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Andrew Jackson Dadisman (1881-1965), Agricultural Economics Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1873
Overview
Papers of an agricultural economics professor at West Virginia University, including correspondence, reprints and manuscripts of articles, lecture and research notes, diaries of trips, personal ledgers, pictures, and broadsides. Subjects include Monongalia County Historical Society; wildlife; collecting trips to Canada, Alaska, Labrador, and South Africa; agriculture; genealogy of the Dadisman family; and camel transportation in the U.S. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, Nelle...
Dates:
1914-1963
Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0111
Scope and Contents
The papers received from Mr. Brinkman in 1938 include manuscripts, typescripts, and printed items, and general merchandise account books. The manuscript items are mainly letters, receipts, account statements, and certificates concerning the general merchandise business of George Brinkman in Grafton, Grafton Gas Works, Charles Brinkman's History of Grafton, history of the first memorial service and the location of the National Cemetery in Grafton (Box 13), and stock in the Grafton &...
Dates:
1852-1952
Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1086
Scope and Contents
The papers include 36 volumes of business and other records, such as the ledgers of the George W. Brinkman merchandising firm, the Mutual Building Company, minutesof the Grafton Rotary Club; journal and statistical report of the Grafton Baptist Church, 1897-1906; and a mas. history of Taylor County in various American wars, and extracts from the Civil War diary of Fabricius A. Cather. Also included are 2 boxes of financial records, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, a partial index to...
Dates:
1868-1938
C.W. Cramer Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0351
Overview
Papers of a Morgantown attorney, including correspondence, broadsides, and other materials relating to politics in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
Dates:
1894-1918
Davis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0140
Overview
Personal and business papers of Isaac, Albert, and Silas R. Davis, of Ohio and Marshall counties, West Virginia. Includes estate settlements, genealogical data, justice of the peace docket and broadsides. There is a Civil War loyalty oath for J.N. Keller, a War of 1812 discharge for Thomas Moore and an 1844 presidential campaign broadside for the Whig candidate Henry Clay.
Dates:
1809-1916
Dawson Coal Company Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2659
Scope and Contents
Folder 1: pamphlet, OUTLINE OF WORK OF STATE BUREAU OF NEGRO WELFARE AND STATISTICS; broadside, AMERICA FIRST! YOUR GOVERNMENT, American Constitutional Association, Charleston, WV; catalogue of Cincinnati Pump Mfg. Co., n.d.; affidavits certifying ages of young men for employment; miscellaneous company correspondence concerning provision of non-union miners, job applications, engineering problems, and other mine business, including a letter from the Clarksburg Ku Klux Klan regarding...
Dates:
1917-1948
Edward E. Meredith Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview
Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates:
1817-1954
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
J. Walton Thomas Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2481
Scope and Contents
Personal and business correspondence, legal, and financial papers of J. Walton Thomas, of Troutdale, Virginia, part owner of Mt. Rogers Furniture Co. and coal speculator. Thomas was one of the early owners of the Antler Coal and Coke Co., of Antler Siding, West Virginia, which dealt with Pocahontas Smokeless Coal. There are several photographs in the collection, as well as pamphlets and broadsides.
Dates:
1901-1924
Joseph C. Jefferds, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1983
Overview
Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore,...
Dates:
1896-1965