College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae

Organization

Staff Only

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 39.1 Ew3

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the...

Dates: 1784-1934; Majority of material found in 1830-1892

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Amos Koontz Papers I

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 65 K83

Scope and Contents The collection consists mainly of certificates presented to Amos R. Koontz, M.D., by the army, together with his medals in a frame, and membership certificates in organizations. Included is a competition for designs for National Military Dress (1809); and shoemaker’s account books of Harden Keyser (1849-1861), one of which Mattie Keyser used as a scrapbook at a later period and in which she wrote autograph poems; a souvenir booklet of the Panama Pacific Exposition (1915); and genealogical...

Dates: 1809-1965; Majority of material found in 1936-1965