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A Guide to the Edwin Beecher Brown Papers, 1920-1985 Brown, Edwin Beecher, Papers, 1920-1985 39380

A Guide to the Edwin Beecher Brown Papers, 1920-1985

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Accession Number 50641


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
50641
Title
Edwin Beecher Brown Papers, 1920-1985
Physical Description
3.6 cubic feet (8 boxes).
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Edwin Beecher Brown Papers, 1920-1985. Accession 50641. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Edwin Beecher Brown, Staunton.

Biographical Information

Edwin Beecher Brown was born in Huntington, West Virginia on 14 February 1937. He is the son of Dr. Leland Coffey Brown (1906-1980) and Marjorie Lockridge Mower (1908-1989). He attended Staunton Military Academy and the University of Virginia. He earned a law degree in 1962, and then practiced in Princeton and Charleston, West Virginia, and then in Baltimore. Brown then worked in the retail banking group at Citibank in New York City. He married Yaroslava Sofia Sachno (b. 1937) in Washington, DC on 28 April 1962. They now live in Staunton, Virginia.

Rev. Durward Belmont Brown was born near Pruntytown, West Virginia on 12 January 1897. He was the son of Lloyd Wilson Brown (1868-1933) and Mary Ellen Cottrill (1868-1958). He received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Alleghany College in Pennsylvania, and did seminary work in Boston, where he received a S.T.B. degree from Boston University School of Theology. Rev. Brown served charges in Grafton, Morgantown, and Wheeling, West Virginia. He married Dorothy Elizabeth Rine (1904-1983) on 22 October 1929. Rev. Brown died on 3 January 1983.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1920-1985, of Edwin Beecher Brown (b. 1937) of Staunton, Virginia, consisting of genealogical research files used in the publication of his book Descendants of James Brown (Senior) (17__-1833) Who Settled in Augusta County, Virginia Between the South River and the 'Great Road' That Ran from Waynesboro to Greenville to Lexington, Virginia. Most of the material was compiled by Rev. Durward Belmont Brown (1897-1983) of Wheeling, West Virginia. The collection contains census abstracts, correspondence, clippings, family group sheets, genealogical charts and pedigrees, obituaries, photographs, and published sources on the Brown family and the allied lines of Barnes, Cottrill, Gawthrop, Hall, Hiett, Loy, and Scranage who settled in Augusta and Frederick Counties, Virginia, and Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and West Virginia.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1
Addresses/Phone Numbers .
Box 1 Folder 2
Alexander .
Box 1 Folder 3
Allen .
Box 1 Folder 4
Atkinson (Ohio County, VA) .
Box 1 Folder 5
Bailey .
Box 1 Folder 6-7
Barnes .
Box 1 Folder 8
Beatty .
Box 1 Folder 9
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Monongalia, Marion and Taylor Counties, West Virginia .
Box 1 Folder 10-11
Borton .
Box 1 Folder 12
Boyd/Boyle .
Box 1 Folder 13
1 James Brown .
Box 1 Folder 14
11 Boyl Brown .
Box 1 Folder 15
111 Wilson Boyle Brown .
Box 2 Folder 1-3
111 Wilson Boyle Brown - Heirs .
Box 2 Folder 4
1111 James Boyle Brown .
Box 2 Folder 5-6
11111 Lloyd Wilson Brown .
Box 2 Folder 7
111112 Durward Belmont Brown .
Box 2 Folder 8
1111121 Foster Lloyd Brown .
Box 2 Folder 9
11111211 Celeste Elaine Brown .
Box 2 Folder 10
1111122 Mary Jane (Brown) Madjlessi .
Box 2 Folder 11
111113 James Russell Brown .
Box 2 Folder 12
1111131 James Luther Brown .
Box 2 Folder 13
1111132 Bernard Wilson Brown .
Box 2 Folder 14
1111133 Mary Ellen Juanita Brown .
Box 2 Folder 15
11112 Luella (Brown) Hall .
Box 2 Folder 16
11113 Bruce Alexander Brown .
Box 2 Folder 17
111131 Lolita Rosamund (Brown) Whiting .
Box 2 Folder 18
1111312 Anne Belinda (Whiting) Newman .
Box 2 Folder 19
1111313 Elinor Elizabeth (Whiting) DeHaven .
Box 2 Folder 20
111133 Juanita Pauline (Brown) Marsh .
Box 2 Folder 21
11114 Dorsey Lee Brown .
Box 2 Folder 22
111141 James Lee Brown .
Box 2 Folder 23
1111411 Leland Page Brown .
Box 2 Folder 24
111142 Martha Virginia (Brown) Hall .
Box 2 Folder 25
11115 George Taylor Brown .
Box 2 Folder 26
1112 Virginia Jane Brown .
Box 3 Folder 1
1113 Christopher Columbus Brown .
