Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878
Person
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
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) Correspondence (photocopies)
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0420
Overview
Photostat negatives of correspondence to Francis H. Pierpont concerning statehood and secession. Also includes a petition of Harrison County, (West) Virginia citizens to Brigadier General Kelly protesting the return and admittance to the county of former members of the Confederate Army (undated); a petition of Gilmer County, (West) Virginia citizens denouncing secession and pledging action to suppress rebellion (1861); and the act by which the Restored Government of Virginia gave permission...
Dates:
1861-1865, 1916; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
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
Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview
Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates:
1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881
Gideon Draper Camden Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2167
Overview
Correspondence to Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). The letters discuss antebellum Virginia politics, legal cases, land deals, banking, river improvement, personal business, and family relations. Correspondents include George W. Berlin, Johnson Newlon Camden, R.P. Camden, John S. Carlile, John A. Dille, John...
Dates:
1836-1855
Granville Davisson Hall (1837-1934) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0042
Overview
Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia.
Dates:
1861-1947 and undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928
Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview
Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates:
1760-1936
Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview
Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates:
1838-1899
J.B. Ford Legal Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1679
Overview
Suit papers and correspondence in the case of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD VS. J.B. FORD, general agent of the railroad at Cumberland and Wheeling. The papers include copies of documents relative to the building of the railroad from Cumberland westward to Parkersburg and Wheeling and the activities of Ford as general agent at Cumberland and Wheeling, 1852-1874. Most of Ford's evidence deals with the role of the railroad during the Civil War and its relations with the state of West...
Dates:
ca. 1877
John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview
Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.
Dates:
1824-1935
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Politics and government. 10
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
- Land. 6
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 5
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 5
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
- Railroads 4
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 4
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 4
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 3
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 3
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
- Politicians -- United States 3
- Secession 3
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 3
- United States -- Politics and government 3
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 3
- Estate settlements. 2
- Lumber trade 2
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 2
- Parkersburg. 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
- Richmond (Va.) 2
- Temperance 2
- Transportation 2
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Account books 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Arthurdale (W. Va.) 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Bourbon politics. 1
- California 1
- Canada 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Ceredo (W. Va.) 1
- Chambless 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Civil War - United States 3rd Artillery Regiment, Company B. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Mine Run. 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - The Wilderness. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Cumberland (Md.) 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Elections 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Genealogy 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grafton. 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Immigration. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Know-Nothingism. 1
- Lexington, V.A. 1
- Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
- Logan County (W. Va.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Mississippi 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Postal service 1
- Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads - Monongahela River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railway. 1
- Rhode Island 1 + ∧ less
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