of Her
Student-Life and Professors, New York, 1809, pp. 22-24, 44, 141, 452-455.
480. McIlwaine, Richard, Memories of Three Score Years and Ten, New York,
1908, pp. 100, 101.
481. In Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 8, no. 1, January 1915, pp. 1016.
482. This story is told by Francis H. Smith (Alumni Bulletin, third series,
vol. 7, no. 2, April 1914, p. 166) without giving the names of the two
Professors. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 198, repeats it, and names Key and
Blaettermann.
483. Bruce, vol. 3, p. 210.
484. Alumni News, vol. 2, no. 2, 1 October 1913, p. 20. The article is
entitled "A Look Backward", it is based on a copy of the University
Catalogue for the session of 1856-1857, and it is unsigned.
485. This is oral tradition of an objection made by a Professor in a faculty
meeting discussion in the early days of Alderman's presidency.
486. Both this letter and its draft form are in the Jefferson Papers, number
2283, at the Alderman Library. It is quoted in full in the article
on `"Our Library" by Frederick Page in Alumni Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 2,
November 1895, p. 82, and in Culbreth, p. 22. It is mentioned by his son,
Charles Christian Wertenbaker, in Alumni Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 1, May 1897,
p. 21, and in Alumni News, vol. 2, no. 9, 7 January 1914, p. 104.
487. In section II of this historical sketch, pages 15 and 15A.
WILLIAM HENRY BROCKENBROUGH
488. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 200.
489. Patton, Glimpses, p. 34.
490. Bruce, vol. 1, pp. 238, 275.
491. Bruce, vol. 1, pp. 276-278.
492. Bruce, vol. 1, pp. 250, 259, 264.
493. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 6. Professor Long was short in stature, and Bruce
quotes a student couplet:
But wants that little Long."
the students from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, 1766, chapter eight,
The Hermit. The form there is
Nor wants that little long."
appeared in Young's Night Thoughts, 1742, Night four, line 118, as follows:
Nor that little, long."
more recent writers, including Dickens in Old Curiosity Shop, 1841,
Chapter eight.
494. Bruce, vol. 1, p. 277; vol. 3, p. 191.
495. Bruce, vol. 3, p. 190.
496. Visitors' Minutes, 19 July 1833, records a statement by Librarian
Brockenbrough concerning "his late father."
497. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 199, describes the Librarian as "a kinsman of the
proctor of that name." But the preceding footnote and a letter from the
Librarian to Joseph C. Cabell dated 11 August 1834 make it clear that the
Proctor was the Librarian's father.
498. Visitors' Minutes, 18 July 1831.
499. Faculty Minutes, 25 February 1832.
500. Faculty Minutes, 2 October 1832.
501. Visitors' Minutes, 13 July 1833.
502. Visitors' Minutes, 19 July 1833.
503. This letter of Brockenbrough to Joseph C. Cabell, dated 11 August 1834,
is preserved in the Alderman Library.
504. See section II, page 19, of this historical sketch.
505. Visitors' Minutes, 17 July 1832.
506. Visitors' Minutes, 19 July 1833.
507. Faculty Minutes, 8 October 1834. John Patton Emmet, Professor of
Chemistry and Materia Medica, was Chairman of the special committee, and
the other members were George Tucker, Professor of Philosophy, and Alfred
T. Magill, Professor of Medicine.
508. Faculty Minutes, 11 November 1834.
509. Faculty Minutes, 18 November 1834.
510. Faculty Minutes, 28 November 1834.
511. Faculty Minutes, 11 November 1834.
512. Faculty Minutes, 30 December 1834 and 9 January 1835.
513. Faculty Minutes, 30 June 1835.
514. Visitors' Minutes, 8 July 1835.
515. The faculty minutes do not record the law degrees for those years, but
the alumni record (Schele de Vere) indicates that Brockenbrough was granted
his in 1834.
516. Patton, Glimpses, p. 34. The Congressional Directory, which is the
reference for the following note, gives his date of birth as 23 February
month of being thirty-eight when he died.
517. Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1949... Washington,
1950, pp. 891-892. There is no mention in this account of Brockenbrough
having been Librarian at the University of Virginia. In fact the account
does not even mention the University of Virginia as the place of his education
in law.
THOMAS BEVERLEY HOLCOMBE
518. McPherson, Hannah Elizabeth, The Holcombes: Nation Builders, Washington,
D.C., Privately printed, 1947, pp. 745-747. Dictionary of American
Biography, vol. 9, pp. 134-136, articles on James Philemon Holcombe by
James M. Callahan and on William Henry Holcombe by Clarence Bartlett.
519. See references in footnote 518 and Bruce, vol. 3, p. 72.
520. See section III, page 31, of this historical sketch, and footnote 141.
521. Barringer-Garnett-Page, vol. 1, p. 359; Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 72, 73.
522. See references in footnote 518. James Philemon Holcombe, the Law
Professor, was born in 1820, Thomas Beverley, the Librarian, in 1823,
and William Henry, the Physician, in 1825.
523. See McPherson reference in footnote 518, page.746.
524. See section II, page 27, of this historical sketch, and Visitors'
Minutes, 27 June 1857.
525. See section II, pages 24 (enrollment and book purchases) and 28A
(catalogue).
526. Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 105, 106; Faculty Minutes, 31 October 1860.
527. Faculty Minutes, 2 December 1861.
528. Visitors' Minutes, 30 June 1870.
529. New Orleans Daily Picayune, 17 December 1872, p. 4, c.4.: "Holcombe -
Suddenly of softening of the brain, Mr. Thomas B. Holcombe, aged fifty
years, brother of Dr. Wm. H. Holcombe of this city." See letters of 12
July 1852 from Dr. Garland F. Taylor, Director of Libraries, Tulane
University, New Orleans, and of Librarian Holcombe's great niece, Miss
Edith Aiken of New Orleans, dated 30 July 1952.
ROBERT RIDDICK PRENTIS
530. Faculty Minutes, 2 December 1861. See footnote 153.
531. See section III of this historical sketch, page 33 for enrollment of
students and page 35 for hours of opening and appropriations for the
purchase of books.
532. The reference, of course, is to Matthew, Chapter 25, verses 14-30.
533. The following data have been supplied by Prof. Robert Henning Webb:"Robert
Riddick Prentis: born April 11, 1818, in Suffolk, Va., fifth
of the eleven children of Joseph Prentis II (1783-1851, son of Judge
Joseph Prentis of Williamsburg and Margaret Bowdoin Prentis of `Hungars',
Northampton Co.,; alumnus of William & Mary College; lawyer, Surveyor
and Inspector of the Port of Suffolk, Clerk of the Superior and
Inferior Courts of Nansemond Co.; Visitor of William & Mary College,
Delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830) and
Susan Caroline Riddick Prentis (1791-1862, daughter of Col. Robert Moore
Riddick of `Jericho', Nansemond Co., and Elizabeth Riddick Carr Prentis,
widow of Capt. Samuel Carr, 1746-1777, of Albemarle Co., brother of
Dabney Carr, the husband of Martha, sister of Thomas Jefferson); attended
Amelia Academy, student of the University of Va. 1838-1848; married
March 21, 1844, Margaret Ann Whitehead (1826-1910, daughter of Elliott
and Catherine Flynn Whitehead); father of twelve children, including
Robert Riddick Prentis II (1855-1931), Chief Justice of the Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals; `Proctor and Patron' of the University of Va.
1853-1861, Proctor 1861-1865; Acting Librarian 1862-1865; Commissioner
of Accounts 1867-1871; lived at `Monroe Hill'; died November 23, 1871;
buried in the University Cemetery."
534. Bruce, vol. 3, p. 27.
535. Visitors' Minutes, 6 July 1865.
536. The title Commissioner of Accounts, which was first used in 1867,
was retained until 1905, when it was changed back to Bursar.
536A. The authority for the statement that Prentis was Clerk of Albemarle
County is Frederick Johnston, Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks,
Lynchburg, 1888, p. 30.
