Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Benjamin Rush Floyd Account Statements, Mss. Collection 2001.33, Kegley Library, Wytheville Community College, Wytheville, VA

Acquisition Information

Donated by Ruth Ann Chitwood in 2001 as part of the W. Randolph Chitwood Collection.

Biographical Information

Benjamin Rush Floyd was born on 10 December 1811, the son of governor John Floyd and Letitia Preston Floyd of Smithfield Plantation in Montgomery County, Virginia. He graduated from Georgetown College in 1832 and practiced law in Wytheville, Virginia.

Politically active, Floyd served in the General Assembly as delegate (1847-1848) and senator (1857-1858). In 1852, he unsuccessfully ran for a judgeship in the circuit court. He also lost an 1859 bid for U. S. Senator to elbert S. Martin because of his unpopular support of President Buchanan's veto of the War of 1812 pension bill.

Floyd was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wytheville, Virginia. He died on 15 February 1860 at age forty-eight and is buried in East End Cemetery.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of four folders of account statements of Benjamin Rush Floyd dating from 1842 to 1862; the majority of statements list transactions between Floyd and D. Sexton.