Davis, John.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Davis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1946
Scope and Contents
One box of material including original and typescript copies of letters exchanged between Anna Kennedy and J.J. Davis for the period 1860-1862. Also included is material on the Chapin family, Davis and Steen family genealogy and Reed family Bible.
Correspondents are J.J. Davis, Anna Kennedy, J.W. Davis, Phineas Chapin, Rev. Asa Brooks, and J. W. Wayland.
John W. Davis' certificate of Admission to practice before the Supreme Court of West Virginia dated 1896. His sponsor was Melville...
Dates:
1800-1941
John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview
Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.
Dates:
1824-1935
Monongalia County Land and Legal Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0499
Scope and Contents
Site of Morgantown given, along with boundaries and owners of land along the south side of a line running northeast for the mouth of Decker's Creek to Cheat river, and along the west side of the Monongahela River in Cass district to the Pennsylvania line; located are Jackson's iron works, site of Jackson ore digging, Pleasant Furnace, Ice's Ferry, poor house, and roads; some owners' names given are: John Davis, Thomas Evans, Jarrett, Andrew Ice, Jenkins, Jesse and William Bayles, John Tibbs,...
Dates:
1799
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- Account books 2
- Churches -- Presbyterian 2
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 2
- Genealogy 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 2
- Bourbon politics. 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 1
- Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
- Deeds and grants - Monongalia County. 1
- Elections 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W.Va.) - history - Civil War 1
- Ice's Ferry. 1
- Jackson's Mill (W. Va.) 1
- Know-Nothingism. 1
- Land - Plats and surveys. 1
- Land. 1
- Lexington, V.A. 1
- Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
- Mississippi 1
- Monongalia County - Land. 1
- Monongalia County - deeds and grants. 1
- Monongalia County - plats. 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Pleasant Furnace. 1
- Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Supreme Court of West Virginia 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Virginia Springs 1 + ∧ less
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