Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5

Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1439
Scope and Contents The bulk of these papers deal with Miss Jarvis' work as the founder of Mother's Day, her attempts to persuade state governors to issue proclamations to establish the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and her later protests against the commercialization of the holiday, as well as the efforts of other organizations to promote Mother's Day.There are a few papers of her father, Grandville E. Jarvis; some correspondence and legal papers concerned with the Jarvis coal and farm...
Dates: 1858-1943
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hamrick Family of Webster County (W. Va.) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2190
Overview

Deeds, leases, teaching certificates, and other documents relating to the Hamrick family of Webster County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1891-1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. J.D. Fletcher, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1073
Overview

Correspondence of Martha Brand Wolfe and Charles M. Wolfe, who operated a small farm at Morgantown. The papers include some old Monongalia County land deeds of Charles I. Brand; letters from evangelists Dr. R.E.L. Jarvis and Dr. Edward D. Fellers, together with letters of Mrs. Wolfe on religion. There are also Christmas cards, local news clippings, two Brand family autograph albums, family photographs, and a newspaper clipping book, 1881-1905.

Dates: 1857-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Richard H. Ralston, Sr., Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2205
Overview Correspondence of William A. Harrison, a Clarksburg lawyer, assistant federal district attorney, member of the Virginia Assembly, and judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; most letters are from members of the family to Mrs. Anna Robertson Harrison. Subjects include construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; Civil War loyalty Oaths, Camp Chase land purchases, and road building. There are also grade school attendance certificates and notes concerning the Lunatic Asylum...
Dates: 1825-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Snyder Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0490
Overview

Personal and business correspondence of Harmon, Molly, John, and other members of the Snyder family; genealogical information on the Lantz and Snyder families; land grants, surveys and deeds for land in Barbour, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties, West Virginia; and poll and registration books for Randolph County. Included also is Harmon Snyder's daybook and diary, listing accounts for the years 1866-1896 and incidents of the Civil War.

Dates: 1790-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Filtered By

  • Subject: Land. X
  • Subject: Women's history -- 1929-1950 X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
Account books 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
∨ more
Canals 1
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal mining. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education 1
Elections 1
Farms and farming. 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Judges - letters and papers. 1
Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
Literacy 1
Lunatic Asylum West of the Allegheny Mountains. 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
Mother's Day 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Surveyors and surveying. 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
Teachers 1
Virginia - General Assembly. 1
Webster County (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Brand, Charles I. 1
Fellers, Dr. Edward D. 1
Fletcher, Mrs. J.D. 1
Hamrick family 1
Harrison, Mrs. Anna M. Robertson. 1
∨ more
Harrison, William A. 1
Hearst, Millicent Willson, 1882-1974 1
Holland, Spessard L. (Spessard Lindsey), 1892-1971 1
Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948 1
Jarvis, Grandville E. 1
Jarvis, R. E. L., Dr. 1
Lantz family 1
Mason, John W. 1
McGraw, John T. 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
Quaker City Cab Company 1
Ralston, Richard H. 1
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 1
Snyder family 1
Snyder, Harmon. 1
Snyder, John. 1
Snyder, Molly. 1
Weston State Hospital 1
Wolfe, Charles M. 1
Wolfe, Martha Brand. 1
+ ∧ less