Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878
Person
Found in 5 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
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
Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview
Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates:
1845-1908
Lewis Maxwell Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0963
Overview
Papers of Lewis Maxwell, an attorney at Weston including primarily letters from clients concerning land in West Virginia, 1840-1859. Correspondents include J.H. Diss Debar, John S. Carlile, Matthew Edmiston, J.M. Bennett, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Other subjects covered include railroad legislation and construction and the surfacing of the Weston-Clarksburg road.
Dates:
1825-1861, 1903
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- Railroads 4
- Land. 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Parkersburg. 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- California 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 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 - The Wilderness. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Cumberland (Md.) 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 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
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Washington Territory 1
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Weston-Clarksburg Road 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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