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Charles Shetler, Curator and Historian, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2835
Overview

Material written and collected by a former curator of the West Virginia and Regional History Collection that includes bibliographies, transcripts, photostats, papers and historical sketches on various aspects of West Virginia history. Items deal with prominent West Virginia University historians, the Civil War, early settlement, industrial growth, and West Virginia University. A number of letters and circulars discuss the West Virginia Historical Society in 1869.

Dates: ca. 1700-1965

H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1330
Scope and Contents Forty-nine letters of Ephraim W. Frost of Co J., 116th Reg, Ohio Vol Inf. Frost, who lived in Coolville, Ohio, near Parkersburg, was stationed at Moorefield, Martinsburg, near Romney, Winchester and Sleepy Creek in Morgan County, where his Reg. was guarding the B & O. The letters comment on fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 around Woodstock, mention of McNeill, Imboden, and Mosby, and contain much on camp life in the eastern panhandle area. Frost was wounded near Piedmont in May...
Dates: 1861-1865

Ohio Valley Floods, Papers

 Collection
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

Parkersburg Town Council Journals

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1422
Overview Aside from routine municipal affairs these journals contain material on the development of internal improvements in the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area like the Wheeling-Parkersburg struggle for the western terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the development of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, and the demands for various river improvements. There are also a few references to Civil War military activities and the development of the oil industry in the Wood County area. Mayors...
Dates: 1826-1862, 1869-1874

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

Steamboats Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1548
Scope and Contents

Bills of lading from the Ohio River Transportation Company, Wheeling Wharf Boat Company, Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company, Shippers Packet Company Lines, and G. M. Beaver, steamboat agent and wharf boat proprietor, Sistersville.

Dates: 1929-1931

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Parkersburg. 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
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Politics and government. 2
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
Account books 1
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
Batesville (Va.) 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862. 1
Civil War -- Forts 1
Civil War - OH 32nd. Inf. , Co. A. 1
Civil War - Ohio 116th Volunteer Infantry, Company J. 1
Civil War - Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November) 1
Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
Civil War - Union sympathizers. 1
Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 25th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 26th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 40th Cavalry Battalion. 1
Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
Civil War - troop movements. 1
Civil War -- Imboden's Rangers 1
Civil War -- Mosby's Rangers 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Civil War -- McNeill's Rangers 1
Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
Coal industry. 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Education 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
Floods 1
Floods -- West Virginia -- Ohio River 1
Floods -- West Virginia -- Parkersburg 1
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Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
Grafton. 1
Granville (W. Va.) 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and hospital records. 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
Land - Civil War disruptions. 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
McGuires Tunnel. 1
Medicine 1
Moundsville (W. Va.) 1
New Milton (W. Va.) 1
Ohio River - floods. 1
Ohio Valley - floods. 1
Pakersburg, WV - Floods. 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Patterson's Creek (W. Va.) 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
Poetry. 1
Preachers. 1
Railroads 1
Railroads - Northwestern Virginia Railroad. 1
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
Romney, WV - Civil War. 1
Salt industry - Kanawha County. 1
Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Sleepy Creek, Morgan County (W.Va.) 1
Steamboats 1
Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
Transportation 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
Virginia 1
Wheeling (W. Va.) -- Floods 1
Winchester (Va.) 1
Women 1
Women -- Roles in society 1
Women's letters and papers. 1
Wood County (W. Va.) 1
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Names
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Beaver, G. M. 1
Boyoe, C. R. 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 1