Born in Orange County, Virginia, Hiden sought out organizations with a shared appreciation for the historical significance of these court records, such as ladies’ patriotic societies, and looked to them to cover or defray the conservation cost.
Martha Woodroof Hiden · Paperback ; Martha Woodroof Hiden and transporting has been carried on from year to year with the sole aim of preserving Virginia’s wealth of historical documents.” Then, as today, conservation treatment for these books and loose records could be expensive and funding was limited. Hiden sought out organizations with a shared appreciation for the historical.
The Martha Woodroof Hiden Born to Jesse Alphonso Woodroof and Susan Graves Woodroof. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Women's College and did graduate study at the University of Chicago. A member of the Virginia chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Born to Jesse Alphonso The name honors Philip Wallace Hiden (), successful businessman, civic leader and mayor of Newport News - ; and his wife Martha Woodroof Hiden (), genealogist, historian and founder of the city library Virginiana Collection.
Martha Frances (Woodroof) Hiden FASG (1883 Martha W. (Martha Woodroof) Hiden. Topics Counties -- Virginia -- History, Virginia -- History, F, Virginia -- History, Local Publisher Project Gutenberg Collection.
She served as chairman "How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation" by Martha W. Hiden is a historical account written in the midth century. The book provides a detailed overview of the formation of counties in Virginia, tracing back to their conceptual origins and the establishment of local governance in the early colonial period.
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Author: Martha W. (Martha Woodroof) Hiden. Release Date: March 15, [eBook #] Language: English. Character set encoding: ISO ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW JUSTICE GREW*** E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Eric Skeet, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (). How justice grew: Virginia The Martha Woodroof Hiden Memorial Collection was first dedicated on May 27, and was housed in the West Avenue Library of the Newport News Public Library System. The collection was named after longtime Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Newport News Public Library Inc. Mrs. Hiden served as Chair of the Board of Trustees from to