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John L. Spivak Papers
Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, photographs, and clippings relating to The Devil's Brigade: The Story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud (1930) by famed author and journalist John L. Spivak.
John Lafayette Everly Family Historical Narrative
John Lafayette Everly (b. 1837) was a farmer and surveyor in Preston County, West Virginia, and served in the 7th West Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Two typescript copies of "A Short History of the Everly Family" document John L. Everly's family from the late 18th century to the early 20th century, with an emphasis on Everly's Civil War service and his children. (Although Kenneth Fowler's name is recorded to one of the typescripts, it is unclear who actually authored it.)
John Lewis Cole Poem
John Lewis Cole was a librarian in West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. Collection consists of a sixteen-page narrative poem, "The Old Fayette School-House," written by J. L. Cole in December 1891. The text of the poem is typed, but it is accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations.
John Lewis Sheldon (1865-1947) Papers
Correspondence, mainly concerning family news and business. There is comment on prohibition, President Woodrow Wilson's reelection, World War I speculation, the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover, and the influenza outbreak of 1919-1920.
John M. Daniel, Household Records
John M. Hamric Correspondence regarding Mountaineer Statue at State Capitol
Copies of correspondence of Governor Okey L. Patterson and John Hamric regarding the repair of the Mountaineer Statue on the Capitol grounds; and other papers and clippings on the statue and Eli and Ellis Hamrick. Eli "Rimfire" Hamrick and his brother Ellis were brothers who posed for the statue of the 'typical' mountaineer that stands on the northeast corner of the state Capitol grounds in Charleston, WV.