John Lewis Peyton
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John Lewis Peyton (September 15, 1824 - May 21, 1896) was a lawyer, foreign agent, and author from Virginia.[1] Peyton propagated misconceptions about the mound builders. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[2]
He was born in Staunton, Virginia. John Howe Peyton was his father.[3] He studied at Virginia Military Institute and University of Virginia.[4]
He worked as a Confederate agent seeking support in Europe. He wrote about various subjects including his own travels and his family history. He wrote about his grandfather John Rowzée Peyton.[2][5]
He had a daughter.[6]
Writings
- Over the Alleghanies and across the Prairies—Personal Recollections of the Far West, One and Twenty Years Ago, a memoir[7]
- The American crisis, or, Pages from the note-book of a state agent during the Civil War and Rambling reminiscences of a residence abroad. England—Guernsey and Rambling Reminiscences of a Residence Abroad: England-Guernsey
- The adventures of my grandfather. With extracts from his letters, and other family documents J. Wilson, London (1867)[7]
- Biographical sketch of Anne Montgomery Peyton, by her son J. L. Peyton. "A contribution to the Lewis memorial volume originated by the trustees and faculty of Roanoke college, Salem, Virginia, and to be published during the first centennial year of the republic of the United States of America F. Clark, Guernsey (1876) [7]
- Memoir of John Howe Peyton: in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton
- Memoir of William Madison Peyton, of Roanoke, together with some of his speeches in the House of delegates of Virginia, and his letters in reference to secession and the threatened civil war in the United States, etc., etc. Wilson, London (1873) also by John Washington and Orlando Brown
- History of Augusta County, Virginia M. Yost & Son (1882)[8]
- Tom Swindel, or the adventures of a boomer (1893)[7]
- A Statistical View of the State of Illinois
References
- ↑ "Peyton, John Lewis | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yelton, Jeffrey K. (1989). "A Comment on John Rowzee Peyton and the Mound Builders: The Elevation of a Nineteenth-Century Fraud to a Twentieth-Century Myth". American Antiquity. 54 (1): 161–165. doi:10.2307/281337. JSTOR 281337. S2CID 163169080 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ "John Lewis Peyton: A Confederate Abroad – Virginia Center for Civil War Studies".
- ↑ https://archivesweb.vmi.edu/rosters/record.php?ID=143
- ↑ Blundell, Bezer (November 16, 1868). "The Contributions of John Lewis Peyton to the History of Virginia and of the Civil War in America, 1861-65". J. Wilson – via Google Books.
- ↑ "J.G. Valentine Marries Simone Marie Peyton". The New York Times. November 6, 1983 – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "J. Lewis Peyton (Peyton, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1824-1896) | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ↑ History of Augusta County, Virginia. Samuel M. Yost & son. 1882.
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