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Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0104
Overview

Personal and business papers of lawyer, U.S. Senator, circuit court judge, and first Governor of West Virginia, Arthur I. Boreman. See scope and content note for more details.

Dates: 1861-1895, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Aten Family Civil War Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3126
Overview The Aten Family Civil War letters chronicle the Union Army service of James, John, and Henry Aten. James Aten returned to his native Hancock County from Illinois in February 1861 and enlisted in the First WV Volunteer Infantry for a three-month tour in May 1861. He reenlisted in the Twelfth WV Volunteer Infantry and saw service along the B & O Railroad, the Shenandoah Valley, along the James River and at one point he was a prisoner of war. John and Henry Aten served in the 85th Illinois...
Dates: 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Goshorn Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2426
Overview This collection comprises the personal and business correspondence, as well as financial and legal papers of the Goshorn family of Wheeling, West Virginia, including papers from members of several allied families. Highlights include letters from William S. Goshorn during his Civil War imprisonment and letters from a Virginia legislator in the House of Delegates (1833). An addendum (2012/09) contains three ledgers of John Goshorn (1827-1874). See the Scope and Content Note for more...
Dates: 1827-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henri Jean Mugler Diary and Memoir

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Collection Number: A&M 1335
Overview Diary and memoir of a Confederate soldier, railroad laborer, and shop owner from Grafton. The memoir begins with Mugler's birth in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838, and covers his immigration to the United States; enlistment in the United States Army in 1851; military duty in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Texas, California, and the Washington Territory where he participated in the expedition against the Yakima Indians as a member of Company B, Third Regiment, United States Artillery, under Phil...
Dates: 1838-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pittenger Family Letters

 Collection
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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
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Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
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Indians of North America 1
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Mason County (W. Va.) -- History 1
McGuires Tunnel. 1
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Patterson's Creek (W. Va.) 1
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Pennsylvania 1
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 2
Aten family 1
Aten, William. 1
Averell, W.W. 1
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Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Boreman, Jacob S. (Jacob Smith), 1831-1913 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 1
Daugherty, Jean. 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Goshorn family 1
Goshorn family - Genealogy 1
Goshorn, John. 1
Goshorn, William S. 1
Greenback Labor Party (U.S.) 1
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Johnson, Henry J. 1
Kenna, John E. 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lang, Theodore F. 1
Logan, John A. 1
Mason, John W. 1
McGraw, John T. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Mugler, Henri Jean 1
National Cemetery Corps 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Pittenger family 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
Rucker, William P. 1
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 1
Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902 1
Simpson, 1
Society of the Army of West Virginia 1
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 1
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 1
United States. Army 1
West Virginia. Legislature 1
Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
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