Finding Aid to the John Warwick Daniel Collection

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2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JOHN WARWICK DANIEL (1842-1910) COLLECTION
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Carter Glass telegram to JWD [July 1904]
Memoirs of JWD, manuscript
Daniel miscellany [SEE ENVELOPE COVER FOR LIST]
Daniel letters [SEE ENVELOPE COVER]
"The Daniel Family, Point of Honor--Westerly" by Arthur H.
Jennings [The Southerner, April 1931]
1-6 Daniel miscellany [SEE ENVELOPE COVER]
1-7 Photographs of John Warwick Daniel (1865-66)
1-8 John Warwick Daniel Monument miscellany
1-9 Photographs of JWD, Maurice Langhorne, D.H. Tinsley, Charles
Ayers, and William Daniel & wife.
1-10 Photographs of JWD, et al, at Manassas, 1889. & JWD and
Committee on Courts of Justice
1-11 "Oration on the Illustrious Dead" by JWD, 28 June 1859
1-12 Daniel letters -- 1877-1899
1-13 Daniel letters -- 1900-1910
1-14 Daniel miscellany [SEE ENVELOPE COVER]
1-15 Proclamation of the Governor of Virginia at the death of JWD, 1910
1-16 Property book of JWD, 1889
1-17 Poetry of R.B. Witter, Jr. of Washington, DC
1-18 Scrapbook of newspaper editorials and clippings on Sen. JWD's
orations
1-19 "Lynchburg Past and Present" by Mayor JWD
1-20 "John Warwick Daniel, 1842-1910; John Marshall Daniel, 17991878" by L.E. Caudill
1-21 Bethel Academy (Fauquier Co., VA): (a) letter from P.A. McIntyre
concerning their new quarters in the Fauquier Springs property
and requesting that JWD serve on the Honorary Board of Visitors;
(b) "The Bethel Cadet," March 1893, Vol. I, No. 3 [list of honor
roll includes John W. Daniel, (Jr.)]; (c) Washington and Robert E.
Lee Literary Soc. of the Academy, 7 June 1892.
1-22 Memorial Bridge (Arlington, VA to DC): Letters to JWD, & misc.
articles concerning
1-23 Various speeches of JWD
(Continued)
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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JOHN WARWICK DANIEL (1842-1910) COLLECTION (Contd)
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[BOX 3]

Papers of JWD, including photograph, certificates, memorial resolutions,
& newspaper reporting death of JWD

Bibliography of JWD materials at JML
Appointment recommendations [postal?] of JWD
Scrap Book of JWD [1891-1899]
Map of Westerly Addition [1917]
Typescript copy of "Uncle Tom Without A Cabin" [by JWD ?]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JOHN WARWICK DANIEL (1842-1910)
John Warwick Daniel was born 5 September 1842, in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was
the son of Judge William, Jr. and Sarah A. Warwick Daniel. Mr. Daniel was educated at
the "Old" Lynchburg College and Dr. Gessner Harrison's University School.
Mr. Daniel served in the CSA's Army of Northern Virginia throughout the Civil War
and was wounded four times. One such wound to the hip gave Daniel the nickname of
"The Lame Lion of Lynchburg." He served on the Gen. Early's staff as Major of Cavalry
and as Assistant Adjutant General.
Following the war, he studied law at the University of Virginia, 1865-66, and was
admitted to the bar in 1866. He practiced law in Lynchburg, Virginia. He received the
LL.D. from Washington and Lee in 1883, and also did work at the University of
Michigan in 1887. He was a noted speaker throughout the country and was one of the
chosen speakers for the dedication of the Washington Monument. Many referred to
Daniel as "Virginia's Cicero."
John Warwick Daniel married Julia E. Murrell in 1869. He served as a member of the
Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 to 1872 and in the Senate of Virginia from 1875
to 1881. He ran for Governor of Virginia in 1881 and lost the election. He served in the
49th Congress of the U.S. and was in the U.S. Senate from 1887-1911. He was reelected
for the 1911-1917 term. Senator Daniel died on 29 June 1910.
SOURCE:
Who Was Who in America, Vol. I, 1897-1942. Chicago: THE A.N. Marquis Co., 1942;
"John Warwick Daniel, 'The Lame Lion of Lynchburg,' A Tribute," The Southerner, II, No. 2 (December
1928), p. 10.

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