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Granville Davisson Hall (1837-1934) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0042
Overview

Correspondence and writings of Granville Davisson Hall, reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer during the Wheeling conventions, 1861-1863; secretary of state of West Virginia, 1865-1873; and author of numerous works of fiction and historical studies about West Virginia.

Dates: 1861-1947, undated; Majority of material found within 1861-1928
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

Marmaduke Dent, Letter of a Monongalia County Resident

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Collection Number: A&M 4176
Overview

Letter written by Marmaduke Dent, 1863/03/11, from Granville, (West) Virginia to Dr. Frank. Dent was the grandfather of Marmaduke H. Dent, the first graduate of West Virginia University. Transcription of letter and photocopies are also included. Subjects of the letter include politics related to the possibility of West Virginia's statehood, including an upcoming vote, constitutionality, and race relations; Dent's patients and a local bout of smallpox; and family matters.

Dates: 1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Peter Godwin Van Winkle (1808-1872) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0136
Overview Personal papers and scrapbooks of Peter G. Van Winkle (1808-1872), a Parkersburg attorney, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851, member of the Second Wheeling Convention of 1861, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861-1862, legislator from Wood County in 1863, U.S. Senator from 1863-1869, and participant in West Virginia railroad and business enterprises. Includes manuscripts speeches, essays, correspondence, and three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings....
Dates: 1827-1902, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thornton Perry, Collector, Publications regarding West Virginia History

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Collection Number: A&M 3343
Overview

Publications and manuscript from the Thornton Perry Museum Collection, reflecting Perry's interest in the history of West Virginia and the immediate region. Subjects include various aspects of West Virginia history, such as the Civil War, statehood, Wheeling, John Brown, and other topics. Formats include broadsides, reports, pamphlets, almanacs, a manuscript account book, newspapers, maps, and others. See Scope and Content Note for details and contents list.

Dates: 1787-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Willey Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates: 1820-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Wheeling (W. Va.) 4
Debts, Public -- Virginia 3
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Statehood politics -- West Virginia 3
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Gilmer County (W. Va.) 2
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Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
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Mason County (W. Va.) 2
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Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
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Mason County W.Va. - education 1
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Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 7
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 7
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 6
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 5
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 5
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West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 4
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 4
Brown, John, 1800-1859 3
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
Dayton, Spencer 3
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 3
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 3
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 3
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
Society of the Army of West Virginia 3
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 3
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 3
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 3
United States. Congress. Senate 3
Watson, James O. 3
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 2
Battelle, Gordon. 2
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 2
Confederate States of America 2
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 2
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 2
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 2
Johnson, Henry J. 2
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 2
Lang, Theodore F. 2
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 2
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 2
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 2
Rucker, William P. 2
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 2
Siviter, Anna Pierpont, 1859-1932 2
Stevenson, W. E. (William Erskine), 1820-1883 2
American Colonization Society 1
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
Armstrong, Ned. 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Basil, Ben. 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Blair, Jacob B., 1821-1901 1
Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940 1
Boreman and Bullocks 1
Boreman, Jacob S. (Jacob Smith), 1831-1913 1
Boteler, Alexander Robinson, 1815-1892 1
Brown, James H. 1
Burdett, John S. 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 1
Campbell, Archibald W. 1
Cather, Fabricius A. 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903 1
Clemens, Sherrard, 1826-1881 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Cranmer, Gibson L. (Gibson Lamb), 1826-1903 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Cumberland Road 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
DeHass, Wills. 1
Dent, Marmaduke, 1801-1883. 1
Duvall, George W. 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 1
Farnsworth, D.D.T. 1
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 1
Flesher, A. 1
Fones-Wolf, Ken 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Frost, Daniel Marsh, 1823-1900. 1
Gallaher, D.C. 1
Grand Army of the Republic 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Hagans, John Marshall, 1838-1900 1
Harnsborough, Mayor. 1
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