Curry, Richard Orr
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Richard Orr Curry (1931-1997), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1203
Scope and Contents
West Virginia mountain tales by Richard Orr Curry; papers of Jacob W. Mathews, a merchant from Alvon; papers of Charles R. Mathews, judicial officer at New Helena, Nebraska; correspondence of Catherine White Hoke of Alvon pertaining to family affairs; papers of Jacob W. Mathews including correspondence pertaining to the Confederate "Immortal Six Hundred"; Confederate veteran affairs; business papers of the firm of Hoylman and Matthews; Charles Matthews papers consisting of essays, business...
Dates:
1849-1959
Richard Orr Curry, A HOUSE DIVIDED, Manuscript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1922
Overview
Typescript of Dr. Richard Orr Curry's Ph.D. dissertation (1961). The dissertation was later published by the University of Pittsburgh Press as A House Divided: A Study of Statehood Politics and the Copperhead Movement in West Virginia During the Civil War (1964).
Dates:
1961