Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878
Person
Found in 8 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) 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
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, undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928
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
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
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 7
- Politics and government. 5
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 4
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 4
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Parkersburg. 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Railroads 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Richmond (Va.) 2
- Secession 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Temperance 2
- Transportation 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Alsace-Lorraine (Germany) 1
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- California 1
- Canada 1
- Cemeteries -- National Cemetery (Grafton, W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Ceredo (W. Va.) 1
- Chambless 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 (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Cumberland (Md.) 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- Elmira (N.Y.) 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Keyser (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Postal service 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Slavery 1
- Slaves 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Texas 1
- Tygart Valley. 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia - Reorganized Government of Virginia. 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Washington Territory 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1861 : Wheeling) 1
- West Virginia. Convention (1863 : Wheeling) 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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