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Robert G. Bennett, Compiler, Genealogy Research Records

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Collection Number: A&M 3813
Overview

Notebooks of genealogy research records compiled by Robert G. Bennett regarding the Bennett family of Nicholas County, West Virginia, including information on the Grahm, Grose, Lively, Malcom, and Neil families. There are 17 notebooks. Family histories are for the period ca. 1700-1970. There are also a few photographs.

Dates: ca. 1950-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert G. Kelly Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1959
Scope and Contents Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper clippings, reports, and speeches of a Democratic Party official; correspondence and minutes of Democratic State Executive Committee meetings. Subjects include West Virginia gubernatorial campaign of 1932, political patronage, federal relief programs in West Virginia, Rush Holt's senatorial campaign of 1934, the Holt-Kelly feud, and the miners' strike of 1939 Correspondents include Robert G. Kelly, Herman Guy Kump, M.M. Neely, Joe L. Smith, Homer A. Holt,...
Dates: 1932-1941
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert Hatfield, Photographs of West Virginia Scenes

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Collection Number: A&M 3734
Overview

Scenic photographs shot by Robert Hatfield. Includes fifteen color photographs mounted in mats, most measuring 8 in. x 12 in., of West Virginia scenes, including Blackwater Falls, the Cheat River, Philippi Bridge, and Seneca Rocks, among other subjects.

Dates: ca. 2000-2010
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert J. Bennett, Architect, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 5035
Scope and Contents Drawings by architect Robert J. Bennett, A.I.A., of various building projects at West Virginia University. Included are drawings for Knapp Hall (1965), the renovation of the historical buildings of Woodburn Circle in the later 1970s (including Martin, Woodburn, and Chitwood), and drawings for Evansdale Library (1978), among many others. Beginning in the late 1950s and up into the 1980s, architect Robert Bennett, A.I.A. was involved in much design and renovation work at WVU.Large...
Dates: 1955-1986
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert Knox Sneden, Civil War Soldier Art

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Collection Number: A&M 3803
Overview Copies of maps drawn and painted with water colors by Robert Knox Sneden, a Union soldier who served for a time as a draughtsman making maps on the staff of the III Corps of Samuel P. Heintzelman. Although serving in the eastern theater of the Civil War, the 316 maps in the collection show Sneden's interest in documenting military campaigns, battles, and strategic terrain in most theaters of the conflict. An item-level listing of maps in the collection can be found in the scope and content...
Dates: ca. 1861-1918
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert L. Bland, Attorney, Miscellaneous Papers and Ephemera

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Collection Number: A&M 3419
Overview

Ephemera relating to Robert L. Bland, a Weston, WV attorney. Includes: bills, checks, receipts (14 items; includes billings from the Weston Electric Light, Power and Water Co.); and telegrams and envelopes (7 items; 1901, 1919,1922, 1935). Also includes 1859 court document verifying the free status of named mulattoes (under Chapter 7 of the Code of Virginia), and 1922 West Virginia University (WVU) grade report for student T.E. Bland.

Dates: 1859-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert L. Cochrane, Professor, Video Recordings and Photographs

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Collection Number: A&M 5197
Overview Robert L. Cochrane is a professor in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design. This collection includes three videos (on DVDs) related to his work, including "West Virginia Hillbilly Chicken Project -- The House That Grouse Built" (undated), and "Behavior Patterns of Ruffed Grouse" (undated), and "Diseases and Parasites of Mink" (undated). The video projects were made in collaboration with Mark Aronhalt and R.A. Dailey. There is also a clipping regarding "Grouse House"...
Dates: ca. 1910-2000
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert L. Hogg, Lawyer, Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 2460
Scope and Contents This collection consists of nine legal notebooks and a volume of bound correspondence. The legal notebooks are bound volumes designed for use in recording notes on different types of cases and legal terms. Each volume begins with an alphabetical case index that names the cases and terms dealt with in that volume and gives the page numbers where the material for each is written. The volumes overlap as to the cases and terms they discuss, but generally contain different references and...
Dates: ca. 1930-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert L. Pemberton (1860-1944) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0278
Scope and Contents Letters, mainly incoming correspondence, speeches, and printed materials of R.L. Pemberton, for many years editor of The St. Marys Oracle. Correspondents include A.I. Boreman, G.W. Atkinson, Robert A. Armstrong, Louis Bennett, John J. Cornwell, W.E. Glasscock, H.C. Greer, P.I. Reed, Louis Johnson, and Homer A. Holt. The correspondence concerns politics and Pemberton's activities with newspaper associations in West Virginia. Included are religious pamphlets,...
Dates: 1880-1944; Majority of material found within 1891-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert L. Ramsay (1877-1956) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0969
Overview

Bound volumes of speeches, bills, and correspondence, 1941-1952, of Robert L. Ramsay while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the first congressional district of West Virginia.

Dates: 1932-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 251
Politics and government. 224
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
Morgantown (W. Va.) 186
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 173
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Genealogy 161
Diaries and journals. 149
Education 114
Universities and colleges 101
Coal mining. 98
Elections 94
Rivers and river valleys. 91
Preston County (W. Va.) 89
Lawyers - letters and papers. 84
Women's history -- 1850-1899 84
World War, 1939-1945 83
Farms and farming. 82
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 81
Railroads 78
Harrison County (W. Va.) 75
Taxation 73
United States -- Politics and government 72
Politicians -- United States 68
Women's history -- 1900-1929 68
General stores 66
Wheeling (W. Va.) 66
Surveyors and surveying. 65
Frontier and pioneer life 63
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 62
World War, 1914-1918 60
Agriculture 59
Authors -- Letters and papers 58
Transportation 58
Birth, marriage, and death records. 57
Randolph County (W. Va.) 55
Slaves and slavery. 54
Church buildings 53
Women's history -- 1929-1950 52
Coal mining - coal companies. 51
Maps. 51
Marion County (W. Va.) 51
Lumber trade 49
Art and artists 45
Court records 45
Mills and mill-work 45
Travel accounts. 45
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 44
West Virginia -- Politics and government 44
Petroleum industry and trade 43
Union names. 43
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 43
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 42
West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection 42
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 41
Taylor County (W. Va.) 41
Baptists 40
Wood County (W. Va.) 39
Parkersburg. 38
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 38
Revolutionary War. 38
Steamboats 38
West Virginia - Governors. 38
Livestock 37
Women's history -- 1800-1849 36
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 35
New Deal, 1933-1939 35
Pennsylvania 35
Tucker County (W. Va.) 35
West Virginia University -- Students 35
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 33
Teachers 32
Virginia 32
Indians of North America 31
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 30
Coal mining - Labor organization. 30
Photography 30
West Virginia - Politics and government. 30
Banks and banking 29
Berkeley County (W. Va.) 29
Churches -- Methodist 29
Fairmont. 29
Monroe County (W. Va.) 29
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 29
Women's history -- 1951-present 29
Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
Civil War -- War diaries 28
Environmentalism 28
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 28
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 28
Ohio 28
Civil War -- letters 27
Civil War battles. 27
Hardy County (W. Va.) 27
Kentucky 27
Physicians - letters and papers. 27
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 27
Charleston. 26
Coal mines and mining 26
Ohio River 26
Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 26
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English 4808
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German 2
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Swedish 1
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Names
West Virginia University 197
United Mine Workers of America 52
Democratic Party (U.S.) 45
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
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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