A Guide to the Lyman Chalkley Papers, 1816-1922 (bulk 1890-1903) #51713

Biographical Information

Lyman Chalkley was born in Richmond, Virginia on 20 October 1861. He was the son of Otway Hebron Chalkley (1830-1883) and Susan Marian Jordan (1838-1889). Chalkley attended Richmond College, the University of Virginia, Columbia College, and Berlin Univeristy. He received his law degree from Washington and Lee University in 1889. On 27 June 1889 he married Eleanor Desha Breckinridge (1862-1943) of Lexington, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Rep. William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904) and Issa Desha (1843-1892). They settled in Covington, Virginia, where Chalkley practiced law. In 1891, he was elected judge of the district of Alleghany and Craig Counties, and served for six years. From 1898 to 1904, Chalkley was judge of the Augusta and Highland district. Judge Chalkley then moved to Lexington, Kentucky where he was dean of the law school at Kentucky University. From 1907 to 1910, he was dean of the law school at the University of the South in Sewanee. In 1910, Chalkley began teaching law at the University of Kentucky. He retired in 1931. He was also the author of Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800. Lyman Chalkley died in Lexington, Kentucky on 21 April 1934 and is buried in Lexington Cemetery.

Contents List

Series I. Correspondence, 1855-1903 .

Boxes 1-9

Extent: 9 boxes.

The correspondence between 1855 and 1890 is mainly between members of the Jordan family of Powhatan County, Virignia, including Noble Jordan (1801-1882) and his wife Judith Ann (Chappell) Jordan (1810-1881) and their children. The letters to Chalkley begin around 1890, and include many from his wife. Subjects include family news, social activities, loneliness, health, finances, the death of their young son, the legal troubles of her father William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904), settling in Covington and Staunton, and purchasing a home. There are also letters from his brother Dr. Charles H. Chalkley (1858-1896), as well as business correspondence with other lawyers and area residents. Topics include administrative and legal matters concerning cases before the court, appointments and elections, financial matters, fraternal and masonic organization business, genealogical research, and regional road issues in Chalkley's capacity as a vice-president of the Virginia State Good Roads Association.

Box 1 Folder 1
1855.
Box 1 Folder 2
1858.
Box 1 Folder 3
1859.
Box 1 Folder 4
1862.
Box 1 Folder 5
1863.
Box 1 Folder 6
1866.
Box 1 Folder 7
1867.
Box 1 Folder 8
1868.
Box 1 Folder 9
1871.
Box 1 Folder 10-19
1873-1882.
Box 1 Folder 20-26
1884-1889.
Box 2 Folder 1-15
1890 - 1891 (November).
Box 3 Folder 1-13
1891 (December) - 1892 (August).
Box 4 Folder 1-26
1892 (September) - 1894 (October).
Box 5 Folder 1-20
1894 (November) - 1897.
Box 6 Folder 1-10
1898.
Box 7 Folder 1-16
1899-1900.
Box 8 Folder 1-5
1901-1903.
Box 8 Folder 6
No Date/Year (Carhart, Martha J.).
Box 8 Folder 7
No Date/Year (Chakley, Charles H.).
Box 8 Folder 8-9
No Date/Year (Chakley, Eleanor D.).
Box 8 Folder 10
No Date/Year (Chakley, Ernest).
Box 8 Folder 11
No Date/Year (Chakley, Lyman).
Box 8 Folder 12-15
No Date/Year (Chakley, Susan M.).
Box 8 Folder 16
No Date/Year (Hall, Anna J.).
Box 8 Folder 17
No Date/Year (Jordan, Alice E.).
Box 8 Folder 18
No Date/Year (Jordan, Henrietta).
Box 8 Folder 19
No Date/Year (Jordan, John O.).
Box 9 Folder 1
No Date/Year (Jordan, Judith Ann).
Box 9 Folder 2
No Date/Year (Jordan, Mary B.).
Box 9 Folder 3
No Date/Year (Miscellaneous).

Series II. Subject Files, 1816-1903 .

Boxes 9-12

Extent: 4 boxes.

The subject files contain accounts and receipts, agreements and contracts, bank books, commonplace books of Otway H. Chalkley (1830-1883), genealogical notes on the Jordan and Taylor families, fraternal and masonic materials, insurance papers, legal notes and suit papers, memorandum books, programs, tax receipts, and information on the Virginia State Good Roads Association.