537. The son, Joseph Prentis, is buried in the University Cemetery. His
gravestone bears this inscription: "Joseph Prentis, Second Sergt. of
Co. 1, 9 Reg't Va. Vol. Son of R. R. and M. A. Prentis. Born in
Suffolk, Virginia, June 15, 1845, was killed in battle of Malvern Hill,
July 1, 1862."
538. The first of the following references to the career of Chief Justice
Robert Riddick Prentis II contains the statement that his father had
been a "collector of internal revenue for the Confederacy." The
references are: Alumni News, vol. 20, no. 3, November-December 1931,
p. 65; Barringer-Garnett-Page, vol. 2, p. 134; Who Was Who in America
1897-1942, p. 992.
539. Professor Webb resigned in 1950. The raising of the endowment fund
was started in 1952, the year when he would have retired had he not
previously resigned, and was completed in 1953. The amount of the fund
was approximately $1,500. See Alumni News, vol. 41, no. 8, June 1953,
pp. 7, 29. Professor Webb died 2 November 1952.
WILLIAM AYLETT WINSTON
540. See section III, page 42, and footnote 180, of this historical sketch.
541. The early matriculation records are preserved among the University
Archives in the Alderman Library.
542. Page, Rosewell, Hanover County: Its History and Legends, n.p., copyright
by Rosewell Page, 1926, pp. 131-142.
543. Page Rosewell, Hanover County... p. 41.
544. The highly probable conjecture that he was this William Aylett Winston
is based on data supplied by Mr. Lucian D. Winston III of Winston, Virginia,
and confirmed by the Rev. Clayton Torrence, Director and Corresponding
Secretary of the Virginia Historical Society. A letter from Mr. Torrence
is filed with these footnotes.
545. Schele de Vere, Maximilian, Students of the University of Virginia:
A Semi-Centennial Catalogue... Baltimore, c1878, has this entry:
"Winston, Wm. A. 1827. Hanover C. H., Va., 50 C.S.A. Clerk Leg. of Va."
This list is printed also in volume two of Barringer-Garnett-Page.
546. Torrence, Clayton, Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, Richmond,
1927, pp. 54-66. The three brothers who established in Minneapolis the
railway contracting firm of Winston Brothers were Fendall Gregory Winston,
Philip Bickerton Winston, and William Overton Winston.
547. Alumni Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 2, July 1894, p. 35. Notices of his death
appeared on 22 January 1894 in three Minneapolis newspapers, the
Minneapolis Journal, the Minneapolis Times, and the Minneapolis Tribune.
Copies of these notices are given in a letter of 17 August 1952 from James
Kingsley, Jr., that letter being filed with these notes.
In addition to the Winston references recorded in these notes are
Cocke, William Ronald III, Hanover County Chancery Wills and Notes, Columbia,
Virginia, 1940, and genealogical notes in the Richmond Times Dispatch for
1903 October 25, November 1 and 22, December 6, 13, 20, 27, 1904 January 3,
October 9 and 30, 1905 March 5, 1907 March 24, and 1917 March 25. Only the
1907 reference is available in the Alderman Library.
JAMES BISCOE BAKER
548. Visitors' Minutes, 29 June 1886.
549. That knowledge of Baker's bravery under fire may have been a contributing
cause for his appointment as Librarian is merely a conjecture. But
one of the members of the Board of Visitors, W. A. Stuart, was a resident
of Saltville near Abingdon, where Baker was head of a boys' school.
550. 17 October 1834 is the date of birth given in Baker's matriculation
entry.
551. These details are from a vivid account by Professor Thornton in the
Alumni Bulletin, new series, vol. 3, no. 2, April 1903, pp. 37-39. The
article carries a photograph of Baker — whose beard was nearly equal in
length to that of Prof. Noah K. Davis!
552. Visitors' Minutes, 4 August 1886.
553. University Catalogue, session of 1886-1887, pp. 62 (48,000 volumes),
13 (301 students); session of 1890-1891, pp. 2 (50,000 volumes), xix (472
students).
