Finding Aid to the John Dodge Capron Collection
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JOHN DODGE CAPRON (1894-1977) COLLECTION
The collection includes articles, pamphlets, notes, etc., relating to history, with
emphasis on railroads, covered bridges, mineral springs, waterworks, and pipe making.
John Dodge CAPRON (1894-1977), an industrialist and philanthropist of Lynchburg,
Virginia, collected the material.
BOX 1
Virginia History (I)
BOX 2
Virginia History (II)
BOX 3
Lynchburg (Va.) History
BOX 4
Civil War History
BOX 5
Civil War History/Railroads
BOX 6
Industries
BOX 7
Miscellaneous History
BOX 8
Mineral Springs/Spas (I)
BOX 9
Mineral Springs/Spas (II)
BOX 10
Mineral Springs (U.S.)
BOX 11
Covered Bridges/U.S. History
BOX 12
Glamorgan Pipe Foundry/Cast Iron Pipe Research Association
BOX 13
Water works, Pipe making, Industries
BOX 14
Pipe-Making Industries
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]
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JOHN DODGE CAPRON (1894-1977) COLLECTION
BOX 1
Virginia History
1-1 Miscellaneous historic houses of Virginia; Jamestown Festival
brochures; Miscellaneous house clippings (The Spur, 1952-1953);
Cast Iron Pipe News, Oct-Nov 1962; University of Virginia
Newsletter (3)
1-2 "Bays Blackwell Lecture" Emory & Henry, 1967; 125th anniversay
program, Emory & Henry; Invitation, Launching of the Polaris
submarine, "Lewis and Clark," 1964; Lynchburg (Va.) Historical
Society articles; miscellaneous clippings, "Glasgow," "Free
State"; Virginia travel brochures; Photographs, "Garland," "Col.
Robert H. Crockett"; Southwestern Episcopalian, "The First Fifty
Years, 1919-1969"; Chambers, Point of Honor; Occasional
Bulletin, Virginia Historical Society, 1965-1970; Virginia
Phoenix, Vol. 1-2; Sphex Club paper, Booth, 1962; Virginia
Museum of Science Study, 1969; Moore, "Ah, Youth and
Experience" (Virginia National Bank)
1-3 Miscellaneous historical articles and clippings on Virginia; Virginia
Historical Society, "James River," "First Thanksgiving,"
"Roanoke"; Transgas, "Lynchburg," "Poplar Forest" (1964);
Miscellaneous travel brochures; Burrowes, Robert F., "History of
the Boys' Home"
1-4 Miscellaneous historical articles; Iselin, "Matthew Fontaine Maury";
Gilliam (Sphex Club), "Matthew Fontaine Maury"; Article,
"Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties"; Oilways,
"Virginia" (1961); Excerpt from Hampton and its Students;
Occasional Bulletin, Virginia Historical Society (1960); News
article, "Bedford History"; Chart, Virginia State Government;
Letter to C.A. WOODRUM, 1947; Industrial Medicine and
Surgery, Dec. 1958, "Lead Shot Towers"
BOX 2
Virginia History
2-1 "Historic Shrines and Landmarks in Winchester"; Miscellaneous
historical articles; World Trade, "Mariner's Museum"
(1950); University of Virginia, "Unique in the Republic"; 40th
anniversary issue, Lane Folks (1952); Esso Oilways, "Southern
Lightweight Aggregate Corporation" (1953); American Philatelist,
"Philadelphia's Early Posts & Post Offices" (1952); Colonial
Williamsburg, President's Report (1951); Pennsylvania Schools,
1896; Tracks, "Kanawha Turnpike" (1955); American Cast Iron
(Continued)
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BOX 2
2–1 Pipe Co., "Jamestown" (1955)
2-2 New York Times - "Virginia, New Dominion of Industry (1953);
Bulletin, Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church, SC; Ford Times,
Virginia issue (1956); American Cast Iron Pipe Co.,
"Williamsburg Restored" (1953); "Big Island Paper Mill";
Miscellaneous historical articles and brochures; Scribner's Monthly,
"Chesapeake Peninsula" (1872); Occasional Bulletin, Virginia
Historical Society (1962); Cast Iron Pipe News, "Cast Iron Pipe at
University of Virginia" (1950); Cast Iron Pipe News, "Alexandria
Water Company" (1952); Lynchburg News, "The Custis Bible"
(1904); Brochures on St. Peter's P.E. Church, New Kent County,
Virginia; University of Virginia Newsletter (1957); Buick
Magazine, "Jamestown's 350th Birthday" (1957); Southwestern
Episcopalian, "Jamestown Festival" (1957); Washington and Lee
Notes (1957); France Actuelle, "Lafayette's Bi-centenary" (1957)
2-3 "Brightwood" Commissioner's sale, 1899 ad; Tracks, "James River
Company" (1954); Tracks, "James River" (1954); Miscellaneous
historical clippings; Virginia League of Local Welfare Executives,
"The Good Old Days" (1950); Brief sketch of Sweet Briar College
(1950); Photographs, Salt Peter Cave (1950); Membership
Certificate, Virginia Historical Society (1950); Scribner's Monthly,
"A Ramble in Virginia" (1874); University of Virginia
Newsletter; Saturday Evening Post, "The Mystery of the Lawyer's
House" (1951); Invitation, VMI, honoring Gen. George C.
