Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1188
Overview
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes correspondence, legal documents, photocopies of printed material, and land grants. Subjects of the correspondence include West Virginia politics; the elections of 1840, 1860, and 1861; Reconstruction; the Flick Amendment; Southern sentiment in Clarksburg;...
Dates:
1784-1899
John Thomas McGraw (1856-1920) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0086
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Grafton attorney who was a lawyer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and prosecuting attorney of Taylor County, West Virginia, assistant to Governor J.B. Jackson, collector of internal revenue for West Virginia, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. There are case papers and letters pertaining to McGraw's law practice; records relating to the purchase, sale, and development of timber, coal, and oil lands; and records of his directorships in the Grafton and...
Dates:
1842-1927, 1948
Max Mathers Collection Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2386
Overview
Correspondence, financial papers, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the Max Mathers family and Monongalia County, West Virginia. The activities of Anna DeGant Mathers, wife of Max Mathers, and Margaret Mathers Barrick, his daughter, as well as of Margaret's two sons, William Mathers Barrick and George Milton Barrick, Jr. are well represented in the family papers. Max Mather's own papers document his personal life, Republican party activities, genealogical...
Dates:
1821-1957
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- Land. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Women's schools. 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters. 1
- Civil defense -- West Virginia 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1848. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Korean Conflict. 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Methodism 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County - 175th anniversary celebration. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- Photographs 1
- Newspapers -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Photographs. 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Iron Valley Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Morgantown Railroad. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Taxation 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States Army - 2nd Infantry Division - WW II and Korea. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- Capital and capitol 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia University - Armory. 1
- West Virginia University - Student organizations. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings. 1
- West Virginia University -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 1
- West Virginia University -- Students 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Mount de Chantal Academy 1
- Women authors -- Diaries 1
- Women's letters and papers. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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