Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Anita Buchanan Speers, Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1338
Overview
Correspondence, typescripts, notes, clippings, photographs, and printed material of a local historian and promoter of patriotic societies from Berkeley Springs. Many of the papers pertain to the local history of the eastern panhandle. Subjects include the town of Bath (Berkeley Springs); James Rumsey; George Washington; Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother); Washington Bicentennial; National Flag Day; D.A.R.; and American Indian Day. One of the clippings scrapbooks includes a photo of West...
Dates:
ca. 1916-1957
Fred T. Newbraugh, Collector, Papers Regarding Berkeley Springs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1283
Scope and Contents
Material includes signed letter from David H. Strother to Perley Poore, Berkley Springs, March 25, 1858; lottery ticket for town lot in Bath, 1814; Porte Crayon autograph, and a slave list, Berkley County. Photostats of material in the Library of Congress include an signed letter from William Wirt to his daughter, August 31 1823 on Berkeley Springs; Thomas Jefferson to Mr. Rodney Washington, December 8, 1808 in regard to gambler Thomas Bailey's assault on Jefferson's secretary; portion of a...
Dates:
1787-1916
Hunter Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3297
Overview
Papers of Thomas Marshall Hunter documenting Thomas Marshall Hunter as well as the genealogy and history of the Hunter family, including descendants of John Hunter (1762-1845), a Scot-Irish immigrant and Morgan County resident who is the earliest American member of the family. There are scrapbooks regarding Thomas Hunters experiences at Shepherd College and in World War II. There is also material regarding the history of Berkeley Springs and Morgan County, and about David Hunter Strother....
Dates:
1930-1998
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- Subject: Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) X
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- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Flag Day 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Inventors and inventions. 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Native American Heritage Day 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Washington Bicentennial. 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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