Box 3 Folder 2
1114 Jonathan Wilson Brown .
Box 3 Folder 3
11141 William Cather Brown .
Box 3 Folder 4
111413 William Charles Brown .
Box 3 Folder 5
11143 Grace Ethel (Brown) Salter .
Box 3 Folder 6
111431 Alma Mae (Salter) Van Meter .
Box 3 Folder 7
111432 Gladys Hazel (Salter) Cook .
Box 3 Folder 8
111433 Thomas Brown Salter .
Box 3 Folder 9
111434 Donald Maurice Salter .
Box 3 Folder 10
11144 Loomis Holden Brown .
Box 3 Folder 11
111442 Wilson Harris Brown .
Box 3 Folder 12
111443 Harold Theodore Brown .
Box 3 Folder 13
11145 Virginia (Brown) McGowan .
Box 3 Folder 14
111451 Carolyn Virginia (McGowan) Derks .
Box 3 Folder 15
1116 George Washington Brown .
Box 3 Folder 16
11162 Ota Leona (Brown) Knapp .
Box 3 Folder 17
111622 Marian Elinor (Knapp) Caldwell .
Box 3 Folder 18
11163 George Edison Brown .
Box 3 Folder 19
1118 Charles Wesley Brown .
Box 3 Folder 20-21
11181 Mary Susan Elizabeth (Brown) Hackenberg .
Box 3 Folder 22
111811 John Vernon Hackenberg .
Box 3 Folder 23
111812 Elizabeth Mae Hackenberg .
Box 3 Folder 24
112 Jonathan Brown .
Box 3 Folder 25
1121 Susan Catherine (Brown) Houser .
Box 3 Folder 26
1122 Mary Elizabeth (Brown) Alexander .
Box 3 Folder 27
1123 John Park Smith Brown .
Box 3 Folder 28
1124 Wilson Minor Brown .
Box 3 Folder 29
12 James Brown .
Box 3 Folder 30
121 James Alexander Brown .
Box 3 Folder 31
1218 Isaac Stuart Brown .
Box 3 Folder 32
123 William Bellama Brown .
Box 3 Folder 33
125 Elisha Boyd Brown .
Box 3 Folder 34
125741 Edwin Beecher Brown .
Box 3 Folder 35
126 Isabella Grimes (Brown) Brown .
Box 4 Folder 1
1263 William Lewis Brown .
Box 4 Folder 2
12631 Isabell (Brown) Kirkpatrick .
Box 4 Folder 3
12632 Blanche Irene (Brown) Churchill .
Box 4 Folder 4
12633 Hazel May (Brown) Misterick .
Box 4 Folder 5
12634 Goldie (Brown) McClatchey .
Box 4 Folder 6
12636 William Lewis Brown .
Box 4 Folder 7
12639 Fulton Wayne Brown .
Box 4 Folder 8
126396 Robert Fulton Brown .
Box 4 Folder 9
1263(11) Virginia Elvira (Brown) Cook .
Box 4 Folder 10
1263(12) Hugh Boyd Brown .
Box 4 Folder 11
1263(13) Pansy Jennette (Brown) Bohl .
Box 4 Folder 12
1263(14) Josephine (Brown) Caldwell .
Box 4 Folder 13
1263(15) Donald Grover Brown .
Box 4 Folder 14
128 Henry Brown .
Box 4 Folder 15
129 Jacob Brown .
Box 4 Folder 16
12(10) Benjamin Stuart Brown .
Box 4 Folder 17
12(11) Fulton Worthlow Brown .
Box 4 Folder 18
13 Nancy (Brown) Caruthers .
Box 4 Folder 19
Brown, Carlos T. .
Box 4 Folder 20-21
Brown - Census - Virginia .
Box 4 Folder 22
Brown - Indiana/Illinois .
Box 4 Folder 23
Josias and Alexander Brown .
Box 4 Folder 24
Brown - Nebraska .
Box 4 Folder 25
Brown Reunions .
Box 4 Folder 26
Brown - Unclassified .
Box 4 Folder 27
Brown, William Gay, Jr. (1856-1916) .
Box 4 Folder 28
Cather .
Box 4 Folder 29
Correspondence (Not Relatives) .
Box 4 Folder 30
Cottrell, William - Civil War Record .
Box 5 Folder 1-3
Cottrill .
Box 5 Folder 4
DeLong .
Box 5 Folder 5-9
England - Foster Lloyd Brown .
Box PP Oversize Box 13 Folder n/a
England - Foster Lloyd Brown (Oversize) .
Box 5 Folder 10
Evans, Elsie H. .
Box 5 Folder 11
Fedorchak, Catherine .
Box 5 Folder 12-13
Gawthrop (Folder 1) .
Box 6 Folder 1-2
Gawthrop (Folder 2) .
Box 6 Folder 3
Gawthrop (Folder 3) .
Box 6 Folder 4
Gawthrop-Bull .
Box 6 Folder 5
Gawthrop-Shroyer .
Box 6 Folder 6
Gawthrop-Zinn .
Map-case 2 Drawer 12
Genealogical Charts (Oversize) .
Box 6 Folder 7
George .
Box 6 Folder 8
Hall (Folder 1) .
Box 6 Folder 9-11
Hall (Folder 2) .
Box 6 Folder 12-13
Hall (Folder 3) .
Box 6 Folder 14
Hall-Warder .
Box 7 Folder n/a
Hiatt-Hiett Genealogy and Family History by William Perry Johnson, 1951 .
Box 7 Folder 1-2
Hiett .
Box 7 Folder 3-4
Loy .
Box 7 Folder 5
Marietta (see also Hall) .
Box 7 Folder 6
Marple .
Box 7 Folder 7
McCracken .
Box 8 Folder 1
Miscellaneous .
Box 8 Folder 2
Mixed Records .
Box 8 Folder 3
Neal .
Box 8 Folder 4
Photographs .
Box 8 Folder 5
"Poems" by Thomas Gawthrop (Ten Mile, WV) .
Box 8 Folder 6
Scranage - Indiana .
Box 8 Folder 7-8
Scranage - West Virginia .
Box 8 Folder 9
Smith .
Box 8 Folder 10
Spence .
Box 8 Folder 11
Stonier (England) .
Box 8 Folder 12
Story .
Box 8 Folder 13
Stott .
Box 8 Folder 14
Wade .
Box 8 Folder 15
Williamson .
Box 8 Folder 16
Wilson .
Box 8 Folder 17
"The Wilson Family" - American Genealogical Research Institute, 1972 .
Box 8 Folder 18
Winterbourne .
Box 8 Folder 19
Woolman .