White, William.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Donley L. Stiles, Reminiscences of Monongalia County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3032
Overview
The boyhood memoirs of an elderly Monongalia County resident, entitled, "Our Daily Bread" relating rural life in the early years of the twentieth century. There is mention of home remedies, farming, country stores, school, church, holidays, transportation and folkways. He describes in detail seeing the first automobile in the western part of the county. Also contains some genealogical notes on William White and family, White is the surveyor who named that portion of the county, Battelle...
Dates:
1910-1916
Sue Proctor Miller, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0866
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of Braxton County marriage bonds, 1836-1853; biographical and genealogical notes on Michael (Malcolm) Coleman in Jackson County, William White, the Staats family, and Andersen family of Wood and Jackson counties; and a narrative sketch of early Ravenswood written by Eunice Proctor Perkins.
Dates:
1836-1853
Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1855
Scope and Contents
Xerox copies of the correspondence of William White, Cregan Cave (Greenbrier County) 1871-1897. William White (II) fitted himself to become a land surveyor, and for many years held the official position of surveyor of Greenbrier County. Letters relate to surveys and sale of several acres of land for George S. and John C. Knox and E. C. Halliday.Other letters relating to property and deeds are from G. W. Black, Elvira Fenton, J. R. Crawford, J. W. Watson, Dennis Landis, Lucy A....
Dates:
1869-1964
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- Account books 1
- Banks - First National Bank, Alderson. 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Bula (Monongalia County, W. Va.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Alderson 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Country stores. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine - Folk remedies. 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Patrons of Husbandry. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Schools 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taxation 1
- Transportation 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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