Fleming family
Family
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview
Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates:
1784-1924
Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview
Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates:
1784-1924
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
Conaway Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0308
Overview
Sketch of the Conaway Family, compiled by Orrin Bryte Conaway in 1951. Including the Fleming line of Marion County, Thomas Inghram, and the Ankrom, Dew, Ruffner, William Morris, and Robert Morris families. Material covers the years 1612-1951.
Dates:
1951
Fleming Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3303
Overview
Fleming family papers; 14 documents, including deeds, surveys, indentures, etc. for land in Monongalia County, WV; includes Patrick Henry signature.
Dates:
1784-1894
Fleming Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0638
Scope and Contents
Business and personal papers, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs of Benjamin Fleming (1806-1891), and his son Thurston Worth (b.1846), relating to various business enterprises carried on by the family in Fairmont. These included a large trade in manufacturing, importing and selling hats and furs, general merchandising, fertilizer and hardwood sales.There are many letters and advertisements from eastern mercantile houses; bills of lading showing names of steamboats on the Ohio...
Dates:
1810-1943
Fleming Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0644
Scope and Contents
Additional papers of Benjamin Fleming and several members of the Fleming family. Manuscript items include land grants and deed Monongalia County, letters, account and tax statements. Printed items include Sabbath School program, Fairmont, 1861; concert and commencement programs of Fairmont State Normal, 1892, 1897, 1906; Alfred Fleming Cemetery Association, proposed organization pamphlet. A clipping scrapbook contains some poetry by Thurston Worth Fleming, biographical sketch of Col. William...
Dates:
1827-1915
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- Genealogy 4
- Rivers and river valleys. 3
- Transportation 3
- Coal mining. 2
- Education 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Account books 1
- Boulder (Colo.) 1
- California 1
- Charleston. 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Europe 1
- Fur trade 1
- General stores 1
- Kansas City (Kan.) 1
- Land - deeds and grants. 1
- Land. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Orphans and orphanages. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Politicians 1
- Santa Fe (N.M.) 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taos (N.M.) 1
- Travel accounts. 1 + ∧ less
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