Stuart family
Family
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Jesse Stuart, Author, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3347
Scope and Contents
Letters, books, clippings, biographical and literary articles, and other papers regarding Appalachian poet and author, Jesse Stuart, gathered by family friend, Maryan Dahmer. There are over 90 letters from Stuart to Dahmer, dating from 1966 to 1976, which discuss travel, speaking engagements, publishers, opinions of authors and scholars, teaching, personal matters, etc. The collection also includes a large number of Stuart's books, many of which are first editions inscribed to Dahmer, as...
Dates:
1934-1982
Stewart Family History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0098
Overview
Handwritten history of the Stewart family written by Thomas Stewart in the late nineteenth century and recopied by Carrie E. Stewart in 1928. Documents the history of the William and Betsey Givens Stewart family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Morgantown, West Virginia, and their descendants from 1727 to 1894.
Dates:
1894
Stuart Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2586
Scope and Contents
Papers of John and Lewis Stuart, 1785-1823, and of Samuel Price, 1830-1879. Price's papers include mainly legal and business correspondence related to Price's law practice in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The Stuart papers concern settlement in Greenbrier County, land transactions, and family matters. The collection includes lawyer's fee books and account books for general merchandise, ca.1830-1880. There are also printed booklets of court briefs, pamphlets concerning "the slavery...
Dates:
1785-1880
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0171
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement...
Dates:
1781-1948
Thomas Ray Dille Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0357
Scope and Contents
Gift of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Ray Dille, lawyer, historian, and genealogist of Morgantown W.Va. This collection contains the family histories of the Dille, David Evans, and John Evans families, as well as the Ray, Stewart, McFarland, and Tennant families. Materials include five loose leaf volumes of cemetery records of Monongalia County; family records of Monongalia County, and family Bible records. Additional materials about the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church,...
Dates:
ca. 1774-1939
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- Account books 3
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 2
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 2
- Genealogy 2
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Revolutionary War. 2
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's schools. 2
- American literature -- Appalachian Region 1
- Appalachian Region 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Churches -- Forks of Cheat Baptist 1
- Court records - Greenbrier County, WV. 1
- Education 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- General stores 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County, WV - Court records. 1
- Greenbrier County, WV - early settlement. 1
- Greenup County (Ky.) 1
- Henry v. Pierpoint 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Railroads 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Teachers 1 + ∧ less
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