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Elise S. Billmyer, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2350
Overview

The collection contains correspondence and papers of the Brown, Selby, Kirkland, Robine, Spong, Strode, Thomas, Waters, Hammond, Billmyer, Shepherd and Hamtramck families. Includes genealogical information on the Brown, Billmyer, Shepherd, and Hamtramck families; ledger, 1795-1796; and a receipt book, 1835-1843, of Walter Brown Selby.

Dates: 1636 (1757-1850) 1961

James R. Moreland (1879-1955) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1146
Scope and Contents Family papers of Alexander Smith, Charles Edgar Brown, and Joseph Moreland; correspondence; materials relating to local history and Moreland's civic, social, religious, and professional activities. Typescript on the Union in West Virginia Coal Fields; a bound typescript on the History of the Various Courts of Monongalia County; and abstracts and legal papers of the Connellsville Basin Coke Company. Material also includes plats and maps relating to the residential and...
Dates: 1809-1948

James R. Moreland Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0870
Scope and Contents Business and personal papers of a Morgantown attorney and antiquarian. The boxed materials consist of legal papers, abstracts of titles and other items relating to Moreland's law practice; business and personal correspondence, records of Morgantown and Monongalia County corporations, including the Morgantown Hotel Company, Union Investment Company, Bank of Masontown, and the LaMar Coal Company. The bound volumes include a receipt book for shares in the Monongalia County Farmer's...
Dates: 1815-1957

Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates: 1887-1962

Maxwell Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0010
Overview Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing...
Dates: ca. 1845-1950, 2017; Majority of material found within ca. 1845-1950

Pauline Morehead Ash, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0776
Overview

Genealogical material on the Clarke family and a diary of Belle Clarke; an account book of J.P. Clarke for general merchandise, farm, and labor accounts, with entries for the steamboat GENERAL JACKSON; several account books and a map of the Wirt Oil and Mining Company operations; items relating to the West Virginia State Grange, and a ledger of William H. Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio, an agent of the Grange.

Dates: 1855-1892, 1947

West Virginia Midland Railroad Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2434
Overview

Correspondence, business papers, engineers' ledgers, blueprints, maps, structural drawings, and photographs document the construction and operation of the West Virginia Midland Railway Company (later the West Virginia Midland Railroad) in Webster Springs, West Virginia, from 1906 to 1933.

Dates: 1903-1933 and undated

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Monongalia County (W. Va.) 3
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Diaries and journals. 2
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Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
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Politics and government. 2
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
Academies (Private schools) 1
Banks - Bank of Masontown. 1
Banks and banking 1
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Church buildings 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War battles - Philippi. 1
Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
Coal mining - New River field. 1
Coal mining - Regulation. 1
Coal mining - Safety. 1
Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
Coal mining - coal companies. 1
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
Deckers Creek Sand Company. 1
Hotels 1
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Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
New Deal, 1933-1939 1
New River coalfields. 1
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Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
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Moreland, James R., 1879-1955 2
United Mine Workers of America 2
Ash, Pauline Morehead 1
Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc. 1
Bank of Masontown 1
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Billmyer family 1
Billmyer family - Genealogy 1
Billmyer, Elise S. 1
Bongiorni, Joseph P. 1
Brown family 1
Brown family - Genealogy 1
Brown, Charles Edgar 1
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company 1
Clark family 1
Clarke, Belle. 1
Clarke, J.P. 1
Collins family 1
Collins, Jarius. 1
Collins, Justus, 1857-1934 1
Connellsville Basin Coke Company 1
Coopers Rock Foundation 1
Deckers Creek Sand Company 1
Felts, T.L. 1
Hammond family 1
Hamtramck family 1
Hamtramck family - Genealogy 1
Hill, William H. 1
Holloway, J.J. 1
Holly River and Addison Railway Company 1
Huston and Demain 1
Kirkland family 1
LaMar Coal Company 1
Laing, John B. 1
Mann, Isaac T. (Isaac Thomas), 1864-1932 1
Maxwell family 1
Maxwell, G. Ralph. 1
Maxwell, H. 1
Maxwell, Mrs. S.J. 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
Monongalia Farmer's Company of Virginia. 1
Moreland, Joseph. 1
Morgantown Hotel Company 1
Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
Porterfield, George A. 1
Rector College 1
Robine family 1
Robinette family 1
Rogers, John 1
Rogers, John, 1786-1864 1
Saint George Academy 1
Selby family 1
Selby, Walter Brown. 1
Shepard family 1
Shepard family - Genealogy 1
Smith, Alexander family. 1
Smokeless Coal Operators Association 1
Spong family 1
Strod family 1
Tams, W. P., Jr. (William Purviance), 1883-1977 1
Thomas family 1
Tug River Coal Operators Association 1
Union Investment Company 1
United States - Railway Administration. 1
United States. Coal Commission 1
United States. Forest Service 1
United States. Fuel Administration 1
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission 1
United States. National Recovery Administration 1
Virginian Railway- Organization of Winding Gulf Branch 1
Waters family 1
West Virginia Midland Railway Company 1
West Virginia. State Grange 1
White, Capt. James L. 1
Winding Gulf Operators Association 1
Wirt Oil and Mining Company 1
Wolfe, George. 1
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