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Harrison Hagans (1796-1867) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0012
Overview Papers of the Hagans family of Preston County, West Virginia, including Harrison, Elisha, George M., Henry C., John Marshall, Zer Hagans, and others. There are letters, invoices, account books, advertisements, and other business records pertaining to family business enterprises including several general merchandise stores and outlets in western Pennsylvania and Maryland, and at Brandonville, Kingwood, Greenville, and Palatine, West Virginia. There are several postal records from Harrison...
Dates: 1810-1895
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence Nuce, Collector, Papers and Printed Materials

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Collection Number: A&M 2541
Overview Books, periodicals, films, photos, and other papers relating to World War II, United States Army Intelligence, Nazi propaganda, and the post-war denazification program in Germany. Some of the material is in German. Lawrence Nuce, a Kingwood, West Virginia, native was a combat sergeant during the war. During the occupation, he was a commissioned officer in charge of supervising schools in Bavaria. Includes war newspapers, army manuals, occupation and education reports, and other material. For...
Dates: 1900-1946
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Preston County Board of Education, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1296
Overview

Register, School No.6, 1878-1879; records of the Preston County School Book Board, 1897-1907; Record of Proceedings of the Board of Education, Kingwood District, 1908-1913; and Board of Education Minutes for the Kingwood, Lyon, Pleasant, Portland, Reno, and Valley districts, 1899-1933.

Dates: 1878-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

R. Doyne Halbritter, Collector, Preston County Material

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Collection Number: A&M 1036
Scope and Contents Typescript copies from records of the Kingwood Methodist Church; articles on the Judy, Cuppy, Cuppett, and Guseman families; a copy of John Fairfax's will, 1843; minutes of a meeting of the board of education, Reno School District, Preston County, 1880; a letter from Senator J.P. Dolliver; letter from John Scott to James H. Carroll, Richmond, 20 February 1840, concerning a bill to permit construction of a road from German Settlement through Kingwood to Morgantown; and an account book,...
Dates: 1761-1897; 1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

R. Doyne Halbritter, Collector, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1070
Scope and Contents

Minutes of a meeting of the Board of Education of Reno School District, 4 December 1880, being a hearing on charges of incomptency of E. J. Jefferys, a teacher in sub-district no. 19; a typescript, "Jacob Guseman and Descendants", (Journal Press, Kingwood, ca. 1912-1915); and typed copy of the will of John Fairfax, 1843.

Dates: 1786-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

R. Doyne Halbritter, Collector, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1295
Dates: ca. 1840-1871
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 4
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Baltimore Infirmary -- Baltimore (Md.) 1
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Builders and contractors. 1
Business correspondence 1
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Civil War -- Forts 1
Civil War - Songs and poems. 1
Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
Civil War - Union sympathizers. 1
Civil War - Virginia 25th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 26th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 40th Cavalry Battalion. 1
Civil War - troop movements. 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
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Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Denazification 1
Education -- West Virginia 1
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Fetterman (W. Va.) 1
Financial statements -- West Virginia -- Preston County 1
Frankfort (Mineral County, W. Va.) 1
German immigrants - German Settlement. 1
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Rivers and river valleys. 1
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Women -- Roles in society 1
Women's letters and papers. 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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Halbritter, R. Doyne 3
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 2
Reno School District (Preston County, W. Va.) 2
Cuppett family 1
Cuppy family 1
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Dolliver, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Prentiss), 1858-1910 1
E. J. Jefferys 1
Fairfax, John 1
Greenville Mining and Manufacturing Company 1
Guseman family 1
Hagan family 1
Hagans, Elisha. 1
Hagans, George M. 1
Hagans, Harrison (1796-1867) 1
Hagans, Harrison. 1
Hagans, Henry C. 1
Hagans, John Marshall, 1838-1900 1
Hagans, Zer. 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Judy family 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Nuce, Lawrence A. 1
Nuce, Lawrence, 1913-2006 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Preston County (W. Va.). Board of Education 1
Preston Telegraph Company 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
Scott, John. 1
Smalley, Samson W. 1
United States - Army Intelligence. 1
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