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"Colonel John Bowman Treasure Map" (typescript), a Hand Drawn Map of Western Virginia, and a Map of Marshall County

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2763
Overview

Typescript: "Colonel John Brown Treasure - Map." Two maps: hand-drawn map of Western Virginia 1777, showing Ohio River Valley around Wheeling, WV; map of Marshall County, WV (Marshall County Commission, 1963).

Dates: 1963, 1979, 1980

C.R. Rector, Compiler, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0424
Overview

This is a history, "Westward Down the Ohio," relating highlights of Ohio River history, ca.1750-1880, in West Virginia. Subjects include early exploration, settlement, and transportation, especially the steamboat era. Mention is often made of events occurring in Parkersburg and its vicinity as being typical examples of the history of the Ohio Valley.

Dates: undated

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1270
Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical typescripts, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Ohio Valley, West Virginia, and the Guyandotte country, compiled by Frederick B. Lambert.

Dates: 1939-1959

Gordon B. Gibbens Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2816
Scope and Contents Correspondence of Gordon B. Gibbens of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Subjects discussed include personal and family business, West Virginia Republican Party affairs, and Gibbens' political appointments. Correspondents include Senators Stephen B. Elkins, Nathan B. Scott, and James A. Hughes, as well as numerous Ohio Valley politicians. One letter (1896 December 21) is an endorsement by a group of "colored" voters of Wood County for Gibbens' appointment to political office, and another letter...
Dates: 1878-1902

John P. Clarke (1825-1900) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1511
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, surveys, account books, and a diary of a Burning Springs surveyor, oil developer, rural entrepreneur, horticulturalist, and captain of the Little Kanawha River steamer GENERAL JACKSON. Collection includes a brief journal of a trip from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Forks of the Platte in 1860; papers of Clarke's venture in quartz mining and milling in the Colorado Territory, 1861-1863; surveys of the Burning Springs oil region; letters from James C....
Dates: 1851-1900

Minnie Kendall Lowther Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0740
Overview M.K. Lowther (1869-1947) was a journalist and one of the first women newspaper editors in West Virginia. She was the author of the HISTORY OF RITCHIE COUNTY; BLENNERHASSETT ISLAND IN ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY; FRIENDSHIP HILL, HOME OF ALBERT GALLATIN; MARSHALL HALL AND OTHER POTOMAC POINTS IN STORY AND PICTURE; and MT. VERNON: ITS CHILDREN, ITS ROMANCES, ITS ALLIED FAMILIES AND MANSIONS. There are complete and incomplete typescripts, rough drafts, revisions, photographs and plates of her books....
Dates: 1907-1945

Ohio Historical Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1202
Overview

Papers relating to the early development of Marietta and the Ohio Valley include the journal, 1784-1790, and correspondence, 1776-1824 (3 vols.), of a Revolutionary War officer and organizer of the Ohio Company, General Rufus Putnam; papers of Samuel Prescott Hildreth entitled: "Early Events in the Valley of Ohio, 1787 to 1847" (2 vols.); letter from Nathan Goodale to Rufus Putnam, 15 March 1788; journal of Joseph Buell, 1785-1789; and a journal of John Mathews, 1786 (holograph copy).

Dates: ca. 1776-1872

Ohio River Data Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 2690
Overview This collection consists of one scrapbook, compiled by Dan B. Fleming, of St. Mary's, WV, between the years of 1945 and 1960. It contains a variety of information concerning the Ohio River. Subjects covered include: flood records, flood control projects, history of the river, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact of 1948, navigation, snow and ice records, the proposed Lake Erie and Ohio River Canal (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), and the Ohio River Valley Improvement Association, Inc....
Dates: 1945-1960

Ohio Valley Floods, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2408
Overview

Newspaper clippings, picture-books, postcard albums, and government reports relating to floods along the Ohio River Valley especially at Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and Parkersburg.

Dates: ca. 1913-1971

Richard L. Woodyard Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1189
Overview

Sermons, essays, lectures, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of a Methodist preacher who served in Clarksburg and Sutton, West Virginia; Louisa, Kentucky; and along the Ohio River from Ashland, Kentucky, to Parkersburg.

Dates: 1808-1872

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Colorado Territory 1
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Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
England 1
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Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
Friendship Hill National Historic Site (Pa.) 1
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Washington, George, 1732-1799 3
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 2
Hayman family 2
Jackson family 2
Ohio Company. 2
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Robinson family 2
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 2
Allen family 1
American Colonization Society 1
American Cyanamid Company. Calco Chemcial Division 1
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Austin family 1
Ball family 1
Barber family 1
Bee family 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Bowman, Colonel John. 1
Brake family 1
Broadwater family 1
Brody, John. 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Buell, Joseph, 1763- 1
Burns family 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Chenoweth family 1
Clarke, James C. 1
Clarke, John P. 1
Clarke, John P. (1825-1900) 1
Clayton family 1
Coburn family 1
Collins family 1
Collins family - Genealogy 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Corbett family 1
Cornell family 1
Cox family 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Cross family 1
Cunningham family 1
Cunningham family - Genealogy 1
Davis family 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Day family 1
DeHass, Willis 1
DeHass, Wills. 1
Deam family 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Dougherty family 1
Drake family 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Fitzrandolph family 1
Fleming, Senator Dan B. 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Gallaher, D.C. 1
Gandy family 1
Gibbens, Gordon B. 1
Goff family 1
Goff family - Genealogy 1
Goodale, Nathan. 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Guinness family 1
Hall family 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hardman family 1
Harris family 1
Harris family - Genealogy 1
Hayes family 1
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 1
Haymond, Luther 1
Haymond, William (1771-1848) 1
Haymond, William. 1
Hays, Peregrine. 1
Hays, Samuel L. 1
Heaton family 1
Henderson family 1
Hickman family 1
Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Prescott), 1783-1863 1
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 1
Hoff family 1
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
Huff family 1
Hughes family 1
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