Box 9 Folder 4-13
Accounts and Receipts, 1889-1897 .
Box 10 Folder 1-7
Accounts and Receipts, 1898-1903 .
Box 10 Folder 8
Accounts and Receipts, No Date/Year.
Box 10 Folder 9
Acts of 1897-1898.
Box 10 Folder 10
Agreements/Contracts.
Box 10 Folder 11
Armstrong, John, Jr. - Letter, 4 October 1814 (Typescript).
Box 10 Folder 12
Augusta White Lithia Water.
Box 10 Folder 13
Bank Books.
Box 10 Folder 14
Billfolds.
Box 10 Folder 15
Bolivar School Precinct Petition.
Box 11 Folder 1
Book Price Lists and Catalogues.
Box 11 Folder 2
Burton & Williams.
Box 11 Folder 3
Business/Trade/Calling Cards.
Box 11 Folder 4
Cash Book, 1873 .
Box 11 Folder 5
"Chain Gang" Reports.
Box 11 Folder 6
Checkbook Registers.
Box 11 Folder 7
Clerk's Correspondence and Court Papers, 1816-1857 .
Box 11 Folder 8
Clippings.
Box 11 Folder 9
Commonplace Books (O. H. Chalkley).
Box 11 Folder 10
Composition - "Told in the Twilight".
Box 11 Folder 11
Covington Circulating Library.
Box 11 Folder 12
Deeds.
Box 11 Folder 13
Deposition.
Box 11 Folder 14
Dismissal Letter, 1885 .
Box 11 Folder 15
Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Box 11 Folder 16
Estate of Susan M. Chalkley.
Box 11 Folder 17
The Farmer's Wife - Prizes.
Box 11 Folder 18
Harper v. Magruder.
Box 11 Folder 19
Huddlestun v. Howard & Sears.
Box 11 Folder 20
Insurance.
Box 11 Folder 21
Invitations.
Box 11 Folder 22
Jordan.
Box 11 Folder 23
Julius Hines & Son - Prce List.
Box 11 Folder 24
Ker, Abel Upshur.
Box 11 Folder 25
Knights of Pythias.
Box 11 Folder 26
Knights Templar.
Box 11 Folder 27
Law Licenses.
Box 11 Folder 28
Legal Notes.
Box 11 Folder 29
Legislation - Act to Regulate Immigration of Aliens.
Box 11 Folder 30
Legislation - Enlargement of Staunton Corporate Limits.
Box 11 Folder 31
Legislation - Increase Highland County Court Judge Salary.
Box 11 Folder 32
Letterhead Samples.
Box 12 Folder 1
Mechanics' Building Association.
Box 12 Folder 2
Memorandum/Scrapbook.
Box 12 Folder 3
Memorandum Books.
Box 12 Folder 4
Military Discharge, 1881 .
Box 12 Folder 5
Miscellaneous.
Box 12 Folder 6
Mutual Guarantee Building and Loan Association.
Box 12 Folder 7
National Surety Company of New York.
Box 12 Folder 8
Packing List, 1889 .
Box 12 Folder 9
Petitions for Official Appointments.
Box 12 Folder 10
Phi Beta Kappa.
Box 12 Folder 11
Phi Delta Theta.
Box 12 Folder 12
Photograph (Small Girl - Unidentified).
Box 12 Folder 13
Photograph Album (Foreign).
Box 12 Folder 14
Prison Association of Virginia.
Box 12 Folder 15
Programs.
Box 12 Folder 16
Qualification of County Clerk and District Officers, 1893 .
Box 12 Folder 17
Railroad Passes.
Box 12 Folder 18
Receipts and Expenditures, 1895-1896 .
Box 12 Folder 19
Road Closure Application.
Box 12 Folder 20
Royal Arcanum.
Box 12 Folder 21
Security Savings and Loan Association (Mobile, AL).
Box 12 Folder 22
Stock Certificate - Staunton Building Company.
Box 12 Folder 23
Suit Papers.
Box 12 Folder 24
Summonses.
Box 12 Folder 25
Tax Receipts.
Box 12 Folder 26
Taylor.
Box 12 Folder 27
Tenant Book, 1896 .
Box 12 Folder 28
Treasurers Receipts, 1921-1922 .
Box 12 Folder 29
University College of Medicine - Teaching Methods.
Box 12 Folder 30
Virginia State Good Roads Association.
Box 12 Folder 31
Withdrawal from University of Virginia, 1880 .