Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896
Person
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
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
Viquesney Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3799
Overview
Papers related to the Viquesney family. Includes land grant signed by West Virginia Governor Arthur Boreman to Joseph Howes and G.E. Jarvis (1866), naturalization papers for Charles Emile Viquesney (1880), and other Viquesney material. Also includes items from the related Hayes family. See scope and content note for more detail.
Dates:
1880-1892
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
West Virginia Congressmen, Biographical Sketches
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2295
Overview
A collection of biographical sketches written by West Virginia Representatives and Senators for inclusion in the 1859 and 1869 editions of Charles Lanman's "Dictionary of the United States Congress", as well as correspondence and photographs. Congressmen represented in this collection include William Armstrong, Jacob Blair, Arthur I. Boreman, Alexander Boteler, William Gay Brown, John S. Carlile, Sherrard Clemens, Isaac Duval, C.D. Hubbard, A. G. Jenkins, Zedekiah Kidwell, B.M. Kitchen,...
Dates:
1835-1869, 1971
William Henry Harrison Flick (1841-1891) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1349
Overview
Papers of a Pendleton County lawyer and prosecuting attorney who served in the state legislature, 1868-1870, where he introduced the Flick Amendment which removed voting restrictions on those who served in the Confederacy. Papers deal with Flick's legal practice; test oath cases; voting restrictions as a means of continuing Republican supremacy; state elections of 1868; Flick's campaign against Henry G. Davis for Congress in 1870; the West Virginia capital question; subscriptions to the...
Dates:
1867-1872
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 10
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 9
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 6
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 6
- Politicians -- United States 5
- United States -- Politics and government 5
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
- Land. 3
- Maps. 3
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 3
- Steamboats 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 3
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 3
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 3
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 2
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 2
- Coal mines and mining 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Diaries 2
- Genealogy 2
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politicians 2
- Railroads 2
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 2
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Schools 2
- Secession 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
- Academies 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Barbour County (W. 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 industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Election of 1868. 1
- Election of 1870. 1
- Elections 1
- Fortification -- West Virginia 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Grafton. 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Militia 1 + ∧ less
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