Watson family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Brooks F. McCabe, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2267
Overview
Two personal diaries of R.E. McCabe of Charleston, West Virginia, containing notes on trips to Europe (1924) and California (1937). On the California trip he briefly describes Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Taos, and Los Angeles, muses on real estate values, and notes oil rigs and pipelines. There is a short genealogy of the Hayward family. The diaries also include references to the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families.
Dates:
ca. 1770-1937
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates:
1694; 1783-1878; 1926
Filtered By
- Subject: California X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Barrackville Covered Bridge. 1
- Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 1
- Boulder (Colo.) 1
- California -- Gold discoveries 1
- Charleston. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Illinois 1
- Iowa 1
- Ireland 1
- Kansas City (Kan.) 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Louisiana 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Missouri 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Santa Fe (N.M.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- South Carolina 1
- Taos (N.M.) 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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