Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899
Person
Found in 38 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 (1886-1961), Collector, Papers Regarding General Joseph A.J. Lightburn and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1379
Overview
Materials collected by Roy Bird Cook regarding General Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn. Includes letters sent to Dr. Bird regarding General Lightburn and the Lightburn family, newspaper clippings regarding Lightburn and the Civil War in West Virginia, two maps, a pamphlet, and other material. See the "Historical Note" for further information about General Lightburn.
Dates:
1774-1960; Majority of material found within 1939-1960
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
Talbott-Tolbert Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1026
Overview
Mainly papers of Samuel T. Tolbert, a onetime constable of Lewis County and postmaster at Frenchton, who operated a general store and acted as agent and surveyor for out-of-state landowners. Included are the papers of Zadock Lanham, J.S. Wilson, John L. Jacob, and W.C. Tolbert. There are surveys, legal papers, correspondence, and lottery certificates from Ohio and Delaware, and Democratic state and county election tickets. Correspondents include Lewis Maxwell, J.M. Bennett, and F.H....
Dates:
1784-1914 1931
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 Statehood Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1435
Overview
Selected correspondence from the Salmon P. Chase and Orlando M. Poe papers include two letters from John S. Carlile of Clarksburg requesting the removal of General William S. Rosecrans and the western Virginia theater; a letter from Governor Francis H. Pierpont concerning a loan of $200,000 for the Reorganized Government of Virginia; a letter from K.V. Whaley concerning the effectiveness of Northern arms shipped to the Ceredo area; and letters from Poe, an aide to McClellan, to his wife...
Dates:
1861
West Virginia Statehood Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3967
Overview
Commemorative coin for the sesquicentennial of West Virginia statehood, which was commissioned by the Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation (WNHAC). The coin is gold in color. One face shows Francis H. Pierpont, the (West) Virginia politician who served as governor of the Restored State of Virginia and is considered the "father of West Virginia"; the other face shows Independence Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Dates:
2013
William Starke Rosecrans (1818-1898) Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1943
Overview
Correspondence of a Civil War general who had business interests in the Cannel Coal Company, Coal River Navigation Company, James River and Kanawha Company, and the Western Oil Company. Subjects include coal, oil, iron and steel; improvements on the Kanawha, Coal, and Ohio rivers; English investments in the Cannel Coal Company and the Winifrede Mining & Manufacturing Company; and timber prices. Civil War correspondence includes letters from Francis H. Pierpont and General Jacob D. Cox....
Dates:
1841-1879
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- Politics and government. 19
- Politicians -- United States 15
- United States -- Politics and government 14
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 12
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 10
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 8
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 8
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 8
- Railroads 7
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 7
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 6
- Marion County (W. Va.) 6
- Virginia -- Governors 6
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 6
- Coal mining. 5
- Elections 5
- Judges - letters and papers. 5
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 5
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 5
- Account books 4
- Genealogy 4
- Rivers and river valleys. 4
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 4
- Civil War battles. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- General stores 3
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 3
- Lewis County. 3
- Politicians 3
- Richmond (Va.) 3
- Steamboats 3
- Transportation 3
- West Virginia - Governors. 3
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Banks and banking 2
- Charleston (W. Va.) 2
- Civil War - West Virginia. 2
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 2
- Coal mines and mining 2
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Diaries 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Kanawha Valley. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Land. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Newspapers. 2
- Ohio 2
- Politics - Western Virginia. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Schools 2
- Secession 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 2
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- Weston (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1951-present 2
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Academies 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Augusta County (Va.) 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Baptists 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Bridges 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Buffalo (Putnam County, W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
- Ceredo (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Civil War - Thurmond's Rangers. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia Mounted Volunteers, 1st Regiment, Company A. 1 + ∧ less
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