MARSHALL (1951); W & L, 1749-1949, Student Bicentennial
publication (1949)
BOX 3
Lynchburg History
3-1 Lynchburg News, "History of the Lynchburg Gas Company" (1951);
Lynchburg Gas Company annual report (1951); N & W Magazine,
"Altavista - Town with a Lofty View" (1961); Miscellaneous
historical articles; Alumnae News, Sweet Briar College, 1954; Sweet
Briar, Graduation invitation (1956); Craddock-Terry Record,
"Streets of Lynchburg," "City Buses" (1958); Calendar, Glamorgan
Pipe and Foundry (1957); Photograph of Lynchburg, ca. 1874
3-2 Southwestern Episcopalian, Vol.25 No.4, "Historic St.Stephen's
Church"; Carter GLASS, Anecdotes, Congressional Record (1939);
Miscellaneous historical articles; Sweet Briar Invitation (1956);
Sweet Briar News (1940, 1954); Bulletin, Sweet Briar College,
"Sweet Briar-First Half Century" (1953); Lynchburg Historical
Society, "Miller Claytor House" (1953); Confederate Money (NC),
$1.00 bill; Annual meeting, Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce
(Continued)
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BOX 3
3–2 (1955); Invitation to Seven Pines (The RUSSELLs); "Products of
Industry" (Lynchburg and Campbell County), 1860 Census (2
copies)
3-3 Wilda VEHLOW, "Guggenheimer's of Lynchburg" (1948), with
clippings from rerun in 1962
3-4 Craddock-Terry Record, "Old Quaker Church" (1960);
Miscellaneous historical articles; "General View of Lynchburg"
(1908); "History of the Quaker Presbyterian Church"; Articles
on the Water System; Cross-Sections (B&W) (1967); Water Works
Engineering, "Lynchburg...Treatment Plant" (1957); Water and
Sewage Works, "A Filter Plant that Grew Up" (1956); Lynchburg
Community Chest (1943); Lynchburg Historical Society, "Jim Crack
Corn", "Lynchburg Aviation"
BOX 4
Civil War History
4-1 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 1-50) (Missing Nos. 13, 36, 46)
4-2 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 51-100) (Missing No. 80)
4-3 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 101-134) (Missing Nos. 108, 116)
4-4 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 135-172) (Missing No. 142)
BOX 5
Civil War History/Railroads
5-1 Miscellaneous collections of articles on the Civil War; Gisholt
Machine Co., "A Little Clump of Trees" (n.d.); Civil War Centennial
map (Virginia); Pictorial map, Civil War (Esso); Red Cross
Newsletter, "Clara H. BARTON" (1961); "The First Hunley" (n.d.);
Consolidated Textile News, "Appomattox 1865-1955" (1955);
Monsanto Magazine, "That Their Dead Shall not have Died in Vain"
(1960); The Capture of New Orleans" (n.d., n.pub.);
American Motorist, "Cyclorama...Gettysburg, Pennsylvania" (1961)
5-2 Correspondence, Alfred R. JAMES; Miscellaneous articles on
Railroads; New York Central System (Pittsburg and Lake Erie RR),
"Along the Right of Way"; "Various Southern Railroads - List of
Stations 1865-1953";
5-3 Miscellaneous articles on the Civil War; Virginia Museum of Science
and History; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
"Windows on our Past" (1965); Glamorgan calendars (1958, 1962);
Letter, MORFIT from "No. 5 Bleeker Street, 1852"; Shipyard
Bulletin (Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company)
(1962); Letters ("Coal for the Navy"), 1840 Midlothian Coal Mining,
1854 Circular, 1854 (2) Coal for "San Jacinto", 1856 (2) Coal for
"Wabash"; Fort Monroe Museum circulars/letters (1828, 1830, 1847,
re: cast iron pipe)
(Continued)
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BOX 6
Industries
6-1 Lynchburg Industries (1960); "Century and a half of Manufacturing
in Lynchburg"; Miscellaneous notes on industries
6-2 Correspondence, Glamorgan history/Pont-a-Mousson, Prospectus
(1965); Correspondence/letters, Delavaud Plant
6-3 Miscellaneous historical notes; Tracks, "Lynchburg Promised Land"
(1957); Glamorgan history; Central Virginia Industries, Inc.,
1940 Directory; Commonwealth, Lynchburg industries (1940);
Lynchburg history, L. H. McWANE (1960); Commonwealth (1960)
6-4 Lynchburg industries; Active companies; Glamorgan Annual Report
(1959); History of Craddock-Terry Shoe Corp. (1961);
Miscellaneous historical clippings-Lynchburg Foundry, J.P. Bell,
Brown-Morrison, C.B. Cones Co., Consolidated Shoe, R.C. Davis
Co., Duti-Duds, Famous Virginia Foods, C.B. Fleet, Gary Steel
Products, Glamorgan Pipe, Harris Carriage, Lynchburg Foundry,
Lynchburg Transit Co., Mead Corp., N&W Industries, Consumers
Co., Old Dominion Box, Price & Clements Machines, Quality
Dairy, Virginia Dunbrik, Virginia Gear, Cleland Co., Consolidated
Textile; Businesses (1960); Businesses (1883-1888)
