Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878
Person
Found in 3 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
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- Parkersburg. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 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
- 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
- Land. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Washington Territory 1
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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