A Guide to the Papers of the Mount Crawford
Division of the Virginia Sons of Temperance,
1815-1892 (bulk 1846-1892) Mount Crawford Division of the Virginia
Sons of Temperance, Papers of
1014
Papers of the Mount Crawford Division of the Virginia
Sons of Temperance, Accession #1014, Special Collections
Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville,
Va.
Papers of the Sons of Temperance include minutes,
1848-1857; account books of dues, 1849-1868, 1873-1888;
rosters of members suspended or expelled, 1840-1860, 1866;
list of associate members, 1878-1887; a name index, n.d.; a
list of members who pledged total abstinence, 1876-1888; and
miscellaneous material including receipts, songs, a thesis on
pneumonia, 1869, for the Medical College of Virginia faculty
by E.C. Staller, and a blacksmith's account book,
1815-1826.
Sons of Temperance: society business,
miscellaneous. Includes ritual songs for meetings,
receipts, and a thesis on pneumonia prepared for the
faculty of the Medical College of Virginia in 1869 by
E.C. Staller
1848-1892, n.d.
37 items.
Bound Volumes
Box 1
Account book of blacksmith Gabriel
Stickley (1815-1826). Includes letter (1814) from a
Rabaiah Stickley of Shenandoah County to his unnamed
brother-in-law concerning military service
1815-1826
Box 1
Account book of general activities,
purchases of produce, daily labor (1849-1853, 1874).
Laid in the volume are two exercise books ascribed to
a William Marshall, from his school days and beyond
(1819, 1825-1855)
1819-1855
Box 1
"Alphabet of Divisions." Rosters of
members expelled or suspended with date of action,
name, and occupation from the Mount Crawford,
Marshall, Valley, Rockingham, and Fountain Divisions
1846-1860
Box 1
Minutes of meetings, Mount Crawford
Division. Appended are a list of divisions in
Rockingham County, list of corresponding divisions
elsewhere in the Shenandoah Valley, and a list of
eligible officers
1848-1856
Box 2
Account book of dues received from the
Mount Crawford Division
1849-1853
Box 2
Account book of dues received
1853-1868
Box 2
Records of Degree Division No. 19, Mount
Crawford. Minutes of meetings (1855-1857); list of
persons expelled (1866); list of associate members
(1878-1882)
1855-1882
Box 2
Account book of dues received
1873-1874
Box 2
Account book presumably of a blacksmith
1876-1884
Box 2
Lists of associates, mostly women, a few
boys, a rare man
1882-1887
Box 2
Index of names
n.d.
Account book of dues paid and owed by
members. Includes list (1876-1888) of members who had
taken pledges of total abstinence, with name, and
often age, occupation and address
1874-1888