Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss.
Person
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1577
Scope and Contents
Letters from West Virginia's first Commissioner of Immigration to Governor John J. Jacobs and the Board of Public Works. Letters deal with political intrigues for the commissionership, the dissemination of the “West Virginia Handbook and Immigration Guide,” and the publication of Diss Debar's “West Virginia Monitor and Real Estate Advertiser.”
Dates:
1871
Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Sketchbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4040
Overview
Sketchbook of Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905), a French-born American artist and the first commissioner of immigration for West Virginia. Sketchbook includes clipping of an article about Debar (1931) as well as artworks by Debar. Artworks include mostly pencil and pen sketches, as well as some watercolors. Most of his work is labeled with subject and year, and has been pasted into the sketchbook. Subjects are generally landscapes and portraits. Sections of the sketchbook include: "In...
Dates:
1832-1880s, 1931; Majority of material found within 1832-1880s
Lewis Maxwell Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0963
Overview
Papers of Lewis Maxwell, an attorney at Weston including primarily letters from clients concerning land in West Virginia, 1840-1859. Correspondents include J.H. Diss Debar, John S. Carlile, Matthew Edmiston, J.M. Bennett, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Other subjects covered include railroad legislation and construction and the surfacing of the Weston-Clarksburg road.
Dates:
1825-1861, 1903
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Land. 6
- Politics and government. 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Debts, Public -- Virginia 2
- Debts, Public -- West Virginia 2
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) -- History 2
- Immigration. 2
- Judges -- West Virginia 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politicians 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Railroads 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Account books 1
- Banks - Exchange Bank of Virginia, Weston Branch. 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Doddridge County 1
- Churches -- Methodist 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Confederate States of America. 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) 1
- Education 1
- Education -- West Virginia 1
- French immigrants. 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Panic of 1857. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Railroads - Northwestern Virginia Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Secession 1
- Secession - Virginia. 1
- Steamboats 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hostages 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia - Claims vs. West Virginia. 1
- Virginia - General Assembly. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- Voting - United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- West Union. 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia - politics. 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Weston-Clarksburg Road 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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