Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
Fleming Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0638
Scope and Contents
Business and personal papers, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs of Benjamin Fleming (1806-1891), and his son Thurston Worth (b.1846), relating to various business enterprises carried on by the family in Fairmont. These included a large trade in manufacturing, importing and selling hats and furs, general merchandising, fertilizer and hardwood sales.There are many letters and advertisements from eastern mercantile houses; bills of lading showing names of steamboats on the Ohio...
Dates:
1810-1943
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- Subject: Rivers and river valleys. X
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- Canals 1
- Education 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Fur trade 1
- General stores 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Orphans and orphanages. 1
- Railroads 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Steamboats 1 + ∧ less
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