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Accounts, indentures, and a farm journal of Berkeley of Evergreen, Prince William Co., Va. The account book, 1866-68, chiefly containing addresses [1880-82?] to the Memphis Conference of the Woman's Missionary Society; the farm journal contains Berkeley's Civil War reminiscences [ca. 1945, of the descendants of Edmund Berkeley and Lucy Burwell Berkeley of Barn Elms. The collection also contains a child's school composition by Bernard Berkeley, "My family and the Confederacy, 1940 June 22."
Edmund C. Berkeley (1909 – 1988) was a mathematician, insurance actuary, inventor, publisher, and a founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). His book Giant Brains or Machines That Think (1949) was the first explanation of computers for a general readership. His journal Computers and Automation (1951-1973) was the first journal for computer professionals. In the 1950s, Berkeley developed mail-order kits for small, personal computers such as Simple Simon and the Braniac. In an era when computer development was on a scale barely affordable by universities or government agencies, Berkeley took a different approach and sold simple computer kits to average Americans. He believed...
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Berkeley requests a copy of the Civil Rights bill "now being debated" and Byrd sends a copy [not included].
The middle chapters of this book are given over to Wilkes County genealogy and biography, with chapters on the buyers and sellers of lots and the early settlers of the county. The work as a whole is crowded with references to ministers, officials, teachers, and soldiers, so much so that an index of more than 2,000 entries was created by Mrs. Hays to encompass them.