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John Morton Ledgers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2579
Overview

Diaries, account books, and a surveyor's handbook belonging to John Morton, a farmer of Hollidays Cove, Brooke County, West Virginia. The surveyor's book includes lessons on logarithm, geometry, plane trigonometry, and surveying. The diaries and account books record Morton's life and significant events of the period. There is also an undated land deed, a property list of Morton's father, John Morton, and some genealogical information.

Dates: 1840-1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview

Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.

Dates: 1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
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Civil War -- letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
Diaries - Civil War. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Mathematics 1
Newspapers. 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Poets and poetry. 1
Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Weston (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
Wood County (W. Va.) 1
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Names
Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
Brown, John. 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, John S. 1
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Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Cook family 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Fleischer family 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Matthews family 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
Morton family 1
Morton family - Genealogy 1
Morton, John 1
Rector, Enoch. 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Tavenner family 1
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 1
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 1
Tavenner, William Cabell. 1
Wells family 1
Young family 1
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