Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896
Person
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), Newspaperman, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0014
Overview
Papers of Archibald W. Campbell (1839-1899), editor of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. A strong unionist and Republican Party member, he worked hard through his editorials and behind the scenes in order to support the formation of the new state of West Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing with the Civil War and political affairs in West Virginia's early statehood period. Some of the correspondence...
Dates:
1855-1899, 1907, 1941; Majority of material found within 1855-1899
Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview
Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.
Dates:
1861-1895, undated
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
David Goff Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents
Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates:
1826-1878
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0009
Overview
Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the...
Dates:
1811-1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1860-1899
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview
Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates:
1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Papers regarding the Civil War in Southern West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0895
Overview
Papers mainly related to the Civil War in southern West Virginia, including correspondence, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, and other material. Highlights of the collection include material regarding Captain John V. Young of the 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry; Captain James S. Cassady of the 7th West Virginia Cavalry; Captain W.D. Thurmond and his company of Partisan Rangers; and the 8th and 13th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry units. The collection is organized...
Dates:
1844-1938; Majority of material found within 1861-1867
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview
Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates:
1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884
Sampson Snider, Civil War Records and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0762
Overview
Records relating to the organization of the Independent Company of Scouts for Randolph County, West Virginia, in 1864 by Snider (sometimes spelled Snyder), and his post-Civil War service in the West Virginia Militia. Included are letters and papers of A.I. Boreman.
Dates:
1864-1866, 1905
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
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- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 9
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- Politics and government. 5
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 5
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 5
- Politicians -- United States 4
- United States -- Politics and government 4
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 3
- Steamboats 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 3
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 2
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Diaries 2
- Genealogy 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Land. 2
- Maps. 2
- Politicians 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Secession 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
- Charleston (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Thurmond's Rangers. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
- Civil War -- Muster rolls 1
- Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Civil War soldiers letters - Union. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Militia 1
- Militia - West Virginia. 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River Valley -- History 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Pharmacy -- History 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads -- West Virginia 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Rich Mountain (Randolph County, W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Rivers -- West Virginia 1 + ∧ less
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