Reed, Louis
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jim Comstock, Newspaper Editor and Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2600
Overview
Papers of James ("Jim") Franklin Comstock of Richwood, West Virginia, whose position as editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly and avocation as collector and advocate of all things West Virginia led to the preservation of much of the state's physical, visual, and textual history. The collection includes materials Comstock collected about West Virginia history as well as his own personal and professional papers. Materials include: general series of...
Dates:
1650-1671, 1717-2003, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1850-1995
Louis Reed and Mildred Johnston Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2592
Overview
Louis Reed (1899-ca. 1985) served in France and Germany during World War I. Collection contains letters he wrote to his future wife, Mildred Johnston. Reed and Johnston married many years later, after the death of Reed's first wife. Reed's letters, written between 1918 and 1920, discuss army life, the front in France, and the occupation of Germany. Collection also contains a 235-page photocopied typescript that Reed wrote about the history of Burning Springs, Wirt County, and its role in the...
Dates:
1918-1920 and undated
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- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Burning Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - WV 11th. Inf. 1
- Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- France 1
- General stores 1
- Germany 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Propaganda, Soviet 1
- Soldiers' letters -- World War, 1914-1918 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Whiskey decanters 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Soldiers' letters 1 + ∧ less
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