Caperton, William Gaston.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
West Virginia University, Health Sciences Center, Dedication of Health Sciences Center and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5155
Overview
Collection of records from the Planning, Marketing, and Communications department of the Health Sciences Center mostly related to the dedication of the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center in June 1993 with Senator Byrd in attendance. It includes photographs, planning papers, pamphlets, and motion picture material. Most of the audio-visual material documents Byrd's participation in the event. There are also a few photos of Byrd earlier in his life, and a folder on cancer awareness and the...
Dates:
ca. 1990-2010
William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1436
Overview
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of: a Monroe County, West Virginia, farmer and politician; his wife, Harriette Boswell Alexander; their daughters, Isabel and Alice Beulah; Alice's husband, Frank Hereford, U.S. senator from West Virginia; and his daughter, Katherine Hereford Stoddard. There is one folder of business papers, 1820-1841, of Thomas Edgar; a few letters from Caperton's son, John, while a cadet at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, 1861; a folder of letters concerning...
Dates:
1801-1930
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- Camp of Instruction (Richmond, Va.) 1
- Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Europe 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Union. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1 + ∧ less
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