TY  - GEN
AU  - Craven,John Joseph
AU  - Craven,Catherine S.
AU  - Craven,William Darcy
TI  - John Joseph Craven papers,
KW  - Davis, Jefferson,
KW  - Craven family.
KW  - Cables, Submarine
KW  - Refrigerators
KW  - Patents
KW  - Telegraph cables
KW  - California
KW  - Gold discoveries
KW  - Fort Monroe (Va.)
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Virginia
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Physicians
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, diary, family papers, legal records, patent, photographs, and other papers.  Includes Craven's letters to his wife, Catherine S. Craven, from aboard ship and from California during the Gold Rush; fragments of a diary written at Fort Monroe concerning Craven's medical treatment of Jefferson Davis; text of a court trial (1874-1875) involving Craven's invention of a submarine telegraph cable; and a British patent (1876) for a refrigerator.  Family papers include his wife's diary (1863) and papers of their son, William Darcy Craven
ER  -