554. The Albemarle County Deputy Clerk position is mentioned in Alumni
Bulletin, third series, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1913, pp. 289-290; Alumni
News, vol. 1, no. 1, 19 March 1913, pp. 2, 3, 5.
555. Visitors' Minutes, 12 July 1888. The initial salary of the new position,
Clerk of the Chairman of the Faculty, was $500. Visitors' Minutes, 24
April 1890, record its increase to $600. This and the combined Librarian-Secretary
of the Faculty salary, $1,000, together amounted to $1,600. When
the positions were regrouped in 1891, the salaries of the library post and
of the combined secretaryships were each made $800, thus leaving the total
appropriation unchanged. But by the change Baker received $200 less and
Page $200 more than by the previous arrangement.
556. Alumni Bulletin, new series, vol. 2, no. 4, October 1902, p. 35.
557. This and the following quotation given in the text are from Professor
Thornton's article in Alumni Bulletin, new series, vol. 3, no. 2, April
1903, pp. 37-39. Both as Secretary of the Faculty and as Clerk of the
Chairman of the Faculty, Baker would serve in Professor Thornton's office,
Professor Thornton having been Chairman of the Faculty from 1888 to 1896.
FREDERICK WINSLOW PAGE
558. Page, Robert Channing Moore, Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia...
second edition, New York, 1893, pp. 126, 127 for Frederick Winslow Page,
passim for the Page family.
559. James Morris Page (1864-1836) was a member of the Faculty of the
University of Virginia from 1896 until his death. Thomas Walker Page (18661937)
was Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia from 1906
to 1911, and was a member of the United States Tariff Commission from 1918
until his death. These two were brothers. There are sketches of each on
page 928 of Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942.
560. College Topics, 3, 10, 13 February 1909.
561. Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 52, 158, 164, footnotes.
562. Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1913, pp. 289-290;
Page, R. C. M., Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, p. 126 (for
marriage); also memoranda by Frederick Page, supplied by Miss Anne P.
Brydon.
563. Cappon, Lester J., Virginia Newspapers: A Bibliography with Historical
Introduction and Notes, New York, 1936, pp. 150, 151.
564, The war service details, supplied by Miss Anne P. Brydon, are from a
statement certified by the Virginia State Librarian.
565. Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1913, pp. 289-290;
Alumni News, vol. 1, no. 1, 19 March 1913, pp. 2, 3, 5. From memoranda
by Frederick Page supplied by Miss Anne P. Brydon it is indicated that his
farming was first at Millwood near Winchester. Later he returned to Keswick.
566. Bruce, vol. 4, pp. 56, 322; Faculty Minutes, 5 October 1903. The
tribute by the Faculty was printed in Alumni Bulletin, new series, vol. 3,
no. 4, October 1903, p. 234.
567. See letter from Prof. John W. Wayland, 28 May 1951, filed with these
notes," ... that estimable and cultured old gentleman (and I mentally underline
gentleman), Frederick W. Page. In spite of his gray hair he had a keen
eye and a quick step; was always obliging and courteous. I do not think
he ever had any intimation of modern library science or methods, but he
seemed to know just where each and every book was and could get it for you
in a jiffy."
568. The feeling of discouragement may well have been accentuated by the
actions of the Board of Visitors with regard to his salary. It had been
placed at $800 when Page was reappointed Librarian in 1891. By Visitors'
Minutes, 16 June 1897, it was raised to $1,000. By Visitors' Minutes, 16
June 1898, it was reduced to $800. By Visitors' Minutes, 13 October 1898,
a request for restoration to $1,000 was declined. By Visitors' Minutes,
10 October 1899, a second request for restoration was declined.
569. Alumni News, vol. 1, no. 1, 19 March 1913, pp. 2, 3, 5.
570. Page, R. C. M., Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, p. 127.
571. Alumni Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 3, November 1897, p. 85.
572. Alumni Bulletin, new series, vol. 2, no. 4, October 1902, p. 34.
573. The Frederick W. Page Fund of $500 was established by Miss Mildred N.
Page during the session of 1946-1947. To that fund will be added the value
of the residence on Chancellor Street after the death of Miss Mildred Page.
