Ward family
Family
Found in 7 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. Also includes photographs of members of the Ward,...
Dates:
circa 1770-1937 and undated
Hall and Gandy Families (Preston County, W.Va.) Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1834
Overview
Genealogical descent charts of the Hall, Gandy, and allied families of Preston, County, West Virginia, from 1724 to 1961 as compiled by Clarence M. Smith in 1989. Typescript chiefly lists descendants of George Brown Hall (1824-1882) of Preston County, West Virginia, and his wife, Nancy Gooseman Gandy (1828-1917), also of Preston County. along with birth, marriage, and death dates.
Dates:
1989
Margaret Forbes Brand, Compiler, Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2323
Overview
A compilation of genealogical and historical information of the Brokaw, Carmichael, Cole, Forbes, Rapalje, Swartwout, Van Ness, and Ward families, compiled by Margaret Forbes Brand.
Dates:
ca. 1500-1965
Minnie McWhorter, Compiler, Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0928
Overview
Family genealogies in this collection include: Alderson, Alkire, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ball, Barnes, Barnet, Bartlett, Bassel, Benedum, Bennett, Blake, Bonnett, Boughman, Brake, Burr, Bush, Carber, Carpenter, Carroll, Casto, Champe, Cheuvront, Chrislip, Cookman, Coplin, Corder, Couch, Cummins, Cunningham, Curry, Custis, Cutright, Davidson, Davis, Donnally, Douglass, Dyer, Eagan, Eastwood, Fairbank, Farnsworth, Fell, Flesher, Gaston, Gates, Girty, Goff, Goodloe, Hacker, Hagerman, Hall,...
Dates:
undated
Ward Engineering Company Archives and Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2298
Scope and Contents
Records of a Charleston, West Virginia, business which introduced to the western waters of the United States a new design of towboat whose essential features were water-tube boilers, multiple-expansion engines, and screw propulsion; thus replacing the traditional paddle wheel towboats that navigated the Ohio and Mississippi river systems. Charles Ward (1841-1915), a British engineer, who emigrated to Charleston in 1871, founded the industry and designed these new boats. This collection...
Dates:
1871-1977 and undated
Ward Engineering Company Archives and Manuscripts Microfilm
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2266
Scope and Contents
Two diaries of Charles Edwin Ward (1841-1915), dealing mainly with trips to Europe and California, in 1883 and 1886, plus a scrapbook of the Charles Ward Engineering Company, a Charleston boat building company, for the year 1897.
Dates:
1883-1897
Ward Family History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3191
Overview
Typescript history of the Ward family of Ohio with a concentration on its association with Harman Blennerhassett, whose secretary was Sylvester Ward. Included is some information on the Blennerhassetts, Aaron Burr, Dudley Woodbridge, Elijah Backus and Aaron Waldo Putnam. Much mention is made of neighboring allied families to the Wards, particularly Hendersons and Putnams in the adjoining counties of Wood Co., VA and Washington Co., OH. There is a detailed transcription of an October 8, 1805...
Dates:
1994
Additional filters:
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- Charleston. 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Boating industry -- Charleston (W. Va.) 2
- California 2
- Europe 2
- Genealogy 2
- Mississippi River 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Transportation 2
- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Boulder (Colo.) 1
- Business correspondence 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Diaries -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County 1
- Dueling 1
- Kansas City (Kan.) 1
- Land. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Ohio 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Santa Fe (N.M.) 1
- Taos (N.M.) 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Washington County (Ohio) 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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