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Bunnell Telegraph Key

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Collection Number: A&M 3942
Overview Telegraph key by J.H. Bunnell and Company, New York, including inscription "patented Feb 15, 1881," with wooden base of 5 in. x 7 1/2 in. A native of Massillon, Ohio, Jesse H. Bunnell began working as a telegrapher in Ohio and West Virginia when he was still a boy. He joined the Union Military Telegraph Service in April 1861 when he was 17, serving as McClellan's personal telegrapher for much of the war. At war's end, Bunnell became one of the nation's leading manufacturers of telegraph...
Dates: ca. 1881 - 1900
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Burdette Matthews Scrapbook

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Collection Number: A&M 2516
Overview

A book entitled "the Golden Censer" by Burdette Matthews of Waynesburg, PA converted into a scrapbook of news clippings and sample ballots of Wood Co., WV.

Dates: 1892-1896
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Burnsville, Historical Photographs, Digital Files

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Collection Number: A&M 3494
Overview

Photographs of Burnsville, West Virginia, ca. 1890-1970. 132 digital photographs in jpeg format of the families, homes, citizens, community groups, buildings, and businesses of Burnsville.

Dates: 1890-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Burr-Blennerhassett Trials Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2115
Overview

Letters, military orders, affidavits, depositions and miscellaneous items relating to the proposed trial of Aaron Burr and Harman Blennerhassett, 1 August 1805, to 21 January 1808. Correspondents include James Wilkinson.

Dates: 1805-1808
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Burrell Family Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1900
Overview

Records regarding descendants of Francis Burrell (1760-1852) to support membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Also are the descendants of Rebecca Burrell Hanner, William Arthur Hanner and William A Hanner. Material covers the years 1760-1958.

Dates: 1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Butcher Family Photographs and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 4100
Overview Photographs and other material of the Butcher family of Lewis County, West Virginia. Includes portrait and candid photos, William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1911), a statement from Weston City Hospital for the birth of a child (1948), a radio program (1969), a Weston High School class ring (1933), and Weston High School commencement materials (1966). The photos depict Wilda Juanita Turner Butcher (1915-1999), Weston High School class of 1933 and owner of...
Dates: ca. 1900s-1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Butt Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 2881
Overview

One typed copy of The Blood Line of Thomas Butt of the Revolutionary War and The Blood Line of Archibald Butt of the War of 1812. by W.V. Richardson, Feb., 1978. 298 p. Contains genealogy of the Butt family of Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas.

Dates: 1978
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Buzzard Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 2823
Overview

The Buzzard Family in America, compiled by Monte P. Buzzard, December 1981.

Dates: 1981
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Byer Family Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 2574
Overview

Ancestry chart of Charles L. Byer. Also includes the genealogy of the Flowers family and a typescript of "Recollections of Emery E. Flowers," Byer's great-grandfather.

Dates: 1726-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

C. Ed. Lukens Broadside for Public Sale of Land

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Collection Number: A&M 3835
Overview

Color reproduction of a broadside advertising the public sale of lands of C. Ed Lukens, deceased. The lands to be sold are described as valuable timber, farming, and grazing lands and are located in Randolph and Pendleton counties. The broadside lists terms of sale and also describes the individual acreages for sale, including about 6,440 acres comprising twelve plots of land in Raleigh county and 523 acres comprising three farms in Pendleton county.

Dates: 1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 255
Politics and government. 226
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 204
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Ohio 28
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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
West Virginia. Legislature 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 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
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
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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