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Daughters of the American Revolution

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Anita Buchanan Speers, Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1338
Overview Correspondence, typescripts, notes, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a local historian and promoter of patriotic societies from Berkeley Springs. Many of the papers pertain to the local history of the eastern panhandle. Subjects include the town of Bath (Berkeley Springs); James Rumsey; George Washington; Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother); Washington Bicentennial; National Flag Day; D.A.R.; and American Indian Day. One of the clippings scrapbooks includes a photo of West...
Dates: ca. 1916-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Anita Cutright Burnett, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2148
Overview

Papers of Anita Cutright Burnett, an Upshur County genealogist and active member of the Upshur County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The collection contains DAR membership applications, genealogical correspondence, vital statistics for Lewis and Upshur counties and typed copies of the 1850 census returns for Ritchie and Taylor counties.

Dates: ca. 1790-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Galbraith Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3253
Overview Newsletters, booklet, photographs, obituaries, newspaper clippings, letters, memorial cards, and other papers which provide genealogical information regarding the Conway, Fetty, Galbraith, Jones, Martin, Pierpont, Smell, Underwood, Wells, Woodburn families. Photographs include portraits of Ethel Woodburn Galbraith and Carl C. Galbraith. The collection also includes materials regarding membership in The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution and The National Society of Magna...
Dates: 1921-1992
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mildred Hassler Layman, Family and Genealogy Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1177
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence of the William Haymond Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, including genealogical correspondence, newspaper clippings and notebooks, and notes and records on family history. The one reel of microfilm contains the typescript notes and manuscripts of Edgar Wakefield Hassler on Western Pennsylvania history during the period of French and Indian War and the War of Independence.

Dates: ca. 1750-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Subject
Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Flag Day 1
Genealogy 1
Indians of North America 1
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Inventors and inventions. 1
Jefferson County. 1
Lewis County. 1
Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
Native American Heritage Day 1
Pennsylvania--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 1
Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
Revolutionary War. 1
Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
United States - Census returns. 1
Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
Washington Bicentennial. 1
West Virginia -- Statistics, Vital 1
West Virginia - genealogy. 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
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