Pittenger Family Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3127
Overview
Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.
Dates
- 1841-1875
Creator
- Pittenger family (Family)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please contact the West Virginia and Regional History Center.
Extent
0 Linear Feet (Summary: 34 items)
Physical Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
- Abolition of slavery
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.
- Aten, William.
- Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Hancock County
- Civil War -- Illinois 28th Infantry
- Clergy
- Elections
- Farms and farming.
- Hancock County (W. Va.)
- Illinois
- Jews & Judaism.
- Livestock
- Ohio
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields.
- Pennsylvania
- Pittenger family
- Politics and government.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
- Schools
- Steamboats
- Teachers
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- Weather
- Wheeling Convention -- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- First
Creator
- Pittenger family (Family)
- Title
- Pittenger Family Letters, 1841-1875
- Author
- Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History Center
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository
Contact:
1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown WV 26506-6069 US
304-293-3536
wvrhcref@mail.wvu.edu
1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown WV 26506-6069 US
304-293-3536
wvrhcref@mail.wvu.edu