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Sommerville Family of Berkeley County, Family History

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Collection Number: A&M 4035
Overview Material regarding the Sommerville family of Berkeley County, mainly concerning Robert A. Sommerville and his son Obed W. Somerville. Includes a family history narrative (folder 1), transcript of a journal (folder 1), copies of legal documents (folder 2), and colored copies of photographs and portraits of Sommerville family members and of artifacts associated with the family (folders 3 and 4). Material regarding Robert A. Sommerville includes a transcription of family and personal memoranda...
Dates: 1852-2013
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

T.T. Perry, Collector, Publications

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Collection Number: A&M 2253
Overview

Microfilm copy of assorted books, speeches, and pamphlets related to early West Virginia history. Includes: On The Plains In '65 by George H. Holliday; Heyward Shepherd, Victim Of Violence, by Matthew Page Andrews; and The Harpers Ferry Insurrection by J. Ewing Glasgow. For a complete listing, see the control folder.

Dates: 1806-1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Extension Service, Publications, Reports, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 5232
Scope and Contents Records of the WVU Extension Service. Collection includes instructional booklets on cooking, decorating, and sewing from the 1910s to the 1960s, materials on rural electrification in West Virginia in the 1930s, annual conference programs, and materials on incomes and family budgets. Also includes materials relating to the Farm Woman's Club in West Virginia, studies of school children during the 1940s, and studies of cost of living in rural areas during World War II. There are historical...
Dates: ca. 1910-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Parker Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0156
Overview Letters, legal papers, and accounts of William Parker, Hampshire County, West Virginia. Included also are scattered papers of John P., Benjamin, and James Parker and Company. Letters originate from Virginia; Greene County, Illinois, 1859; and Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama, 1849. Subjects include doctors' fees; election of 1851 in Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties, and Frederick County, Virginia; prices of farm produce; and observations of Virginians newly settled in Illinois...
Dates: 1845-1886
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Rice Research Papers regarding West Virginia Genealogy and Other Topics

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Collection Number: A&M 4317
Overview Historical research material collected by William Rice from ca. 1975-2015, mostly relating to the history of western Virginia and southeastern West Virginia, the Upper Potomac River basin, and particularly Elkins and Randolph County. There are three record series including subject files (boxes 1-4), miscellaneous research files (boxes 4-5), and family histories (boxes 5-16). Subject files are arranged alphabetically and cover many topics ranging from early settlement, the formation of cities...
Dates: ca. 1975-2015
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Seibert, Resident of Berkeley County, Virginia, Financial and Legal Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3704
Overview Financial and legal papers of William Seibert of Berkeley County, Virginia. Contains three bills owed by Seibert, one for food, drink, horse feed, etc. that appears to be from an inn (1842; Philip Carper was the vendor), another bill for two years subscription to the German grave yard fence (1844), and another for a large water bucket (1846). Also contains one survey of land owned by Seibert (1819; ), articles of agreement between Samuel Seibert and George Newkirk concerning the sale of land...
Dates: 1818-1847; Majority of material found within 1842-1847
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Berkeley County (W. Va.) 29
Account books 6
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
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Diaries and journals. 4
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Ohio County (W. Va.) 4
Women's history -- 1800-1849 4
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Jefferson County (W. Va.) 3
Marshall County (W. Va.) 3
Politics and government. 3
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Augusta County (Va.) 2
Barbour County (W. Va.) 2
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 2
Boone County (W. Va.) 2
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Civil War - West Virginia. 2
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Doddridge County (W. Va.) 2
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Hampshire County (W. Va.) 2
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Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
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Church tax exemptions 1
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Civil War - Panhandle Greys. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
Civil War - Virginia 1st Cavalry, Company E. 1
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Civil War -- War diaries 1
Civil War battles - Williamsport, MD. 1
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Clay County (W. Va.) 1
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Election of 1851. 1
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Frontier and pioneer life 1
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Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 3
Berkeley County (W.Va.) 2
Campbell family 2
Campbell, James L. 2
Campbell, James Wilson. 2
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Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 2
American Missionary Society 1
Andrews, Matthew Page, 1879-1947 1
Atkinson, Robert. 1
Bailey, Robert. 1
Bailey, Thomas. 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 1
Berkeley County. National Union Johnson Club. 1
Bleakmor, Gallaher & Ansbrutz 1
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764-1831 1
Boreman and Bullocks 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Breckstein, A. H. 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Brown, John. 1
Brown, Uria. 1
Brown, William G. (William Gay), 1800-1884 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Byrd, Robert C. 1
Chapline, Moses. 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Comly, Deborah. 1
Comstock, Jim (James Franklin), 1911-1996 1
Couchman, Benjamin S. 1
Couchman, George 1
Couchman, Harman L. 1
Couchman, Henry J. 1
Council of the Corporation of Martinsburg (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1
Cushwa, Barnet. 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Eagle, Henry F. 1
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 1
Farm Women's Club -- West Virginia 1
Farnsworth, D.D.T. 1
First National Bank of Fairmont 1
Gallaher, William Bowen 1
Gans, George C. 1
Gans, Mrs. Samuel C. 1
Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 1
Gehr, Daniel. 1
Glasgow, J. Ewing. 1
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998 1
Grand Army of the Republic 1
Harry Hood & Company 1
Hart and Woolworth Lumber Mill 1
Hart, Stephen. 1
Heathe, Rev. C.P. 1
Henshaw family 1
Hinckle-Duckwell-Shade family. 1
Holliday, Geo. H. (George Hayes), 1847-1919 1
Hornbrook, Jacob. 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Hunter, Katherine M. 1
Hunter, Katherine. 1
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 1
Jackson, J.G. 1
James Parker and Co. 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Jennings, John. 1
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 1
Johnson, Henry J. 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lamon, Adrian W. 1
Lang, Theodore F. 1
Marshall, John W. 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.). Board of Trustees 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.). City Council 1
Martinsburg and Berkeley County 1
Maynor, Larry. 1
McKown, Sarah Morgan 1
Michael, Laura Shade. 1
Monroe, James, 1758-1831 1
Neel, J. Marshall. 1
Neel, J. Wilbur. 1
Neel, Reverend A.A.P. 1
Newbraugh, Fred T. 1
Norona, Delf, 1895-1974 1
Parker, Benjamin. 1
Parker, James. 1
Parker, John P. 1
Parker, William 1
Perry, T.T. 1
Piatt, Donn, 1819-1891 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 1
Poore, Benjamin Perley, 1820-1887 1
Porter, George McCandless (1835-1864) 1
Porter, George McCandless. 1
Prichard, Lucy, 1876-1964. 1
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 1
Reed, Louis 1
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