Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Wheeling (W. Va.) X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 2
- Parkersburg. 2
- Railroads 2
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- Richmond (Va.) 2
- Transportation 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 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
- 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 - The Wilderness. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Cumberland (Md.) 1
- Diaries and journals. 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
- Logan County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Oakland (Md.) 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Postal service 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 1
- Railroad workers. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Slavery 1
- Slaves 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Temperance 1
- Texas 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
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Washington Territory 1
- West Virginia 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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