Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview
Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.
Dates:
1880-1885
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
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- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Diaries 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Floods 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Memorial Day 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Secession 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- Taxation 1
- Temperance 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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