Peterkin, Geo. W. (George William), 1841-1916

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, printed bulletins and programs, clippings, and other materials from the files of Andrew D. Hopkins, Head, Department of Entomology, West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, relating to the West Virginia Experiment Station, farmers' institutes, and the Blennerhasset Park project of 1935. The correspondence is by, or mentions, John A. Myers, A.D. Hopkins, C.R. Orton, and W. G. Peterkin.

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An ALS and printed form letter, 1893 January 25, from George W. Peterkin of Parkersburg. Peterkin makes a personal fundraising appeal for the Diocese of West Virginia in order for the Methodist Episcopal Church to expand its programs and pay off debts incurred.

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Reply of Peterkin, first Episcopalian bishop of West Virginia, to Charles Alford Christian for information concerning Peterkin's association with Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith. Letter dated, Parkersburg, April 20, 1894.

Overview Civil War materials collected by Dr. Brooks in writing his biographies of Grant and Lee. Included are pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and originals and copies of soldiers' letters, journals, and military reports. There are typed copies of a journal, 3 November-2 December 1863, of a civilian observer in Tennessee, who was at Grant's headquarters at the Battle of Chattanooga; letters, 1861-1864, of William Ludwig, a private in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in...