6-5 "Manufactures 1939" (Industry classifications); Lynchburg industries
(1960 and card file); Standard Industrial Classification Manual;
Census of Industry (1860); Current industries (1960); Miscellaneous
industries (card file)
BOX 7
Miscellaneous History
7-1 Bedford County Schools (1953-1959); Mrs. John D. Capron, Bedford
County Citizens for Better Schools
7-2 (Continuation of 7-1)
7–3 Miscellaneous materials on George Washington University,
Maryland
7–4 Miscellaneous Lynchburg History; Altavista Journal, "LYNCH
Family"; Lynchburg Gas Company History, News articles 1850's;
Lynchburg Watering Committee; Public Library for Lynchburg
(1965)
7-5 Lynchburg Historical Society
7-6 Historic Landmarks Commission (Attempt to place iron mine on list)
BOX 8
Mineral Springs/Spas
8-1 Miscellaneous ads, photos, articles on Mineral Springs of Virginia;
Postal cancellations
8-2 Rockbridge Alum Springs, Correspondence, photos, articles
(Continued)
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BOX 8
8-3 Miscellaneous Springs (Other than Virginia - West Virginia,
Kentucky, Arkansas, France, New York)
8-4 Miscellaneous Springs (Other than Virginia)
8-5 Hot Springs, Virginia (The Homestead); Miscellaneous articles and
pamphlets; Hot Springs (1887); Hot Springs (1871)
BOX 9
Mineral Springs/Spas
9-1 Miscellaneous collection, Springs other than Virginia (CA, AR, NY,
OH, IN, PA, NH, NC)
9-2 White Sulphur Springs (Greenbrier Co., WV), photos, brochures,
correspondence
9-3 Miscellaneous booklets, photos; Virginia Department of Health,
Public Water Supplies in Virginia (1939); U.S. Department of
Interior, Thermal Springs in the United States (1937);
V.P.I., Municipal Water Supplies of Virginia (1937); Virginia
Division of Water Resources and Power, Springs of Virginia (1930)
9-4 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding Springs (1943-1950)
9-5 Mineral Springs, Virginia -Notes, photos, Virginia springs (A-Me)
9-6 Mineral Springs, Virginia - Notes, photos, Virginia springs (Mi-Z)
BOX 10
Mineral Springs (U.S.)
10-1 "Some historical aspects of the thermal and mineral springs of the
US" (1950); Notes regarding springs other than Virginia
10-2 References, springs, US and Virginia; Lists of springs
10-3 Atlas of Illinois Resources (1959), water and mineral resources
10-4 Springs, Virginia; Water resources, Virginia (1959); "Notes on
Surface Water in Virginia" (1960)
BOX 11
Covered Bridges/U.S. History
11-1 Bridges, Virginia; "Stretching the Sinews of the Old Dominion"
(ALLEN?); Covered bridges in Virginia (1958); Former covered
bridges; Photograph of covered bridge at Lynchburg (1875);
Miscellaneous articles, post cards; 1971 Covered Bridge Tour
(Virginia); "Covered Bridges, Proud Symbols of Colonial
Transportation"
11-2 Southern Covered Bridge Association, "Bridge Beat" (1969-1971)
11-3 Bridges, U.S.; "Houghton Line" (1958-1961)
11-4 Miscellaneous historical articles, U.S.; "Western Steamboats"
(Gisholt, 1957); U.S. Frigate, "Constellation"; American Motorist,
"Pennsylvania's Plain People" (1958); Flag of the United States;
"Providence and How it Grew" "Custer's Last Fight" (Gisholt n.d.);
(Continued)
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BOX 11
11-4
"Carbon Fourteen Dating" (Gisholt 1956); "Peter Piper Alphabet";
New Yorker, "The Presbyterian Call System" (1957); "Moneys of
the World"; Million mile travellers; Flags of the Five Nations;
"Water Resources of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area" (1951)
11-5 Miscellaneous historical articles, U.S.; "Ships and Sails: the Way of
the Past"; Salem Maritime National Historic Site; "History of
Mexico" (Gisholt 1954); First transatlantic liner named United
States; History of Point Clear, Alabama; America's first architects;
"Vinland" (Gisholt 1954); Historic role of the rivers of Georgia,
Chapter XI, Kilowatts; World Trade, "PERRY's Sailing" (1952);
Treasure Map of the United States; Ticket, Republican National
Convention (1900); Official program, 43rd inauguration (1957)
BOX 12
Glamorgan Pipe Foundry/Cast Iron Pipe Research Association
12-1 Board Meeting at Nancy (France), Sept. 1961; Miscellaneous trip
ephemera (postal cards, itinerary, tickets, photos, menus)
12-2 Cast Iron Pipe Research Association (CIPRA), Mailing lists,
membership lists, History (1960), History from the minutes of the
Association
12-3 CIPRA - Price lists, domestic shipments, statistical reports (19421947)
12-4 CIPRA -Statistical reports (1943-1947) (duplicates)
12-4 List of pipe plants (1958); Cast iron pipe manufacturers, 1800 to
date; Newcomen Society, "Development of Cast Iron Pressure Pipe
Industry in Southern States, 1800-1938"; History of cast iron pipe
