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Blacksburg, Virginia, Bank Embezzlement Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-080
Abstract
The eight documents (ca. 1865) within the collection detail a bank embezzlement case from the Blacksburg Branch of the Farmers Bank in Virginia. Nicholas M. Ronald, supposedly swindled patrons into writing him checks that would pay off their account deficits. Much of the collection consists of testimonials attesting to that suspicion.
Dates:
ca. 1865
Smithey & Boynton, Architects & Engineers Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-027
Abstract
The collection contains project files and drawings related to more than 1,500 residences, churches, businesses, schools, and community buildings, predominantly in the Roanoke and Southwest Virginia area, designed by Smithey & Boynton, mostly between 1935 and 1957.
Dates:
1922 - 1985
Robert Creede Taylor Family Reference Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ms-2006-024
Scope and Contents
Robert Creede Taylor (1866-1915) lived in Montgomery County, Virginia most of his life. He attended Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Virginia Tech) in the 1880s, and thereafter worked in Roanoke before returning to Christiansburg, Virginia in 1893. He married Helen May Pelton, and they had three children. He died in 1915 after a long illness. The Taylors are related to many other Montgomery County and Roanoke families, and these families and their involvement in area...
Dates:
2003 - 2006
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