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Betty Lou Allcock, World War II Era Scrapbook by Resident of Wheeling

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Collection Number: A&M 3814
Overview

Scrapbook by Betty Lou Allcock, resident of Elm Grove, Wheeling, WV. Includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, programs, greeting cards, etc. regarding World War II, Girl Scouts, Girl Reserves, Triadelphia High School, musical performances, and local news. Highlights include letters from soldiers before and during their deployment.

Dates: 1935-1947
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cohn, Sampliner and Company (Wheeling, W.Va.), General Store Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0224
Overview Letters and receipts document the business of dry goods store Cohn, Sampliner and Company in Wheeling, West Virginia, from 1875 to 1878. Records include notes of account debts and settlements and letters regarding dry goods purchases and returns. Products sold and purchased by Cohn, Sampliner and Company chiefly include items of clothing and sewing supplies, such as jeans, ties, ruffles, pants, shirts, yarn, and flannel. Letters and receipts are from customers, manufacturers, and other dry...
Dates: 1875-1878; Majority of material found in 1875
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates: 1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hubbard Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0755
Scope and Contents

A booklet containing two handwritten addresses delivered by Chester Dorman Hubbard; a picture of the public buildings of McDowell County, W. Va.; a picture of the toll gate on the National Road at Leatherwood Lane, Wheeling, W.Va.; and a land title on parchment dated July 3, 1794, from Levi Hollingsworth to Robert Morris, for 20,000 acres of land in Ohio County, Virginia (Now West Virginia)

Dates: 1794-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Confederacy Supporters in Wheeling

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Collection Number: A&M 5179
Overview Research papers compiled by history professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf regarding his study of people who supported the Confederacy in Wheeling, (West) Virginia in 1861. Includes manuscript research notes and facsimiles of documents regarding prisoners of war; traitors; legislative petitions (topics include transportation, education, banking, temperance, and property); military service (including the Shriver Grays, a Confederate unit organized in Wheeling in 1861); religion; black newspapers and...
Dates: 1819-2004, undated; Majority of material found within 1850s-1860s; Majority of material found within 2000-2004
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Virginia 4th Militia Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2188
Overview

Meeting minutes, resolutions and orders for a volunteer military unit under the administrative jurisdiction and board of inquiry of the Ohio County Court. Contains routine matters such as rank, pay, fines, and parade orders. Mention is made of other units, namely the City Blues, Washington Guards, Wheeling Guards, Wheeling Riflemen, Wheeling Artillery, and Lafayette Riflemen. Officers names prominently mentioned are James Tanner, James S. Wheat, and George W. Sights.

Dates: 1842-47
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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West Virginia - Politics and government - 1861-1865. 2
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Confederate States of America 2
Allcock, Betty Lou 1
Armstrong, Ned. 1
Basil, Ben. 1
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Burdett, John S. 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
City Blues - Militia unit. 1
Cohn, Samplinger & Company (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Cranmer, Gibson L. (Gibson Lamb), 1826-1903 1
Cumberland Road 1
Duvall, George W. 1
Flesher, A. 1
Fones-Wolf, Ken 1
Frost, Daniel Marsh, 1823-1900. 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Harnsborough, Mayor. 1
Haymond, Jonathan. 1
Hollingsworth, Levi, 1739-1824 1
Horton, W. 1
Hubbard family 1
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
Lamb, Daniel. 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McComas, Judge. 1
Morris, Robert 1
Park, J.A. 1
Patrick, Dr. 1
Roberts, L.A. 1
Ruffner, Lewis, 1797-1883. 1
Scott, J.F. 1
Sights, George W. 1
Smith, Col. B.H. 1
Smith, Joseph. 1
Summers, Judge. 1
Tanner, James. 1
Tompkins, Charles H., 1830- 1
Turner, F.P. 1
Virginia 4th Militia 1
Virginia. Militia. Regiment, 4th 1
Ward, Everett. 1
Washington Guards - Militia unit. 1
Wheat, James S. 1
Wheeling Artillery 1
Wheeling Guards - Militia unit. 1
Wheeling Rifleman - Militia unit. 1
Wilson, Benjamin, 1825-1901 1
Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876 1
Wise, O. Jennings. 1
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