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Courtney Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1629
Overview Papers of a Monongalia County, West Virginia, farm family residing near Maidsville include: the farm account books of John and John J. Courtney, 1831-1877; family Bible records and photographs; college essays of Alpheus Courtney, a West Virginia University student; manuscript ciphering book, 1817; diary of Ulysses J. Courtney, 1878-1883 (7 vols.) pertaining to lumbering, farming, and livestock operations, and community religious and social life; correspondence; steamboat bills of lading,...
Dates: 1804-1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George W. Johnson (1837-1902) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1655
Overview

Diaries, correspondence, notes, receipts, and newspaper clippings of a lumberman and stockman from Morgantown, West Virginia. Subjects include Johnson's agricultural activities, his extensive timber dealings in Monongalia County, and the rafting of logs to Pittsburgh and intermediate points on the Monongahela River.

Dates: 1860-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Job W. Parsons Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0637
Scope and Contents

Pocket diary (1874, 1884, 1886-1888, 1893-1894) of Job. W. Parsons, a farmer, lumberman, and stockman of Randolph County. There are daily entries center on routine farm chores, weather conditions, prices, and wages. See A&M 566 for years 1881-1882; and A&M 598 for years 1875-1879, 1880-1883.

Dates: 1874; 1884; 1886-1888; 1893-1894
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Job W. Parsons Diaries

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Collection Number: A&M 0566
Scope and Contents

Pocket diary (1881-1882) of Job. W. Parsons, a farmer, lumberman, and stockman of Randolph County. There are daily entries center on routine farm chores, weather conditions, prices, and wages. See A&M 598 for years 1875-1879, 1880-1883; and A&M 637 for years 1874, 1884, 1886-1888, 1893-1894

Dates: 1881-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Job W. Parsons Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0598
Scope and Contents

Pocket diary (1875-1879, 1880-1883) of Job. W. Parsons, a farmer, lumberman, and stockman of Randolph County. There are daily entries center on routine farm chores, weather conditions, prices, and wages. See A&M 566 for years 1881-1882; and A&M 637 for years 1874, 1884, 1886-1888, 1893-1894.

Dates: 1875-1879; 1880-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Maxwell Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0010
Overview Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing...
Dates: ca. 1845-1950, 2017; Majority of material found within ca. 1845-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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