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Samuel Hanway Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0570
Overview
Manuscript surveys and plats of land in Monongalia and Preston counties, West Virginia, by Samuel Hanway, county surveyor. There are papers showing acreage and owners; an early plat of Morgantown showing streets, lots and numbers; plat of courses of the Monongalia and Preston County boundary; maps of Monongalia and Preston counties, including a map of eleven tracts of land on Prichard and Whiteday Creek, Monongalia County, which notes the Morgantown-Clarksburg Road, Cratzer's Tavern, and the...
Dates:
1782-ca. 1818
Samuel Harrison Account Ledger for Inn and Cooperage
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0550
Overview
Ledger documenting business transactions with Samuel Harrison for services and goods provided at his inn, and for his cooperage. The ledger, or daybook, contains over 100 pages. There is an extensive name index at the beginning of the volume referencing page numbers. There are transactions recorded for meals (breakfast, dinner, and supper); beverages (mostly whiskey, but also bitters, brandy, eggnog [pg. 22], gin, and punch); lodging; and horse care (including hay). The inn also operated a...
Dates:
1822-1831; Majority of material found within 1822-1823
Samuel Hollingsworth, Land Deed to John Mills, Greenbrier County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1497
Overview
Deed to a tract of land in Greenbrier County from Samuel Hollinsworth to John Mills. The document is written on a deer skin.
Dates:
1799
Samuel Jacob Financial Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0792
Overview
Financial papers of Samuel Jacob of Wellsburg, West Virginia. Loose financial documents chiefly include receipts and bills from 1824 to 1921 (bulk 1824-1899). Receipts are for a wide variety of items, including textiles (muslin, calico, and gingham), food (coffee and pepper), and household items (latches, screws, glass, comb, nails, and twine). Materials also include financial documents related to the estate of John Shryer, 1839-1842, and pages from the herd book of F. H. Jacob. Collection...
Dates:
1824-1921; Majority of material found within 1824-1899
Samuel Kramer, Soldier, World War I Service Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3808
Overview
United States Army military service records for Harrison County resident Samuel Kramer (1918-1919), including five documents for: induction; entraining to Camp Lee, Virginia; promotion; demobilization; and honorable discharge. Also includes three documents (4 leaves) dating from 1939, 1952, and 1953 regarding collection of pension by Mrs. Helen Kramer. There is one undated cover slip for coupons for purchasing sugar as part of a war rationing effort.
Dates:
1918-1919, 1939-1953
Samuel McKelvey Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1461
Overview
Letters of McKelvey concerning disposal of his property, a small forge shop. Also includes articles from a Pittsburgh newspaper about the early iron making industry near Morgantown.
Dates:
1861-1905; Majority of material found within 1861-1905
Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents
The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates:
circa 1788-1888
Samuel Price, Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3239
Overview
Includes both transcriptions and photocopies of original manuscripts of Samuel Price's 1828 law license and an 1879 life history from his birth through 1866. Also included are transcriptions of newspaper articles and letters concerning Price's life and death, and his funeral service. Samuel Price was born July 28, 1805. He served as Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was president of the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in 1872, which framed the present day...
Dates:
1828, 1874, 1879, 1884
Samuel R. Jenkins (b. 1870) Diaries and Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1761
Overview
Eighteen diaries, 1890-1934, of Samuel R. Jenkins, a civil engineer from Grafton. There are lengthy entries for the period, 1890-1892, when Jenkins was a student at West Virginia University. He did surveys and supervised construction work in various parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, read widely, and commented on works of Henry George, John W. Draper, and John Fiske. There are photographs of Jenkins and of an engineering job done by him for the American Bridge Company at...
Dates:
1890-1934
Samuel Spencer Stone, Compiler, Stone Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3998
Scope and Contents
Papers regarding the genealogy and family history of the Stone Family of Vienna, Wood County, West Virginia. Includes family trees, narratives, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, deeds, maps, publications, silver plated dishware and silverware. Also includes a painting of family member Augustus Israel Stone. The genealogy and family history material regards the Stone Family and allied families including the Barnes, Farnsworth, Hammett (or Hammet), Spencer, Tracewell (or...
Dates:
1870-1998 and undated