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Goodman Manufacturing Company Photographs

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Collection Number: A&M 4328
Content Description Photographs taken by or for the Goodman Manufacturing Company, a Chicago-based company that was the leading fabricator of mine locomotive and other mining equipment for both coal and hard rock mining. The content varies between images of mining machinery, office staff, manufacturing facilities, and underground mining scenes. The complete collection, currently at the Watts Museum at West Virginia University (in 2018), includes approximately 12,000 negatives (with a small percentage being...
Dates: ca. 1900-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Goose Creek Baptist Church Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3083
Overview

A volume of the articles of faith, meeting minutes, and a membership roll of a Ritchie County church belonging to the Harrisville Baptist Association and the Regular Baptist denomination. Mention is made of fund raising for special needs, resolving of disputes between members, and the receiving and dismissal of members. Included is a membership roll that indicates baptism, death, restoration, exclusion and transferal of membership letters.

Dates: 1875-1941
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gorby and Cain Families Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 3596
Overview

Genealogy of the Samuel Gorby family and James Cain family of Ohio, Marshall, and Wetzel counties, from ca. 1700 to 1984.

Dates: 2004
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gordon A. Knight, Compiler, Slides of Mower Lumber Company

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Collection Number: A&M 4217
Content Description

Digital versions of photographic slides of Mower Lumber Company operations in the vicinity of Cass, West Virginia. Includes 13 images taken during a 1959 field trip by students of the Forestry program at West Virginia University.

Dates: 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gordon B. Gibbens Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2816
Scope and Contents Correspondence of Gordon B. Gibbens of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Subjects discussed include personal and family business, West Virginia Republican Party affairs, and Gibbens' political appointments. Correspondents include Senators Stephen B. Elkins, Nathan B. Scott, and James A. Hughes, as well as numerous Ohio Valley politicians. One letter (1896 December 21) is an endorsement by a group of "colored" voters of Wood County for Gibbens' appointment to political office, and another letter...
Dates: 1878-1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gordon, Dickinson, and Related Families of the Cheat Lake Area, Monongalia County Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3825
Overview Papers of the Dickinson, Gordon, and related families of the Cheat Lake area of Monongalia County, West Virginia. Includes series of Papers of Deborah Gordon, Miscellaneous, Genealogy Records, Pamphlet and Ledgers, Artifacts, and Oversize. Papers of Deborah Gordon includes "Order of Rainbow" material (ca. 1950s), and a scrapbook documenting West Virginia University athletic events (she was a cheerleader), travel, and special events. Genealogy Records includes information regarding William...
Dates: circa 1915-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gordon L. Swartz III, Oral History with Karl Kafton, United Mine Workers of America Leader

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Collection Number: A&M 4647
Scope and Contents This is an oral history interview conducted by Gordon L. Swartz III featuring Karl Kafton, a West Virginia coal miner and active member of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) union. Kafton shares his parents’ story of immigrating to the United States from Ukraine in the early 20th century and his father's experiences working in coal mines in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He describes his childhood in a predominantly immigrant mining community, his experiences in grade school, and...
Dates: 1995 September 29
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Goshen Baptist Church Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 1811
Overview

Letter from the Goshen Baptist Church of Jesus Christ to the Union Baptist Association to convene with The Bukah Church in Harrison County on Friday before the last Lord's day in Aug 1842. Gives brief account of year's activities, during which they "have seen saints rejoice, mourner comforted, and sinners alarmed."

Dates: 1842
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Goshen Baptist Church Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3234
Overview

Records of Goshen (John Corbly Memorial) Baptist Church of Garard's Fort, PA. Includes a brief history of the church, a short sketch on the life and services of pioneer minister John Corbly, membership lists, and meeting minutes.

Dates: 1775-1913, 1925
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Goshorn Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2426
Overview This collection comprises the personal and business correspondence, as well as financial and legal papers of the Goshorn family of Wheeling, West Virginia, including papers from members of several allied families. Highlights include letters from William S. Goshorn during his Civil War imprisonment and letters from a Virginia legislator in the House of Delegates (1833). An addendum (2012/09) contains three ledgers of John Goshorn (1827-1874). See the Scope and Content Note for more...
Dates: 1827-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 251
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
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Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 38
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United States. Congress. Senate 38
West Virginia University. President 35
West Virginia University. Library 32
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 31
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 31
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 28
West Virginia. Legislature 28
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 27
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 26
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 25
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
Byrd, Robert C. 23
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 22
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
West Virginia University. Department of History 21
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
Smith family 20
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 18
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
Dayton, Alston Gordon 18
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 18
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 18
Davis family 17
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 17
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 17
Brown, John. 16
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 16
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 16
United States. Army 16
West Virginia (Ship) 16
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 15
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 15
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 15
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 15
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
Morgan family 14
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 14
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 13
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 13
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 13
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 13
Hayman family 13
Meadows, Clarence W. 13
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
Patteson, Okey L. 13
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
Weston State Hospital 13
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
Dawson, William M.O. 12
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 12
Moore family 12
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
Barron, W. W. 11
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
Consolidation Coal Company 11
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
Gore, Howard M. 11
Jackson family 11
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
Washington, George, 1732-1799 11
West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
West Virginia University. Department of Biology 11
West Virginia University. Extension Service 11
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
Dayton, Spencer 10
Evans family 10
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 10
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 10
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 10
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
Robinson family 10
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 10
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
Cuthbert, John A. 9
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
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