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Brooks F. McCabe, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2267
Overview

Two personal diaries of R.E. McCabe of Charleston, West Virginia, containing notes on trips to Europe (1924) and California (1937). On the California trip he briefly describes Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Taos, and Los Angeles, muses on real estate values, and notes oil rigs and pipelines. There is a short genealogy of the Hayward family. The diaries also include references to the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families.

Dates: ca. 1770-1937

David R. Preston Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2133
Overview Manuscript diary of David R. Preston, Presbyterian minister and missionary assigned to Pensacola, Florida, and St. Charles, Missouri, 1828-1829, containing information on the number of missionaries and regularly assigned ministers of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal churches in the areas, the number of church services held, attendance and interest of the congregations, organization of Bible classes, and Sunday schools. Preston also preached to black congregations and comments on...
Dates: 1828-1829

Ellison Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates: 1819-1977

James William Kuykendall Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1180
Overview

Papers of a land surveyor from Hardy County include family and business correspondence, 1888-1926; letters from George Benson Kuykendall on family genealogy, 1911-1914; Kuykendall's correspondence as a member of the county board of education, 1908-1915; account books, diaries, surveying notes, Sunday school class book, 1876-1923; and plats, surveys, and deeds of land in the Hardy-Grant County area.

Dates: 1765-1926

John Morton Ledgers

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Collection Number: A&M 2579
Overview

Diaries, account books, and a surveyor's handbook belonging to John Morton, a farmer of Hollidays Cove, Brooke County, West Virginia. The surveyor's book includes lessons on logarithm, geometry, plane trigonometry, and surveying. The diaries and account books record Morton's life and significant events of the period. There is also an undated land deed, a property list of Morton's father, John Morton, and some genealogical information.

Dates: 1840-1902

Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936

Logan Osborne Family and Business Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2941
Overview A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Dates: 1761-1982

Luke Wilcox (1795-1854) Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2015
Overview

Diary of Luke Wilcox, a Kanawha County farmer, merchant, salt well and furnace owner and operator, written in memorandum form except for scattered entries giving more information on specific subjects, such as the weather, churches and ministers, farm operation, travel, salt wells and furnaces, slaves, names of personal and business correspondents, coal, and land purchases. There is also an addendum regarding the Wilcox family bible. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1843-1854; 1795-1879

Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview

Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.

Dates: 1880-1885

Ohio Historical Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1202
Overview

Papers relating to the early development of Marietta and the Ohio Valley include the journal, 1784-1790, and correspondence, 1776-1824 (3 vols.), of a Revolutionary War officer and organizer of the Ohio Company, General Rufus Putnam; papers of Samuel Prescott Hildreth entitled: "Early Events in the Valley of Ohio, 1787 to 1847" (2 vols.); letter from Nathan Goodale to Rufus Putnam, 15 March 1788; journal of Joseph Buell, 1785-1789; and a journal of John Mathews, 1786 (holograph copy).

Dates: ca. 1776-1872

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Names
Brown, John. 3
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 3
Cook family 2
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
Edwards, William Henry, 1822-1909 2
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Edwards, William Henry. 2
Fleischer family 2
Lewis family 2
Rector, Enoch. 2
Ruffner family 2
Tavenner family 2
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 2
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 2
Tavenner, William Cabell. 2
Wilson family 2
American Institute of Banking 1
American Red Cross 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Berkshire, R.L. 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brooks family 1
Buell, Joseph, 1763- 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, John S. 1
Campbell family 1
Campbell, A.W. 1
Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Cunningham, John S. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dickinson family 1
Duke, William, 1757-1840 1
Dunlap family 1
Ellison family 1
Ellison, Allison Dunlap. 1
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Fleming family 1
Fleming family - Genealogy 1
Gambrell family 1
Gambrill, Charles. 1
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 1
Goodale, Nathan. 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Green, Thomas (1798-1881) 1
Green, Thomas. 1
Hall, John G. 1
Hall, Virgy Wilson. 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Hayman family 1
Hayward family 1
Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Prescott), 1783-1863 1
Hopedale School 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
Jackson family 1
Keadle, Charles Alexander. 1
Kuykendall family 1
Kuykendall, George Benson, 1843-1931 1
Kuykendall, James William 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Lantz family 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, Col. Charles. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Martin, Alexander. 1
Mathews, John. 1
Matthews family 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
McCabe, Brooks F. 1
McCabe, Brooks F., Jr. 1
McCabe, R.E. 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
McKinney, Lt. W.M. 1
Montgomery Ward 1
Moore, Cleon. 1
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 1
Morton family 1
Morton family - Genealogy 1
Morton, John 1
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