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David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0627
Scope and Contents Letters to David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). These sixteen letters cover topics including land in Randolph and Tucker counties,...
Dates: 1852-1868

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates: 1826-1878

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1027
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). The papers include correspondence; land papers, particularly, for Randolph County; court...
Dates: 1840-1878

Edward C. Bunker (1830-1867) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1615
Overview

Legal papers of a Morgantown lawyer, partner of United States Senator Waitman T. Willey, prosecuting attorney of Monongalia County, state senator, and judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court. Included are papers which relate to Bunker's Civil War service and Willey's legal practice. There are a few items of correspondence on land speculation and immigration in post-Civil War West Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1850-1865, 1901

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

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1188
Overview Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes correspondence, legal documents, photocopies of printed material, and land grants. Subjects of the correspondence include West Virginia politics; the elections of 1840, 1860, and 1861; Reconstruction; the Flick Amendment; Southern sentiment in Clarksburg;...
Dates: 1784-1899

Richard H. Ralston, Sr., Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2205
Overview Correspondence of William A. Harrison, a Clarksburg lawyer, assistant federal district attorney, member of the Virginia Assembly, and judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; most letters are from members of the family to Mrs. Anna Robertson Harrison. Subjects include construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; Civil War loyalty Oaths, Camp Chase land purchases, and road building. There are also grade school attendance certificates and notes concerning the Lunatic Asylum...
Dates: 1825-1934

Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates: circa 1788-1888

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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Land. 7
Politics and government. 6
Railroads 3
Randolph County (W. Va.) 3
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Judges - letters and papers. 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Women's history -- 1929-1950 2
Bank of Berkeley Springs - Banks and Banking. 1
Banks - Union Bank and Trust Company. 1
Banks and Banking - American Institute of Banking. 1
Banks and Banking - Bank of Berkeley Springs. 1
Banks and Banking - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. 1
Banks and Banking - Financial Public Relations Association. 1
Banks and Banking - First Virginia Corporation. 1
Berkeley Glass Sand Company -- Glass Sand Industry 1
Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Springs Water Works and Improvement Co. -- Power Industry 1
Beverly (W. Va.) 1
Bibles 1
Blueprints 1
Bonds -- Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia 1
Bowling 1
Business correspondence 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Canaan Valley (W. Va.) 1
Canals 1
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) 1
Church schools -- Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Churches -- Episcopal 1
Civil War - political factions. 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Description 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Clarksburg Conservative 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Coal mining. 1
Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
Court records 1
Debts, Public -- Virginia 1
Debts, Public -- West Virginia 1
Depression. 1
Education 1
Education -- West Virginia 1
Election of 1840. 1
Election of 1848. 1
Election of 1860. 1
Election of 1868. 1
Election of 1912. 1
Elections 1
Epidemics 1
Episcopal Church - Churches. 1
Estates and estate settlements. 1
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Banks and Banking. 1
Financial Public Relations Association - Banks and Banking. 1
First Virginia Corporation - Banks and Banking. 1
France 1
Freemasons 1
Genealogy 1
General stores - Hammond and Siler. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Berkeley Glass Sand Company. 1
Glass Sand Industry - Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation. 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hancock Steel Company - Steel. 1
Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Huntington. 1
Immigration. 1
Insurance - V. E. Johnson Insurance Agency. 1
Land - deeds and grants. 1
Land Plat. 1
Ledgers. 1
Libraries - Morgan County Library. 1
Lunatic Asylum West of the Allegheny Mountains. 1
Magazines. 1
Methodism 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Morgan County - Circuit Court. 1
Morgan County Library - Libraries. 1
Music - Sheet music. 1
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
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Western Maryland Railroad Company. 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Rhodes scholarships 1
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
Rock Gap Coal and Mining Company - Stocks. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
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Names
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 4
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 3
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 3
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 2
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 2
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Price, Samuel, 1805-1884 2
Weston State Hospital 2
American Institute of Banking 1
American Red Cross 1
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 1
Armstrong, James D. 1
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 1
Baltimore Trust Company 1
Ben Lamond Company 1
Bennett, J.M. 1
Blackberry, Kentucky and West Virginia Coal and Coke Company 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960 1
Bull and Bear Club 1
Bunker, Edward C. 1
Bunker, Edward C. (1830-1867) 1
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 1
Campbell family 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Castleman family - Genealogy 1
Castleman, Ann Rebecca Isler. 1
Castleman, Estelle. 1
Castleman, Frank A. 1
Castleman, Sarah Jane. 1
Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad 1
Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia - Bonds. 1
Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Davis, Innis C. 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Davis, T.B. 1
Dayton, Spencer 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Echols, John, 1823-1896 1
Emerald Shillelagh Chowder and Marching Society, Inc. 1
Foulke, William Parker 1
Gibson, Philip P. 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Goff family 1
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
Great Cacapon Silica Sand Company 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hammond and Siler General Store. 1
Hammond family - Genealogy 1
Hammond, Allen C. 1
Hammond, Cadet N. 1
Hardin, Moses 1
Harrison, Mrs. Anna M. Robertson. 1
Harrison, William A. 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Hill family - Genealogy 1
Hodges, Thomas E. 1
Hotee, John. 1
Humphries family - Genealogy 1
Isler family - Genealogy 1
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
League of Nations 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Meadville Collegiate Institute (Wellsburg, Va.) 1
Middleton, H.O. 1
Montgomery Ward 1
Mount de Chantal Academy (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
Ralston, Richard H. 1
Randolph, Emily Strother. 1
Rinehart, E. A. 1
Robinson, Ira E. 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
Strother, Anne Doyne. 1
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 1
Trent, W.W. 1
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 1
Van Gosen, James D. 1
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 1
Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) 1
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 1
Wallace family 1
Wallace, George Selden, 1871-1963 1
Watson, C. W. 1
West Virginia. Constitution. Flick Amendment 1
West Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1872) 1
West Virginia. Legislature 1
Whisner, Samuel. 1
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