Rector College
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Enoch Rector (1804-1898) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1902
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Enoch Rector, a Baptist minister in Ohio and in Wood and Wirt counties, West Virginia. Subjects include land sales, Western Virginia Education Society, Rector College, family affairs, and Rev. Joshua Bradley's work. There are pamphlets and typescripts on Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Wood County.
Dates:
1824-1853, 1916, 1966
Johnson Family Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2294
Overview
Correspondence of Johnson and allied families concerning local church matters and family news, a majority which concerns the descendants of Joseph and William Johnson, the most prominent members of the family. Joseph was the first governor of Virginia from the western part of the state. His brother, William, was the first postmaster at Bridgeport. Noteworthy is a letter to William Johnson dated November 29, 1864, from Mason Hesser a Confederate prisoner at Elmira, New York, during the Civil...
Dates:
1820-1987
Maxwell Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0010
Overview
Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing...
Dates:
ca. 1845-1950, 2017; Majority of material found within ca. 1845-1950
Additional filters:
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- Pruntytown (W. Va.) 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Baptists 1
- Bridgeport (W. Va.) 1
- California 1
- Church buildings 1
- Church music -- West Virginia -- Monongalia County 1
- Church music -- West Virginia -- Preston County 1
- Church music -- West Virginia -- Taylor County 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Wood County 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War battles - Philippi. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Laurel Hill. 1
- Literature -- Societies, etc 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Militia 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County - revivals. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Music - Church. 1
- Music - revivalistic. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County - Church Music. 1
- Preston County - revivals. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Revivals -- West Virginia -- Monongalia County 1
- Revivals -- West Virginia -- Preston County 1
- Revivals -- West Virginia -- Taylor County 1
- Saint George. 1
- Schools 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Taylor County - revivals. 1
- Texas 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Tyrone Forge. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- West Virginia 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's schools. 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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