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Fletcher Brock Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2869
Overview

Papers of Fletcher Brock, a Pennsylvania legislator from Blacksville, and of his family. Mainly correspondence between Fletcher and his son H.W. about medical schools, health problems, and family news. There are also letters to and from Fletcher Brock about local and national political issues such as temperance, slavery, roads, and elections.

Dates: 1851-1853

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1199
Overview Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, and papers of his grandson Wilson Lee Camden (1870-1958). Gideon D. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). His papers include correspondence, legal and business papers, surveys and plats, and printed material. Subjects include Virginia, West Virginia, and national politics; the railroad, oil, timber, and...
Dates: 1784-1958, undated

Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936

Pittenger Family Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875

Siler Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates: 1848-1968

William D. Barns, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3279
Overview Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs....
Dates: ca. 1842-1995; Majority of material found within 1940-1985

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Politics and government. 5
Pennsylvania 4
Elections 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Coal mining. 2
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Diaries and journals. 2
Farms and farming. 2
Land. 2
Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
Lumber trade 2
Ohio 2
Petroleum industry and trade 2
Railroads 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
Abolition of slavery 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Agriculture -- West Virginia 1
Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - American Institute of Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - Bank of Berkeley Springs. 1
Banks and Banking - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. 1
Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association. 1
Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation. 1
Banks and banking 1
Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry 1
Bibles 1
Blacksville (W. Va.) 1
Blueprints 1
Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia 1
Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Bowling 1
Business correspondence 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Charters, Railroad and road -- Pennsylvania 1850's 1
Church buildings 1
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Churches -- Episcopal 1
Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed 1
Churches -- West Virginia -- Hancock County 1
Civil War - political factions. 1
Civil War -- Illinois 28th Infantry 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Clay County (W. Va.) 1
Clergy 1
Colombia 1
Compromise of 1850 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Economic history -- United States 1
Education 1
Election of 1848. 1
Election of 1868. 1
Episcopal Church - Churches. 1
Estate settlements. 1
Estates and estate settlements. 1
Europe 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Banks and Banking. 1
Financial Public Relations Association - Banks and Banking. 1
First Virginia Corporation - Banks and Banking. 1
Freemasons 1
General stores - Hammond and Siler. 1
Gilmer County - 1840's. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Berkeley Glass Sand Company. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation. 1
Greene County (Pa.) 1
Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
Hancock Steel Company - Steel. 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Illinois 1
Immigration. 1
Insurance - V. E. Johnson Insurance Agency. 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Jews & Judaism. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kansas 1
Kentucky 1
Labor 1
Land - deeds and grants. 1
Land Plat. 1
Ledgers. 1
Libraries - Morgan County Library. 1
Livestock 1
Magazines. 1
Medicine - Health and Medical Schools 1850's. 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Missionaries 1
Missouri 1
Morgan County - Circuit Court. 1
Morgan County Library - Libraries. 1
Moundsville (W. Va.) 1
Music - Sheet music. 1
Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
Northern Virginia Power Company - Power Industry. 1
Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
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Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
American Institute of Banking 1
American Red Cross 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Aten, William. 1
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Atkeson, Thomas Clark, 1852-1935 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Barns, Doretha Mae, 1917-1997 1
Barns, William D. 1
Brock, Fletcher 1
Brock, H. W. MD. 1
Brock, H.W. 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Campbell family 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Dickinson family 1
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
League of Women Voters (U.S.) 1
League of Women Voters (U.S.). Morgantown-Monongalia Branch 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
McMaster University 1
Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Montgomery Ward 1
National Grange 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Pennsylvania Legislature - 1850's. 1
Pittenger family 1
Randolph, Emily Strother. 1
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Morgantown Friends Meeting 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Rinehart, E. A. 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Seiler family 1
Seller family - Genealogy 1
Shepard family - Genealogy 1
Siler, J. Hammond Jr. 1
Siler, J. Hammond Sr. 1
Siler, Jessie Castleman. 1
Siler, John T. 1
Steel - Hancock Steel Company. 1
Strother, Anne Doyne. 1
Van Gosen, James D. 1
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 1
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia University--Faculty. 1
West Virginia University. Department of History 1
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 1
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 1
Whig Party (U.S.) 1
Whisner, Samuel. 1
Widmyer, P. S. 1
Wilson family 1
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