DeHass, Wills.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0122
Scope and Contents
Collection includes original copies of correspondence relating to Virginia and West Virginia, as well as newspaper clippings, photographs, and research notes. Events pertaining to the Civil War and the formation of West Virginia are covered. Among the most important items are the private correspondence of Waitman T. Willey (1835-1861 and 1866-1868); data pertaining to education in Mason County, West Virginia (1861-1875); typescript copies of letters of Samuel Woods (see also A&M 1445);...
Dates:
1834-1945
Willis DeHass, Historian, Scrapbook regarding Ohio River Valley
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0685
Overview
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, with manuscript notes, prepared by Willis DeHass, historian and author. The clips, mainly from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati papers, deal with the Monongahela and Ohio and other Ohio Valley rivers, steamboats, bridges, canals, dams, and levees. Mention is made of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, 1868.
Dates:
circa 1868-1879
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Canals 1
- Cincinnati (Ohio) 1
- Dams 1
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County W.Va. - education 1
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Ohio River 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Ohio Valley - rivers. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Railroads - Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Shepherdstown (W. Va.) 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Steamboats 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 1
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1 + ∧ less
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