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Clarksburg Independent School District, Commissioner, Minute Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1354
Overview
Minute book of the School Commissioner for the Clarksburg Independent School District.
Dates:
1866-1878
Clarksburg Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3405
Overview
Miscellaneous papers regarding Clarksburg, West Virginia. Includes: newspaper advertisements (4 items, photocopied) of automobiles for sale at Williams Hardware and The Clarksburg Automobile Co., both in Clarksburg, WV (1912); front page of newspaper for 1967 flood, including photo of flood reaching the Clarksburg Automobile Co. garage (3/7/1967, original and photocopies); official ballot for the 5 November 1940 presidential election including Wirt County, WV choices; statement of Bridgeport...
Dates:
1912-1967
Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Historical Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1285
Scope and Contents
Subscription list of the Clarksburg Public Library, 1913-1922
Dates:
1913-1922
Clarksburg Public Library, Collector, Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1653
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers collected by the Clarksburg Public Library, including Harrison County land papers of John Lang, 1782-1821; General Land Office Warrant of Thomas Cunningham, an 1812 veteran for 160 acres in Illinois; letter from Melville D. Long from Point Lookout prison, April 1865; letter to Mrs. John J. Davis, Clarksburg, telling of an unexpected invasion of Baltimore by the Rebels in July 1854; and farm diary, 1856-1861 of P.R. Page, Gloucester County, Virginia. This volumes gives...
Dates:
1782-1865
Clarksburg, West Virginia, Public Health Survey
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4124
Overview
Bound typescript report regarding public health conditions in Clarksburg, West Virginia, completed ca. 1940. Contents include a brief history of the city and an overview of current health and safety related infrastructure. Topics discussed include availability of clean water and current sewer conditions, the fire department, and medical facilities for infant care, tuberculosis, and venereal diseases. Photographs and newspaper clippings have been pasted into the typescript. Subjects of...
Dates:
ca. 1940
Clarksburg (W.Va.) Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1735
Overview
Records and quarterly conference church minutes for the Clarksburg (W.Va.) Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1856 to 1886. Chiefly a list of members and dates of their membership from 1856 to 1859 and then from 1869 to 1878. Also includes church meeting minutes from 1869 to 1872 and 1886. Topics of meeting minutes include the state of the church, the state of the Sunday school, new members, church finances, and the organization of the meetings. Some pages are faded and difficult to...
Dates:
1856-1886; Majority of material found within 1856-1872
Clarysville Hospital, Civil War Records of Samuel West, Physician
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3509
Overview
Civil War records of the U.S. military hospital at Clarysville, Maryland, recording activities of Assistant Surgeon Samuel B. West. Includes appointment letter, "Special Orders No. 74," for Samuel B. West dated 7-25. There are approximately 800 "Bed Cards" (5 3/4 in. by 3 1/2 in.) and 105 larger and more detailed "Medical Descriptive Lists" (12 3/4 in. by 8 1/4 in.). The Bed Cards contain the name, age, place of birth, marital status, residence, address of wife or nearest relative, rank,...
Dates:
1863-1883; Majority of material found within 1864-1865
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Miscellaneous Publications
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3395
Overview
Published Excerpts from the Fifth Codicil of the Last Will & Testament of Michael L. Benedum in calligraphy (1976). Facsimile of Fortune article from December, 1940 regarding the Benedum family and their business interests (11 pages; includes cover of magazine). The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation is an independent foundation established in 1944 by Michael and Sarah Benedum, natives respectively of Bridgeport and Blacksville, West Virginia. During his lifetime in the oil and gas...
Dates:
1976-1999
Clay Club of Morgantown, Membership Letter to William S. Archer
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4003
Overview
Letter from the Committee of Correspondence of the "Clay Club of Morgantown" to the Honorable William S. Archer of Washington, D.C., dated 26 January 1844. The letter informs Archer that he had been elected an honorary member of the club. Letter was signed by Club members E. W. Tower, W. J. Willey, E. C. Wilson, Caleb Dorsey, and Francis Madera. "Clay Clubs" were a political organization supporting the campaign of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay for United States president.
Dates:
1844
Clay County Print Shop Ledger
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1083
Overview
Ledger of a Clay County print shop documenting its business. It contains examples of work consisting mainly of funeral notices and church bulletins. Although the name of the print shop that did the work documented in the ledger isn't recorded to it, it is possible that the shop belonged to the local newspaper.
Dates:
1957