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Ellison Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates: 1819-1977

Emory L. Kemp Papers regarding Industrial History

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Collection Number: A&M 4230
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials from Dr. Emory L. Kemp’s career of researching, documenting, and preserving historic structures. Kemp was a practicing civil engineer from 1952-1959, then taught civil engineering, historic preservation, and the history of technology from 1962-2003 at West Virginia University. He served as an expert consultant for the preservation of many historic engineering structures, including bridges, waterways, and mills. He also published regularly and remained...
Dates: 1735-2021

Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates: 1842-1961

John P. Clarke (1825-1900) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1511
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, surveys, account books, and a diary of a Burning Springs surveyor, oil developer, rural entrepreneur, horticulturalist, and captain of the Little Kanawha River steamer GENERAL JACKSON. Collection includes a brief journal of a trip from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Forks of the Platte in 1860; papers of Clarke's venture in quartz mining and milling in the Colorado Territory, 1861-1863; surveys of the Burning Springs oil region; letters from James C....
Dates: 1851-1900

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0504
Scope and Contents

Letters to and from John Rogers of Morgantown concerning his business affairs; subjects of the letters include the Morgantown Bridge Company, building an academy in Morgantown, the North West Turnpike, stage routes between Morgantown and Uniontown, salt, wool, carding, the purchase of machinery for the manufacture of woolen goods, plow points, and negroes. Correspondents include John Hoye, J. M. Mason, George Calmes, John R. Cooke, George White, J. A. Stein, and G. Faber and Sons.

Dates: 1823 - 1852

McNeill Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0134
Scope and Contents Papers, mainly of Daniel and Daniel R. McNeill, stock dealers and mill owners of Hardy County. The early correspondence relates to the purchase and sale of livestock and the driving of herds to markets in the east. There is correspondence from members of the family in the vicinity of Chillicothe, Ohio, relating to farm and market conditions and commenting on travel from Hardy County to Ohio. There are also references to river traffic on the Scioto and Ohio rivers and to the quantity of...
Dates: 1770-1929

Nathan Hanes (1821-1899) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2595
Overview

Letters, business papers, and photograph concerning Nathan Hanes of Proctor, Wetzel County, West Virginia, a sawmill clipper operator along the Ohio River. There is a large amount of correspondence addressed to E.E. Headlee, administrator of Hanes' estate, concerning its administration. There are also thirteen cash books, ledgers, and other account books, as well as a notebook containing information on the Hanes family.

Dates: ca. 1845-1900

Osborne Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0930
Overview

A genealogy of the Osborne family of Greenbrier County. Originally from New Jersey, the family settled in Greenbrier and Hampshire counties.

Dates: 1987

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Clarksburg 50-Year Club 2
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Alexandria Canal Company 1
American Society of Civil Engineers 1
American Society of Civil Engineers. Committee on History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering 1
Calmes, George 1
Clarke, James C. 1
Clarke, John P. 1
Clarke, John P. (1825-1900) 1
Cooke, John R. 1
Dunlap family 1
Ellet, Charles, 1777-1847 1
Ellison family 1
Ellison, Allison Dunlap. 1
Faber, George B. 1
Fluty, Beverly B. 1
Hanes, Nathan (1821-1899) 1
Hanes, Nathan. 1
Haynes family 1
Headlee, E.E. 1
Historic American Buildings Survey 1
Historic American Engineering Record 1
Hoye, John 1
Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology 1
Keadle, Charles Alexander. 1
Kemp, Emory L. 1
Mason, J. M. 1
McNeill family 1
McNeill, Daniel R. 1
McNeill, Daniel. 1
Morgantown Bridge Company 1
National Rivers and Harbors Congress 1
Ove Arup & Partners 1
Paul D. Marshall & Associates 1
Petrie family 1
Petrie, William. 1
Peyton, Billy Joe 1
Preservation Alliance of West Virginia 1
Society for Industrial Archeology 1
Stein, J. A. 1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers 1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Ohio River Division. 1
Vandalia Heritage Foundation 1
West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation 1
West Virginia University 1
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 1
West Virginia University. Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology 1
West Virginia Wool Growers Association 1
White, George 1
Wirt Oil and Mining Company 1
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