Hoffman family

Scope and Contents The papers of a Martinsburg native related to local prominent families. There are genealogical notes and papers concerning the following families: Anderson, Beall, Chenowith, Cowan, Cromwell, Gilbert, Gray, Hoffman, Magruder, McConnell, Newcomer, and Silver. Also included are the letters and papers of Edmond L. Hoffman, who served early in the Civil War as a lieutenant in the Stonewall Brigade. He describes in extensive detail the First Battle of Bull Run. In later letters, he presents his...

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Genealogical records of the Black, Boyles, Gower, Gray, Haller, Henderson, Hoffman, Holsberry, Humphrey, Johnson, Kelley, Moats, Nestor, Poling, Shingleton, Streets, and Watring families, prepared by George A. Shingleton, 1953, 84 leaves, bound. Material covers the years 1692-1953.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, maps, newspapers, and other printed materials of the family of Joseph W. Summers, Morgantown. Included are deeds for Summer land in Preston County, 1831-1903; genealogy notes complied by Mr. Summers on the Barker, Buzzard, Harris, Hoffman (Huffman), Holland, Knapp, Swisher, and Tarleton lines of the Summers family in West Virginia; obituary notices and local history clippings from the Morgantown Post, ca.1930-1956; and several scrapbooks of...