University of Virginia.
Organization
Found in 2 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
Nathaniel V. Wilson Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0509
Overview
Letters to Wilson at Farmville, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia, from members of his family at: the University of Virginia; Lewisburg, West Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Clarksville, Virginia. Includes references to family business affairs, the Ruffner-Donnally salt works at Charleston, purchase of slaves, and medical education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836 and 1844.
Dates:
1834-1850
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- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Agriculture 1
- American ginseng 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- General stores 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) 1
- Livestock 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Salt industry and trade 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's schools. 1 + ∧ less
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