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Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
Collection
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
Anita Cutright Burnett, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2148
Overview
Papers of Anita Cutright Burnett, an Upshur County genealogist and active member of the Upshur County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The collection contains DAR membership applications, genealogical correspondence, vital statistics for Lewis and Upshur counties and typed copies of the 1850 census returns for Ritchie and Taylor counties.
Dates:
ca. 1790-1935
Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0040
Overview
Papers of the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions" books from the law firm of...
Dates:
1784-1924
Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0568
Overview
Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers, including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of...
Dates:
1784-1924
Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspapers, and newspaper clippings concerning the service records of West Virginia University students, former students, and alumni collected by Dean C. R. Jones for the compilation of the University Honor Roll. Also several bulletins, pamphlets, and circulars on the war activities of various university and veteran’s hospitals, including: West Virginia Wesleyan, Shepherd College, University of Arizona, University of Cincinnati, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic...
Dates:
1917-1934
Collection of the Hulver Family and Baughman Settlement, Hardy County, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4552
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a wealth of information on the Baughman and Hulver families, and others who established the Baughman Settlement in the late eighteenth century. The collection spans from the antebellum Civil War era through World War Two. The collection includes correspondence, postcards, family photograph albums and assorted photographs, biographical sketches and family history, books, legal documents, receipts, certificates, and Confederate money. Also present are assorted...
Dates:
1800-2013, undated; Majority of material found within 1830-1950, undated
Davis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1946
Scope and Contents
One box of material including original and typescript copies of letters exchanged between Anna Kennedy and J.J. Davis for the period 1860-1862. Also included is material on the Chapin family, Davis and Steen family genealogy and Reed family Bible.
Correspondents are J.J. Davis, Anna Kennedy, J.W. Davis, Phineas Chapin, Rev. Asa Brooks, and J. W. Wayland.
John W. Davis' certificate of Admission to practice before the Supreme Court of West Virginia dated 1896. His sponsor was Melville...
Dates:
1800-1941
Drain, Maderia, McGee, Ramsey, and Smallridge Families Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4336
Scope and Contents
Five genealogies in two volumes; includes:1) Descendants of Azariah Drain of Harrison County, WV, 69 pages, ca. 1795 - 2014, through 7 generations.
2) Descendants of John Jacob Maderia of Jefferson County, OH, 37 pages, ca. 1839 - 2014, through six generations.
3) Descendants of Beverly McGee of Jefferson County, OH, 30 pages, ca 1780 - 1969 through seven generations.
4) Descendants of Silas Milton Ramsay of Pickens, Randolph County, WV, 12 pages, ca 1807 - 1925,...
Dates:
2014
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
Genealogy Research of Robert L. and Joann West Regarding North Central West Virginia Families
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4413
Scope and Contents
Folder of genealogy research and correspondence by Robert L. and Joann West, Morgantown based genealogy researchers. Includes information about many prominent Morgantown and North Central West Virginia families, such as the McCray, Nixon, Martin, Stiles, and York families.
Dates:
1974-1976