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Henry R. Kelly, Collector, Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1205
Overview

Scrapbook of a Parkersburg postal clerk containing historical clippings on Wood County and World War II, and the scrapbook (1854-1921) of A.L. Collins which has statements from numerous Parkersburg mercantile houses, criminal reward notices, and a few legal papers.

Dates: 1854-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hugh Sayre, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2436
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, miscellaneous family papers, nineteenth century school records, ledgers, bank books, and memorabilia of Hugh F. Sayre and family of Parkersburg, Reedy, St. Marys and West Creek, West Virginia. Some material relates to oil and gas leases on the Sayre family farm and Sayre's invention of a scientific alphabet called EBDECORD.

Dates: 1872-1927, 1953
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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Parkersburg (W. Va.) 2
Bank books 1
Banks and banking 1
Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
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Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
Civil War -- War diaries 1
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
Deeds and leases. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Ebdecord. 1
Education 1
Estates and estate settlements. 1
Gas industry 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Inventors and inventions. 1
Land. 1
Ledgers. 1
Newspapers. 1
Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
Outlaws 1
Parkersburg. 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Poets and poetry. 1
Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
Reedy (W. Va.) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
Roane County (W. Va.) 1
Saint Marys (W. Va.) 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
West Creek (W. Va.) 1
Weston (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
Brown, John. 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, John S. 1
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Carter, G. W. 1
Carter, Sarah A. 1
Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Collins, A.L. 1
Cook family 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Fleischer family 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Kelly, Edwin P. 1
Kelly, Henry R. 1
Kelly, W.R. 1
Matthews family 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company 1
Rector, Enoch. 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Sayre family 1
Sayre, Agnes. 1
Sayre, Daniel C. (Daniel Clemens), 1903-1956 1
Sayre, Edward A. 1
Sayre, Hugh 1
Sayre, Hugh F. 1
Sayre, James H. 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1901) 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1953) 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes. 1
Sayre, Robert H. 1
Tavenner family 1
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 1
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 1
Tavenner, William Cabell. 1
Wells family 1
Woodyard, Ben A. 1
Young family 1
Zero Oil Company 1
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