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Dewees, Daniel S.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Aristotle Smith Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4531
Scope and Contents Scrapbook of Aristotle Smith (1863-1911), doctor, lawyer, teacher, and historian. The scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings (1897-1909) and other ephemera glued onto pages of a book, Report on Population and Resources of Alaska (1893) from the 11th census, published in 1890. The scrapbook also includes handwritten text on the book’s pages and regards the history of various West Virginia counties: Calhoun, Clay, Braxton, Roane; the genealogy of the...
Dates: 1880s-1987; Majority of material found within 1900-1910

Margaret Hersman, Collector, Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4360
Overview

Two autobiographical publications by West Virginians who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War: "A Diary Depicting the Experiences of DeWitt Clinton Gallagher in The War Between the States While Serving in the Confederate Army" (1945) and "Recollections of a Life Time" by Colonel Daniel S. DeWees (ca. 1904). See "Scope and Contents" for further information.

Dates: 1945; 1904

Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates: 1732-1965

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Calhoun County (W. Va.) 2
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Civil War - Virginia 17th Infantry. 1