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Fleming Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0644
Scope and Contents Additional papers of Benjamin Fleming and several members of the Fleming family. Manuscript items include land grants, & deed Monongalia County, letters, account ∧ tax statements. Printed items include Sabbath School program, Fairmont, 1861; concert and commencement programs of Fairmont State Normal, 1892, 1897, 1906; Alfred Fleming Cemetery Association, proposed organization pamphlet. A clipping scrapbook contains some poetry by Thurston Worth Fleming, biographical sketch of Col....
Dates: 1827-1915

George W. Miller Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2130
Overview Correspondence and financial records of a Gilmer County businessman, gas drilling contractor, schoolteacher, and elementary school principal who was involved also with coal, timber, real estate, and water well businesses. The correspondence concerns Miller's business affairs; dealings with government agencies, such as the Federal Power Commission and the Small Business Administration; applications for teaching positions and graduate schools; tax problems; campaign for a seat on the school...
Dates: 1948-1971

Hubbard Family Papers

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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

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0504
Scope and Contents

Letters to and from John Rogers of Morgantown concerning his business affairs; subjects of the letters include the Morgantown Bridge Company, building an academy in Morgantown, the North West Turnpike, stage routes between Morgantown and Uniontown, salt, wool, carding, the purchase of machinery for the manufacture of woolen goods, plow points, and negroes. Correspondents include John Hoye, J. M. Mason, George Calmes, John R. Cooke, George White, J. A. Stein, and G. Faber and Sons.

Dates: 1823 - 1852

Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1731
Overview Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop...
Dates: 1849-1923

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

Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview

Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.

Dates: 1880-1885

Monongalia County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates: 1774-1933

Mrs. Glenn V. Longacre, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0736
Overview Photostats of deeds, surveys, plats, and grants, the latter signed by Thomas M. Randolph, David Campbell, and William Smith, governors of Virginia, in 1820, 1838, and 1847, for land in Harrison and Doddridge counties; a school attendance sheet for 1865; and a report to the board of education of the number of school-age children in District 4 of Doddridge County in 1869. Also included are a number of photographs taken around Webster Springs showing the hotel, a subscription school, and public...
Dates: 1814-1915

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Campbell, A.W. 1
Campbell, David. 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Consolidated Gas Company 1
Cooke, John R. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dickinson family 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Dorman, Roger 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Faber, George B. 1
Fairmont Sabbath School 1
Fairmont State Normal School 1
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 1
Fleming family 1
Fleming, Benjamin. 1
Fleming, Thurston Worth. 1
Fleming, William 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Harrison, Mrs. Anna M. Robertson. 1
Harrison, William A. 1
Haymond, Creed, 1836-1893 1
Haymond, W.C. 1
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Hoye, John 1
Hubbard family 1
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
Hubbard, Dana L. 1
Hubbard, Gen. John. 1
Hubbard, William P. 1
Hughes, John, 1797-1864 1
Hull, Maud M. 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Kee, James, 1917-1989 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Longacre, Mrs. Glenn V. 1
Loomis, F.B. 1
Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1
Mason, J. M. 1
Mason, John W. 1
Meadville Seminary 1
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) 1
Miller, George W. 1
Mollohan, Robert H. 1
Monongalia Circuit 1 Superior Courts of Law and Chancery 1
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Monongalia Justices of the Peace 1
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Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 1
Moran, H 1
Morgan, George 1
Morgantown Bridge Company 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Ohio Company. 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Ohio University 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Ralston, Richard H. 1
Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828 1
Reeder, Benjamin. 1
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Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
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Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 1
Smith, Gad 1
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 1
Smith, William. 1
Stedman, Lyman 1
Stein, J. A. 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
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