Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview
Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.
Dates:
1861-1895, undated
Arthur I. Boreman Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview
Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates:
1830-1949
David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2894
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, photographs, journals, drawings, and sketchbooks of David Hunter Strother (1816-1888), a nineteenth century illustrator and writer for Harpers Magazine whose pseudonym, "Porte Crayon", was a household word. Other highlights of his career, all of which are reflected in this collection, are authorship of Virginia Illustrated (1857) and Charleston and its...
Dates:
1744-1996; Majority of material found within 1833-1887
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
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
Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Drawing of David Hunter Strother
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4308
Content Description
Drawing of David Hunter Strother by Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) (5 1/2 in. by 8 1/2 in.). Strother is in the company of General John Pope, on whose staff he served as a topographer (while commissioned a Lt. Col. of the 3rd West Virginia Cavalry) from June to August, 1862. Also includes source document from Anderson Galleries establishing provenance from an auction in 1903. This collection also includes two prints of Harpers Ferry entitled "Harpers Ferry (From the Potomac side)" by...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1862-1874
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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- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 X
Additional filters:
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- Politicians -- United States 3
- United States -- Politics and government 3
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 3
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 3
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 2
- Civil War -- War diaries 2
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Account books 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Art and artists 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Blackwater Chronicle. 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston and its Resources 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War battles - Kernstown. 1
- Civil War battles - Piedmont. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries - Civil War. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Harpers Magazine. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Marshall County. 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Mason County. 1
- Mexico 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Secession 1
- Secession - Virginia. 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Steamboats 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hostages 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia - Claims vs. West Virginia. 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia Illustrated. 1
- Volcano (W. Va.) 1
- Voting - United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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