Lewisburg Female Institute (Lewisburg, W. Va.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Isaac McNeel (b.1830) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1451
Overview
Correspondence, legal and business papers, mercantile records and tax receipt books of Isaac McNeel, who operated a store at Edray and Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, served as sheriff of the county, operated a gristmill, raised livestock, and was appointed provost marshal of the county in 1862 by the Confederate Army. The collection also includes letters and school reports of McNeel's sons, Winters and Summers, while students at Washington and Lee and the Medical and Law...
Dates:
1850-1908
John A. Preston, Attorney and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3114
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, and insurance papers of Lewisburg attorney and politician, John A. Preston. Much of the collection deals with the 1901 fire at the Lewisburg Female Institute, for which Preston was a trustee and secretary-treasurer. Related A&M collections include those of Preston relatives, John J. Davis, John J. D. Preston, and Samuel Price as well as the Roy Bird Cook Collection.
Dates:
1880-1909
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview
Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates:
1774, 1822-1943
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's schools. 2
- Academies 1
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Agriculture 1
- American ginseng 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cemeteries -- Recording 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed 1
- Clergy 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Education 1
- Egypt 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- General stores 1
- Georgia 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Indians, North American. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Livestock 1
- Marriage records 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
- Military camps 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Pioneers 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Registers of births, etc 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Schools 1
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Tennessee 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Vicksburg (Miss.) 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- Women -- Education -- United States 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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