Finding Aid to the James Burroughs Noell Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JAMES BURROUGHS NOELL (1890-1985) PAPERS
The collection includes the business and personal papers of James Burroughs NOELL
of Lynchburg, Virginia. Some business papers predate the business career of James B.
NOELL and involve the legal work of his father, James TURPIN NOELL, Jr., attorney
for the Bonsack Cigarette Machine Company. Also included are miscellaneous
genealogical notes, including the BROWN, PATTESON and OWEN families, and a
biographical sketch of Ambrose Hammett BURROUGHS, attorney for the American
Tobacco Company. The collection also contains notes and correspondence generated in
the writing of "Lynchburg Business Firms of 1900."

[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JAMES BURROUGHS NOELL (1890-1985) PAPERS
The collection includes the business and personal papers of James Burroughs NOELL
of Lynchburg, Virginia. Some business papers predate the business career of James B.
NOELL and involve the legal work of his father, James TURPIN NOELL, Jr., attorney
for the Bonsack Cigarette Machine Company. Also included are miscellaneous
genealogical notes, including the BROWN, PATTESON and OWEN families, and a
biographical sketch of Ambrose Hammett BURROUGHS, attorney for the American
Tobacco Company. The collection also contains notes and correspondence generated in
the writing of "Lynchburg Business Firms of 1900."
BOX 1

1-1 NOELL, James Burroughs
1-2 "The Battle of Manassas: Interesting Correspondence"
1-3 "Books at the Court House, Lynchburg, Virginia, Belonging to City
Council"
1-4 BROWN/PATTESON/OWEN Families
1-5 BURROUGHS, Ambrose Hammet
1-6 "Business Firms of 1900" (Notes)
1-7 "Business Firms of 1900" (Manuscript)
1-8 Civil War Round Table
1-9 EARLY, Jubal A.
1-10 ELLIS Family
1-11 "Foundry of F.B. DEANE, Sr. & Jr."
1-12 FREEMAN Family
1-13 GARLAND Family
1-14 "Growth of Culture in Lynchburg"
1-15 "Honor Roll of Lynchburg Businesses"
1-16 JACK, Theodore Henley
1-17 Law Lecture Notes (1917)
1-18 LYNCH Family
1-19 Miscellaneous Deeds
1-20 Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings
1-21 Miscellaneous Notes
1-22 Miscellaneous Pamphlets
1-23 MUNFORD, Thomas T.
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BOX 1

1-24
1-25
1-26
1-27
1-28
1-29
1-30
1-31
1-32
1-33
1-34
1-35

NOELL Family
NOELL, James Turpin, Jr.
"Origins of the Lottery"
"Owners of Limited Edition of Memoirs of Life In and Out of the
Army of Virginia…”
"Plan of the Town of Lynchburg, Virginia 1805"
ROBERTSON, Samuel Brown
RUSSELL, Edgar Campbell
Second Virginia Cavalry
"Setting the Scene for Chancellorsville"
"Sketch of Ambrose Hammett BURROUGHS"
TATE, Edmund
USA vs. American Tobacco Company

BOX 2

Bonsack Cigarette Machine Company
2-1 vs. Buen Tono (1879-1892)
2-2 vs. Buen Tono (1893-1896)
2-3 vs. Buen Tono (1897-1898)
2-4 vs. Buen Tono (1899-1900)
2-5 vs. Buen Tono (1901-1902)
2-6 vs. Buen Tono (1903)
2-7 vs. Buen Tono ((Miscellaneous)
2-8 vs. Buen Tono (Newspaper Clippings)
2-9 vs. Buen Tono (Patents)
2-10 vs. C.E. HALLIWELL

BOX 3

Letter Books (A.H. BURROUGHS)
3-1 1885-1890
3-2 1894
3-3 1895
3-4 1897

BOX 4

Letter Books
4-1 A.H. BURROUGHS (1901)
4-2 A.H. BURROUGHS (1903)
4-3 A.H. BURROUGHS (1908-1909)
4-4 R.G.H. KEAN (1903-1904)

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BOX 5

Letter Books (J.T. NOELL, Jr.)
5-1 1897-1899
5-2 1899-1900
5-3 1900-1903
5-4 1900-1903
5-5 1904-1906

BOX 6

J.T. NOELL, Jr.
6-1 Letter Book (1905-1912)
6-2 Letter Book (1907-1912)
6-3 Account Book (1891-1893)
6-4 Ledger (1896-1903)

BOX 7

7-1
7-2
7-3
7-4
7-5
7-6

Letter Book, Bonsack West India Affiliates (1895-1897)
Account Book, Bonsack West India Affiliates (1893-1909)
Virginian Hotel - Survey (1947), Insurance Submission
United Cigarette Company, South American Affiliates
United Cigarette Company, Cuban Affiliates
Bank Accounts, Household Accounts, The Pines (Bedford County,
VA)

BOX 8

8-1
8-2
8-3
8-4

Journal/Ledger (1922)
Account Book (1922-1923)
Journal (1918-1927)
Journal, BURROUGHS & NOELL (1900-1925)

BOX 9

9-1 Account Book, J.T. NOELL, Jr. (1903-1908)
9-2 Law Notes (4 vols.), Sherman A. WOLFE

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JAMES BURROUGHS NOELL (1890-1985)
James Burroughs NOELL, son of James Turpin NOELL, Jr., and Lucy Dudley
WATTS, was born 17 December 1890, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was
graduated from high school in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was graduated from Washington
and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, in 1911. He received his law degree from
Harvard Law School in 1917. During World War I, NOELL served as a captain in the
51st Pioneer Infantry Regiment.
Following World War I, James B. NOELL attended the University of Nantes in
France. He also managed the family farm at Lone Pine, Bedford County, Virginia, before
World War II. During World War II, he served in the United States Army once again.
A member and secretary of the Sphex Club of Lynchburg for a number of years,
James B. NOELL contributed many articles of historical interest, including "Asa G.
Candler," "The Bonsack Machine," "English Legal System," and "Lynchburg's
Confederate Generals." He was also a member of the Lynchburg Historical Society and
wrote additional articles for that organization, including "Lynchburg Business Firms
1900."
James Burroughs NOELL died 5 February 1985 and was buried in the Spring Hill
Cemetery in Lynchburg.
[Obituary, Lynchburg News, 5 February 1985, Sect. B, p. 2 col. 1; Jennie Noel Weeks, compiler, Emigrant
Cornelius Noel from Holland to Virginia and His Descendants in America, Vol. 4, part 1 (Salt Lake City,
UT: Compiler), p. 328; The Critic, Memorial Number, E.C. Glass High School Vol. 23 No. 2 (Nov 1922),
p. 129; Finding Guide, Sphex Club Papers, Mss., MS1133, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

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