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Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1281
Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical notebooks, notes on census reports, cemetery readings, newspaper history, copies of church and school records, notes on slavery, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and correspondence.

Dates: 1905-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George H. McGrew Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1622
Overview

Correspondence, sermons, religious writings, and accounts of a graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School, Methodist missionary to India (ca.1876-1885), and son of Representative James Clark McGrew of Kingwood. Subjects include West Virginia politics; social activities in Kingwood; conditions in the Indian mission field; nautical improvements tested at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1879; Northwestern University; and the Republican National Convention of 1880.

Dates: 1865-1885
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates: 1842-1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Osborne Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0930
Overview

A genealogy of the Osborne family of Greenbrier County. Originally from New Jersey, the family settled in Greenbrier and Hampshire counties.

Dates: 1987
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Hereford McGinnis Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0855
Overview The personal business papers of William Hereford McGinnis (1855-1930), a Beckley lawyer who was prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County, 1892-1896, a senator in 1902, judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 1922-1924, chairman for a number of years of the executive committee of the Democratic Party in Raleigh County, and delegate to the national convention in 1920. There are case papers, correspondence and other records of the Hatcher-McGinnis Law Firm, 1834-1930; family photographs; and...
Dates: 1834-1954
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates: ca. 1830-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
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India 3
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Churches -- Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
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Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
Harrison County Fair. 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Korea 2
Mason-Dixon Line 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Nutter Fort (W. Va.) 2
Philippines 2
Progressive Union Movement. 2
Prohibition -- United States -- History 2
Railroads 2
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 2
Shinnston (W. Va.) 2
Transportation 2
Women -- Suffrage 2
Women -- United States -- History 2
Academies (Private schools) 1
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Barboursville (W. Va.) 1
Beckley (W. Va.) 1
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Churches -- West Virginia -- Upshur County 1
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Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 1
Election of 1934. 1
Election of 1936. 1
Environmentalism. 1
Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Indians of North America 1
Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
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Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
Republican National Convention - 1880. 1
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Travel accounts. 1
United States - Census returns. 1
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West Virginia - Wheeling Conventions of 1861-1863. 1
West Virginia - genealogy. 1
Women's history -- 1951-present 1
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 3
Clarksburg 50-Year Club 2
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Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 2
Smith, Edward Grandison 2
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United States. Congress 2
West Virginia Historical Society 2
West Virginia Wesleyan College 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Hall, Joseph family. 1
Harvard University 1
Hatcher-McGinnis Law Firm 1
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 1
Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967 1
McGinnis, William Hereford, 1855-1930 1
McGrew, George H. 1
McGrew, H. George. 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
Morris, William family. 1
New York Naval Shipyard 1
Norris, William. 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
O'Brien family 1
O'Brien, A.L. 1
O'Brien, Emmett J. 1
O'Brien, William Smith, 1862-1948 1
O'Brien, William Smith. 1
Reger family 1
Reger, Jacob. 1
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 1
United States Military Academy 1
United States. Bureau of Immigration 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
United States. Federal Trade Commission 1
Vandalia Company 1
Wesleyan University. 1
West Virginia Wildlife League 1
White, Henry M. 1
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