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Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1750
Scope and Contents Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.Collection...
Dates: 1799-1888

Edward E. Meredith Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1814
Overview Clippings, letters, broadsides, and articles written or collected by E.E. Meredith, author of the newspaper column, "Do You Remember," which appeared in the Fairmont TIMES-WEST VIRGINIAN. There are: copies of theatre programs, 1917-1919; electoral tickets, 1860, 1864; a proclamation by George B. McClellan, commanding the Department of the Ohio, 1861; and an open letter, "Monongahela River Bridge Underwriting Syndicate Managers," concerning the construction of the million-dollar bridge in...
Dates: 1817-1954

George Seldon Wallace (1871-1963) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1710
Overview Papers of a Huntington attorney, member of the West Virginia National Guard, 1909-1916, employee of the C&O Railway Company, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, president of the Ben Lomond Company, president of the Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, attorney for Central City, prosecuting attorney of Cabell County, 1905-1908, chairman of a county Democratic committee, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1912. Wallace...
Dates: 1898-1963

Harrison County Court Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1827
Overview

Records of the Harrison County court, including the first land entry book for the county (1784-1799), four court minute books (1797-1805).

Dates: 1784-1903

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

Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips, Journal of an Upshur County Resident Regarding the Civil War

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Collection Number: A&M 1846
Overview Photocopy of typescript transcription of the manuscript journal kept by Marcia Louise Sumner Phillips of French Creek and Buckhannon, Virginia (West Virginia). It contains commentary on local and family affairs, and on Civil War military activities in the western Virginia and Virginia areas. Other subjects include churches, travel, elections, holiday celebrations, and the 1863 statehood convention in Parkersburg. There are descriptions of and quoted conversations with officers of both the...
Dates: 1861-1863

Pittenger Family Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875

Snyder Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0490
Overview

Personal and business correspondence of Harmon, Molly, John, and other members of the Snyder family; genealogical information on the Lantz and Snyder families; land grants, surveys and deeds for land in Barbour, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties, West Virginia; and poll and registration books for Randolph County. Included also is Harmon Snyder's daybook and diary, listing accounts for the years 1866-1896 and incidents of the Civil War.

Dates: 1790-1937

West Virginia, Executive Department, Journals

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Collection Number: A&M 1487
Overview

Executive and Board of Public Works records of the early state government. Included are oaths of office, appointments, executive orders, extraditions, pardons, election certifications, accounts, tax assessments, proclamations and addresses. Subjects covered include militia and political activities during the early statehood period.

Dates: 1863-1904

William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1694
Overview Correspondence, diaries, writings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Wilson, a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), President of West Virginia University, 1882-1883, member of Congress, 1883-1895, Postmaster General, 1895-1897, author of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 1894, and President of Washington and Lee University, 1897-1900. The collection includes portions of the diaries covering the years 1862-1863, 1865, 1868-1870, 1877-1891, 1896-1899. Most of the...
Dates: 1862-1900

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Names
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Robinson, Ira E. 2
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
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Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975 1
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 1
Aten, William. 1
Atkinson, Edward. 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Ben Lamond Company 1
Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company 1
Bowker, R.R. 1
Breckenridge, Clifton Rodes, 1846-1932 1
Breckenridge, William C.P. 1
Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960 1
Bryce, James. 1
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 1
Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910 1
Carruth, H.S. 1
Chenoweth, Eli. 1
Chenoweth, Lemuel, 1811-1887 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cockran, William Bourke, 1854-1923 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Daniel, John Warwick. 1
Davis, Innis C. 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Davis, T.B. 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Dickinson family 1
Dodge, W. E. (William Earl), 1832-1903 1
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941 1
Gibson, Philip P. 1
Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902 1
Harmon, Judson, 1846-1927 1
Harrison County Court 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Haymond, William. 1
Hewitt, Abram S. 1
Hill family - Genealogy 1
Hill, David B. (David Bennett), 1843-1910 1
Hill, James J. (James Jerome), 1838-1916 1
Hodges, Thomas E. 1
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905 1
Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 1
Lantz family 1
League of Nations 1
Lee, Fitzhugh. 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Lucas, Daniel. 1
Marble, Manton, 1834-1917 1
Marion County Historical Society (W. Va.) 1
McClain, Kenneth. 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
Meredith, Edward E. 1
Moore, John Bassett. 1
Nordhoff, Charles, 1887-1947 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 1
Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 1
Phillips, Marcia Louise Sumner 1
Phillips, S.B. 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Pittenger family 1
Quincy, Josiah. 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Russell, William E. 1
Russell, William S. 1
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 1
Shaver, Clem. 1
Sims, Edgar B. (Edgar Barr), 1882- 1
Snyder family 1
Snyder, Harmon. 1
Snyder, John. 1
Snyder, Molly. 1
Sommerville family - Genealogy 1
Sommerville, Robert. 1
Sommerville, William. 1
Spencer, Dr. Joseph. 1
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