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Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1089
Scope and Contents
These are the land and mercantile papers of Felix Hansford, a large land owner along the banks of Pain[t] Creek and the Great Kanawha River, near the town of Clifton in [Kanawha] County. The collection is primarily account statements, receipts and buisness notes.There are a few land surveys, entries and deeds dating back to the 1790. Some of the papers shed light on the Hansford's activities as a falt boat builder, sawmill and grist mill operator, and justice of the peace. A few letters and...
Dates:
1790-1875
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1464
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, business and legal papers, and Justice of the Peace documents of Felix G. Hansford, Kanawha County J.P., entrepreneur, and President of the Giles, Fayette, and Kanawha Turnpike. Subjects include the George Boxley slave plot, 1816; cholera in Louisville, 1833; Missouri and westward expansion, 1841; the Kansas struggle, 1858; Albert Gallatin's western lands; and the impact of John Brown's 1859 raids on the South. Correspondents include Albert Gallatin, J. M. Maury,...
Dates:
1790-1862
Felix Nemegyei, Engineer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4189
Overview
Papers of Felix Nemegyei. Nemegyei, also known as Felix DeNemegyei or Nemegyei Bodog, was a Hungarian soldier and engineer who immigrated to the United States in 1851. He settled in West Virginia and became the owner of an iron works and other businesses. Papers include records of Nemegyei's academic performance as a student, records of his military service in Europe, material regarding military engineering, and family history. Family history material includes items regarding Nemegyei's...
Dates:
1811-1850
Felix Snider Records regarding Snider Property in Grant District, Monongalia County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0980
Overview
A certified abstract to the Felix Snider property of Grant district, Monongalia County, indicating leases of mineral rights, describing location of property and payment of taxes. There is a history of this acreage from when it was patented (1809) by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the heirs of George Snider to the settlement (1930) of the Felix Snider Estate. Included in the abstract are legal actions among the heirs, warranty deeds, plats, and wills. Part of this tract is still owned by the...
Dates:
1920-1930
Feminism and Women's Advocacy Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4668
Overview
The collection contains a compilation of materials related to feminism and donated to the West Virginia and Regional History Center (WVRHC). It includes material from the West Virginia University (WVU) Female Equality Movement (FEM), March for Women's Equality and Women's Lives on 1989 April 09 in Washington, D.C., Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, as well as two oral history intervies of Mildred Fizer and Shefa Nola Benoit.
Dates:
1989-2022 and undated
Fenelon Howes, West Virginia Delegate, Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4275
Scope and Contents
Letter from Fenelon Howes, who at the time represented Barbour County in the House of Delegates of West Virginia. The letter to Colonel Jesse Teter, sent from Wheeling, WV, and dated 1868 February19, includes mention of the recommendation of someone named Worth to an unnamed military academy, a mention of "the capital question," and a road petition, as well as a few notes about the price of sash, panel doors, and glass panes. Also included is a modern handwritten transcription of the letter...
Dates:
1868 February 19
Ferdinand C. Menk Coal Mining Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3645
Scope and Contents
Papers of coal mine engineer and German-immigrant Ferdinand C. Menk documenting his work of developing and implementing operations in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, as an employee and later a consultant for the Island Creek Coal Company in Holden, West Virginia (1922-1966). The bulk of the collection consists of Menk's professional records relating to his his career with Island Creek Coal Company. There are also a few items from Menk's...
Dates:
1889-1990; Majority of material found within 1922-1956
Ferrell Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2446
Overview
Typescript copies of documents and census list relating to the Ferrell Family copied by the Calhoun County Historical and Genealogical Society from papers in the possession of Ota Mae Marshall.
Dates:
ca. 1830-1880
Festival of West Virginia Books and Authors Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0625
Overview
Fifteen letters from West Virginia authors in response to invitations to participate in the Festival of West Virginia Books and Authors in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1954.
Dates:
1954
Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), Historian, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2079
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and book manuscripts. Included are WVU adviser records of Dr. Charles Henry Ambler, WVU History Department. The material also comprises WVU Faculty Senate minutes and Library Committee reports. The book manuscripts cover the Cabinet Diary of William L. Wilson; The Democracy of Tariff Reform; Johnson Newlon Camden: A Study in Individualism. There is a partial set of the galley proofs for West Virginia The Mountain State, by Ambler and...
Dates:
1935-1955