Maxwell family
Family
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Enon Baptist Church, Ledgers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3263
Overview
Six ledgers of Enon Baptist Church records including constitution, membership lists, minutes, etc.
Dates:
1845-1964
Maxwell Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0010
Overview
Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing...
Dates:
ca. 1845-1950, 2017; Majority of material found within ca. 1845-1950
Maxwell Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0311
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Maxwell family, including correspondence, accounts, legal papers, pamphlets, and clippings. Correspondence (1863-1889) is comprised mostly of letters from Hu Maxwell, California, to Mrs. S.J. Maxwell. Subjects include mining, schools, size and social conditions of towns, ranches, weather and crop conditions, geographical oddities, Maxwell's personal living conditions, and his intentions concerning history publications. Other items include account book of Captain James L. White,...
Dates:
1851-1929, undated
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
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
Scotland G. Highland, Compiler, Newspaper Articles of Historical and Genealogical Interest
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2368
Overview
Newspaper articles of historical and genealogical interest by Scotland G. Highland, compiled and published in magazine form as the Third and Fourth Annual Christmas Plea, 1926 and 1927. Each of the pleas contains information about the Lewis, Smith, Highland, Fulton, Patton, Maxwell, Moore, Gore, Reynolds, Post, and Haymond families. Each Plea also contains an appeal for the abolition of capital punishment.
Dates:
1926-1927
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- Account books 2
- California 2
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 2
- Laurel Hill. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 2
- West Virginia 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Agriculture 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Baptists 1
- Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.) 1
- Capital punishment 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 1
- Churches -- Ennon Baptist 1
- Civil War battles - Philippi. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Literature -- Societies, etc 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Maryland 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Vernon (Va.) 1
- Mt. Vernon. 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Potomac River Valley 1
- Pruntytown (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Saint George. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Tyrone Forge. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia 1
- Washington (D.C.) 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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