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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

Ira E. Robinson Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0294
Scope and Contents Papers of Ira E. Robinson (1869-1951), an attorney practicing in Grafton and Clarksburg. Robinson served in the state legislature in 1902-1904, and was a judge in the State Supreme Court of Appeals (1907-1915), a Republican candidate for Governor (1916), and a member of the Federal Radio Commission (1929-1932). The collection includes material documenting his schooling and legal career, as well as his business and financial interests, and personal and family matters. Types of material...
Dates: ca. 1869-1951
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Isaac M. Clark Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2987
Overview

One leaf with a different message on each side. The first is a letter to Clark from Joel Davidson of Ice's Ferry, West Virginia, promoting a folk-medicine cancer cure. En verso is a letter written by Clark to Lyman Robbins requesting a subscription to a dairy farming newspaper. Clark, a Bridgeport, Ohio, cheesemaker, mentions selling cheese to Union soldiers.

Dates: 1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

J. Francis Mozena, Material Regarding History of Monroe County, Ohio

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Collection Number: A&M 3837
Overview Photocopies of three typescripts authored by J. Francis Mozena regarding the history of Monroe County, Ohio. Two of the typescripts regard church cemeteries in Monroe County. The first, dated March 1864, regards Mount Union Cemetery and includes a brief history of the Mount Union Church and a list of lots and persons buried in the cemetery. The earliest burial dates recorded are from the early 20th century. The second typescript, dated April 1864, regards Mount Vernon Cemetery. It includes a...
Dates: 1964-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jacob M. Campbell Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1109
Scope and Contents Military orders, telegrams, military correspondence concerning Campbell's command, lists of Confederate deserters, ordnance and quartermaster returns, additional military records, and a personal diary of Colonel Campbell, commander of the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers which operated along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Cumberland, Maryland, and Martinsburg, West Virginia. Subjects include civilian-military relations; guerrilla activities of John D. Imboden, the...
Dates: 1861-1888; Majority of material found within 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jacob Pinick, Civil War Letters and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0079
Overview Letters written by Jacob Pinick, first sergeant of Company A, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to John and William McLaughlin in Ohio. The letters detail the service of Pinick's company in western Virginia, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. There are many detailed accounts of battles and marches, and expressions of political sentiments of soldiers. There is also a record book of Company A containing rolls and service records, and...
Dates: 1853-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

James E. Heath, Auditor, Listings of Delinquent Lands in Western Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 4182
Overview

Listings of delinquent lands issued by James E. Heath, Auditor of Virginia. Contains printed documents pertaining to Kenawha County [Kanawha County] (1832), Greenbrier County (1833), Nicholas County (1833), Ohio County (1833), Pocahontas County (1833), and Preston County (1833).

Dates: 1832-1833
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

James Howard Patterson Diaries

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Collection Number: A&M 2866
Overview

Eleven years of diaries of James Howard Patterson, a Glen Roy, Ohio, teacher. Describes weather, daily school routines and lessons, and general affairs of his personal and social life. Diaries are for years 1904, 1911, 1913, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1938, and 1944.

Dates: 1904-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

J.B. Ford Correspondence

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Collection Number: A&M 2545
Overview

Photocopies of correspondence to J.B. Ford, an agent of the B.&O. Railroad in Wheeling, during the Civil War. The papers concern railroad operations in West Virginia, 10 February-24 September 1863; apprehension of deserters; and Ford's commission as Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers at the rank of Captain.

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

J.B. Ford Legal Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1679
Overview Suit papers and correspondence in the case of the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD VS. J.B. FORD, general agent of the railroad at Cumberland and Wheeling. The papers include copies of documents relative to the building of the railroad from Cumberland westward to Parkersburg and Wheeling and the activities of Ford as general agent at Cumberland and Wheeling, 1852-1874. Most of Ford's evidence deals with the role of the railroad during the Civil War and its relations with the state of West...
Dates: ca. 1877
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 38
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 9
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 8
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 6
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 6
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 6
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Brown, John. 5
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 5
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 5
Democratic Party (U.S.) 5
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 5
West Virginia University 5
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 4
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 4
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 4
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 4
Wilson family 4
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 3
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 3
Davis family 3
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 3
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 3
Hayman family 3
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 3
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 3
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 3
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 3
McGraw, John T. 3
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 3
Morgan family 3
Ruffner family 3
Washington, George, 1732-1799 3
West Virginia Historical Society 3
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 3
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 2
Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc. 2
Bassel, John, 1840-1914 2
Bennett, J.M. 2
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 2
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 2
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831 2
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 2
Brinkman, Charles. 2
Brinkman, George W. 2
Carpenter, Charles, 1889-1975 2
Cather, Fabricius A. 2
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company 2
Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 2
Clarksburg 50-Year Club 2
Collins family 2
Collins, Jarius. 2
Collins, Justus, 1857-1934 2
Confederate States of America 2
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 2
Cresap, Michael, 1742-1775 2
Crook, George, 1828-1890 2
Cumberland Road 2
Cunningham, John S. 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Davis, T.B. 2
Dixon, Thomas W. 2
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 2
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 2
Ford, J. B. 2
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 2
Gambrell family 2
Garrett, John W. 2
Goff family 2
Grafton Rotary Club 2
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 2
Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 2
Harmer family 2
Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 2
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 2
Haymond, William. 2
Henderson family 2
Henderson, Alexander. 2
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 2
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 2
Jackson family 2
Jackson, J.J. 2
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 2
Johnson family 2
Kenna, John E. 2
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 2
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 2
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 2
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 2
Lewis family 2
Library of Congress 2
Ludwig, William 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mann, Isaac T. (Isaac Thomas), 1864-1932 2
Matheny, H. E. (Herman Edmond), 1910- 2
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 2
Matlick, Jacob G. 2
Maxwell, Rufus. 2
McNeill family 2
Moats family 2
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