BOX 13
Water works/Pipe-making/Industries
13-1 Water Works, Water supply; "Water supply for Camps, 1918";
Historical articles on water works; USDHEW, "Clean Water"; Cast
Iron Pipe Publicity Bureau, "Water Works for every Town"; Old
Weymouth"; "The Manufacture of Cast Iron Pipe and its
Application to Municipal Engineering"
13-2 History of Water Works, Lynchburg Virginian (1854);
Miscellaneous clippings and correspondence; Water works at
Nashville and Nashua, Ishpeming, miscellaneous correspondence
and articles
13-3 Pipe-Making; History of Pipe; Miscellaneous articles and
pamphlets; The American City, "Wooden water mains" (1960);
"McWANE Pipe Pointers" (1955); "Modern Cast Iron Pipe"
(Wolfe); Photos showing failures of steel and wood water pipe;
Blueprints for pipes (Glamorgan); Methods of making pipe
(deLAVAUD); "How McWANE Pipe is Made"; "History of Cast
(Continued)
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BOX 13
13–3 Iron Pipe" (Conrad 1939); "Spinning Speeds of Centrifugal Casting
Machines" (Carrington); "Production of Centrifugal Gray Iron
Castings in Water Cooled Molds"; "A Comparison of the Physical
Properties of Various Kinds of Cast Iron Pipe"; Miscellaneous
articles and pamphlets
13-4 Pipe-Making; "Methods of making pipe - Sandspun"; Gas and water
pipes; Cast Iron Pipe News, "98 Years of Excellent Service"
(Feb/Mar, 1963)
13-5 Lynchburg Foundry Company, miscellaneous articles and
pamphlets on the history of the company
13-6 Miscellaneous materials on pipe industries: R.D. Wood Co.,
CIPRA, Shamoon Industries, Woodward Iron Co., James B. Clow &
Co., Alabama Pipe Co., Lone Star Steel, Centrifugal Pipe
Corporation
BOX 14
Pipe-Making Industries
14-1 U.S. Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co., Miscellaneous articles and
correspondence
14-2 McWANE Cast Iron Pipe Co.: McWANE Cast Iron Pipe and Joints
(1930); How McWANE Pipe is Made; American Iron and Steel
Institute (1927); Letter, Pete ASHTON, ASHTON Block
(1962); "New Iron Making Process Developed...
14-3 American Cast Iron Pipe Co., miscellaneous articles and
correspondence
14-4 Glamorgan Pipe Company - Statements (1924-1954), Earnings; Bell
and Spigot Pit Cast Pipe production; deLavaud Pipe; Special
Foundry; Purchase of company; U.S. Department of
Commerce, "Cast Iron Pipe Industry"; CIPRA Articles of
Association
14-5 War Furnaces not listed by Bruce (card file); Inventory list for
CIPRA history; Pipe companies
14-6 "History of Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Company" (CAPRON)
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JOHN DODGE CAPRON (1894-1977)
John Dodge CAPRON, industrialist and philanthropist, was born 8 November 1894 in
Menands, New York, the son of William White CAPRON and Helen KENT. [Burial record,
Diuguid Funeral Home, Lynchburg, VA, Book 67, p. 3, Microfilmed records, Jones Memorial Library,
Lynchburg, VA; Obituary, Lynchburg Daily Advance, 2 May 1977, p. 30, cols. 1, 4.]
A graduate of Yale University, CAPRON became an engineer for U.S. Pipe and
Foundry Company, Anniston, Alabama. After service in the Air Force, he joined the
sales department for U.S. Pipe in Chicago, Illinois. Later, he became an engineer for the
Burlington, New Jersey, plant of U.S. Pipe. [Obituary, loc.cit.]
John D. CAPRON came to Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1929 and became president of
Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Company in 1930. He retired in 1961. In 1960, the
Governor of Virginia appointed CAPRON to a commission of business and industrial
leaders to study the reorganization of the state government. [Ibid.]
John D. CAPRON served on the Board of Trustees for Lynchburg College. In 1966,
he gave his entire historical collection to the Capron Library at the college. Active in the
civic and business affairs of the community, he was a member of a number of
organizations, including the Sphex Club, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
and the American Water Works Association. [Ibid.]
John Dodge CAPRON died 1 May 1977 at Locust Hill, his home in Bedford County,
Virginia. He was survived by his wife, the former Marcia Elizabeth SAXTON, the
daughter of Andrew Bice SAXTON, of Oneonta, New York. [Ibid.; Obituary, Marcia Saxton
Capron, Lynchburg News & Daily Advance, 26 January 1987, Section B, p. 2 col. 1.]
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JOHN DODGE CAPRON (1894-1977) COLLECTION
The collection includes articles, pamphlets, notes, etc., relating to history, with
emphasis on railroads, covered bridges, mineral springs, waterworks, and pipe making.
