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Carleton Custer Pierce (1877-1958) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1674
Overview Military records, business papers, and correspondence of a brigadier general, Kingwood attorney, state legislator, secretary of the West Virginia Horticultural Society, state adjutant general, and state Selective Service director. Other papers include a letter book, West Virginia National Guard, 1903-1907; state Selective Service memoranda, 1940-1947; and a "Historical Record of Selective Service in West Virginia." Other subjects include the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad, Pierce's coal...
Dates: ca. 1840-1955

George W. Miller Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2130
Overview Correspondence and financial records of a Gilmer County businessman, gas drilling contractor, schoolteacher, and elementary school principal who was involved also with coal, timber, real estate, and water well businesses. The correspondence concerns Miller's business affairs; dealings with government agencies, such as the Federal Power Commission and the Small Business Administration; applications for teaching positions and graduate schools; tax problems; campaign for a seat on the school...
Dates: 1948-1971

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1942
Overview Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods;...
Dates: 1829-1913

Holt-Keyes Families Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0631
Overview Business and personal correspondence of several members of the Holt and Keyes families of Barbour County, West Virginia, including Ben M., Charles, Samuel T.H., and Stephen Holt, and W.G. and Bertha Holt Keyes. The collection includes records of firms operated by these families, mainly the Keyes Lumber Company, the Holt Ice Company, and Holt's Mill; genealogical material on the Holt family; records relating to foundries, coal, coke, building supplies, general merchandise, farm and...
Dates: 1878-1944

M.J. Garrison and Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0734
Scope and Contents Additional business records of the firm operating under the names of M.J. Garrison and Bro., in Wadestown, W.Va., including cash books, bank books and ledgers. Business activities include the operation of a general store; livestock purchase and sale; wool purchase and sale, principally in the capacity of purchasing agent for James Auld and Son; school and county orders cashed for teaching, and building of the Range Bridge. Quarterly post office financial reports; Wadestown Telephone Co.,...
Dates: 1858-1920

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Coal mining. 4
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Builders and contractors. 2
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Names
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
Browning, Chauncey Jr. 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Carroll, James Hawley, 1820-1890 1
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Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 1
Consolidated Gas Company 1
Cornell University 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Dawson, William M.O. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
Eaton, John. 1
Elk Creek Oil and Gas Company 1
Elkins, Davis, 1876-1959 1
Garrison family 1
Garrison, M. J. and Company 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Hale, John P. 1
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 1
Hampden-Sydney College 1
Harvard University 1
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909 1
Hersey, Lewis B. 1
Hobart College 1
Holt Ice Company 1
Holt family 1
Holt, Ben M. 1
Holt, Charles. 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Holt, Samuel T.H. 1
Holt, Stephen. 1
Holt-Keyes Families 1
James Auld and Son 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Kee, James, 1917-1989 1
Keyes Lumber Company 1
Keyes, Bertha Holt. 1
Keyes, W.G. 1
Keys family 1
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 1
Laidley, W.S. 1
Lane Seminary Library 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
M.J. Garrison and Company. 1
Martin, Edward. 1
McClung family - Genealogy 1
McGrath, J. Howard (James Howard), 1903-1966 1
Meadows, Clarence W. 1
Mercer, Hugh 1
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 1
Miller, George W. 1
Mollohan, Robert H. 1
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 1
Morgan, E.F. 1
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 1
Oak Forest M.E. Church 1
Patteson, Okey L. 1
Pierce, Carleton Custer. 1
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 1
Ruffner family 1
Ruffner, David L. 1
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861 1
Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908 1
Smith, Hulett C. (Hulett Carlson), 1918-2012 1
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 1
United States National Guard - West Virginia. 1
United States. Bureau of Selective Service 1
United States. Federal Power Commission 1
United States. Small Business Administration 1
University of Virginia. 1
Wadestown Telephone Company 1
Washington and Lee University 1
Wayland, John W. 1
West Virginia State Horticultural Society 1
West Virginia. Legislature 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
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