Musgrave, Eli.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Clarence L. Musgrave Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1238
Scope and Contents
The papers of Clarence L. Musgrave, Fairmont mortician and editor, include family correspondence (1861-1936); photographs; account books of his father, Eli, and his grandfather Zebulon Musgrave; record books and correspondence pertaining to the operation of the Eli Musgrave & Sons funeral home and the "Fairmont Republican" (ca.1895-1898). Other materials include a ledger of the John Carlin Camp, No.8, Sons of Veterans, United States Army (1887-1894); a record book of the Ladies Aid...
Dates:
1839-1937
Lloyd B. Ganoe, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1229
Overview
The collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, family photographs, clippings, and account books of Zebulon and Eli Musgrave and Daniel and William L. Turney of Fairmont, West Virginia. Aside from family and business affairs and estate settlements, subjects include Missouri frontier life and society in 1836; strife at Lecompton, Kansas School Territory, in 1857; local history of the Fairmont area; and Fairmont Normal School. About 2 ins. of material concerns coal...
Dates:
ca. 1836-1925
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- Churches -- West Virginia -- Fairmont 1
- Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Fairmont Republican. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Gas industry 1
- John Carlin Camp No.8. 1
- Kansas Territory 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Missouri 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Veterans - Sons of Veterans, United States Army. 1
- Veterans -- Sons of the Revolution 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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