Photocopies of correspondence relating to Francis H. Pierpont's law license in Mississippi and Virginia, and an early (1784) Virginia deed to John Pierpont (likely grandfather of Francis).
Papers of a Grafton attorney, judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, and coal producer. Material includes papers of the Taylor County Democratic Executive Committee, 1934; Anna Jarvis' correspondence concerning her legal affairs in Taylor County; and records of coal production at the Warder mine, 1948-1952.
Letters written by Francis M. Skillin of the Maine 15th Volunteers, Company H to friends and family in Garland, Maine. Topics include Union General Neale Dow and Maine draft evaders fleeing to Canada. Four letters were written from Martinsburg during the winter of 1864-65. Other letters were written from Augusta, Maine; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Pensacola, Florida; and Baltimore, Maryland.
Business papers of a Keyser attorney who was judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, 1904-1920; member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1895-1896 and 1901-1904; and a member of many educational, commercial, and financial boards in Mineral County. Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, H.G. Davis, A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and Cecil B. Highland.
Model of statue of Francis Pierpont (1814-1899), first governor of West Virginia, by sculptor Gareth Curtis. The full sized sculpture was erected in front of Independence Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia in 2015. Also includes a limited edition print of a portrait rendering of Pierpont by the same artist.
Deed from Francis Rolof, Charles County, Md. To Charles G. Boehm, Baltimore City, Md., for 10,000 acres of land in Mason County (W. )Va., for the consideration of $530.00.
Account book of Matthew Wallace, a Mill Point, West Virginia, physician, containing notes, a list of medical books, and the medical account of George B. Moffett; sentiment book of Anna McNeel Wallace, 1883-1886; and typescript copies of a sermon and journals, 1786-1788, of John Smith, a Methodist circuit rider, pertaining to his labors on the Greenbrier, Redstone, and Holston circuits.