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Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1528

Overview Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....

Dates: 1774, 1822-1943

Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Gaston Caperton (1815-1852) Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1436

Overview Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of: a Monroe County, West Virginia, farmer and politician; his wife, Harriette Boswell Alexander; their daughters, Isabel and Alice Beulah; Alice's husband, Frank Hereford, U.S. senator from West Virginia; and his daughter, Katherine Hereford Stoddard. There is one folder of business papers, 1820-1841, of Thomas Edgar; a few letters from Caperton's son, John, while a cadet at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, 1861; a folder of letters concerning...

Dates: 1801-1930

Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Subject: Academies and Institutes. 1; Accounting 1; Camp of Instruction (Richmond, Va.) 1; Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1; Cemeteries 1; Cemeteries -- Recording 1; Civil War - Richmond, Virginia. 1; Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1; Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1; Education 1; Egypt 1; Europe 1; Frontier and pioneer life 1; Genealogy 1; Georgia 1; Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1; Hospitals and sanitariums. 1; Indians, North American. 1; Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1; Marriage records 1; Methodist Episcopal Church. 1; Military camps 1; Monroe County (W. Va.) 1; Pioneers 1; Presbyterian Church. 1; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1; Registers of births, etc 1; Roads -- West Virginia 1; Schools 1; Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 1; Taverns (Inns) 1; Tennessee 1; Toll roads -- West Virginia 1; Transportation 1; Travel accounts. 1; Union. 1; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1; Vicksburg (Miss.) 1; Women -- Education -- United States 1; Women's history -- 1800-1849 1; Women's history -- 1900-1929 1; Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Names: Alexander family 1; Alexander, Harriette Boswell. 1; Anderson family 1; Beirne family 1; Burnside family 1; Caldwell family 1; Caperton, Isabel. 1; Caperton, John. 1; Caperton, William Gaston (1815-1852) 1; Caperton, William Gaston. 1; Cary, J.H. Oley. 1; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Bryan's Battery 1; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Wise Legion. Company B 1; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 25th. Company H 1; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd 1; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd. Company A 1; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1; Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1; Craig family 1; Crawford family 1; Curry family 1; Dennis, Thomas H. 1; Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1; Echols, John, 1823-1896 1; Edgar, Thomas. 1; Farmers Bank of Virginia 1; Feemster family 1; Gilliam family 1; Glendening family 1; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1; Greenbrier Independent 1; Haynes family 1; Hereford, Alice Beulah. 1; Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1; Hopkins House (Liberty, Va.) 1; Humphreys, Milton. 1; Ladies Relief Hospital (Lynchburg, Va.) 1; Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1; Lewisburg Female Institute (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1; Lewisburg Methodist Episcopal Church (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1; Lewisburg Seminary (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1; Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 1; Matthews family 1; Nichols family 1; Old Lewisburg Academy (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1; Pare and Son 1; Reynolds family 1; Reynolds, Alexander Welch, 1817-1876 1; Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1; Smith family 1; Stoddard, Katherine Hereford. 1; Thompson family 1; United States Military Academy 1; United States. Army. West Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864) 1; United States. Congress. Senate 1; Van Bibber family 1; White Sulphur Springs Hotel 1; Zimmerman, Marcellus W. 1