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The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Anne Price Yates Papers II, Ms2010-065, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Anne Price Yates Papers II were donated to Special Collections in 2010.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Anne Price Yates Papers II was completed in October 2010.

Biographical Note

Anne Hayden Price Yates, Price family historian, was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1939, to William Conway Price (born 1906) and Eleanor Franklin Hayden (1908-1973). She married James Stanley Savage and had one daughter, Eleanor. She later married Patrick Audley Yates, with whom she had a son, Adam.

Yates received her education in the American School in Manila, Philippines and earned an associate of arts degree from Florida State University. She later attended the University of Florida. In addition to being the author of Increase in Prices: Some descendants of David and Agnes (Hoffman) Price of 17th century Germany , Yates also compiled and edited The Brothers Conway of Madison County, Virginia: autobiographies of Catlett Conway and William Buchanan Conway and edited Descendants of Edwin Conway, the immigrant , compiled by her father.

Scope and Content

The Anne Price Yates Papers II contains manuscript materials, notes, and correspondence related to Yates' research on the Price family after the publication of her book, Increase in Prices . The collection contains correspondence from readers with additional genealogical information on the Price and Harless families, copies of genealogies from the William and Mary Quarterly and Virginia Historical Magazine and more of her own genealogical research. Further correspondence and genealogical material from her father, W.C. Price, is contained in the collection.

Also included is correspondence and a copy of a speech from a ceremony at Virginia Tech honoring Dr. Harvey Black in 1939 while H.L. Price served as Dean of Agriculture, as well as the Virginia Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletins during his tenure. Addtionally, the collection contains two deeds for land transfer between James and Hattie Gibbony and H. L. Price in 1905 and 1908.

Arrangement

The collection is divided into three series:

Series I: Anne Price Yates Materials contains Anne Price Yates' correspondence with readers, arranged chronologically, additional geneological material (undated), and ephemera material (mostly undated).

Series II: W. C. Price Materials contains the correspondence of W.C. (William C.) Price, arranged chronologically.

Series III: H. L. Price Materials concerns the papers relating to H.L. (Harvey Lee) Price.

Related Material

See the following materials, which are also at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives:

Anne H. Price Yates Papers, Ms1989-087

Increase in Prices: Some descendants of David and Agnes (Hoffman) Price of 17th century Germany , compiled by Anne Hayden (Price) Yates and W. Conway Price, Ridgecrest, CA : A.H. Yates, [1985] (Spec Genealogy C571.P946 1985)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Blacksburg (Va.)
• Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
• Montgomery County (Va.)
• Price, Harvey Lee, 1874-1951
• Price, William Conway
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Anne Price Yates Papers II by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).