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Hubbard Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0805
Scope and Contents Papers, mainly correspondence, of the Hubbard family of New Haven and Litchfield, Connecticut and Wheeling, West Virginia. There are several hundred letters which document the growth of the family and its business enterprises in Wheeling. Correspondents include Gad Smith, Dana Hubbard, Chester D. Hubbard, General John Hubbard, Roger Dorman, H Moran, William P. Hubbard, Dana L. Hubbard, Stephen B. Elkins, John W. Mason, and Waitman T. Willey. There are a number of letters written...
Dates: 1810-1914

Preston Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2201
Overview

Correspondence, legal papers, and business papers of John J.D. Preston, his ancestors, and his relatives. The correspondence is primarily between members of the Preston family with topics being discussed, such as living conditions, business conditions, military training camps, Civil War battles, politics and campaigns, political personalities, education, schools, and the World Wars. Correspondents include John Preston, Rev. David Preston, John J. Davis, and John W. Davis.

Dates: 1817-1945

Robinson Family Manuscripts

 Collection
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

Watson Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates: 1694; 1783-1878; 1926

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Politics and government. 3
Wheeling (W. Va.) 3
Land. 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
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Account books 1
Agriculture 1
Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Barrackville Covered Bridge. 1
Batesville (Va.) 1
Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 1
California 1
California -- Gold discoveries 1
Church buildings 1
Civil War -- Forts 1
Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
Civil War - Union sympathizers. 1
Civil War - Virginia 25th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 26th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 40th Cavalry Battalion. 1
Civil War - troop movements. 1
Civil War -- letters 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Civil War -- Norfolk (Va.) 1
Civil War battles. 1
Coal mining. 1
Connecticut 1
Covered bridges 1
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Elections 1
Europe 1
Fairmont. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Georgia 1
Grafton. 1
Granville (W. Va.) 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and hospital records. 1
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Kentucky 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
Land - Civil War disruptions. 1
Louisiana 1
Marion County (W. Va.) 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
McGuires Tunnel. 1
Medicine 1
Missouri 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
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New Milton (W. Va.) 1
Norfolk, Va. - Civil War. 1
Ohio River Valley 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Patterson's Creek (W. Va.) 1
Poetry. 1
Preachers. 1
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
South Carolina 1
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
Travel accounts. 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
Union names. 1
Unions. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Women 1
Women -- Roles in society 1
Women's letters and papers. 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Military training camps 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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Names
Bell, Joseph. 1
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dorman, Roger 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1