Junkin, George, 1798 - 1868
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1790 - 1868
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Julia Miller Junkin Fishburn Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0435
Scope and Contents
This collection contains four letters by Julia Miller Junkin Fishburn while she lived at her father, George Junkin's house, while he was the President of Washington and Lee University. She writes to her friend Lizzie Webster in Maryland about her sister Margaret Junkin Preston, her brother-in-law General Stonewall Jackson, her upcoming marriage to Junius M. Fishburn, who was a Latin professor at Washington College, later about his death and her mother's death. A fifth letter dated...
Dates:
Inclusive 1854-1887; Majority of material found within Bulk 1854-1858
Margaret Junkin Preston Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0101
Scope and Contents
This collection includes poems and prose (manuscript and printed copies); A May Night Masque, written in 1872 for Ann Smith Academy; notebooks and scrapbooks. There is a Greek New Testament given to Preston by her father, George Junkin, and a glass plate negative of George Junkin's portrait. Additionally, Preston's scrapbooks include one volume of her printed poems and stories and one volume of her sketches and manuscript poems. There is also a broadside, and several...
Dates:
Inclusive1839-1872