John Dodge CAPRON (1894-1977), an industrialist and philanthropist of Lynchburg,
Virginia, collected the material.
BOX 1
Virginia History (I)
BOX 2
Virginia History (II)
BOX 3
Lynchburg (Va.) History
BOX 4
Civil War History
BOX 5
Civil War History/Railroads
BOX 6
Industries
BOX 7
Miscellaneous History
BOX 8
Mineral Springs/Spas (I)
BOX 9
Mineral Springs/Spas (II)
BOX 10
Mineral Springs (U.S.)
BOX 11
Covered Bridges/U.S. History
BOX 12
Glamorgan Pipe Foundry/Cast Iron Pipe Research Association
BOX 13
Water works, Pipe making, Industries
BOX 14
Pipe-Making Industries
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]
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BOX 1
Virginia History
1-1 Miscellaneous historic houses of Virginia; Jamestown Festival
brochures; Miscellaneous house clippings (The Spur, 1952-1953);
Cast Iron Pipe News, Oct-Nov 1962; University of Virginia
Newsletter (3)
1-2 "Bays Blackwell Lecture" Emory & Henry, 1967; 125th anniversay
program, Emory & Henry; Invitation, Launching of the Polaris
submarine, "Lewis and Clark," 1964; Lynchburg (Va.) Historical
Society articles; miscellaneous clippings, "Glasgow," "Free
State"; Virginia travel brochures; Photographs, "Garland," "Col.
Robert H. Crockett"; Southwestern Episcopalian, "The First Fifty
Years, 1919-1969"; Chambers, Point of Honor; Occasional
Bulletin, Virginia Historical Society, 1965-1970; Virginia
Phoenix, Vol. 1-2; Sphex Club paper, Booth, 1962; Virginia
Museum of Science Study, 1969; Moore, "Ah, Youth and
Experience" (Virginia National Bank)
1-3 Miscellaneous historical articles and clippings on Virginia; Virginia
Historical Society, "James River," "First Thanksgiving,"
"Roanoke"; Transgas, "Lynchburg," "Poplar Forest" (1964);
Miscellaneous travel brochures; Burrowes, Robert F., "History of
the Boys' Home"
1-4 Miscellaneous historical articles; Iselin, "Matthew Fontaine Maury";
Gilliam (Sphex Club), "Matthew Fontaine Maury"; Article,
"Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties"; Oilways,
"Virginia" (1961); Excerpt from Hampton and its Students;
Occasional Bulletin, Virginia Historical Society (1960); News
article, "Bedford History"; Chart, Virginia State Government;
Letter to C.A. WOODRUM, 1947; Industrial Medicine and
Surgery, Dec. 1958, "Lead Shot Towers"
BOX 2
Virginia History
2-1 "Historic Shrines and Landmarks in Winchester"; Miscellaneous
historical articles; World Trade, "Mariner's Museum"
(1950); University of Virginia, "Unique in the Republic"; 40th
anniversary issue, Lane Folks (1952); Esso Oilways, "Southern
Lightweight Aggregate Corporation" (1953); American Philatelist,
"Philadelphia's Early Posts & Post Offices" (1952); Colonial
Williamsburg, President's Report (1951); Pennsylvania Schools,
1896; Tracks, "Kanawha Turnpike" (1955); American Cast Iron
(Continued)
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BOX 2
2–1 Pipe Co., "Jamestown" (1955)
2-2 New York Times - "Virginia, New Dominion of Industry (1953);
Bulletin, Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church, SC; Ford Times,
Virginia issue (1956); American Cast Iron Pipe Co.,
"Williamsburg Restored" (1953); "Big Island Paper Mill";
Miscellaneous historical articles and brochures; Scribner's Monthly,
"Chesapeake Peninsula" (1872); Occasional Bulletin, Virginia
Historical Society (1962); Cast Iron Pipe News, "Cast Iron Pipe at
University of Virginia" (1950); Cast Iron Pipe News, "Alexandria
Water Company" (1952); Lynchburg News, "The Custis Bible"
(1904); Brochures on St. Peter's P.E. Church, New Kent County,
Virginia; University of Virginia Newsletter (1957); Buick
Magazine, "Jamestown's 350th Birthday" (1957); Southwestern
Episcopalian, "Jamestown Festival" (1957); Washington and Lee
Notes (1957); France Actuelle, "Lafayette's Bi-centenary" (1957)
2-3 "Brightwood" Commissioner's sale, 1899 ad; Tracks, "James River
Company" (1954); Tracks, "James River" (1954); Miscellaneous
historical clippings; Virginia League of Local Welfare Executives,
"The Good Old Days" (1950); Brief sketch of Sweet Briar College
(1950); Photographs, Salt Peter Cave (1950); Membership
Certificate, Virginia Historical Society (1950); Scribner's Monthly,
"A Ramble in Virginia" (1874); University of Virginia
Newsletter; Saturday Evening Post, "The Mystery of the Lawyer's
House" (1951); Invitation, VMI, honoring Gen. George C.
