Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview
Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates:
1898-1963
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview
Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.
Dates:
1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview
Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates:
1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884
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- Subject: Diaries and journals. X
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- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 2
- Civil War -- letters 2
- Genealogy 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Land. 2
- Surveyors and surveying. 2
- Wood County (W. Va.) 2
- Account books 1
- Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
- Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Court records 1
- Depression. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Elections 1
- Epidemics 1
- France 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Huntington. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Maps. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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