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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

John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview

Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.

Dates: 1824-1935

Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1791
Overview Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond...
Dates: 1828-1890, 1901, 1935

Siler Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates: 1848-1968

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Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking. 1
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Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association. 1
Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation. 1
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Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry 1
Bibles 1
Blueprints 1
Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia 1
Bourbon politics. 1
Bowling 1
Business correspondence 1
Charleston. 1
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Churches -- West Virginia -- Harrison County 1
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Civil War - political factions. 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Banks and Banking. 1
Financial Public Relations Association - Banks and Banking. 1
First Virginia Corporation - Banks and Banking. 1
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General stores - Hammond and Siler. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Berkeley Glass Sand Company. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation. 1
Hancock Steel Company - Steel. 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Harrison County (W.Va.) - history - Civil War 1
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Lexington, V.A. 1
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Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
Magazines. 1
Mississippi 1
Morgan County - Circuit Court. 1
Morgan County Library - Libraries. 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
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Northern Virginia Power Company - Power Industry. 1
Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation - Glass Sand Industry. 1
Poetry -- Nannie S. Castleman 1
Political factions - Civil War. 1
Politics - Secession of Virginia. 1
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Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Western Maryland Railroad Company. 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Rhodes scholarships 1
Rock Gap Coal and Mining Company - Stocks. 1
Scrapbooks 1
Secession 1
Secession of Virginia - Politics. 1
Supreme Court of West Virginia 1
Town of Bath, West Virginia - Berkeley Springs. 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Universities and colleges 1
Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851. 1
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Davis, John J. (John James), 1835-1916 2
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 2
Davis, John. 2
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 2
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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
American Institute of Banking 1
American Red Cross 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Blair, Jacob B., 1821-1901 1
Brooks, Asa B. 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Campbell family 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Carlisle, George, 1797-1863 1
Cass, Lewis. 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Chapin family 1
Chapin, Phineas. 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Craik, James. 1
Davis, Julia, 1900-1993 1
Davis, Rezin C. 1
Dew, Thomas R. (Thomas Roderick), 1802-1846 1
Donnally, Andrew. 1
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 1
Floyd, John. 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 1
Henderson, Alexander. 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 1
Jacob, John J. 1
Kennedy, Anna. 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Lucas, Daniel B. 1
Montgomery Ward 1
Philippi Turnpike Company 1
Randolph, Emily Strother. 1
Reed family 1
Rinehart, E. A. 1
Ruffner family 1
Sears, Roebuck and Company 1
Seiler family 1
Seller family - Genealogy 1
Shepard family - Genealogy 1
Siler, J. Hammond Jr. 1
Siler, J. Hammond Sr. 1
Siler, Jessie Castleman. 1
Siler, John T. 1
Steel - Hancock Steel Company. 1
Steen family 1
Steen, Margaret. 1
Strother, Anne Doyne. 1
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 1
Summers, Lewis, 1777 or 1778-1843 1
United States. Congress 1
University of Virginia. 1
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 1
Van Gosen, James D. 1
Wayland, John W. 1
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1
Whisner, Samuel. 1
Widmyer, P. S. 1
Willcox, Luke. 1
Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876 1
Woodburn Female Seminary (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1
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