MARSHALL (1951); W & L, 1749-1949, Student Bicentennial
publication (1949)
BOX 3
Lynchburg History
3-1 Lynchburg News, "History of the Lynchburg Gas Company" (1951);
Lynchburg Gas Company annual report (1951); N & W Magazine,
"Altavista - Town with a Lofty View" (1961); Miscellaneous
historical articles; Alumnae News, Sweet Briar College, 1954; Sweet
Briar, Graduation invitation (1956); Craddock-Terry Record,
"Streets of Lynchburg," "City Buses" (1958); Calendar, Glamorgan
Pipe and Foundry (1957); Photograph of Lynchburg, ca. 1874
3-2 Southwestern Episcopalian, Vol.25 No.4, "Historic St.Stephen's
Church"; Carter GLASS, Anecdotes, Congressional Record (1939);
Miscellaneous historical articles; Sweet Briar Invitation (1956);
Sweet Briar News (1940, 1954); Bulletin, Sweet Briar College,
"Sweet Briar-First Half Century" (1953); Lynchburg Historical
Society, "Miller Claytor House" (1953); Confederate Money (NC),
$1.00 bill; Annual meeting, Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce
(Continued)
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BOX 3
3–2 (1955); Invitation to Seven Pines (The RUSSELLs); "Products of
Industry" (Lynchburg and Campbell County), 1860 Census (2
copies)
3-3 Wilda VEHLOW, "Guggenheimer's of Lynchburg" (1948), with
clippings from rerun in 1962
3-4 Craddock-Terry Record, "Old Quaker Church" (1960);
Miscellaneous historical articles; "General View of Lynchburg"
(1908); "History of the Quaker Presbyterian Church"; Articles
on the Water System; Cross-Sections (B&W) (1967); Water Works
Engineering, "Lynchburg...Treatment Plant" (1957); Water and
Sewage Works, "A Filter Plant that Grew Up" (1956); Lynchburg
Community Chest (1943); Lynchburg Historical Society, "Jim Crack
Corn", "Lynchburg Aviation"
BOX 4
Civil War History
4-1 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 1-50) (Missing Nos. 13, 36, 46)
4-2 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 51-100) (Missing No. 80)
4-3 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 101-134) (Missing Nos. 108, 116)
4-4 "Confederate Column" (Nos. 135-172) (Missing No. 142)
BOX 5
Civil War History/Railroads
5-1 Miscellaneous collections of articles on the Civil War; Gisholt
Machine Co., "A Little Clump of Trees" (n.d.); Civil War Centennial
map (Virginia); Pictorial map, Civil War (Esso); Red Cross
Newsletter, "Clara H. BARTON" (1961); "The First Hunley" (n.d.);
Consolidated Textile News, "Appomattox 1865-1955" (1955);
Monsanto Magazine, "That Their Dead Shall not have Died in Vain"
(1960); The Capture of New Orleans" (n.d., n.pub.);
American Motorist, "Cyclorama...Gettysburg, Pennsylvania" (1961)
5-2 Correspondence, Alfred R. JAMES; Miscellaneous articles on
Railroads; New York Central System (Pittsburg and Lake Erie RR),
"Along the Right of Way"; "Various Southern Railroads - List of
Stations 1865-1953";
5-3 Miscellaneous articles on the Civil War; Virginia Museum of Science
and History; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
"Windows on our Past" (1965); Glamorgan calendars (1958, 1962);
Letter, MORFIT from "No. 5 Bleeker Street, 1852"; Shipyard
Bulletin (Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company)
(1962); Letters ("Coal for the Navy"), 1840 Midlothian Coal Mining,
1854 Circular, 1854 (2) Coal for "San Jacinto", 1856 (2) Coal for
"Wabash"; Fort Monroe Museum circulars/letters (1828, 1830, 1847,
re: cast iron pipe)
(Continued)
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BOX 6
Industries
6-1 Lynchburg Industries (1960); "Century and a half of Manufacturing
in Lynchburg"; Miscellaneous notes on industries
6-2 Correspondence, Glamorgan history/Pont-a-Mousson, Prospectus
(1965); Correspondence/letters, Delavaud Plant
6-3 Miscellaneous historical notes; Tracks, "Lynchburg Promised Land"
(1957); Glamorgan history; Central Virginia Industries, Inc.,
1940 Directory; Commonwealth, Lynchburg industries (1940);
Lynchburg history, L. H. McWANE (1960); Commonwealth (1960)
6-4 Lynchburg industries; Active companies; Glamorgan Annual Report
(1959); History of Craddock-Terry Shoe Corp. (1961);
Miscellaneous historical clippings-Lynchburg Foundry, J.P. Bell,
Brown-Morrison, C.B. Cones Co., Consolidated Shoe, R.C. Davis
Co., Duti-Duds, Famous Virginia Foods, C.B. Fleet, Gary Steel
Products, Glamorgan Pipe, Harris Carriage, Lynchburg Foundry,
Lynchburg Transit Co., Mead Corp., N&W Industries, Consumers
Co., Old Dominion Box, Price & Clements Machines, Quality
Dairy, Virginia Dunbrik, Virginia Gear, Cleland Co., Consolidated
Textile; Businesses (1960); Businesses (1883-1888)
6-5 "Manufactures 1939" (Industry classifications); Lynchburg industries
(1960 and card file); Standard Industrial Classification Manual;
Census of Industry (1860); Current industries (1960); Miscellaneous
industries (card file)
BOX 7
