Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Lyman C. Draper, Antiquarian, Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3045
Overview
The interviews, correspondence, notes and reports of a Wisconsin based, New York born antiquarian and early researcher of frontier history. Lyman C. Draper's manuscripts were willed to the Wisconsin State Historical Society where he had been its corresponding secretary and instrumental in its development. Microfilm was produced by the society of his papers and made available for purchase to libraries because of their significance for studying the Eastern frontier and its pioneers. Draper had...
Dates:
ca. 1740-1815
Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents
Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates:
1859-1964
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Fairview Church 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 14th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. Company A 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry, Company A. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry. 1
- Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
- Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Deckers Creek 1
- Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Hacker Valley. 1
- Halleck Community 1
- Immigration. 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Jefferson College, Pa. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Kern's Fort. 1
- Land. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River and Valley. 1
- Preston County Courthouse. 1
- Raven Rocks 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Robinson's Run. 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Tennessee 1
- Uffington. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library. 1
- West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall. 1
- White Rocks -- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1 + ∧ less
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