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Fayette County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0362
Scope and Contents
Originals and copies of county and circuit court suit papers, mainly for the period after 1870. The volumes include a minute book of the Fayetteville town council, 1873-1877; county board of education minute book, 1866-1876; a land entry book, 1831-1837; land tax books, 1849, 1855-1860; personal property books, 1855-1858, 1860-1861, 1866; registers of voters, 1866, 1867; poll books, 1872, 1890; and private account books, including a G.P. Huddleston daybook for a general store, 1850-1858; and...
Dates:
1787-1869; 1870-1923
Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1244
Scope and Contents
Historical and genealogical typescripts, clipping scrapbooks, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Guyandotte Valley area of Cabell, Wayne, and Lincoln counties compiled by F.B. Lambert. Several typescripts deal with the religious institutions of the area, the development of road, river, and rail transportation, and the spread of education in the valley. Other materials deal with the frontier and Indian history of the Guyandotte country and the collection...
Dates:
ca. 1819-1959
Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1270
Scope and Contents
Historical and genealogical typescripts, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Ohio Valley, West Virginia, and the Guyandotte country, compiled by Frederick B. Lambert.
Dates:
1939-1959
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
Marshall County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1672
Overview
County and circuit clerks records, arranged chronologically. Records for the years 1835-1857, include bonds of ministers, tavern operators, ordinaries, ferries, and county officials; estate settlements; records pertaining to road, bridge, and public building; records of the overseer of the poor; school commissioners' and surveyors' appointments; and lists of county officials. Records for 1863-1874 include county supervisors' records; records of the Fairmont and Wheeling Turnpike; and muster...
Dates:
1831-1948
Monongalia County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents
The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates:
1774-1933
Monongalia Historical Society Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0722
Scope and Contents
Records regarding the history of Monongalia County, West Virginia.Boxes 1-14 contain: clippings and miscellaneous printed materials relating to Monongalia county history; genealogical compilations and correspondence relating to the genealogy of Monongalia county families, prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; business correspondence of the society, 1924-1927; correspondence and records of the West Virginia Historical Society, ca. 1925-1931; miscellaneous court records, family letters and...
Dates:
1827-1935; Majority of material found within 1925-1935
Summers County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0655
Overview
County court papers consisting mainly of marriage and financial administration records, including roads, schools, and poor funds. There are also estate administration and lunacy proceedings papers; tax books; school records; and an account book of the firm of Meador and Graham at Hinton.
Dates:
1859-1949