Miscellaneous History
7-1 Bedford County Schools (1953-1959); Mrs. John D. Capron, Bedford
County Citizens for Better Schools
7-2 (Continuation of 7-1)
7–3 Miscellaneous materials on George Washington University,
Maryland
7–4 Miscellaneous Lynchburg History; Altavista Journal, "LYNCH
Family"; Lynchburg Gas Company History, News articles 1850's;
Lynchburg Watering Committee; Public Library for Lynchburg
(1965)
7-5 Lynchburg Historical Society
7-6 Historic Landmarks Commission (Attempt to place iron mine on list)
BOX 8
Mineral Springs/Spas
8-1 Miscellaneous ads, photos, articles on Mineral Springs of Virginia;
Postal cancellations
8-2 Rockbridge Alum Springs, Correspondence, photos, articles
(Continued)
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BOX 8
8-3 Miscellaneous Springs (Other than Virginia - West Virginia,
Kentucky, Arkansas, France, New York)
8-4 Miscellaneous Springs (Other than Virginia)
8-5 Hot Springs, Virginia (The Homestead); Miscellaneous articles and
pamphlets; Hot Springs (1887); Hot Springs (1871)
BOX 9
Mineral Springs/Spas
9-1 Miscellaneous collection, Springs other than Virginia (CA, AR, NY,
OH, IN, PA, NH, NC)
9-2 White Sulphur Springs (Greenbrier Co., WV), photos, brochures,
correspondence
9-3 Miscellaneous booklets, photos; Virginia Department of Health,
Public Water Supplies in Virginia (1939); U.S. Department of
Interior, Thermal Springs in the United States (1937);
V.P.I., Municipal Water Supplies of Virginia (1937); Virginia
Division of Water Resources and Power, Springs of Virginia (1930)
9-4 Miscellaneous correspondence regarding Springs (1943-1950)
9-5 Mineral Springs, Virginia -Notes, photos, Virginia springs (A-Me)
9-6 Mineral Springs, Virginia - Notes, photos, Virginia springs (Mi-Z)
BOX 10
Mineral Springs (U.S.)
10-1 "Some historical aspects of the thermal and mineral springs of the
US" (1950); Notes regarding springs other than Virginia
10-2 References, springs, US and Virginia; Lists of springs
10-3 Atlas of Illinois Resources (1959), water and mineral resources
10-4 Springs, Virginia; Water resources, Virginia (1959); "Notes on
Surface Water in Virginia" (1960)
BOX 11
Covered Bridges/U.S. History
11-1 Bridges, Virginia; "Stretching the Sinews of the Old Dominion"
(ALLEN?); Covered bridges in Virginia (1958); Former covered
bridges; Photograph of covered bridge at Lynchburg (1875);
Miscellaneous articles, post cards; 1971 Covered Bridge Tour
(Virginia); "Covered Bridges, Proud Symbols of Colonial
Transportation"
11-2 Southern Covered Bridge Association, "Bridge Beat" (1969-1971)
11-3 Bridges, U.S.; "Houghton Line" (1958-1961)
11-4 Miscellaneous historical articles, U.S.; "Western Steamboats"
(Gisholt, 1957); U.S. Frigate, "Constellation"; American Motorist,
"Pennsylvania's Plain People" (1958); Flag of the United States;
"Providence and How it Grew" "Custer's Last Fight" (Gisholt n.d.);
(Continued)
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BOX 11
11-4
"Carbon Fourteen Dating" (Gisholt 1956); "Peter Piper Alphabet";
New Yorker, "The Presbyterian Call System" (1957); "Moneys of
the World"; Million mile travellers; Flags of the Five Nations;
"Water Resources of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area" (1951)
11-5 Miscellaneous historical articles, U.S.; "Ships and Sails: the Way of
the Past"; Salem Maritime National Historic Site; "History of
Mexico" (Gisholt 1954); First transatlantic liner named United
States; History of Point Clear, Alabama; America's first architects;
"Vinland" (Gisholt 1954); Historic role of the rivers of Georgia,
Chapter XI, Kilowatts; World Trade, "PERRY's Sailing" (1952);
Treasure Map of the United States; Ticket, Republican National
Convention (1900); Official program, 43rd inauguration (1957)
BOX 12
Glamorgan Pipe Foundry/Cast Iron Pipe Research Association
12-1 Board Meeting at Nancy (France), Sept. 1961; Miscellaneous trip
ephemera (postal cards, itinerary, tickets, photos, menus)
12-2 Cast Iron Pipe Research Association (CIPRA), Mailing lists,
membership lists, History (1960), History from the minutes of the
Association
12-3 CIPRA - Price lists, domestic shipments, statistical reports (19421947)
12-4 CIPRA -Statistical reports (1943-1947) (duplicates)
12-4 List of pipe plants (1958); Cast iron pipe manufacturers, 1800 to
date; Newcomen Society, "Development of Cast Iron Pressure Pipe
Industry in Southern States, 1800-1938"; History of cast iron pipe
BOX 13
Water works/Pipe-making/Industries
13-1 Water Works, Water supply; "Water supply for Camps, 1918";
Historical articles on water works; USDHEW, "Clean Water"; Cast
Iron Pipe Publicity Bureau, "Water Works for every Town"; Old
Weymouth"; "The Manufacture of Cast Iron Pipe and its
Application to Municipal Engineering"
13-2 History of Water Works, Lynchburg Virginian (1854);
