Davis family
Family
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview
Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.
Dates:
1824-1935
John S. Simms Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3299
Overview
Photographs, ephemera, and genealogy (1658-1996) of the John Samuel Simms family of West Virginia. Ephemera includes a certificate for completion of classes from West Virginia University Department of Mining Extension (1935), a State of West Virginia Department of Mines Certificate for passing a mine foreman exam (1918), a State of West Virginia Elementary School Diploma (1915), a certificate of proficiency from the New River State School for completion of stenography courses (1925),...
Dates:
ca. 1870-1948
John W. Davis, Lawyer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2963
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and papers of the noted lawyer and 1924 presidential aspirant for the Democrats, John W. Davis, kept by his daughter, a famous author, Julia (McDonald) Davis Adams. Noteworthy is a 1948 official publication in tribute to Davis' career as Solicitor General of the United States (1913-1918). There is a typescript copy of his diary recounting his wartime and post-war tenure (1918-1921) as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His letters include some of his...
Dates:
1842, 1861-1897, 1918-1927, 1946-1953, 1978
Julia M. Davis, Author, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2826
Overview
Interviews with and reviews of the fiction of Julia Davis, a member of a prominent Harrison County family whose most distinguished member was her father, John W. Davis, the 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate. In the interviews she tells of the influence upon her career of Melville Davisson Post and of the historic activities of her family, particularly before and during the Civil War. Her maternal grandparents, who resided in Jefferson County, observed the trial and execution of John...
Dates:
1980
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
Oliver Popenoe, Compiler, Genealogical Material Regarding Popenoe Family
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3928
Overview
Genealogical material regarding the Popenoe (Papineau, Popino, and other spellings) family and related families (including the Burris, Davis, Dent, Evans, Judy, Martin, Morgan, Prickett, Scott, and Snider families), compiled through the research of Oliver Popenoe. The Poponoe family in North America is traced back to Jean Papineau, a French Huguenot who immigrated to Massachusetts ca. 1700. His son Peter settled in what would later become Monongalia county in the 1770s. This collection...
Dates:
1911-2010, undated
Wade Family Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2293
Overview
A scrapbook, kept by Fanny Isabella Wade Wallace, containing correspondence, post cards, and genealogical records of the Britton, Davis, Hursey, and Wade families of Clarksburg. There are obituaries of prominent West Virginians as well as news clippings and invitations to weddings and social events. There are also news clippings of local and American history.
Dates:
ca. 1900-1950
Additional filters:
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- Genealogy 6
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 5
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Account books 2
- Churches -- Presbyterian 2
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 2
- Ohio 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Art and artists 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Bourbon politics. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 1
- Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
- Crime and criminals. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Election of 1844. 1
- Elections 1
- England 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Family histories. 1
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
- Genealogies. 1
- Genealogists' letters and papers. 1
- Great Britain 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W.Va.) - history - Civil War 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Justices of the peace 1
- Know-Nothingism. 1
- Lexington, V.A. 1
- Libraries -- West Virginia 1
- Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
- Marshall County. 1
- Maryland 1
- Mississippi 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Mount Vernon (Va.) 1
- Mt. Vernon. 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Photographs. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Secession 1
- Supreme Court of West Virginia 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United Kingdom. 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia Springs 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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