The bequest of the residence was from Frederick Page's widow, Mrs. Lucy
W. Page (who died 13 October 1938), and his daughter, Miss Mildred Page.
See Visitors' Minutes, 7 June 1939.
JOHN SHELTON PATTON
574, Data about John Shelton Patton have been culled from Barringer-Garnett-Page,
vol. 2, p. 22; Bruce, vol. 4, p. 322, and vol. 5, pp. 219, 396; Who
Was Who in America 1897-1942, p. 944; and information supplied by his
granddaughter, Miss Polly Brooks.
575. Cappon, Lester J., Virginia Newspapers: A Bibliography with Historical
Introduction and Notes, New York, 1936, pp. 202 (Roanoke Times, 1881-1882),
65 (Jeffersonian Republican), 65, 55 (Daily Progress).
576. Visitors' Minutes, 10 October 1899.
577. Alumni Bulletin, new series, vol. 3, no. 3, July 1903, p. 145.
578. Barringer-Garnett-Page, vol. 2, p. 22; Who Was Who in America 18971942,
p. 944.
579. Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 9, no. 1, January 1916, p. 30.
The topics of the lectures on general library subjects were: The Library
and the State, The Old Order and the New in Library Purpose, Books and
Booklings.
580. A number of Patton's annual reports on the Library were printed in full
or in abstract in the Alumni Bulletin. For the Library Bulletin see section
IV, page 75, and footnote 330. The same reference and footnote 331
apply to the handbook, The Library: An Invitation. Among the bibliographical
data compiled by Librarian Patton was the pamphlet on the Byrd
Library. See Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 7, no. 3, July 1914,
p. 387.
581. The Alumni Bulletin ceased publication in 1924 and the Virginia
Quarterly Review was started. Prof. James Southall Wilson was the last
Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin and the first Editor-in-Chief of the
Quarterly.
582. An item in which James H. Lindsay and John S. Patton collaborated was
the pamphlet printed by the Progress Publishing Company in 1904 entitled
The McCue Murder. In an article entitled "New Light in Philology" Patton
contributed to the South Atlantic Quarterly an exposition of the theories
of Prof. Thomas FitzHugh as stated in the latter's Bulletin of the School
of Latin, University of Virginia.
583. The Metcalf review of the Poems of John A. Thompson appeared in
Alumni Bulletin, third series, vol. 13, no. 2, April 1920, pp. 193-195.
The Bruce review was printed in the same publication, third series, vol.
13, no. 4-5, August-October 1920, pp. 333-336.
584. The publishers of these volumes are indicated in the following list:-
Patton, John S., and Doswell, Sallie J. The University of Virginia:
Glimpses of its Past and Present. Lynchburg, J. P. Bell Company, c1900.Patton, John S., Doswell, Sallie J., and Crenshaw, Lewis D., eds.,
Jefferson's University: Glimpses of the Past and Present of the University
of Virginia. Charlottesville, Michie Company, c1915.Patton, John S. Jefferson, Cabell and the University of Virginia.
New York, Neale Publishing Company, 1906.Kent, Charles William, and Patton, John S., editors. Book of the Poe
Centenary. Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1909.Thompson, John R. The Poems of John R. Thompson... Edited by John
S. Patton. New York, Scribner, 1920.Patton, John S., and Doswell, Sallie J. Monticello and its Master.
Charlottesville, Michie Company, c1925 and 1930.Patton, John S. Love and Mistress Annabel and Other Verses.
Charlottesville, J. S. Patton, 1927.
585. The present regulations on retirement are stated in the Virginia Code,
1950, vol. 7, p. 238 (81-97). These are based on the Virginia Code of
1919.
586. President Alderman died 29 April 1931.
587. Visitors' Minutes, 22 April 1927 (resolutions at time of Patton's
retirement); 28 October 1932 (at time of his death).
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