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Smith Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0840
Overview
Papers of the Mortimer Wilson Smith family, Clarksburg, West Virginia. There are letters of the Chapin family of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Clarksburg, 1800-1904. Subjects include descriptions of Clarksburg, schools, churches, and family affairs. Included are three scrapbooks of the Mortimer W. Smith family, covering family history, and typescripts of speeches made by Smith, 1936-1939, as chief engineer of the West Virginia State Road Commission and as director of the Motor Carrier...
Dates:
1800-1942
Smith McCoy, Small Pony Breeder, Correspondence and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3672
Overview
Correspondence of Smith McCoy of Roderfield, West Virginia, breeder of small ponies (including some as small as twenty-four inches in height). Most letters are requests for pictures and information regarding small ponies from interested parties and customers from the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and South Africa. Other letters tell of the joy of owning small ponies and include photographs that attest to the top rate care and homes of the ponies. The letters also document arrangements...
Dates:
1964-1968; Majority of material found within 1968
Smith-Riffe Collection, History and Genealogy of Lower New River Valley
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3033
Overview
A local history and genealogies of the lower New River valley compiled by Aubrey O. Smith and Judge Winton A. Riffe of Beckley. The collection contains a section on local history covering 29 counties in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. The section on local history is comprised of church records, community histories, county court records and cemetery transcriptions. The collection mostly consists of the genealogies of 207 family names and their sources such as personal memoirs,...
Dates:
1930-1980
Smith-Ripley Families Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3205
Overview
Genealogies of the Smith family and allied Ripley family of Doddridge, Tyler and Jackson Counties, WV and Greene County, PA. The Smiths are descended from Thomas Smith, Sr. from Greene Co., PA of German descent. He was a pioneer settler of the Doddridge Co. community of Nutter's Fork. There is a 3 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. color photo of a tombstone dated 1800-85 of Isaac Smith. Others mentioned are Austin Ott Smith, John and Lydia Smith, Lewis Ripley and Harry Ripley. Material covers the years...
Dates:
1927-1989
Smokeless Coal Operators Association Historical Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0049
Overview
Production statistics and extracts from historical files of the Smokeless Coal Operators Association, also known as the Pocahontas Operators Association, including information regarding the Pocahontas Coal Co., Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co., Southern Coal Producers Association, Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Co., Ennis Coal Co., Aileen Coal Co., Buckeye Coal & Coke Co., and the Pocahontas Fuel Co. There is a brief history of the coal industry in West Virginia, 1800-1951, and a typescript...
Dates:
1886-1961
Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1564
Scope and Contents
“The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History” by W.P. Tams, Jr. Printed in 1963.
Dates:
1931
Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1830
Scope and Contents
Production statistics and extracts from the historical files of the Smokeless Operators Association (until 1958 the Pocahontas Operators Association) showing the history of coal mining in the Pocahontas field and production, sales, and distribution statistics for the years 1930 and 1933-1961. There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies...
Dates:
1800 (1952-1961)
Smokeless Fuel Co. Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1928
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, pamphlets, maps, photographs, clippings, and other papers of a coal company operating in southern West Virginia. Subjects include operators' associations, wages, prices, mine inspection reports, sales, strip mining, and freight rates. Other firms mentioned include the Winding Gulf Collieries, Charleston Coal Co., Piney Coking Coal Land Co., Juliette Coal Co., LaMar Colliery Co., Phelps Coal Co., George Creek Coal Co.,...
Dates:
1935-1957
Snider Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1065
Overview
Two photostats and a typescript listing births and marriages of the Sniders in West Virginia and Oregon.
Dates:
ca. 1799-1929
Snodgrass Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3604
Scope and Contents
Genealogy records of the Snodgrass family, including the family of Charles Snodgrass, and the Snodgrass family in Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia; and the Snodgrass family in Pennsylvania. Also includes information on the Foulk Family and on the Ice Family of Monongalia County, West Virginia.
Dates:
1970-2007