of R. T. W. Duke, Sr., as Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, Va. Reserves   “In May 1864 the Reserves for Albemarle County boys between 16-18 and old men between 45-60 were called up. They met in Charlottesville and being more than enough to form one company were organized into two companies. They elected […]

    R. T. W. Duke, Jr. traveled widely from his home in Albemarle County, Virginia, but never for very long. Though his diaries are full of photographs and postcards from Europe and locales up and down the eastern seaboard, he always returned to Charlottesville and its environs–to his law offices; the home of his […]

Three Generations of Dukes at Thomas Jefferson’s University   Many generations of Dukes attended the University of Virginia. As was the custom for the Commonwealth’s young men at the time, most early matriculates stayed long enough to make important social connections and then left without a degree. William Duke, of Albemarle County but of unknown […]

Military Weddings   All three Duke boys, Walker, Jack, and Eskridge, enlisted in the military during World War I. Their patriotism did not stand in the way of their romanticism, and two of the three brothers were married by war’s end. According to contemporary news reports, Myrtle Judson helped R. T. W. Duke, III make […]

(1863-1921)   Edith Ridgeway Slaughter met R. T. W. Duke, Jr. for the first time in the spring of 1880. At the same time, Edith’s older brother, Charles Slaughter, became acquainted with Duke’s younger sister, Mary Willoughby Duke. Charles and Mary married in 1882, and Edith and “Tom” became engaged in that same year. Edith […]

  R.T.W. Duke, Jr. lived a well documented life. In addition to maintaining a vast personal and professional correspondence, publishing poems, and recording the memories of a long life in his Recollections, Duke also kept a regular diary. Preserved in Alderman Library’s Special Collections Department are forty-seven of Duke’s annual diaries, from 1879-1926; only the […]

  R. T. W. Duke, Jr. maintained extraordinarily close ties with his family, both immediate and extended. He appears below, on the bottom left, with several generations of Dukes in 1909.   Genealogy A family tree showing R.T.W. Duke, Jr.’s parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren. Children Photos and biographical information on the six Duke children. […]

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Edith May Coleman, Cammann and William Duke, Jr.