Barns, James.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Barns Family Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3066
Overview
A framed lithograph of the James Barns residence in Cumberland Township, near Carmichaels, PA with an insert consisting of a drawing of the first successfully operating engine in Greene Co., ca. 1833, located in the Barns woolen factory on Muddy Creek, near Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. Included is an account by the donor about the Barns family of north central West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Mention is made of abolitionism, agricultural trends, James Barns, William Shinn Barns,...
Dates:
1884-1990
John Rogers Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3156
Overview
The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.
Dates:
1788-1870
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- Subject: Fayette County (Pa.) X
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- Abolition of slavery 1
- Agriculture 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Churches -- Methodist Protestant 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Infantry. 1
- Civil War battles - Warm Sulphur Springs. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Greene County (Pa.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Land. 1
- Maps. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Maryland 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Uniontown (Fayette County, Pa.) 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
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