| Name | Toole Family Papers |
| Dates | 1834-2000 |
| Extent | 6 cubic feet |
| Historical Note | The material in this collection documents a multi-generational family originally from eastern Tennessee that settled in Talladega, Alabama, in 1865. The Toole family provided four generations of physicians who practiced medicine in Alabama. The collection is composed chiefly of the papers of Dr. Barckley Wallace Toole (1835-1898), but it also includes material of his wife, Virginia Fulkerson Toole (1839-1877), material of their son and daughter-in-law Dr. Arthur Fulkerson Toole, Sr. (1877-1929) and Kate McAlpine Toole (1878-1975), material of their grandson, Dr. Arthur Fulkerson Toole, Jr. (1911-2015), and material of their great-grandson, Dr. Arthur F. Toole, III, who donated most of the collection to UAB. But this major collection also includes material by a wide range of Toole family members and by several of those who were related by birth or marriage to the Toole family, including the Storey, Johnson, Wallace, McAlpine, and Clisby families. Dr. Barckley Wallace Toole was a surgeon during the American Civil War and a general practitioner in Talladega for three decades. Dr. Arthur F. Toole, Sr., began his practice in his hometown of Talladega, but moved to Birmingham and became one of the leading urologists in the state; he also held a faculty appointment at the Birmingham Medical College. Dr. Arthur F. Toole, Jr., a Birmingham-native, practiced medicine in Talladega for almost five decades. Dr. Arthur F. Toole, III, graduated from the medical school at UAB and maintained an otolaryngology practice in Anniston until his retirement; he was also a member of the clinical faculty of the surgery department at UAB. The Toole Family collection was featured -- complete with photographs -- in the winter 2017 issue of the Watermark (Vol. 40, No. 1), the newsletter of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences. The summer 2018 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine also includes a feature on the Toole Collection at UAB. See the magazine's website at https://www.alabamaheritage.com/ |
| Scope and Contents | This collection contains correspondence, real estate and financial records, diaries, scrapbooks and ledgers, pamphlets, news clippings, ephemera, and artifacts. |
| Arrangement | Arranged into twelve series by individual and then subseries by format/material type. |
| Accession Number | M2016-02 (chiefly) and M2017-12 |
| Provenance | Much of the material in this collection was donated to the UAB Archives in 2016 by Dr. Arthur F. Toole, III. Additional material was donated in 2017 by Dr. Toole's brother, Barckley W. Toole. |
| Copyright | The UAB Archives owns the copyright to some of the material and maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection. |
| Fnding Aid | Printed descriptive guide by Tim L. Pennycuff and Jennifer L. Beck available in repository. |
| Access Points | Clisby family. Johnson family. McAlpine family. Storey family. Talladega (Ala.). Toole family. Toole, Arthur F., b Arthur Fulkerson, d 1877-1929. Toole, Arthur F., b Arthur Fulkerson, d 1911-2015. Toole, Arthur F., b Arthur Fulkerson. Toole, Barckley Wallace, d 1835-1898. Toole, Elizabeth Wallace, d 1799-1875. Toole, Kate McAlpine, b Kate Chapman McAlpine, d 1878-1975. Toole, Virginia Fulkerson, d Margaret Virginia Fulkerson, d 1839-1877. Wallace family. |
| Document Types | Letters, Postal Cards, Diaries, Ledgers, Financial and Estate Records, Pamphlets, Ephemera, Scrapbooks, News clippings, Artifacts, etc. |
| Location | Manuscript Stacks |
| Related Series | PMC126, Toole Family Photographs. |
| Physical Condition | Acid free folder, acid free box |
This page created 2017 and last updated July 2020
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