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Armistead Churchill Gordon
Lyon G. Tyler (ed.), Men of Mark in Virginia: Ideals of American Life Armistead Chuchill Gordon was born at Edgeworth, Virginia, December 20, 1855. He became a lawyer, practiced in Staunton, Virginia and went on to become mayor of that city in 1884, serving two years. He also served as Commonwealth's Attorney. Gordon, was a graduate of Virginia University, founded by his grandfather, General W.F. Gordon; he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Washington and Lee University in 1923. [Basic biographical source: Edmund Clarence Stedman (ed.), An American Anthology 1787-1899 795 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900)] Armistead C. Gordon Poems Poetry Armistead Churchill Gordon & Thomas Nelson Page, Befo' de War: Echoes in Negro Dialect (New York: Charles Scribner's, 1888) [online text] (New York: C. Scribner's, 1893)[Thomas Nelson Page] Armistead C. Gordon, For Truth and Freedom: Poems of Commemoration (Staunton, Virginia: A. Shultz, 1898) [online text] _________________, Vitai Lampada. A Song for a Centenary Year (1901) _________________, The Ivory Gate ((New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1907) [online text] _________________, The Western Front (Staunton, Virginia: Privately Printed, 1928) _________________, The Fount of Castaly (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1934) Law Poetry Anthologies Armistead Churchill Gordon, "Law at our Boarding-House," in Ina Russelle Warren (ed.), The Lawyer's Alcove: Poems by the Lawyer, for the Lawyer and About the Lawyer 175-176 (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1900) (Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Co., 1990) Writings Armistead C. Gordon, Congressional Currency. An Outline of the Federal Money System (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895) [online text] _________________, The Gay Gordons: Ballads of an Ancient Scottish Clan (Staunton, Virginia: Albert Shultz, 1902) [online text] _________________, Gift of the Morning Star: A Story of Sherando (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1905) _________________, Robin Aroon, a Comedy of Manners (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1908) [online text] _________________, William Fitzhugh Gordon. A Virginian of the Old School: His Life,Times,and Contemporaries (1787- 1858)(New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1909) [online text] Armistead C. Gordon & Edwin Anderson, J.L.M. Curry: A Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1911) [online text] Armistead C. Gordon, Maje: A Love Story (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914) _________________, Ommirandy Plantation Life at Kingsmill (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917) (illustrated by Walter Biggs) [online text] ________________, Jefferson Davis. Figures From American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918) [online text] ________________, Gordons in Virginia: With Notes on Gordons of Scotland and Ireland (Hackensack, New Jersey: W. M. Clemens, 1918)(Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., 1995)(Hackensack, New Jersey: W. M. Clemens, Limited ed., 1997) ________________, Some Lawyers in Colonial Virginia (Richmond, 1921) _________________ (ed.), Virginian Writers of Fugitive Verse (:New York: J. T. White & Co., 1923) ________________ (ed.), Men and Events: Chapters of Virginia History (Staunton, Virginia: The McClure Co., 1923) ________________, Memories and Memorials of William Gordon McCabe (Richmond: Old Dominion Press,1925)(2 vols.) ________________, Allegra, The Story of Byron and Miss Clairmont Minton (Balch & Company, 1926) ________________, In the Picturesque Shenandoah Valley (Richmond: Garrett & Massie, Inc. 1930) Bibliography Armistead C. Gordon, A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Armistead C. Gordon, LL.D., LITT.D., 1923 (Staunton, Virginia: Priv. print. for the author by the McClure Co., 1923) Research Resources Armistead C. Gordon Papers Armistead
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