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Boyers Family of Monongalia and Harrison Counties Genealogical Information
Records regarding the genealogy of the Boyers family of Monongalia and Harrison Counties for the period ca. 1700s to 1900s. Includes photocopies and transcripts of documents such as obituaries, death and cemetery records, bible records and census information, etc. Also includes genealogy chart including members of the Carpenter, Holden, Souders, Swisher families.
Boyers Morgan Clark, Compiler, Genealogy Records
Typescript genealogy record sheets, compiled by Boyers Morgan Clark of Elkins, on the William Clark, Sr. Family. Records also include the Helmick, Kelly, Kittle, and Morgan families.
Brackman Family Postcard Album and Prescriptions
An album of 61 postcards sent to members of the R. H. Brackman family, White Sulfur Springs, 1907. The views include the towns of Hinton, Huntington, and Ronceverte, and the Rehobeth M. E. Church, Union. There are other cards from Saginaw, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Richmond, Virginia. Included also are 9 pharmaceutical prescriptions from the Greenbrier Pharmacy, White Sulfur Springs, 1913, signed by O.F. Ritcher.
Braddock's Field Clippings
Newspaper clippings relating the dedication of the monument on Braddock's Field, 10 September 1887, at which F. H. Pierpont made an address.
Bradford Laidley Papers
Papers and volumes collected by Bradford Laidley pertaining to him and his family. Includes records of the Morgantown Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal Church, genealogical information on the Rogers and Laidleys, a pioneer school book of Anne McKinnon, and a personal letter book of L. Wilcox of Kanawha Salines. Also includes three receipts for slaves purchased in Richmond, Virginia by Major W.A. Bradford(e).
Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document
Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.
Brady Family Typescripts
Two typescripts containing a brief history of the Brady family of Ohio county, W. Va. Includes Memiors of My Mother and the Old House in Which She and All Her Fifteen Children were born by Fanny Perkins Brady (65 pp., 1950) and Father's House by E.A. Hildreth IV (34 pp., 1966). Both typescripts present a brief history of the descendants of Hugh S. Brady and Elizabeth Caldwell Brady. Father's House concentrates mainly on the Hildreth Family.
Brand Family Papers
Business and official papers of Monongalia sheriff, John M. Brand and his deputy, William N. Brand, 1861-1872; letter from E. I. Moore of Woodburn Seminary; class prophecy, June 1898 by Friend E. Clark of West Virginia University; and diaries kept by Miss Willa Brand during a European trip, 1913, and a journey through the British Isles in 1924.
Brand Family Papers
Genealogical studies, "Some Genealogical Notes on the Family of Samuel and Elizabeth Musgrave," and "Some Genealogical Notes on the McDougal Family" (Supplement to the Brand Family Records, 1922), compiled by a Morgantown lawyer and genealogist, Frank M. Brand.
Brandon Family History
A history of the descendants of James Brandon, of Huntington Township, Pennsylvania, 1693-1945.