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Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview
Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates:
ca. 1840-1955
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Dana Brothers Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2063
Overview
Partnership of George H. and Stephen F. Dana of Kanawha County, West Virginia, engaged in coal mining and general merchandise. The collection includes production records, inventory, shipping book, payroll sheets, a daybook, and a letter book. S.F. Dana was also one of the organizers of the Campbell's Creek Coal Co. There is also a letter book of George H. Dana created while he served as agent, 1871-1875, in England for Jos. Hall Manufacturing Company, holder of the English patent on James...
Dates:
1871-1889
Holt-Keyes Families Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0631
Overview
Business and personal correspondence of several members of the Holt and Keyes families of Barbour County, West Virginia, including Ben M., Charles, Samuel T.H., and Stephen Holt, and W.G. and Bertha Holt Keyes. The collection includes records of firms operated by these families, mainly the Keyes Lumber Company, the Holt Ice Company, and Holt's Mill; genealogical material on the Holt family; records relating to foundries, coal, coke, building supplies, general merchandise, farm and...
Dates:
1878-1944
Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1535
Overview
Daybooks and ledgers of a company store operated by the Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company, an early producer of coal and salt in the Mason County, West Virginia, area.
Dates:
1876-1906
Monongalia County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents
The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates:
1774-1933
Ohio County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0031
Scope and Contents
Court case papers, 1776-1930; court and county record books; birth and death records, 1887-1888; and account and minute books of individuals, companies, and organizations, 1772-1935. The bound volumes include records of brand registrations, deeds, estrays, land entries, marriages, military service, surveys, and wills. The private account books relate to general merchandising, coal sales, dental practice, a debating society, distilling, carriage manufacturing, hotels, steamboat freighting,...
Dates:
1772-1935
Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview
Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates:
1743-1882