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Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1906
Overview

Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.

Dates: 1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cleaver Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1945
Scope and Contents Facsimiles of historical documents. Land grant to William Cleaver and others for 1,000 acres on the Monongahela River, 1782; certificate for money due B. Cleaver for service in the Virginia Militia, 1783; affidavits concerning the military service of William and Benjamin Cleaver, 1774-1782, in Dunmore's War, at the Falls of the Ohio, and on General George Rogers Clark's expedition against the Indians, including the Shawnee. There is also a petition, 1777, by residents of the Tygart Valley,...
Dates: 1777-1833 (facsimiles), 1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harry T. Leeper, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0348
Scope and Contents Collection includes family correspondence of the Bowman, Veach, and Leeper families. Manuscripts include a recounting of the Civil War event known as "Jones' Raid." In another document Nathaniel Cochrane, an ancestor of Thomas Leeper, recounts his capture and imprisonment by indigenous people, along with a biography of Cochrane. Daily life for that time is captured in "Home Life of the Leeper Family." Other typescript histories include "Monongah," Thomas Leeper's diary regarding heavy rains...
Dates: 1779-1915
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henderson and Tomlinson Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1426
Overview Microfilm copy of the papers of the Henderson and Tomlinson families of Wood County, West Virginia, from 1789 to 1859. Materials relate to frontier life in the Parkersburg-Marietta area, and include Alexander Henderson's journal about his settlement on the Little Kanawha River, 1798-1803; his plantation accounts; letters on the Burr conspiracy; and an account of a duel between Henderson and Stephen R. Wilson in 1803. Also includes several items related to Marine Corps Commandant Archibald...
Dates: 1789-1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ice's Ferry History and Genealogy, Typed Documents

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Collection Number: A&M 0379
Overview Five typescripts pertaining to Ice's Ferry and the Ice family. The first typescript is "Ice's Ferry," (8 pp., undated) an account of the Ice family and of Ice's Ferry in Monongalia County, with comments on frontier and pioneer life in western Virginia, apparently written by Virginia H. Conaway of Marion County. The second item is a variant copy of the "Ice's Ferry," typescript (10 pp., undated). The third typescript is a copy of "Historical Notes on Ice's Ferry," written by John L. Johnston...
Dates: 1920, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jacob S. Hayden Diary

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Collection Number: A&M 2302
Overview

Chronicle written by Hayden, Mayor of Fairmont, of his trip to the west coast. He describes the perils of a steamboat trip from Pittsburgh to Independence, Missouri, and the joys and hardships of travel by wagon across the Great Plains to California. Indian encounters, river crossings, inclement weather, scarcity of water, thieves, and firing squads are some of the topics noted.

Dates: 1852
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John L. Johnston, Author, Typescript regarding Ice's Ferry History and Genealogy

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Collection Number: A&M 0553
Overview

Six page typescript by John L. Johnston, 1920, titled "Historical Notes, Ice's Ferry." Covering the time span of 1758-1920, the narrative locates and describes early settlements; roads; forts; Indian trails, villages and tribes; industries; the land office; and men and families prominent in the development of Monongalia County. Mention is made of the proposed construction of the dam and recreation area on the Cheat River.

Dates: 1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lyman C. Draper, Antiquarian, Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 3045
Overview The interviews, correspondence, notes and reports of a Wisconsin based, New York born antiquarian and early researcher of frontier history. Lyman C. Draper's manuscripts were willed to the Wisconsin State Historical Society where he had been its corresponding secretary and instrumental in its development. Microfilm was produced by the society of his papers and made available for purchase to libraries because of their significance for studying the Eastern frontier and its pioneers. Draper had...
Dates: ca. 1740-1815
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

New River Symposiums Proceedings

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Collection Number: A&M 3393
Overview Compact disc of a searchable database of 1200 facsimile pages of New River Symposium Proceedings dating from 1982-1999. Articles in the Proceedings discuss the natural and cultural features of the New River region of West Virginia, including the following topics: botany, Civil War, coal mining, environmentalism, folklore, folk music, geology, Green Sulphur Springs, historic preservation, iron industry, native Americans, railroads, rivers (Bluestone, Gauley, New), transportation, and Mary...
Dates: 1982-1999
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Indians of North America 11
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Education 4
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
Fortification 2
Ice's Ferry. 2
Land. 2
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 2
Steamboats 2
Transportation 2
Travel accounts. 2
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
Academies (Private schools) 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Authors -- Letters and papers 1
Barboursville (W. Va.) 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
Bluestone River (Va. and W. Va.) 1
Buckhannon Creek 1
Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
California 1
California -- Gold discoveries 1
Charleston. 1
Chemical industry 1
Civil War - West Virginia 9th Volunteer Infantry. 1
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Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War battles - Allegheny Mountain. 1
Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
Civil War battles - Droop Mountain. 1
Civil War battles - Greenbrier River. 1
Civil War battles - Lewisburg. 1
Civil War battles - White Sulphur Springs. 1
Civil War battles. 1
Coal mining. 1
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Environmentalism. 1
Fairmont. 1
Floods 1
Folk music 1
Folklore 1
Freemasons 1
Gauley River (W. Va.) 1
Geology 1
Grave Creek. 1
Green Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County - Civil War. 1
Greenbrier River (W. Va.) 1
Guyandotte (Huntington, W. Va.) 1
Guyandotte Valley. 1
Historic preservation 1
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West Virginia 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
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Lord Dunmore's War, 1774 1
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Monongah (W. Va.) 1
Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
Ohio River 1
Ohio River and Valley. 1
Outlaws 1
Parkersburg. 1
Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
Politics and government. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Randolph County - Civil War. 1
Revolutionary War - Tory Insurrection. 1
Roads 1
Salt industry and trade 1
Shawnee Indians 1
Stanard Salute. 1
Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
Taverns (Inns) 1
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Tennessee 1
Tygart Valley. 1
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 1
United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
Valley of Lost River. 1
Wagon trains 1
Washington (D.C.) 1
Wayne County (W. Va.) 1
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Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 2
Ice family 2
Ice's Ferry 2
Johnston, John L. 2
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
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Averell, W.W. 1
Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Barboursville Common Council 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Bowman family 1
Brady, Samuel. 1
Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807 1
Cleaver family 1
Cleaver, Benjamin. 1
Cleaver, William. 1
Cochran family 1
Cochran, Nathaniel. 1
Conaway, Virginia H. 1
Cresap, Michael, 1742-1775 1
Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Dickinson, J.Q. 1
Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 1
Good, Ronald. 1
Guyandotte Navigation Company 1
Guyandotte Turnpike Company 1
Hale, J.P. 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hayden, Jacob S. 1
Henderson family. Tomlinson family. 1
Henderson, Alexander. 1
Henderson, Archibald. 1
Henderson, Jock B. 1
Henderson-Tomlinson family. 1
Ingles, Mary Draper, 1732-1815 1
Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836 1
Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Leeper family 1
Leeper, Harry T. 1
Leeper, Thomas M. 1
Lewis, Virgil Anson, 1848-1912 1
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 1
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1849-1886 1
Maxwell, H. 1
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. 1
Monongah High School (Monongah, W. Va.) 1
New River Gorge National River (Agency : U.S.) 1
Noyes, Bradford (b. 1860) 1
Noyes, Bradford. 1
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Skinner, B.M. 1
Stanard family - Genealogy 1
Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813 1
Tomlinson family 1
Tomlinson, A.B. 1
Veitch family 1
Wetzel, Lewis, 1763-1808 1
Williams, Isaac. 1
Wilson, Stephen R. 1
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