Showing Collections: 4621 - 4630 of 4808
William D. Barns, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3279
Overview
Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs....
Dates:
ca. 1842-1995; Majority of material found within 1940-1985
William D. Barns, History Professor, Family History Files, Photographs, and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3748
Scope and Contents
Includes family history files, photographs, and other material collected and compiled by William D. Barns. Family history files include extensive notes encompassing the Pennsylvania branch of the Barns family, including notes of interviews with his mother and father, and from secondary sources. There are also notes regarding the Williams family. The few photographs in this collection mostly regard the Barns family, and the history of education in Uniontown and Fayette County,...
Dates:
ca. 1885-1980
William D. Barns, History Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3152
Overview
Collection consists of family history manuscripts, academic files, and publications of William D. Barns, professor of history at West Virginia University and founding member of the West Virginia Historical Association.
Dates:
1948-1992
William D. North Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3498
Overview
Records of the North family of Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, West Virginia, including mostly the papers of William D. North. Includes land survey for Hugh Davison (1808), financial records of William D. North (1842-1856), miscellaneous papers of William D. North (1831-1886), land records of the North and Gill families (1815, 1848, 1849), Gill estate sale record (1841), deed between Elizabeth Ward and Nancy Holmes of Berkeley County (1857), and division of land between James Burwell and...
Dates:
1808-1886
William D. Wintz, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2214
Overview
A survey for a plot of land in Greenbrier County dated 1789, a map showing coalfields in the Kanawha Valley dated 1867, genealogies of the Chapman and McGlathlen families, and letters from M.M. Neely, Arthur Capper, and Walter F. George.
Dates:
1789-1960
William Darling, Jr. Family Genealogy Research Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4334
Scope and Contents
Collected genealogical materials of William Darling, Jr. (1756?-1825), son of William Darling and Sophia Sodowski (or Sofia Sadowski); also includes some information on his brother Robert Darling (1753-1837). Includes family tree information, land grants, a transcribed will, and other items. All items are computer printouts or facsimiles.
Dates:
1785-1804, 2002-2014
William Davis Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2794
Overview
Reverend William Davis (1663-1745) was a British Baptist and Seventh-day Baptist minister in Colonial Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the late seventeenth century and the eighteenth century. Printed galley proofs of an unpublished, 474-page book, The Davis Family, Being a Biographical and Genealogical History of the Descendants of Rev. William Davis (1663-1745), chart the descendants of Rev. William Davis from 1663 to 1920, and include family members living in...
Dates:
circa 1940
William E. Arnett and Family Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3371
Overview
Photocopy facsimile of scrapbook documenting the William E. Arnett, Sr. and family (11' x16'). Includes family history manuscripts, photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, church documents, ephemera of the Second National Bank of Morgantown, a land deed citing John and Louisa Huffman as grantors of Lot 83 to grantee Arnett, Sr. (1891), and obituaries for Arnett, Sr. and his wife, Iva. There is a manuscript narrative history of the Arnett family, and a family tree. Photographs are of...
Dates:
ca. 1890-1950
William E. Brooks (1875-1960), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0485
Overview
Civil War materials collected by Dr. Brooks in writing his biographies of Grant and Lee. Included are pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs, and originals and copies of soldiers' letters, journals, and military reports. There are typed copies of a journal, 3 November-2 December 1863, of a civilian observer in Tennessee, who was at Grant's headquarters at the Battle of Chattanooga; letters, 1861-1864, of William Ludwig, a private in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in...
Dates:
ca. 1825-1944
William E. Brooks, Author, A MOTIVE FOR DEMOCRACY; A STUDY OF THE RELATION OF RELIGION TO THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2613
Overview
William E. Brooks. A MOTIVE FOR DEMOCRACY; A STUDY OF THE RELATION OF RELIGION TO THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. (n.p., n.d.) ca. 100 leaves, mimeographed.
Dates:
n.d.