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Greenville Methodist Episcopal Church Records

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Collection Number: A&M 4463
Content Description Digitized versions of two ledgers and one photograph of the Greenville M.E. church, Greenville, WV, in Monroe County.One ledger includes dates from 1860-1889, and includes a quarterly conference record book, and information on Centreville circuit, Lewisburg district, and Baltimore conference. It also contains minutes (with a few items tipped in). It is about 300-400 pages in length.The other ledger dates from 1856-1898, and includes information on Monroe circuit and...
Dates: 1856-1898
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gregory Winters, Compiler, Papers of William Wayt Family of Marshall County

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Collection Number: A&M 3696
Overview William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials...
Dates: 1867-2009; Majority of material found within 1892-1956; Majority of material found within 1977-2001
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gump and Myres Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4244
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Gump and Myres (Myers) families of Marion and Monongalia Counties of West Virginia. Includes genealogy information, family records, photographs, and other material.

Dates: 1839-1945
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gustavus Friend Taylor (1843-1915) Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 1303
Overview

Scrapbook of the editor of the Sutton MOUNTAINEER, member of the Wheeling Convention, 1861, and the state legislature, 1867. Clippings pertain to election returns for Braxton County and the nation; Taylor's editorials; letters to the editor; population statistics; and politics. A section of the volume consists of Taylor's record of visits to the county schools as County Superintendent of Free Schools, 1869, and a record of personal accounts.

Dates: 1862-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Guy B. Young Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0661
Overview

Personal papers of a Glenville attorney, dealing with his law practice, service in the Spanish-American War, and his education at Glenville State Normal School and West Virginia University College of Law.

Dates: 1880-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Guy D. Goff Library Check List

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Collection Number: A&M 1137
Overview

Alphabetical author and short title list of the Goff Collection of books.

Dates: ca. 1931
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Guy D. Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0622
Overview Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and two volumes of typed copies of correspondence written by Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 - January 7, 1933), son of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Guy D. Goff was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin (1911-1915), assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1917, ca. 1920-1923), and a U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1925-1931), among other things. One scrapbook concerns labor violence in 1911-1912,...
Dates: 1911-1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Guy D. Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0017
Overview Correspondence, clippings, printed material, speeches, and essays of Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 - January 7, 1933), son of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Guy D. Goff was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin (1911-1915), assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1917, ca. 1920-1923), and a U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1925-1931), among other things. Correspondence includes letters on family matters, post-World War I Europe, and...
Dates: 1918-1931
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Guy Zinn, Baseball Player, Historical Narrative

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Collection Number: A&M 4494
Content Description

Biography of Guy Zinn (February 13, 1887 – October 6, 1949), an American professional baseball outfielder from Holbrook, West Virginia, near Clarksburg. He played all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball from 1911 to 1915. Also includes color copies of four images of Zinn. This material can also be found on the website of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Dates: 2020
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

G.W. Orr and Son Ledger for Grain and Feed Mill

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Collection Number: A&M 0801
Overview

A ledger belonging to G.W. Orr and Son of Independence, West Virginia, the owners and keepers of the Henry D. Fortney Grain and Feed Mill. The ledger shows the accounts of the customers of the mill.

Dates: 1907-1911
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 257
Politics and government. 226
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
Morgantown (W. Va.) 187
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Wheeling (W. Va.) 69
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Women's history -- 1900-1929 68
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Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 41
Taylor County (W. Va.) 41
West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 41
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Wood County (W. Va.) 39
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Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 38
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Fairmont. 29
Monroe County (W. Va.) 29
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Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 29
Women's history -- 1951-present 29
Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
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Ohio 28
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Civil War -- letters 27
Civil War battles. 27
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United Mine Workers of America 52
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 43
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
West Virginia. Legislature 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 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
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
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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