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Eugene Levassor Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1363
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, maps and printed materials of a French emigre, land speculator, and merchant from Cincinnati and Parkersburg. Subjects include Levassor's extensive landholdings in Kanawha, Lincoln, Jackson, Wood, Wirt, and Monongalia counties, and activities of his land agents; James Swann lands; the coming of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad to Parkersburg; the Panic of 1857 in that city; oil fever in the Wood County area, 1859-1866; and the activities of J.H....
Dates: 1796-1894

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1199
Overview Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, and papers of his grandson Wilson Lee Camden (1870-1958). Gideon D. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). His papers include correspondence, legal and business papers, surveys and plats, and printed material. Subjects include Virginia, West Virginia, and national politics; the railroad, oil, timber, and...
Dates: 1784-1958, undated

Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (1820-1905) Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 1711
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of a letter from J. H. Diss Debar, as Secretary of State Immigration and Relief Society of West Virginia, from Parkersburg, to John Wanstreet, St. Clara Colony, Deddridge County, concerning the sale of lots and issuing deeds to the purchasers.

Dates: 1870

Little Kanawha Railroad, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2411
Overview Correspondence, legal papers, financial papers, and other assorted materials relating to the Little Kanawha Railroad and sister companies in West Virginia and surrounding states. The papers deal with the purchase by the Little Kanawha Syndicate of the Little Kanawha Railroad, which ran from Zanesville to Parkersburg, and the surrounding coal lands. Members of the syndicate included George J. Gould, William E. Guy, and Joseph Ramsey, Jr. Correspondents include: J.T. Blair, Lawrence Greer,...
Dates: 1904-1913

Rector-Hiett-Hall Families, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0945
Scope and Contents Letters, deeds, wills, tax receipts, and miscellaneous papers, by or mentioning Enoch Rector, C.N. Ransom, the Garrard Family, Mary E. Avery, James Hiett, Samuel Heitt, Thomas Rector, J. Madison Jackson, Samuel and Josiah Halley, Joseph and Deborah Spencer, and Stephen C. Shaw. The papers deal mainly with land transactions and family affairs, including corn prices; building of Muskingum River; notes on preaching in Baptist churches in Richmond, Virginia, revivals, ministers' salaries;...
Dates: ca. 1802-1913

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

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview

Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.

Dates: 1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866

Withers and VanDevender Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2109
Overview Correspondence, ledger books, account and cashbooks of the Parkersburg, West Virginia, firm of Withers and VanDevender (later Wiant and VanDevender), specializing in timber cutting, but also dealing in real estate, coal, oil, and orange growing. Subjects include timber cutting methods, costs, timber shipping, floods, freezes, droughts, log jams, timberland locations, timber purchases and sales, salaries of timber workers, and fruit groves in Florida. Counties mentioned include: Boone,...
Dates: 1899-1951

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Parkersburg (W. Va.) 3
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Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
Immigration. 2
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Politics and government. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Wirt County (W. Va.) 2
Wood County (W. Va.) 2
Agriculture 1
Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
Baptists 1
Batesville (Va.) 1
Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
Churches -- West Virginia -- Parkersburg 1
Civil War -- Forts 1
Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
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Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
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Poets and poetry. 1
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
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Richmond (Va.) 1
Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Roane County (W. Va.) 1
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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Rector, Enoch. 2
Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
Blair, J.T. 1
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Brown, John. 1
Camden family 1
Camden, John S. 1
Camden, Wilson Lee. 1
Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Cook family 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Copen Creek Coal Company 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss (1820-1905) 1
Democratic National Convention of 1876. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Fleischer family 1
Gilmer Fuel Company 1
Gould, George Jay, 1864-1923 1
Greer, Lawrence. 1
Guy, William E. 1
Hall family 1
Hiatt family 1
Hiett, James. 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Jones, J.S. 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Lisez, Charles. 1
Little Kanawha Railroad 1
MCCAA Coal Company 1
Marietta Chair Company 1
Matthews family 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Nixolette Lumber Company 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Parkersburg Mill Company 1
Patterson, Joseph W. 1
Quarrier, Alexander. 1
Ramsey, Joseph Jr. 1
Rector family 1
Rector, Thomas. 1
Rector-Hiett-Hall 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
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
State Immigration and Relief Society of West Virginia 1
Swann, James. 1
Tavenner family 1
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 1
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 1
Tavenner, William Cabell. 1
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 1
Wanstreet, John 1
Wells family 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 1
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 1
Whig Party (U.S.) 1
Wiant and VanDevender 1
Withers and VanDevender 1
Young family 1
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