Ward family
Family
Found in 3 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
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
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- Boating industry -- Charleston (W. Va.) 2
- California 2
- Europe 2
- Mississippi River 2
- Rivers and river valleys. 2
- Transportation 2
- Boulder (Colo.) 1
- Business correspondence 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Diaries -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County 1
- Genealogy 1
- Kansas City (Kan.) 1
- Land. 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Santa Fe (N.M.) 1
- Taos (N.M.) 1
- Travel accounts. 1 + ∧ less
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