McNeill family
Family
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Hardy and Hampshire Counties, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1171
Overview
Copies of Fairfax grants and surveys made or copied by James William Kuykendall, county surveyor; record of the town lots in Moorefield; extracts from Hardy and Hampshire County records; cemetery readings; muster roll of the McNeill's Rangers, 1861-1865; prospectus for Kuykendall family history, and local history items. The volume contains detailed records for Cunningham, Harness, Kuykendall, Parsons, and Van Meter families. Other records pertain to the Casey, Fisher, Hite, Hopkins,...
Dates:
ca. 1750-1922
Joseph C. Jefferds, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1983
Overview
Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore,...
Dates:
1896-1965
Louise McNeill, Poet, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3201
Overview
Papers of Louise McNeill (Pease), 1911-1993, of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, noted twentieth century Appalachian poet and author, poet laureate of West Virginia from 1979 to 1993, and professor of history and English. Though most well-known for her lyrical poetry about the history and spirit of West Virginia, McNeill also wrote articles, short stories, essays, and her memoirs. Includes biographical materials, letters, writings, poems, photographs, audio-visual materials, artifacts, and...
Dates:
ca. 1861-1865, 1930-1993; Majority of material found within 1970-1993
McNeill Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0134
Scope and Contents
Papers, mainly of Daniel and Daniel R. McNeill, stock dealers and mill owners of Hardy County. The early correspondence relates to the purchase and sale of livestock and the driving of herds to markets in the east. There is correspondence from members of the family in the vicinity of Chillicothe, Ohio, relating to farm and market conditions and commenting on travel from Hardy County to Ohio. There are also references to river traffic on the Scioto and Ohio rivers and to the quantity of...
Dates:
1770-1929
Minnie Kendall Lowther Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0740
Overview
M.K. Lowther (1869-1947) was a journalist and one of the first women newspaper editors in West Virginia. She was the author of the HISTORY OF RITCHIE COUNTY; BLENNERHASSETT ISLAND IN ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY; FRIENDSHIP HILL, HOME OF ALBERT GALLATIN; MARSHALL HALL AND OTHER POTOMAC POINTS IN STORY AND PICTURE; and MT. VERNON: ITS CHILDREN, ITS ROMANCES, ITS ALLIED FAMILIES AND MANSIONS. There are complete and incomplete typescripts, rough drafts, revisions, photographs and plates of her books....
Dates:
1907-1945
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- Genealogy 2
- Hardy County (W. Va.) 2
- Ohio 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- West Virginia 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- American literature -- Appalachian Region 1
- Appalachian Region 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Bath County (Va.) 1
- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Civil War -- McNeill's Rangers 1
- Court records 1
- Education 1
- Farm life -- West Virginia 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
- Greenbrier County - Court records. 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Land - Fairfax grants. 1
- Livestock 1
- Maryland 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Vernon (Va.) 1
- Mountain life -- West Virginia 1
- Mt. Vernon. 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas County - court records. 1
- Poetry -- Appalachian Region 1
- Poets laureate -- West Virginia 1
- Poets, American -- 20th century 1
- Poets, American -- West Virginia 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Scioto River (Ohio) 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia - Poetry. 1
- Women authors, American -- 20th century 1
- Women authors, American -- West Virginia -- 20th century 1
- Women poets, American -- 20th century 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
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