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Avery-Abex Metallurgical Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1995-025
Abstract
The American Brake Shoe (later Abex) Company was formed in 1902 from the merger of five smaller foundries that specialized in railroad brake shoes, castings and forging, as well as hydraulic equipment. The research laboratory, known as the Mahwah Research Center, from which the collection is drawn, did applied industrial research, but was closed in 1990. Howard Avery (1906-1996), VPI graduate (B.Sc. MinE 1927, M.Sc. MinE 1928), was one of the center’s leading research metallurgists....
Dates:
c. 1920s-1987
George W. L. Kabrich Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-013
Abstract
The George W. L. Kabrich Family Papers, 1850-1947 [bulk 1850-1904], contain correspondence, legal records, financial records, and religious documents. The collection documents the personal and professional life of George W. L. Kabrich, who taught school and Sunday school, worked as Overseer of the Poor for Blacksburg Township, and was on church councils for local Lutheran churches. Items also relate to George’s father-in-law John Surface, his daughter Effie Kabrich, and others. An item of...
Dates:
1850 - 1947; Majority of material found within ( 1850-1904)
Shugart Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-013
Abstract
This collection contains papers from the Shugart Family of Southwest Virginia, created between 1811 and 1876.
Dates:
1811 - 1876
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- American Brake Shoe Company 1
- Avery, Howard S. (Howard Shaeffer), 1906-1996 1
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- Kabrich, George Washington Lewis, b. 1824 1
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