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Abram Mason Memoir [Xerox]
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.2575
Overview
Abram Mason's memoirs relating events in the history of the Mason family, who resided briefly in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
Dates:
1860 March 27
Achilles Dew, Letter to President Lincoln
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.2239
Overview
A letter, dated January 24, 1861, written to Abraham Lincoln by Achilles Dew, a resident of Western Virginia. The letter expresses the opinion that Presidents Harrison and Taylor were poisoned, and warns Lincoln that he too could be assassinated.
Dates:
1861
A.C.L. Gatewood Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.1519
Overview
Correspondence, diary, and farm account book of a Confederate officer and Pocahontas County cattleman and farmer. The correspondence deals primarily with Gatewood's activities as adjutant general and chief of staff of the West Virginia Division, United Confederate Veterans. The Civil War diary, 11 March-15 December 1865, covers action of Company F, Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, "Laurel Brigade," Rosser Cavalry Division, from Staunton to Appomattox. The farm account book, 1866-1869, also contains...
Dates:
1801-1816, 1855-1919
A.D. Hopkins and Josef Brunner, Forest Entomology Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3459
Overview
Correspondence (1909-1917) between A.D. Hopkins, Chief of Forest Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Josef Brunner, field entomologist in Montana, detailing their work in forest entomology in the northern Rocky Mountains. Hopkins, a farmer from Kanawha, West Virginia, served as a State Entomologist at the WVU Agricultural Experiment Station from 1890 to 1902 before his appointment to the USDA position. The correspondence also provides insight into the...
Dates:
1909-1917
Ada Haldeman Ford, Suffragist, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.3537
Overview
Papers of Ada Haldeman Ford, women's suffragist of Taylor County, West Virginia. Includes reminiscence, letters, and clippings documenting Ada Haldeman Ford's active role as a suffragist in Taylor County through 1920. There are also clippings and other materials regarding political matters dating through 1970. There are photographs and genealogies regarding the Ford and Haldeman families, and a collection of books (including bibles, foreign language textbooks, poetry, etc.). Artifacts include...
Dates:
1900-1970
Adam and Anna Barbara Rader Family (Timberville, Va.) Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.2610
Overview
A two-page history of the Adam and Anna Barbara Rader family genealogy titled "The Rader Family in America." This brief document traces the family from Adam and Anna Rader's arrival in Timberville, Virginia, in the late 1700s, to the mid-1800s. Their descendants lived in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and into parts of what is now West Virginia.
Dates:
ca. 1978
Adam Livingston, An Account of His Conversion to the Catholic Church in Middleway
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0209
Overview
An account of the conversion of Adam Livingston to the Catholic Church in Middleway, (W.) Va.; taken from a manuscript in the Library of Georgetown College.
Dates:
ca. 1770
Adam Shafer Will
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0664
Overview
Original and photostat copy of the will of Adam Shafer of Preston County, West Virginia, dated 18 June 1834. Details the distribution of Shafer's estate, including his farm, furniture, land, and animals, to his wife and children.
Dates:
1834
Adam W. Johnson, Soldier, Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.0286
Overview
Adam W. Johnson was a member of the 60th Virginia Infantry, the third regiment in the Wise Legion, during the Civil War. Letter from Johnson to his family was written from Meadow Bluff in Greenbrier County, Virginia, on 23 October 1861. Johnson comments on his health, food, field conditions, where the unit has marched, his need for paper and boots, and his regimental commander.
Dates:
1861
Adamston Flat Glass Factory, Glass Cutting Tool
Collection
Collection Number: A&M.4483
Content Description
A metal tool with a wooden handle, known as a "splitter", used for cutting glass. The tool was used at the Adamston Flat Glass Factory, which was located in Adamston, West Virginia (a former town that is now part of the city of Clarkburg).For additional information regarding the Adamston Glass Factory and the glassmaking industry in West Virginia, see also:
A&M 2870, Fourco Glass Company Records
A&M 3911, Window Glass Cutters League of America, Materials...
Dates:
ca. 1910-1930
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- Account books 254
- Politics and government. 226
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 194
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 185
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 176
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- Genealogy 156
- Diaries and journals. 149
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- World War II. 79
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- Wheeling (W. Va.) 69
- Politicians -- United States 68
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- Women's history -- 1951-present 29
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
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- Ohio 28
- Civil War -- War diaries 27
- Environmentalism. 27
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 27
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- Kentucky 27
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- Hardy County (W. Va.) 26
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- Physicians - letters and papers. 26
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 26
- Politicians 26
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 26
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- West Virginia University 189
- United Mine Workers of America 50
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 45
- Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 38
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 38
- West Virginia University. President 34
- West Virginia University. Library 31
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 29
- Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
- United States. Congress. Senate 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 27
- Camden, Gideon D. (1805-1891) 25
- West Virginia. Legislature 24
- Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
- Byrd, Robert C. 23
- Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
- Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
- Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
- Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 22
- Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
- Monongalia County (W.Va.) 21
- Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
- Smith family 20
- West Virginia University. Department of History 19
- Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
- Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
- Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 18
- Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 17
- 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 University. College of Agriculture 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
- Dayton, Alston Gordon 14
- Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
- McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 14
- Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
- 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
- Morgan family 13
- Patteson, Okey L. 13
- Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
- White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
- Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 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
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 12
- Weston State Hospital 12
- Barron, W. W. 11
- Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
- Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
- Gore, Howard M. 11
- Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
- West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
- American Federation of Labor 10
- Brown family 10
- Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 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
- Jackson family 10
- MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
- Robinson family 10
- Ruffner family 10
- United States. Works Progress Administration 10
- West Virginia University. Department of Biology 10
- Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
- Consolidation Coal Company 9
- Dayton, Spencer. 9
- Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
- Green, William. 9
- Hall family 9
- Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
- Johnson, Louis. 9
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 9
- Lewis family 9
- Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 9 ∧ less
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