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Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates: 1760-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henry Brannon, Lawyer, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3116
Overview Letters and tax papers deal with lawyer-client matters between Weston attorney Henry Brannon and Boston capitalist, Robert H. Waters. Subjects include Waters' suit against Equitable Oil and Mining Co. and purchase of 1,500 acres on Three Lick Run of Oil Creek in Lewis County, taxation of the property, redemption of the property from its sale for delinquent taxes, tenant relations, the sale of timber, illegal cutting of timber, and efforts to sell the land. Brannon also addresses his 1881...
Dates: 1867-1881
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henry O. Middleton Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 0626
Scope and Contents

Letters to Middleton at Buckhannon, VA [now WV] and other places, regarding land sales in several West Virginia counties, with notes on court cases and comment on the fall of Richmond, VA. Correspondents include Allen T. Caperton.

Dates: 1832-1867
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Herbert Warder Dent (b.1880) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0088
Overview

Deeds of Peter T. Laishley and Samuel Arnold, Preston County, 1834 and 1837; photographs of the judges of the State Supreme Court of Appeals, 1863-1937; a map of the McGraw and Yates addition to Grafton; and Dent family genealogical data.

Dates: 1834-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Holt Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0628
Overview

Papers of Samuel T.H. Holt, and other members of the Holt family of Philippi, West Virginia. There are deeds centering in Randolph, Barbour, and Tucker counties; correspondence; a medical prescription; and a clipping on Whitescarver Hall, Broaddus Institute, Philippi. Mention is made of the Wheeling Development Company.

Dates: 1887-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates: 1914-1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hubbard Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0755
Scope and Contents

A booklet containing two handwritten addresses delivered by Chester Dorman Hubbard; a picture of the public buildings of McDowell County, W. Va.; a picture of the toll gate on the National Road at Leatherwood Lane, Wheeling, W.Va.; and a land title on parchment dated July 3, 1794, from Levi Hollingsworth to Robert Morris, for 20,000 acres of land in Ohio County, Virginia (Now West Virginia)

Dates: 1794-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hubbard Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0805
Scope and Contents Papers, mainly correspondence, of the Hubbard family of New Haven and Litchfield, Connecticut and Wheeling, West Virginia. There are several hundred letters which document the growth of the family and its business enterprises in Wheeling. Correspondents include Gad Smith, Dana Hubbard, Chester D. Hubbard, General John Hubbard, Roger Dorman, H Moran, William P. Hubbard, Dana L. Hubbard, Stephen B. Elkins, John W. Mason, and Waitman T. Willey. There are a number of letters written...
Dates: 1810-1914
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ice's Ferry History and Genealogy, Typed Documents

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Collection Number: A&M 0379
Overview Five typescripts pertaining to Ice's Ferry and the Ice family. The first typescript is "Ice's Ferry," (8 pp., undated) an account of the Ice family and of Ice's Ferry in Monongalia County, with comments on frontier and pioneer life in western Virginia, apparently written by Virginia H. Conaway of Marion County. The second item is a variant copy of the "Ice's Ferry," typescript (10 pp., undated). The third typescript is a copy of "Historical Notes on Ice's Ferry," written by John L. Johnston...
Dates: 1920, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jacob Skiles, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Merchant Daybook

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Collection Number: A&M 3188
Overview

This daybook chronicles the barter and cash dealings of Lewisburg merchant Jacob Skiles in the years of early settlement in Greenbrier County. Skiles, a land speculator, notes some of his land dealings as well as his business contacts in the Shenandoah Valley and Pennsylvania. Some of the most prominent settlers of the Greenbrier Valley are mentioned.

Dates: 1793-1796
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Land. 163
Surveyors and surveying. 38
Politics and government. 33
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 29
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 29
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Account books 28
Coal mining. 24
Lawyers - letters and papers. 22
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Diaries and journals. 20
Harrison County (W. Va.) 20
Taxation 19
Education 17
Preston County (W. Va.) 17
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Land - deeds and grants. 15
Rivers and river valleys. 15
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 15
Transportation 15
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Petroleum industry and trade 14
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Frontier and pioneer life 13
Lumber trade 13
Mills and mill-work 13
Slaves and slavery. 13
Genealogy 12
Maps. 12
Monongalia County - Land. 12
Elections 11
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 11
Land - Plats and surveys. 11
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 11
Coal mining - coal companies. 10
Estate settlements. 10
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Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 10
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 10
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Women's history -- 1850-1899 10
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Wheeling (W. Va.) 7
Civil War -- letters 6
Land records - surveys. 6
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Tucker County (W. Va.) 6
Women's history -- 1900-1929 6
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Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 5
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Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 5
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Salt industry and trade 5
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Women's history -- 1929-1950 5
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Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 4
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Monroe County (W. Va.) 4
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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 11
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 7
West Virginia University 7
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 6
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 6
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Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 6
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 6
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 6
Bennett, J.M. 5
Democratic Party (U.S.) 5
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 5
Hayman family 5
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 4
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 4
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 4
McGraw, John T. 4
Price, Samuel, 1805-1884 4
Rector, Enoch. 4
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
Van Meter family 4
Watson family 4
West Virginia. Legislature 4
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 3
Brown, John. 3
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 3
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 3
Edwards, William Henry. 3
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 3
Ice family 3
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 3
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 3
Maxwell, Lewis, 1790-1862 3
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 3
Preston County 3
United States. Congress. Senate 3
Van Meter, Isaac. 3
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 3
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 3
Wilson family 3
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 3
Beckley, Alfred, 1802-1888 2
Bell, Joseph. 2
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 2
Boardman, Daniel 2
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 2
Calmes, George 2
Carpenter, Charles, 1889-1975 2
Cook family 2
Cunningham family 2
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 2
Dayton, Spencer 2
Deakins, Francis. 2
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss (1820-1905) 2
Edwards, William Henry, 1822-1909 2
Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company 2
Flanagan, William J. 2
Flanagan, William J. (b. 1838) 2
Fleischer family 2
Fleming family 2
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 2
Foulke, William Parker 2
Fox family 2
Fox, Vause. 2
Fox, William. 2
Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, Collector 2
Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company 2
Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 2
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 2
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 2
Green, Thomas. 2
Greenbrier County 2
Hacker, William Family 2
Hall family 2
Hansford, Felix G. 2
Hanway, Samuel 2
Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Haymond, Luther 2
Haymond, Thomas. 2
Haymond, William. 2
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 2
Hoffman, John Stringer (1821-1877) 2
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 2
Hubbard family 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Ice's Ferry 2
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 2
James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company 2
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 2
Johnston, John L. 2
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Kuykendall family 2
Kuykendall, James William 2
Laidley, James M. 2
Levassor, Eugene 2
Lewis family 2
Mason, J. M. 2
Mason, John W. 2
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 2
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