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

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

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51713


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
51713
Title
Lyman Chalkley Papers, 1816-1922 (bulk 1890-1903)
Physical Description
5.4 cubic feet (12 boxes)
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Lyman Chalkley Papers, 1816-1922. Accession 51713. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Augusta previous hit County  next hit Circuit Court, Staunton.

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  next hit, and served for six years. From 1898 to 1904, Chalkley was judge of the Augusta and previous hit Highland  next hit 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 previous hit County  next hit, 1745-1800. Lyman Chalkley died in Lexington, Kentucky on 21 April 1934 and is buried in Lexington Cemetery.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1816-1922, of Judge Lyman Chalkley (1861-1934) of Covington and Staunton, Virginia, including correspondence and subject files. The bulk of the collection covers the years 1890-1903. The correspondence is both personal and professional in subject matter. There are many letters written by his wife Eleanor Desha (Breckinridge) Chalkley (1862-1943) while she was in Lexington, Kentucky and Washington, D.C. The subject files include financial records, commonplace and memorandum books, legal notes and suit papers, and other materials.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

I. Correspondence. II. Subject Files.

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 previous hit County  next hit, 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 previous hit Highland  next hit previous hit County  next hit 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 previous hit 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 .