Laidley, James M.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Eugene Levassor Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1363
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal papers, maps and printed materials of a French emigre, land speculator, and merchant from Cincinnati and Parkersburg. Subjects include Levassor's extensive landholdings in Kanawha, Lincoln, Jackson, Wood, Wirt, and Monongalia counties, and activities of his land agents; James Swann lands; the coming of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad to Parkersburg; the Panic of 1857 in that city; oil fever in the Wood County area, 1859-1866; and the activities of J.H....
Dates:
1796-1894
Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview
Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates:
1828-1890, 1901, 1935
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
- Genealogy 2
- Land. 2
- Maps. 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Charleston. 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
- Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
- Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- French immigrants. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Panic of 1857. 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Railroads - Northwestern Virginia Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
- Virginia -- Secession Convention of 1861 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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