Miscellaneous clippings and correspondence; Water works at
Nashville and Nashua, Ishpeming, miscellaneous correspondence
and articles
13-3 Pipe-Making; History of Pipe; Miscellaneous articles and
pamphlets; The American City, "Wooden water mains" (1960);
"McWANE Pipe Pointers" (1955); "Modern Cast Iron Pipe"
(Wolfe); Photos showing failures of steel and wood water pipe;
Blueprints for pipes (Glamorgan); Methods of making pipe
(deLAVAUD); "How McWANE Pipe is Made"; "History of Cast
(Continued)
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BOX 13
13–3 Iron Pipe" (Conrad 1939); "Spinning Speeds of Centrifugal Casting
Machines" (Carrington); "Production of Centrifugal Gray Iron
Castings in Water Cooled Molds"; "A Comparison of the Physical
Properties of Various Kinds of Cast Iron Pipe"; Miscellaneous
articles and pamphlets
13-4 Pipe-Making; "Methods of making pipe - Sandspun"; Gas and water
pipes; Cast Iron Pipe News, "98 Years of Excellent Service"
(Feb/Mar, 1963)
13-5 Lynchburg Foundry Company, miscellaneous articles and
pamphlets on the history of the company
13-6 Miscellaneous materials on pipe industries: R.D. Wood Co.,
CIPRA, Shamoon Industries, Woodward Iron Co., James B. Clow &
Co., Alabama Pipe Co., Lone Star Steel, Centrifugal Pipe
Corporation
BOX 14
Pipe-Making Industries
14-1 U.S. Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co., Miscellaneous articles and
correspondence
14-2 McWANE Cast Iron Pipe Co.: McWANE Cast Iron Pipe and Joints
(1930); How McWANE Pipe is Made; American Iron and Steel
Institute (1927); Letter, Pete ASHTON, ASHTON Block
(1962); "New Iron Making Process Developed...
14-3 American Cast Iron Pipe Co., miscellaneous articles and
correspondence
14-4 Glamorgan Pipe Company - Statements (1924-1954), Earnings; Bell
and Spigot Pit Cast Pipe production; deLavaud Pipe; Special
Foundry; Purchase of company; U.S. Department of
Commerce, "Cast Iron Pipe Industry"; CIPRA Articles of
Association
14-5 War Furnaces not listed by Bruce (card file); Inventory list for
CIPRA history; Pipe companies
14-6 "History of Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Company" (CAPRON)
MS1318
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JOHN DODGE CAPRON (1894-1977)
John Dodge CAPRON, industrialist and philanthropist, was born 8 November 1894 in
Menands, New York, the son of William White CAPRON and Helen KENT. [Burial record,
Diuguid Funeral Home, Lynchburg, VA, Book 67, p. 3, Microfilmed records, Jones Memorial Library,
Lynchburg, VA; Obituary, Lynchburg Daily Advance, 2 May 1977, p. 30, cols. 1, 4.]
A graduate of Yale University, CAPRON became an engineer for U.S. Pipe and
Foundry Company, Anniston, Alabama. After service in the Air Force, he joined the
sales department for U.S. Pipe in Chicago, Illinois. Later, he became an engineer for the
Burlington, New Jersey, plant of U.S. Pipe. [Obituary, loc.cit.]
John D. CAPRON came to Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1929 and became president of
Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Company in 1930. He retired in 1961. In 1960, the
Governor of Virginia appointed CAPRON to a commission of business and industrial
leaders to study the reorganization of the state government. [Ibid.]
John D. CAPRON served on the Board of Trustees for Lynchburg College. In 1966,
he gave his entire historical collection to the Capron Library at the college. Active in the
civic and business affairs of the community, he was a member of a number of
organizations, including the Sphex Club, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
and the American Water Works Association. [Ibid.]
John Dodge CAPRON died 1 May 1977 at Locust Hill, his home in Bedford County,
Virginia. He was survived by his wife, the former Marcia Elizabeth SAXTON, the
daughter of Andrew Bice SAXTON, of Oneonta, New York. [Ibid.; Obituary, Marcia Saxton
Capron, Lynchburg News & Daily Advance, 26 January 1987, Section B, p. 2 col. 1.]
MS1318
Dublin Core
Title
Finding Aid to the John Dodge Capron Collection
Subject
finding aids
Capron, John Dodge ,1894-1977
Description
Finding aid to the John Dodge Capron collection held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Va. The collection includes articles, notes, pamphlets and materials related to railroads, bridges, waterworks in Lynchburg and the United States.
Creator
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Publisher
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Date
2023
Rights
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Format
pdf
Language
English
Identifier
MS1318FA
Collection
Citation
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.), “Finding Aid to the John Dodge Capron Collection,” Digital Collections, accessed April 27, 2024, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/367.