Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876
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
Isaac McNeel (b.1830) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1451
Overview
Correspondence, legal and business papers, mercantile records and tax receipt books of Isaac McNeel, who operated a store at Edray and Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, served as sheriff of the county, operated a gristmill, raised livestock, and was appointed provost marshal of the county in 1862 by the Confederate Army. The collection also includes letters and school reports of McNeel's sons, Winters and Summers, while students at Washington and Lee and the Medical and Law...
Dates:
1850-1908
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- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- General stores 1
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- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
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