Five documents regarding the incorporation of the Buck-Bar Coal Company in 1920. These documents reference corporate officer C.J. Rathbun, among others.
Blank report form from the Buffalo Academy and Seminary in Buffalo, Putnam County, Virginia, circa 1850.
Receipts (108 items documenting 216 transactions) related to the construction of Buffalo Academy, Putnam County, West Virginia, in 1850-51, as well as a few receipts for later repairs (1859-60). Also includes mounted oval albumen photo (3 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in.) of the Academy and Buffalo Presbyterian Church (undated).
One typescript, autographed copy of a speech made by Peter D. Beter, candidate for the Republican nomination of Governor of W.Va., at the Mountainlair, during the closing program of the Festival of Ideas on Wednesday evening. Feb. 7, 1968. Also includes four photostat copies of building plans of Independence hall in Wheeling, W.Va., where the new state of West Virginia was established.
Genealogy of the Bull family which settled in the Ohio River valley in the early nineteenth century, titled THE BULLS: AN OHIO VALLEY FAMILY, by Bob Swisher, ca. 1800-1966.
Correspondence between Vinson Bixler and Carolene Bullard Bixler of Wheeling, WV. Also includes diplomas and certificates for both Bixler and Bullard Bixler, as well as other material.
Ten bullets recovered from the site of the Battle of Shepherdstown, including a .69 caliber roundball from a smooth bore musket, a .44 caliber revolver bullet, an Enfield musket bullet, and seven three-ring rifled musket minie balls.