Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book
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Scope and Contents
The collection contains a copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book with an alphabetical index that includes most of the headings which occur, published in Boston, by Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1836. It is profusely annotated with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886. The collection also contains copies of compositions by Crenshaw while a student at the University of Alabama, a speech made at commencement, 1834, and a composition, "Education and Literary Institutions" published in the Greenville Whig, 13 June 1835, and reprinted by the Woodville (Mississippi) Republican, 11 July 1835.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1835-1886
Creator
- Crenshaw, Walter Henry (Person)
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Biographical / Historical
Walter Henry Crenshaw, son of Anderson and Mary Chiles Crenshaw, was born on 7 July 1817 in Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina. He married Sarah Anderson of Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama, in 1843. The couple had twelve children: (1) Edward Frederick, 1842-1911; (2) infant daughter, 1844-1844; (3) Mary Louisa, 1845-1849; (4) infant son, 1847-1847; (5) Anderson, 1848-1851; (6) Walter Henry, 1850-1912; (7) Mary Louisa, 1852-1863; (8) Abner Franklin, 1854-1923; (9) Anderson, 1857-1926; (10) John Elmore, 1859-1932; (11) Laura Elmore, 1861-1862; (12) Leonora, 1863-1939; and (13) Bolling Hall, 1867-1935.
Crenshaw was a lawyer and a planter, and served in the Alabama General Assembly as a Representative (1838, 1840, 1841, 1847, 1861-1964), Speaker of the House (1861-1865), as a Senator (1851-1853, 1865, 1866), President of the Senate, 1865. He was also a member of the constitutional convention of 1865 and was elected judge of the criminal court of Butler County in 1872.
Crenshaw died on 7 December 1878.
Extent
0.08 Linear Feet (1 volume)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book, profusely annotated by Crenshaw with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886, and miscellaneous additional items.
Provenance
Purchased from Cather and Brown Books, 1990
General
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Processed by
unknown, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
Source
- Cather & Brown Books (Bookseller, Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- February 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository