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Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1750
Scope and Contents Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.Collection...
Dates: 1799-1888
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips, Journal of an Upshur County Resident Regarding the Civil War

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Collection Number: A&M 1846
Overview Photocopy of typescript transcription of the manuscript journal kept by Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips of French Creek and Buckhannon, Virginia (West Virginia). It contains commentary on local and family affairs, and on Civil War military activities in the western Virginia and Virginia areas. Other subjects include churches, travel, elections, holiday celebrations, and the 1863 statehood convention in Parkersburg. There are descriptions of and quoted conversations with officers of both the...
Dates: 1861-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates: 1859-1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgiss Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1899
Scope and Contents Correspondence and other material of Sabra Lucinda (Miner) Sturgis(s) and her son, George C. Sturgiss, a Morgantown businessman and politician. There are 130 letters, 6 WVU literary society and commencement announcements (1870-77), and an engagement book used by George C. and Charlotte Kent Sturgiss for 1907-1909.Subjects include the activities of Alfred Gallentin Sturgiss, a Methodist Episcopal minister in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1845 (towns...
Dates: 1838-1896, 1907-1909
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sarah Morgan McKown Diaries

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Collection Number: A&M 0718
Overview

Yearly diaries in 39 volumes by Sarah Morgan McKown of Berkeley County, West Virginia, regarding everyday domestic and agricultural activities, local auctions, births, weddings, deaths, emigrations, churches, and religious activities. Also mentioned are the Civil War and its personalities. An index to the Sarah Morgan McKown diaries can also be found in the control folder--includes errata, pages missed on microfilming.

Dates: 1860-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Virginia Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1240
Scope and Contents

Microfilm include State Land Office Records; S. Bassett French, Biographical Sketches; Mott-Alston Collection of Colonial Families; Confederate Service Records of Virginia Soldiers; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Bounty Warrants; Revolutionary Pensions; Revolutionary War, Rejected Claims; Family Genealogical Notes; and List of Baptist records at the University of Richmond.

Dates: 1623-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Virginia Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1246
Scope and Contents

Church and Bible records, personal property tax lists, index to Confederate service records of Virginia soldiers, Revolutionary War public service claims, index to Revolutionary War record, Revolutionary War pension and claim [indices], index cards to Virginia legislative petitions, and index to muster rolls of the Virginia militia in the War of 1812.

Dates: 1783-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891 1
Beck, Francis II 1
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 1
Brody, John. 1
Bunner family 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Chadwick family 1
Crogan, Patrick J., 1856-1949 1
Cutlip, P. G. 1
David, S. O. 1
Day, Solomon. 1
DeVaul family 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dickinson family 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Duff's College 1
Fast/Fass/Faust family. 1
French, S. Bassett 1
Giddings, Caroline Miner 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Hacker family 1
Hahn family 1
Hall family 1
Helmick family 1
Huldeman, Joseph H. 1
Jolliffe family 1
Jones, Ellen 1
Keck, L.V. 1
Keister-Jenkins family. 1
Kendall, Harriet P. Miner 1
Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836 1
Lanham family 1
LeVelle family 1
Lewellen family 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Loomis, F.B. 1
Lucas, Rawley 1
Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1
McKown, Sarah Morgan 1
McNemar family 1
Meadville Seminary 1
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) 1
Miller family 1
Miner, Adiella 1
MoRae, Elijah 1
Morgan, George 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Mrs. Louise. 1
Ohio Company. 1
Ohio University 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Phillips, Marcia Louise Sumner 1
Phillips, S.B. 1
Reeder, Benjamin. 1
Rinehart, Caroline B. 1
Ritenour, J.S. 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Ryan family 1
Shuttleworth family 1
Sommerville family - Genealogy 1
Sommerville, Robert. 1
Sommerville, William. 1
Spencer, Dr. Joseph. 1
Sturgiss, Alfred Galletin. 1
Sturgiss, Charlotte Kent. 1
Sturgiss, George C. 1
Sturgiss, Lucinda (Miner) 1
United States. Congress 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Washington County Colonization Society 1
Washington County Tract Society 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia University Literary Society 1
Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company 1
Wherry, J.H. 1
Whitham, George. 1
Wilson family 1
Wilson, Mary Jane 1
Wilson, William M. 1
Woodbridge Mercantile Company 1
Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr. 1
Woodbridge, George M. 1
Woodbridge, William. 1
Woodbridge-Blennerhassett. 1
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