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Ellison Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates: 1819-1977
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Stealey Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2787
Scope and Contents

Account books and ledger journals of a farm, coal mine, and grist mill owned by James Irvin Samson Stealey in Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1865-1907. The mill, known as the Point Mill, was located at Point Comfort, where the Elk Creek and West Fork River join.

This collection includes two series:

Series 1. James I. S. Stealey Farm and Coal Mine, 1865–1907 (box 1) Series 2. Point Mill Company, 1892–1899 (box 2)

Dates: 1865-1907
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
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Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
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Kansas 1
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McGuires Tunnel. 1
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Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
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Travel accounts. 1
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West Fork River (W. Va.) 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
Women 1
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Women's letters and papers. 1
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Dunlap family 1
Ellison family 1
Ellison, Allison Dunlap. 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Keadle, Charles Alexander. 1
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Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Petrie family 1
Petrie, William. 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
Staley family 1
Stealey, James Irvin Samson. 1
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 1
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