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Farmers' Advocate Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1559
Overview

Subscription books, 1901-1905, 1912, 1916-1917, and an account book, 1912-1935, of the Charles Town FARMERS' ADVOCATE, edited and published by R.C. Rissler. Records also include a farm account book, 1899-1909, of Samuel L. Rissler and Son, dealing with general farm operations in Jefferson County.

Dates: 1899-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fox Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0150
Scope and Contents

All sent to Vause Fox, Romney, (W.) Va., by relatives and others relating to family affairs, prices of farm products, and leather and hides at Baltimore. Writers of letters include Amos Fox, Absalom Fox, Mahlon Lewis, Sam Kercheval, Jr., J.P. Bayless, Geo. Leslie, Henry Leslie, and Wm. Vause.

Dates: 1822-1832
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Fox Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0471
Scope and Contents

Papers centering upon Williams and Vause Fox, Hampshire County; including indentures, patents a slave deed, return of supplies and regimental orders of the 77th Regiment of Virginia Militia, accounts for farm implements and household supplies; names mentioned include Johnson Barkelow, and William and George Calmes; the land papers bear the signatures of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Wood, and Thomas Randolph.

Dates: 1799-1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George Couchman Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1184
Overview Papers of a Berkeley County, West Virginia, farmer and his descendants. Included are the estate papers of Nicholas Stroyer and business and legal papers of George, Henry J., Benjamin S. and Harman L. Couchman. There is the correspondence of Adrian W. Lamon, John W. Marshall, J. Marshall Neel, the Reverend A.A.P Neel of Shepherdstown (colportage agent of the Baltimore Conference M.E. Church South), Professor J. Wilbur Neel of Romney, and various members of the Couchman and Neel families. The...
Dates: 1765-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George K. Campbell, Civil War Journal

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Collection Number: A&M 3124
Overview Private journal of George K. Campbell of Athens County, Ohio, who served as an officer in Company B of the 116th. Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Gettysburg campaign and the summer, fall, and winter of 1863, when he saw service in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Campbell served detached duty as an escort officer for recruits and prisoners during the spring and summer of 1864 and visited New York, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He joined...
Dates: 1863-1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George N. Lynch Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1340
Overview

Deeds and other legal papers of a farmer from Jefferson County, West Virginia. The collection also includes several legal documents, 1874-1877, pertaining to Dr. Nicholas Marmion of Harpers Ferry.

Dates: 1835-1898
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Goff Family of Harrison County, West Virginia Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4202
Overview Papers of the Goff family of Harrison County, West Virginia. This collection is minimally processed. Includes the papers of Nathan Goff III, grandson of Nathan Goff Jr. (1843-1920), as well as his daughter Laura Ellen Goff Fireman (later Davis). Also includes correspondence of Howard Caplan, the Administrator of the Estate of Nathan Goff III, and H. Dotson Cather, the brother-in-law of Mrs. Goff Fireman Davis who may have been involved in Goff's estate. Formats in the collection include...
Dates: 1882-1980; Majority of material found within 1940-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Greener Hills Program Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 2192
Overview

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings regarding the Greener Hills program of the West Virginia University Agricultural Extension Service. The Greener Hills program stressed balanced grasslands farming and its importance for livestock raising in the state. The clippings provide information on various activities and programs of the Greener Hills program, including regional meetings, lectures, farm demonstrations, and publications.

Dates: 1951-52
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gregory Winters, Compiler, Papers of William Wayt Family of Marshall County

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Collection Number: A&M 3696
Overview William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials...
Dates: 1867-2009; Majority of material found within 1892-1956; Majority of material found within 1977-2001
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates: 1913-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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