Jedediah Hotchkiss papers, 1835-1908

Collection Summary

Title	Jedediah Hotchkiss papers, 1835-1908
Inclusive Dates	1835-1908
Bulk Dates	1875-1898
ID No.	MSS26526
Creator	Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899
Extent	20,000 items
Extent	74 containers
Extent	29.6 linear feet
Extent	61 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006031
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78026526
Summary	Confederate army officer, topographical and mining engineer, and historian. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, subject files, writings, financial papers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous printed material relating principally to Hotchkiss's service with the Confederate army as a topographical engineer in Virginia and his involvement with various land and mining schemes in West Virginia, especially the Gauley Coal Company, Guyandot Coal Land Association, and North Flat-Top Land Association. Includes genealogical papers relating to the Hotchkiss and Beecher families, copies of William Barton Rogers's notebooks for his geological survey of Virginia, and papers of Hotchkiss's wife, Sara Anne Comfort Hotchkiss.
Online Content	The papers of Jedediah Hotchkiss are available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000034. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition.