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Edward L. Stone/Borderland Coal Company Papers, 1895-1937

July 23, 2014
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Inventor Name

Edward L. Stone/Borderland Coal Company

Repository

University of Virginia
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
Charlottesville VA 22904-4110
434-243-1776
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/

Physical Description

500,000 items

Summary

Edward Lee Stone was born on September 15, 1864, in Liberty (now Bedford) Virginia, the son of John Harmon Stone and Mary Witt Stone. He was reared in very modest circumstances, and received no more than an elementary school education, yet he became one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens in the state of Virginia. Patents - copies of and description circulars about a printing press Stone invented 1907, found in Box 113.

Finding Aid

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00663.xml

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