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Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961

 Person

Found in 7 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

Granville Davisson Hall (1837-1934) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0042
Overview

Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia.

Dates: 1861-1947, undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates: 1774, 1822-1943

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

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, Papers regarding the Civil War in Southern West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0895
Overview Papers mainly related to the Civil War in southern West Virginia, including correspondence, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, and other material. Highlights of the collection include material regarding Captain John V. Young of the 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry; Captain James S. Cassady of the 7th West Virginia Cavalry; Captain W.D. Thurmond and his company of Partisan Rangers; and the 8th and 13th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry units. The collection is organized...
Dates: 1844-1938; Majority of material found within 1861-1867

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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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
Women's history -- 1850-1899 5
Genealogy 4
Diaries and journals. 3
Academies and Institutes. 2
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Accounting 2
Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 2
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 2
Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 2
Civil War -- letters 2
Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 2
Civil War -- Confederate Army 2
Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 2
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 2
Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
Land. 2
Maps. 2
Politics and government. 2
Roads -- West Virginia 2
Schools 2
Steamboats 2
Surveyors and surveying. 2
Toll roads -- West Virginia 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 2
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
Women's history -- 1951-present 2
Wood County (W. Va.) 2
Account books 1
Agriculture 1
Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
Banks and banking 1
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
Cemeteries 1
Cemeteries -- Recording 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Churches -- Methodist Episcopal 1
Civil War - Thurmond's Rangers. 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 - Union soldiers. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 13th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 7th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
Civil War -- War diaries 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 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 -- Muster rolls 1
Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
Civil War battles. 1
Civil War soldiers letters - Union. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Coal mining. 1
Court records 1
Depression. 1
Diaries 1
Education 1
Egypt 1
Election of 1912. 1
Elections 1
Epidemics 1
Fortification -- West Virginia 1
France 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Georgia 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Huntington. 1
Indians, North American. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Lewis County. 1
Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Marriage records 1
Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
Military camps 1
Newspapers. 1
Ohio 1
Ohio River Valley -- History 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Pharmacy -- History 1
Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
Pioneers 1
Poets and poetry. 1
Presbyterian Church. 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
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