Jackson family
Family
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Jackson Family of Monongalia and Preston Counties Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3717
Overview
Papers of the Jackson family of Monongalia and Preston County, (West) Virginia, including business, financial, and legal documents. Includes Civil War pension records for Henry C. Jackson (1864); business records of Jackson and Lamb documenting transactions with Tassey and Church, Grocers of Pittsburgh (1833-1834); and records regarding Cheat Iron Works, St. John's Furnace, and Hampton Forge (1833 and undated), among other material (1814-1891).
Dates:
1814-1891; Majority of material found within 1833-1834, 1864
John Holt, Collector, Lewis County History Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4405
Scope and Contents
Material collected by John Holt. Includes legal documents (court papers, summonses, land grants, and more), financial records (such as receipts), correspondence, photographs, clippings, printed material, and more. Subjects include Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) and his family, the Holt family, Lewis County, and more. Highlights include court papers regarding debt of Thomas Jackson, which may be due to him leaving his post as constable of Lewis...
Dates:
1786-1993; Majority of material found within 1817-1913
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
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates:
1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview
Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.
Dates:
1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
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- Subject: Virginia X
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- Subject
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 2
- Slavery -- West Virginia 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry. First Regiment 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Maryland 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Vernon (Va.) 1
- Mt. Vernon. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
- Schools 1
- Steamboats 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Valleys -- West Virginia 1
- Virginia 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Church history. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1 + ∧ less
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