Brown, John.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Logan Osborne Family and Business Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2941
Overview
A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Dates:
1761-1982
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview
Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.
Dates:
1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview
Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates:
1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 2
- Civil War -- letters 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Surveyors and surveying. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Account books 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 1
- Charles Town (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 2nd Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
- Civil War -- Confederacy 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
- Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Genealogy 1
- General stores 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Jefferson County. 1
- Maps. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Shepherdstown. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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