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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
Luther Haymond, Surveyor, Diary and Surveyor's Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0772
Scope and Contents
A hand written journal kept by Col. Luther Haymond of Harrison County, [W.] Va., from 1830-1833, telling of his travels and experiences at the time. The journal notes Haymond’s observations while traveling by horse from Harrison County, West Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland. There are descriptions of Baltimore, Romney, Charles Town, and other places.
Dates:
1830-1833
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0081
Overview
Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.
Dates:
1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0858
Overview
Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the Withers...
Dates:
1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884
Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. Genealogy Research Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3230
Overview
Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries, cemetery...
Dates:
1708-1997
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- Surveyors and surveying. 3
- Wood County (W. Va.) 3
- Account books 2
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- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 2
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- Civil War -- Confederate Army 2
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
- Genealogy 2
- Land. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Alleghany County (Va.) 1
- Bibles 1
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- Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Business correspondence 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) -- Genealogy 1
- Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
- Charles Town (W. Va.) 1
- Civil War - Point Lookout Prison. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
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- Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
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- Court records - Harrison County. 1
- Death records. 1
- Deeds and leases. 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) 1
- Estates and estate settlements. 1
- Family histories. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
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- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Gloucester County (Va.) 1
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- Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
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- Marriage records 1
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- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pleasants County (W. Va.) 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Prisons -- Point Lookout Prison 1
- Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
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- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
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- Brown, John. 2
- Cook family 2
- Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
- Fleischer family 2
- Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 2
- Rector, Enoch. 2
- Tavenner family 2
- Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 2
- Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 2
- Tavenner, William Cabell. 2
- Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
- Bennett, Jonathan M. 1
- Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
- Camden family 1
- Camden, Gideon D. (1805-1891) 1
- Camden, John S. 1
- Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
- Clarksburg Public Library. 1
- Cunningham, John S. 1
- Cunningham, Thomas. 1
- Davis, Mrs. John J. 1
- Gambrell family 1
- Gambrill, Charles. 1
- Haymond, Luther 1
- Jackson family 1
- Laidley, James M. 1
- Lang, John. 1
- Levassor, Eugene 1
- Long, Melville D. 1
- Matthews family 1
- Maxwell, Rufus. 1
- McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
- McGrew, James Clark. 1
- McKinney, Lt. W.M. 1
- Page, P.R. 1
- Poole, Ella. 1
- Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
- Slack, Greenbury. 1
- Sons of the American Revolution - West Virginia Society. 1
- Sons of the Revolution 1
- Tetrick, W. Guy. 1
- Tetrick, Willis Guy, Compiler 1
- Tetrick, Willis Guy, Jr. 1
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1
- Wells family 1
- Withers family 1
- Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 1
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