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Box 8

 Container

Contains 33 Results:

Camden Family Letters (contains mostly letters to and from G.D. Camden, M.B.S. Camden, J.N. Camden, and Dr. J.B. or T.B. Camden, as well as a typescript of one of the letters; includes letter from J.W. Brockenbrough to G.D. Camden, Jr., regarding law school at Lexington [1858]; hotel account statement for G.D. Camden [1872]; letter from G.D. Camden to John McDaniel regarding court sessions [1874]; letter from G.D. Camden, Jr., to his father regarding an article on West Virginia in American Cyclopedia [1876]; letter from John B. Hoge in Martinsburg to T.B. Camden regarding a letter from "LeVic" and a letter written from the Webster Jail in the Weekly Register [1878]; an account statement of J.N. Camden and a printed list of persons requesting annual passes on the Ohio River Railroad, including Geo. W. Thompson, Vice President to Camden [1885]; 10 items), 1858-1885, ca. 1960

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Dates: 1858-1885, ca. 1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Mary Belt Sprigg Camden Papers (Ms. Camden [1778-1868 or 1871] was the mother of G.D. Camden; includes her original manuscript notes on the genealogy of the Camden, Sprigg, Newlon, and Kelly families; poems; and comments on life; 18 items), ca. 1817-1910, undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Dates: ca. 1817-1910, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

John George [Jackson] Gittings Letter (contains facsimile of a typescript copy of a letter from Gittings to Joseph Anderson, President of Virginia Military Institute, regarding Gittings' family and personal history and commentary on other VMI graduates; it also mentions lawsuits involving 3000 acres of land and "Fourierites," John S. Carlile, Colonel Porterfield, the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and his "Personal Recollections of Stonewall Jackson"; 2 pages of notes on VMI alum accompany the letter; 6 pages), 1903

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Dates: 1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

W.R. Hennen Papers (Hennen was minister of a Methodist Episcopal church in Milton, WV; includes church expenses, parsonage building costs, sermon notes, etc.; 10 items), ca. 1893-1895

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Dates: ca. 1893-1895
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Joseph Johnson and Sarah Smith Marriage Bond (facsimile of an 1804 bond; 1 item), 1804

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 10
Dates: 1804
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Keister Family Genealogy (contains excerpts from 'Early Western Augusta [County, VA] Pioneers' by George W. Cleek, 1957, pertaining to the genealogy of the Keister family; 1 item), ca. 1957

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 11
Dates: ca. 1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Mordecai Levi Papers, folder 1 of 3 (includes images and copies of patent documentation for his "pavement for streets or roads" [1889], and material related to the M. Levi Water Filter [undated]; 16 items), 1889, undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Dates: 1889, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Mordecai Levi Papers, folder 2 of 3 (includes facsimile correspondence praising Levi's work with "composition boards" in paving the streets of Charleston [1890, undated]; facsimile typescripts of legal documents regarding Levi's work [1873, 1885]; a bio sketch and genealogical notes on Levi and his family [1957, undated]; facsimiles of two letters from J.P. Hale to Levi [1871, 1875]; a postcard from J.P. Hale to Marcellus Zimmerman regarding local history [1886]; and a facsimile notification to Levi of John P. Hale's bankruptcy [1878]; 14 items), 1871-1890, 1957, undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 13
Dates: 1871-1890, 1957, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

Mordecai Levi Papers, folder 3 of 3 (includes a typescript of a lecture on Charleston's pavement delivered before the West Virginia Road School at Morgantown, WV, by M.J. McChesney [February 1917]; a typescript of "First Brick Street: M. Levi of Charleston, the inventor and patentee" by Nancy W. Cassaday [a.k.a. Mrs. Robert B. Cassaday, Levi's granddaughter] [1947]; facsimiles and original clippings regarding Levi and Charleston's pavement [1914-1954]; and an excerpt from the Congressional Record in which Hon. John. M. Slack spoke about Levi [1974]; 11 items), 1914-1974, undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 14
Dates: 1914-1974, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers

J.A.J. Lightburn Military Records (contains manuscript orders of General Lightburn, all of which are addressed to or pertain to J.V. Young [1862]; manuscript orders from W.H.H. Russell to J.V. Young [1862]; and an order signed by Lightburn, signifying that Captain James S. Cassidy passed an officers' efficiency examination [1865]; Lightburn took preliminary examination for West Point with Stonewall Jackson; 9 items), 1862-1865

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 15
Dates: 1862-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Individual, Family, and Civil War History Papers