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Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans

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Collection Number: A&M 4208
Scope and Contents This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles,...
Dates: 1775-2018 (Includes facsimiles); Majority of material found within 1970-2011

Fleming Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0644
Scope and Contents Additional papers of Benjamin Fleming and several members of the Fleming family. Manuscript items include land grants, & deed Monongalia County, letters, account ∧ tax statements. Printed items include Sabbath School program, Fairmont, 1861; concert and commencement programs of Fairmont State Normal, 1892, 1897, 1906; Alfred Fleming Cemetery Association, proposed organization pamphlet. A clipping scrapbook contains some poetry by Thurston Worth Fleming, biographical sketch of Col....
Dates: 1827-1915

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

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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

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1942
Overview Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods;...
Dates: 1829-1913

Jenkins Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0790
Overview Miscellaneous family papers of John E. Jenkins, Albright, relating to Preston County, West Virginia. Included are correspondence and genealogies of Preston County families and papers dealing with education and churches in the county. Bound volumes include a minute book, "Regimental Courts of Enquiry," for the One Hundred Fourth Regiment, Virginia Militia, later the Twenty-fourth Regiment, West Virginia Militia, 1836-1866; and a minute book of the Brandonville and Terra Alta Telephone...
Dates: 1832-1951

Jolliff Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3241
Scope and Contents Collection consists of photographs, publications, letters, and newspaper clippings regarding the Jolliff and Watson families. Jolliff family history is highlighted in photocopies of the publication, Family Record and Genealogy of the Jolliff Family, From the Year 1760 to 1878 Inclusive by Oliver P. Jolliff and James S. Watson (1878). A photocopy of the Journal of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Encampment, Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the...
Dates: 1878-1954

Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1731
Overview Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop...
Dates: 1849-1923

Monongalia Historical Society Records

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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

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates: 1774, 1822-1943

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905

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Education 9
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Account books 2
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Frontier and pioneer life 2
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 2
Land. 2
Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 2
Preston County (W. Va.) 2
Travel accounts. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Universities and colleges 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Abolition of slavery 1
Academies (Private schools) 1
Academies and Institutes. 1
Accounting 1
African American Churches -- West Virginia 1
African American teachers -- West Virginia 1
African American women 1
African Americans -- Education -- West Virginia 1
African Americans -- Genealogy 1
African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
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Alabama 1
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Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
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Fayette County (Pa.) 1
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Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
Indians of North America 1
Indians, North American. 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha Salt Works. 1
Kanawha Valley. 1
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
Land - deeds and grants. 1
Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Lumber trade 1
Marriage records 1
Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
Military camps 1
Militia - Virginia 104th Regiment. 1
Militia - West Virginia 24th Regiment. 1
Ministers - letters and papers. 1
Missionaries 1
Monongalia County - court records. 1
Monongalia County - families. 1
Monongalia County - schools. 1
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Panama 1
Philippines 1
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Pioneers 1
Politics and government. 1
Presbyterian Church. 1
Preston County - families. 1
Registers of births, etc 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
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Watson family 2
Albright family 1
Alexander family 1
Alfred Fleming Cemetery Association 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
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American Colonization Society 1
Anderson family 1
Beirne family 1
Bennett, Henry. 1
Bennett, Joseph and Henry 1
Bennett, Joseph. 1
Bickley, Ancella R. 1
Bickley, Nelson R., 1928-2021 1
Brandonville and Terra Alta Telephone Company 1
Burnside family 1
Caldwell family 1
Cary, J.H. Oley. 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Bryan's Battery 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Wise Legion. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 25th. Company H 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd. Company A 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cornell University 1
Craig family 1
Crawford family 1
Curry family 1
Dennis, Thomas H. 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Eaton, John. 1
Echols, John, 1823-1896 1
Fairmont Normal School 1
Fairmont Sabbath School 1
Fairmont State Normal School 1
Farmers Bank of Virginia 1
Feemster family 1
Fleming family 1
Fleming, Benjamin. 1
Fleming, Thurston Worth. 1
Fleming, William 1
Garrison, Memphis Tennessee, 1890-1988 1
Gilliam family 1
Glendening family 1
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
Greenbrier Independent 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Harvard University 1
Hayman family 1
Haynes family 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hobart College 1
Hopkins House (Liberty, Va.) 1
Humphreys, Milton. 1
Independent Order of Odd Fellows 1
Jenkins family 1
Jenkins, John E. 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Jolliff Family 1
Jolliffe family - Genealogy 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewisburg Female Institute (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Lewisburg Methodist Episcopal Church (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Lewisburg Seminary (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 1
Matthews family 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Monongahela College 1
Monongalia Historical Society (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1
Nichols family 1
Old Lewisburg Academy (Lewisburg, W. Va.) 1
Pare and Son 1
Reynolds family 1
Reynolds, Alexander Welch, 1817-1876 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
Smith family 1
Thompson family 1
United States Military Academy 1
United States. Army. West Virginia Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864) 1
United States. Federal Civil Works Administration 1
University of Virginia. 1
Van Bibber family 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
West Virginia Historical Society 1
West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.) 1
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 1
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