A Guide to the Lyman Chalkley Papers, 1816-1922 (bulk 1890-1903)
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51713
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Preferred Citation
Lyman Chalkley Papers, 1816-1922. Accession 51713. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
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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.
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
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).
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
- 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
- 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 .