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Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1906
Overview

Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.

Dates: 1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1750
Scope and Contents Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.Collection...
Dates: 1799-1888
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Carey Woofter, Compiler, Folklore of West Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 0112
Overview Folklore of West Virginia collected by Woofter, who was a student of John Harrington Cox and Louis Watson Chappell. The collection consists of a card file of approximately 10,000 folklore items, including superstitions, sayings, riddles, remedies and tales, as well as a pair of unpublished bound volumes entitled FOLKLORE OF WEST VIRGINIA containing folklore and folksongs with musical notation by Woofter's protege Patrick Gainer. While Woofter never published his discoveries, he did supply...
Dates: ca. 1920-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0122
Scope and Contents Collection includes original copies of correspondence relating to Virginia and West Virginia, as well as newspaper clippings, photographs, and research notes. Events pertaining to the Civil War and the formation of West Virginia are covered. Among the most important items are the private correspondence of Waitman T. Willey (1835-1861 and 1866-1868); data pertaining to education in Mason County, West Virginia (1861-1875); typescript copies of letters of Samuel Woods (see also A&M 1445);...
Dates: 1834-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1003
Scope and Contents Collection includes typescripts drafts of unpublished works, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printer's picture plates. Unpublished typescript drafts are titled George Rodgers Clark Floyd of Logan County, West Virginia, and Huckleberry Ranger Lieutenant John Blue, Confederate. Also includes correspondence from Robert L. Floyd to Dr. Ambler regarding the Floyd family (1953-1957), and a manuscript titled...
Dates: 1913, 1940-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ambler (1876-1957) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1010
Scope and Contents

Personal and professional correspondence (1914-1956), typescripts, research notes, clippings, photographs, maps, drafts and manuscripts of published and unpublished historical studies. The correspondence includes a number of letters from historians in the 1920s and 1930s. Other subjects covered in the papers include the McNeill Rangers, the Civil War, Moravian Missionaries, floods in the South Branch Valley, and secondary education in West Virginia.

Dates: 1914-1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles H. Ruggles, Civil War Letter regarding Prisoners Taken by Mosby's Rangers

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Collection Number: A&M 1147
Overview Letter written by Charles H. Ruggles to a Mr. Lossing (possibly Benson J. Lossing), dated 26 November 1864. Ruggles asks Lossing to inquire of Colonel Milford at Fortress Monroe regarding the location and status of Majors David Ruggles and Edwin Moore, Union Army paymasters who had been taken prisoner by Mosby's Rangers during the Greenback Raid on the railroad between Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg on 14 October 1864. Collection contains a user copy. Please see "Historical Note" for further...
Dates: 1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles L. Gould, Civil War Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 2378
Overview

A letter from a Union soldier stationed at Camp Griffith, Smith Division, Lewisville, Va., 13 November 1861. The letter is from Charles L. Gould to his parents. In this letter Gould discusses a system of newspaper exchange with his parents. He also inquires about other family members.

Dates: 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 13
Brown, John. 12
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 10
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 9
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 9
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Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 8
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 8
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 7
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 7
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 7
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 7
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 7
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 7
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 7
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 6
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 6
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 5
Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899. 4
Dayton, Spencer 4
Jackson family 4
Kelley, Benjamin F., 1807-1891 4
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 4
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 4
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 4
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 4
United States. Army 4
United States. Congress. Senate 4
West Virginia University 4
Brown, John, 1800-1859 3
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 3
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 3
Cather, Fabricius A. 3
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 3
Crook, George, 1828-1890 3
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 3
Dawson, William M.O. 3
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper 3
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 3
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 3
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906 3
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 3
Jackson, John J. 3
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 3
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 3
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 3
Matheny, H. E. (Herman Edmond), 1910- 3
Matlick, Jacob G. 3
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 3
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 3
Robinson, Ira E. 3
Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902 3
Society of the Army of West Virginia 3
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 3
United States. Congress 3
Watson, James O. 3
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 2
Averell, W.W. 2
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 2
Battelle, Gordon. 2
Bennett, J.M. 2
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831 2
Brinkman, Charles. 2
Brinkman, George W. 2
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 2
Camden family 2
Campbell family 2
Campbell, Alexandar. 2
Caperton, Allen Taylor, 1810-1876 2
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 2
Cassady, Capt. James S. 2
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 2
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 2
Confederate States of America 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 2
Cook family 2
Craig family 2
Davis family 2
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 2
Davis, Julia, 1900-1993 2
Echols, John, 1823-1896 2
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 2
Fleischer family 2
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 2
Ford, J. B. 2
Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, Collector 2
Gilliam family 2
Glenville State College 2
Grafton Rotary Club 2
Grand Army of the Republic 2
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 2
Harper's weekly 2
Hayman family 2
Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891 2
Hubbard, Dana L. 2
Hubbard, William P. 2
Humphrey, Luther. 2
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 2
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