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Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans

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Collection Number: A&M 4208
Scope and Contents This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles,...
Dates: 1775-2018 (Includes facsimiles); Majority of material found within 1970-2011

Charles Carpenter (1889-1975) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2471
Overview

Correspondence and manuscripts of articles by Grafton resident Charles Carpenter (1889-1975), a historian, writer, and collector of West Virginia memorabilia. The collection also contains a brief genealogy of the Haymond family and an incomplete Upshur County, West Virginia court record book of 1853-1856.

Dates: 1853-1860

Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1173
Scope and Contents Personal and genealogical papers of the Dean of the WVU College of Engineering from 1911 to 1932. The papers deal with academic pursuits including the controversy over the reorganization of the Engineering College in 1931-32, and his social and professional activities. Four boxes contain genealogical notes and history on some of the first Ohio Valley families including the Wickliffe, Harden, Monroe, Gambrill, and Jones families. For detailed listing of the collection see the inventory...
Dates: 1890-1932

Davis-Meranda Family of Clark County, Ohio, Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 4390
Content Description

Collection of genealogical information regarding the Davis family of Clark County, Ohio in the late 1700s to the mid 1800s. Beginning with Robert Davis, the collection follows the bloodline through his daughter, Mercy (Davis) Meranda, to where the family eventually moved to in Missouri and later, Indiana.

Dates: 1770-1850

George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates: 1898-1963

Greene County, Pennsylvania, Genealogy Index

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Collection Number: A&M 3160
Overview

A card file of the Greene County Historical Society, Pennsylvania, containing genealogical notes and index entries for genealogical sources relating to Greene County, PA and the surrounding region for the period ca. 1740-1980. The cards are alphabetized by name.

Dates: ca. 1960-1980

Hardy County Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1745
Overview A travel journal, ca. 1857; a diary, 1941; survey records, 1894-1896; account books, 1788-1811 - 1891-1894; county and parish tax levies, 1800; a book of geographic terms and facts kept by Susan I. Branson in 1836; and a Branson family record book. People mentioned include Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Places mentioned include: Cincinnati, Ohio; and, in West Virginia, Romney, Evansville, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coolville, Athens, Branch Mountain, Moorefield, Front Run Valley, Camp Branch Run,...
Dates: 1788-1941

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1018
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, principally from Harrison and Doddridge county papers, concerning W. Va. Servicemen in World War I, weather and flood reports, and miscellaneous West Virginia Subjects. There are also some clippings from Parkersburg and various Ohio papers.

Dates: 1917-1950

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates: 1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884

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Genealogy 9
Women's history -- 1850-1899 4
Diaries and journals. 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
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Court records 2
Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
Ohio 2
Slavery -- West Virginia 2
Surveyors and surveying. 2
Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
Women's history -- 1951-present 2
Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Academies and Institutes. 1
Account books 1
Accounting 1
African American Churches -- West Virginia 1
African American teachers -- West Virginia 1
African American women 1
African Americans -- Education -- West Virginia 1
African Americans -- Genealogy 1
African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia 1
Athens (W. Va.) 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
Banks and banking 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Cacapon River (W. Va.) 1
Camp Branch Run 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Cincinnati (Ohio) 1
Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
Civil War -- letters 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Coal mining. 1
Coolville (W. Va.) 1
County court records - Upshur County, WV. 1
Depression. 1
Diaries 1
Doddridge County (W. Va.) 1
Education -- West Virginia 1
Election of 1912. 1
Elections 1
Epidemics 1
Evansville (W. Va.) 1
Family histories. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Floods 1
Fortification -- West Virginia 1
France 1
Front Run Valley. 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Glass industry. 1
Grafton. 1
Greene County (Pa.) 1
Hanging Rock Ridge. 1
Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
Hardy County - Papers. 1
Huntington. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Kim's Run. 1
Land. 1
Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Little Ridge. 1
Livestock 1
Lost River. 1
Maps. 1
Marshall County. 1
Moorefield (W. Va.) 1
Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
Ohio River Valley -- History 1
Ohio Valley - families. 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Parkersburg. 1
Pennsylvania 1
Pharmacy -- History 1
Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
Politics and government. 1
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
Railroads -- West Virginia 1
Rivers -- West Virginia 1
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Names
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 3
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 2
Gambrell family 2
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
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McCausland, John, 1836-1927 2
Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 2
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Ben Lamond Company 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Bickley, Ancella R. 1
Bickley, Nelson R., 1928-2021 1
Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Branson family. 1
Branson, Susan I. 1
Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Brown, John. 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Carpenter, Charles, 1889-1975 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Cook family 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Cunningham, John S. 1
Davis family 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Davis, Innis C. 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Davis, T.B. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Doddridge County, W.Va 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Fleischer family 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Gallaher, D.C. 1
Gambrill, Charles. 1
Garrison, Memphis Tennessee, 1890-1988 1
Gibson, Philip P. 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hardin family 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Hayes family 1
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 1
Hayman family 1
Hays, Peregrine. 1
Hays, Samuel L. 1
Hill family - Genealogy 1
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 1
Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1
Hodges, Thomas E. 1
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, George. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915 1
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 1
Jones family 1
Jones, Clement Ross (1871-1939) 1
Jones, Clement Ross. 1
Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Laidley, James M. 1
League of Nations 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Levi, Mordecai. 1
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 1
Mastin, John A. 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McFarland, James C. 1
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
McKinney, Lt. W.M. 1
Monroe family 1
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