Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, Washington County, Pa.)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Archibald W. Paul, Washington College, Class Notes
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0152
Overview
This bound notebook includes notes taken by Wheeling resident Archibald W. Paull during lectures at Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania. Paull attended the college from 1861 to 1865 after graduating from Wheeling's Linsly Institute. He became president of Nail City Stamping Co. and engaged in the manufacture of glass products. He was the son of Ohio County judge and West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals justice James W. Paull.
Dates:
1861
George W. Smith, Papers of a Jackson County Resident
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0427
Overview
The papers of George W. Smith (1814-1860), a merchant, justice of the peace, land agent, and presidential elector in the town of Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia. There are also papers regarding other family members. The collection serves as a narrative and record of business, local politics, and social conditions in West Virginia before and after statehood. It includes business and personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, business and political ledgers, and ephemera. The...
Dates:
1818-1908; Majority of material found within 1818-1885
Hunter Armentrout, Collector, Gilmer County Historical Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3659
Scope and Contents
Papers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life...
Dates:
1813-2008, undated; Majority of material found in 1840-1890, undated
Lucy Bayard Keys Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2864
Overview
Correspondence, school themes and programs. The correspondence addressed to Lucy Bayard (later Keys) is from friends and relatives and covers scattered dates from 1871 to 1932. The letters are written primarily from and to Rice's Landing and Beaver (Pennsylvania), and Morgantown (West Virginia), discussing personal and family affairs. The school themes are unsigned, on the subjects "Old Maids," "Decision," "Thought Culture," "Institutes," and "An Aim in Life." The school programs are from...
Dates:
1871-1932
Raymond Martin Bell, Five Short Essays
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2300
Overview
Five short mimeographed essays authored by Raymond Martin Bell of Washington and Jefferson College. Included are: "The Townships of Mother Cumberland", "From James to Richard: The Nixon Line", "Redstone Circuit in 1786", "Early Methodist Church Buildings", and "The Journal of Robert Ayres: Methodist Circuit Rider".
Dates:
ca. 1784-1960
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- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Universities and colleges 2
- Appalachian Region 1
- Beaver (Pa.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) -- 19th century 1
- Civil War - Point Lookout Prison. 1
- Cumberland County (Pa.) 1
- Education 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) -- 19th century 1
- Greene County, PA - Rices Landing. 1
- Greene County, Pa. - early townships. 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Methodist Circuit Riders - Monongalia County. 1
- Methodists - local history. 1
- Methodists -- Pennsylvania -- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
- Monongalia County - Methodist Circuit Riders. 1
- Pennsylvania - early townships. 1
- Prisons -- Point Lookout Prison 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Rices Landing (Pa.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Tax lists - Washington County, Pa. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Uniontown, PA - Methodists. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) -- 19th century 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- Washington (Washington County, Pa.) 1
- Washington County, Pa. - tax lists. 1
- West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
- West Virginia - Methodist Circuit Riders. 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- West Virginia -- Social life and customs 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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