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Ellison Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates: 1819-1977
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

T.T. Perry, Collector, Publications

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Collection Number: A&M 2253
Overview

Microfilm copy of assorted books, speeches, and pamphlets related to early West Virginia history. Includes: On The Plains In '65 by George H. Holliday; Heyward Shepherd, Victim Of Violence, by Matthew Page Andrews; and The Harpers Ferry Insurrection by J. Ewing Glasgow. For a complete listing, see the control folder.

Dates: 1806-1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wilson-Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2135
Overview Papers relating to the Wilson, Lewis, and Ruffner families of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kanawha County, [West] Virginia, St. Charles County, Missouri, and Fairfield County, Ohio. Correspondence between Nathaniel V. Wilson and Dr. Goodridge Wilson, concerning land purchases, preparation for the settlement of the family, care of livestock, employment of slaves, salt making and marketing, and the market price of salt. Other members of the family migrated to St. Charles County, Missouri,...
Dates: circa 1693-1942 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Wood County Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1752
Overview

Transcript of a trial in the circuit superior court of Wood County and appeal to the General Court of Virginia concerning citizens of Ohio who were arrested by Virginia authorities while helping slaves escape.

Dates: 1845 1 September-12 December
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates: 1743-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Bailey, Robert. 1
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Brown, John. 1
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Dickinson family 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Dunlap family 1
Ellison family 1
Ellison, Allison Dunlap. 1
Glasgow, J. Ewing. 1
Greene, Daniel. 1
Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
Hall, John G. 1
Hall, Virgy Wilson. 1
Holliday, Geo. H. (George Hayes), 1847-1919 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Jennings, John. 1
Keadle, Charles Alexander. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, Col. Charles. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Loomis, F.B. 1
Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1
Meadville Seminary 1
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) 1
Morgan, George 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
Perry, T.T. 1
Petrie family 1
Petrie, William. 1
Reeder, Benjamin. 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
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Ruffner, Mrs. Daniel. 1
Swann, Thomas, 1805-1883 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Virginia. General Court 1
Washington County Colonization Society 1
Washington County Tract Society 1
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 1
Wharton, James E. (James Edwin), 1809-1881 1
Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company 1
Wilson, Dr. Goodridge. 1
Wilson, Elizabeth Ruffner. 1
Wilson, Nathaniel V. 1
Wilson-Lewis family 1
Wood County. Circuit Superior Court 1
Woodbridge Mercantile Company 1
Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr. 1
Woodbridge, George M. 1
Woodbridge, William. 1
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