Weston State Hospital
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Richard H. Ralston, Sr., Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2205
Overview
Correspondence of William A. Harrison, a Clarksburg lawyer, assistant federal district attorney, member of the Virginia Assembly, and judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; most letters are from members of the family to Mrs. Anna Robertson Harrison. Subjects include construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; Civil War loyalty Oaths, Camp Chase land purchases, and road building. There are also grade school attendance certificates and notes concerning the Lunatic Asylum...
Dates:
1825-1934
West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1976
Overview
Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
Dates:
1909-1949
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Berkeley Springs Park. 1
- Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
- Canals 1
- Cemeteries -- Indian Mound Cemetery 1
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Hospitals 1, 2, 3. 1
- Droop Mountain Battlefield. 1
- Education 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Inwood Demonstration Packing Plant. 1
- Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lunatic Asylum West of the Allegheny Mountains. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prisons. SEE ALSO Civil War - prisons and prisoners. 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1 + ∧ less
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