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Hugh Sayre, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2436
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, miscellaneous family papers, nineteenth century school records, ledgers, bank books, and memorabilia of Hugh F. Sayre and family of Parkersburg, Reedy, St. Marys and West Creek, West Virginia. Some material relates to oil and gas leases on the Sayre family farm and Sayre's invention of a scientific alphabet called EBDECORD.

Dates: 1872-1927, 1953

Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2537
Overview Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides,...
Dates: 1783-1991, 2021, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1910-1970

Marion County, White Day Creek History

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Collection Number: A&M 3316
Scope and Contents Records regarding the history of the White Day Creek region of Marion County, WV. There are also photocopies of primary sources of information supplementary to the White Day Creek book, including: letters and financial ledger of the Watson family (1820-1890); essay titled "Smithtown Local History" (1922); business ledger of George Washington Stevens, a cobbler (1890s); deeds and estate sale documents of William Morris (1854); grist mill business ledger of Sam Smith (1894); financial ledger...
Dates: 1820-1997

Mason Mathews, Attorney, Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3115
Overview

The 24 letters are addressed to Mason Mathews, a Lewisburg attorney and father of Governor Henry Mason Mathews and cover the years 1873 until his death in 1878. Another letter to Mathews daughter, Sallie Patton is incomplete. One deed, dated 1836, is witnessed by Mathews as a justice of the peace. Frequent correspondents include: John Echols, John W. Johnston, Walter N. Johnston, and Howard Shriver.

Dates: 1836-1886

Nathan Hanes (1821-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2595
Overview

Letters, business papers, and photograph concerning Nathan Hanes of Proctor, Wetzel County, West Virginia, a sawmill clipper operator along the Ohio River. There is a large amount of correspondence addressed to E.E. Headlee, administrator of Hanes' estate, concerning its administration. There are also thirteen cash books, ledgers, and other account books, as well as a notebook containing information on the Hanes family.

Dates: ca. 1845-1900

Siler Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates: 1848-1968

Southeastern West Virginia Historical Records, Civil War Letters and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2169
Overview Records relating to the history of southeastern West Virginia. Most of the items in the collection relate to Greenbrier and/or Monroe County. Includes antebellum (1833-1850; 7 items), Civil War (1861-1863; 4 items), and postbellum (1886-1933; 9 items) materials. Antebellum material includes a land suit, an estate report and schedule, other financial documents, and personal letter. Civil War material includes four letters authored by Confederate soldiers. Two of these letters describe the...
Dates: 1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1833-1863

Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. Genealogy Research Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3230
Overview Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries,...
Dates: 1708-1997

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Diaries and journals. 2
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Genealogists' letters and papers. 2
Genealogy 2
Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Monroe County (W. Va.) 2
Nicholas County (W. Va.) 2
Roane County (W. Va.) 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Wetzel County (W. Va.) 2
Wood County (W. Va.) 2
Alleghany County (Va.) 1
Anita (W. Va.) 1
Arnott (W.Va.) 1
Ballard (W.Va.) -- Monroe County 1
Baltimore (Md.) 1
Bank books 1
Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - American Institute of Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - Bank of Berkeley Springs. 1
Banks and Banking - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. 1
Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association. 1
Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation. 1
Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry 1
Birth certificates 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
Blueprints 1
Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia 1
Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Bowling 1
Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides. 1
Bunner's Ridge. 1
Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
Calhoun County (W. Va.) -- Genealogy 1
Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Churches -- Episcopal 1
Civil War -- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Civil War - West Virginia. 1
Civil War - political factions. 1
Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
Civil War -- letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Civil War -- Draft 1
Civil War -- Kanawha Valley, W. Va. 1
Civil War -- Nicholas County, W. Va. 1
Civil War battles. 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Court records - Harrison County. 1
Death records. 1
Doddridge County (W. Va.) 1
Drugs and druggists. 1
Ebdecord. 1
Education 1
Episcopal Church - Churches. 1
Estate settlements. 1
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Banks and Banking. 1
Financial Public Relations Association - Banks and Banking. 1
First Virginia Corporation - Banks and Banking. 1
Folk sayings. 1
Folklore 1
Freemasons 1
Frisco. 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Gas industry 1
Gauley River (W. Va.) 1
General stores 1
General stores - Hammond and Siler. 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Glass Sand Industry - Berkeley Glass Sand Company. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation. 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County - Civil War. 1
Greenville, Monroe County, WV. 1
Halleck. 1
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
Hancock Steel Company - Steel. 1
Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Harrison County - Early families. 1
Historical Records Survey (U.S.) 1
Indians of North America 1
Insurance - V. E. Johnson Insurance Agency. 1
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American Institute of Banking 1
American Red Cross 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Ballard family 1
Ballard, Isaac Newton. 1
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Ballard, Kate May Walkup. 1
Ballard, Margaret B. (1900-1976) 1
Ballard, Margaret Byrnside. 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Bank of Greenville (Monroe County, W. Va.) 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Byrnside, Elizabeth Peters. 1
Byrnside, James Madison. 1
Campbell family 1
Carter, G. W. 1
Carter, Sarah A. 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Clark, Helen Houston Ballard. 1
Devault, Levi. 1
Echols, John, 1823-1896 1
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Ferrell, Ethel. 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hanes, Nathan (1821-1899) 1
Hanes, Nathan. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Haynes family 1
Headlee, E.E. 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 1
Mathews, Mason O., active 1884-1887 1
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company 1
Montgomery Ward 1
Morris, William. 1
Patton, Sallie A. 1
Randolph, Emily Strother. 1
Rinehart, E. A. 1
Sayre family 1
Sayre, Agnes. 1
Sayre, Daniel C. (Daniel Clemens), 1903-1956 1
Sayre, Edward A. 1
Sayre, Hugh 1
Sayre, Hugh F. 1
Sayre, James H. 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1901) 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes (died 1953) 1
Sayre, Mrs. Agnes. 1
Sayre, Robert H. 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Seiler family 1
Seller family - Genealogy 1
Sharitz family 1
Shepard family - Genealogy 1
Siler, J. Hammond Jr. 1
Siler, J. Hammond Sr. 1
Siler, Jessie Castleman. 1
Siler, John T. 1
Smith, Sam. 1
Snodgrass School 1
Sons of the American Revolution - West Virginia Society. 1
Sons of the Revolution 1
Steel - Hancock Steel Company. 1
Stevens, George Washington. 1
Strother, Anne Doyne. 1
Tetrick, W. Guy, 1883-1956 1
Tetrick, Willis Guy, Jr., 1911-1995 1
University of Maryland, College Park 1
Van Gosen, James D. 1
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 1
Watson family - Genealogy 1
Weaver family 1
West Virginia University 1
Whisner, Samuel. 1
White Day Creek Watershed Association 1
Widmyer, P. S. 1
Woodyard, Ben A. 1
Yonce family 1
Zero Oil Company 1
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