Wirt Oil and Mining Company
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John P. Clarke (1825-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1511
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal papers, surveys, account books, and a diary of a Burning Springs surveyor, oil developer, rural entrepreneur, horticulturalist, and captain of the Little Kanawha River steamer GENERAL JACKSON. Collection includes a brief journal of a trip from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Forks of the Platte in 1860; papers of Clarke's venture in quartz mining and milling in the Colorado Territory, 1861-1863; surveys of the Burning Springs oil region; letters from James C....
Dates:
1851-1900
Pauline Morehead Ash, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0776
Overview
Genealogical material on the Clarke family and a diary of Belle Clarke; an account book of J.P. Clarke for general merchandise, farm, and labor accounts, with entries for the steamboat GENERAL JACKSON; several account books and a map of the Wirt Oil and Mining Company operations; items relating to the West Virginia State Grange, and a ledger of William H. Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio, an agent of the Grange.
Dates:
1855-1892, 1947
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- Subject
- Account books 1
- Burning Springs, W. Va. (Wirt County) -- oil region 1
- Colorado Territory 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Illinois 1
- Iowa 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Little Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Patrons of Husbandry. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Railroads - Allegheny Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1 + ∧ less
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