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Arthur I. Boreman Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0639
Overview Personal and business papers of Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896), lawyer, U.S. senator, circuit court judge, and first governor of West Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to his judgeship and to the law firm of Boreman and Bullocks, Parkersburg, WV. Series include correspondence, notes on cases tried before Judge Boreman, envelope cases of material regarding legal cases in which Boreman was involved, financial material, and political and judicial printed material....
Dates: 1830-1949

Charles R. Williams, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2108
Overview An 1851 letter to Rebecca Coplin from Harriet Burdett of Pruntytown, West Virginia, on community health, family affairs and Methodist church matters. A merchandise account book, 1859-63, of an unidentified general store owner and inn keeper; steamboat bills of lading for the Kathryn and French of the Little Kanawha Packet Line (Creston-Parkersburg), 1899 and 1905. There are also mimeographed sketches on the history, topography, scenery, agriculture, geology, rural development and natural...
Dates: 1834, 1851-1905

Courtney Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1629
Overview Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading,...
Dates: 1804-1920

Kanawha County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0145
Overview

Court case papers, 1779-1933, and county record books, 1806-1927. The bound volumes include private account and minute books of the Coal River and Kanawha Mining and Manufacturing Company (1852-1858) the Winifrede Mining and Manufacturing Company, (1850-1858), the steamboat CROCKETT (1836); a sawmill (1879); and general merchandise and salt accounts, 1822-1823, 1864-1865. A name and subject index to the case papers and a checklist of the bound volumes are available.

Dates: 1779-1933

Nathan Hanes (1821-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2595
Overview

Letters, business papers, and photograph concerning Nathan Hanes of Proctor, Wetzel County, West Virginia, a sawmill clipper operator along the Ohio River. There is a large amount of correspondence addressed to E.E. Headlee, administrator of Hanes' estate, concerning its administration. There are also thirteen cash books, ledgers, and other account books, as well as a notebook containing information on the Hanes family.

Dates: ca. 1845-1900

Ohio County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0031
Scope and Contents Court case papers, 1776-1930; court and county record books; birth and death records, 1887-1888; and account and minute books of individuals, companies, and organizations, 1772-1935. The bound volumes include records of brand registrations, deeds, estrays, land entries, marriages, military service, surveys, and wills. The private account books relate to general merchandising, coal sales, dental practice, a debating society, distilling, carriage manufacturing, hotels, steamboat freighting,...
Dates: 1772-1935

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

R.H. Hendershot Shipping Bills

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0071
Overview

These bills show names of steamboats, masters, cargoes, and destinations of boats departing from Powhatan Point [Ohio]. Destinations mentioned include Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and Marietta, Ohio.

Dates: ca. 1850-1854

Steamboats Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1548
Scope and Contents

Bills of lading from the Ohio River Transportation Company, Wheeling Wharf Boat Company, Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company, Shippers Packet Company Lines, and G. M. Beaver, steamboat agent and wharf boat proprietor, Sistersville.

Dates: 1929-1931

Steamboats Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1406
Scope and Contents

Letters of a West Virginia River Captain to his daughter, 1877-1885; papers of Captain Edward B. Cooper, 1879-1891, Master of the Steamer Sonoma operating between Ravenswood and Parkersburg; bills of lading and miscellaneous papers, 1891-1930, 1955; log book of the Steamer Victor, 1932, operating out of Ashland, Kentucky for the Ashland Oil Company; and a log book of the Steamer Greenbrier, 1939, operating on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers.

Dates: 1877-1939

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Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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Wood County (W. Va.) 1
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Zane, Ebenezer, 1747-1812 2
Ash, Pauline Morehead 1
Ashland Oil Company 1
Beaver, G. M. 1
Boreman and Bullocks 1
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Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Burdett, Harriet. 1
Clark family 1
Clarke, Belle. 1
Clarke, J.P. 1
Coal River and Kanawha Mining and Manufacturing Company 1
Cooper, Edward B. 1
Coplin, Rebecca. 1
Courtney family 1
Courtney, Alpheus. 1
Courtney, John J. 1
Courtney, John. 1
Courtney, Ulysses J. 1
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dayton, Alston Gordon 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Farnsworth, D.D.T. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Hanes, Nathan (1821-1899) 1
Hanes, Nathan. 1
Haynes family 1
Headlee, E.E. 1
Hendershot, R. H. 1
Hill, William H. 1
Hymes, John D. Jr. 1
Jackson, J.G. 1
Johnson, Henry J. 1
Kanawha County Court (Kanawha County, W. Va.) 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lang, Theodore F. 1
Little Kanawha Packet Line 1
Morgantown Bridge Company 1
New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company 1
Ohio County Centennial Association 1
Ohio County Court 1
Ohio River Transportation Company 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Ohio Valley Glass Company 1
Parkersburg Rig & Reel Company 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Rucker, William P. 1
Shippers Packet Company 1
Society of the Army of West Virginia 1
Steamer Sonoma 1
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 1
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 1
Titlow, C.R. 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia. State Exposition and Fair Association 1
West Virginia. State Grange 1
Wheeling Masonic Hall Association 1
Wheeling Warf Boat Company 1
Williams, Charles R. 1
Williams, French. 1
Wilson, E.W. 1
Winifrede Mining and Manufacturing Company 1
Wirt Oil and Mining Company 1
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