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Clarksburg Independent School District, Commissioner, Minute Book

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Collection Number: A&M 1354
Overview

Minute book of the School Commissioner for the Clarksburg Independent School District.

Dates: 1866-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarksburg Miscellaneous Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3405
Overview Miscellaneous papers regarding Clarksburg, West Virginia. Includes: newspaper advertisements (4 items, photocopied) of automobiles for sale at Williams Hardware and The Clarksburg Automobile Co., both in Clarksburg, WV (1912); front page of newspaper for 1967 flood, including photo of flood reaching the Clarksburg Automobile Co. garage (3/7/1967, original and photocopies); official ballot for the 5 November 1940 presidential election including Wirt County, WV choices; statement of Bridgeport...
Dates: 1912-1967
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Historical Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1285
Scope and Contents

Subscription list of the Clarksburg Public Library, 1913-1922

Dates: 1913-1922
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1653
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous papers collected by the Clarksburg Public Library, including Harrison County land papers of John Lang, 1782-1821; General Land Office Warrant of Thomas Cunningham, an 1812 veteran for 160 acres in Illinois; letter from Melville D. Long from Point Lookout prison, April 1865; letter to Mrs. John J. Davis, Clarksburg, telling of an unexpected invasion of Baltimore by the Rebels in July 1854; and farm diary, 1856-1861 of P.R. Page, Gloucester County, Virginia. This volumes gives...
Dates: 1782-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarksburg, West Virginia, Public Health Survey

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Collection Number: A&M 4124
Overview Bound typescript report regarding public health conditions in Clarksburg, West Virginia, completed ca. 1940. Contents include a brief history of the city and an overview of current health and safety related infrastructure. Topics discussed include availability of clean water and current sewer conditions, the fire department, and medical facilities for infant care, tuberculosis, and venereal diseases. Photographs and newspaper clippings have been pasted into the typescript. Subjects of...
Dates: ca. 1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarksburg (W.Va.) Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1735
Overview Records and quarterly conference church minutes for the Clarksburg (W.Va.) Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1856 to 1886. Chiefly a list of members and dates of their membership from 1856 to 1859 and then from 1869 to 1878. Also includes church meeting minutes from 1869 to 1872 and 1886. Topics of meeting minutes include the state of the church, the state of the Sunday school, new members, church finances, and the organization of the meetings. Some pages are faded and difficult to...
Dates: 1856-1886; Majority of material found within 1856-1872
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarysville Hospital, Civil War Records of Samuel West, Physician

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Collection Number: A&M 3509
Overview Civil War records of the U.S. military hospital at Clarysville, Maryland, recording activities of Assistant Surgeon Samuel B. West. Includes appointment letter, "Special Orders No. 74," for Samuel B. West dated 7-25. There are approximately 800 "Bed Cards" (5 3/4 in. by 3 1/2 in.) and 105 larger and more detailed "Medical Descriptive Lists" (12 3/4 in. by 8 1/4 in.). The Bed Cards contain the name, age, place of birth, marital status, residence, address of wife or nearest relative, rank,...
Dates: 1863-1883; Majority of material found within 1864-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Miscellaneous Publications

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Collection Number: A&M 3395
Overview Published Excerpts from the Fifth Codicil of the Last Will & Testament of Michael L. Benedum in calligraphy (1976). Facsimile of Fortune article from December, 1940 regarding the Benedum family and their business interests (11 pages; includes cover of magazine). The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation is an independent foundation established in 1944 by Michael and Sarah Benedum, natives respectively of Bridgeport and Blacksville, West Virginia. During his lifetime in the oil and gas...
Dates: 1976-1999
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clay Club of Morgantown, Membership Letter to William S. Archer

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Collection Number: A&M 4003
Overview

Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of the "Clay Club of Morgantown" to the Honorable William S. Archer of Washington, D.C., dated 26 January 1844. The letter informs Archer that he had been elected an honorary member of the club. Letter was signed by Club members E. W. Tower, W. J. Willey, E. C. Wilson, Caleb Dorsey, and Francis Madera. "Clay Clubs" were a political organization supporting the campaign of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay for United States president.

Dates: 1844
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clay County Print Shop Ledger

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Collection Number: A&M 1083
Overview

Ledger of a Clay County print shop documenting its business. It contains examples of work consisting mainly of funeral notices and church bulletins. Although the name of the print shop that did the work documented in the ledger isn't recorded to it, it is possible that the shop belonged to the local newspaper.

Dates: 1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 31
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 31
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 28
West Virginia. Legislature 28
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 27
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 26
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 25
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
Byrd, Robert C. 23
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 22
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
West Virginia University. Department of History 21
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
Smith family 20
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 19
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 18
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
Dayton, Alston Gordon 18
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 18
Davis family 17
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 17
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 17
Brown, John. 16
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 16
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 16
United States. Army 16
West Virginia (Ship) 16
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 15
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 15
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 15
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 15
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 15
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
Morgan family 14
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 13
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 13
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 13
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 13
Hayman family 13
Meadows, Clarence W. 13
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
Patteson, Okey L. 13
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
Weston State Hospital 13
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
Dawson, William M.O. 12
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 12
Moore family 12
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
Barron, W. W. 11
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
Consolidation Coal Company 11
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
Gore, Howard M. 11
Jackson family 11
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
Washington, George, 1732-1799 11
West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
West Virginia University. Department of Biology 11
West Virginia University. Extension Service 11
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
Dayton, Spencer 10
Evans family 10
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 10
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 10
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 10
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
Robinson family 10
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 10
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
Cuthbert, John A. 9
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
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