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Jackson Family of Monongalia and Preston Counties Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3717
Overview

Papers of the Jackson family of Monongalia and Preston County, (West) Virginia, including business, financial, and legal documents. Includes Civil War pension records for Henry C. Jackson (1864); business records of Jackson and Lamb documenting transactions with Tassey and Church, Grocers of Pittsburgh (1833-1834); and records regarding Cheat Iron Works, St. John's Furnace, and Hampton Forge (1833 and undated), among other material (1814-1891).

Dates: 1814-1891; Majority of material found within 1833-1834, 1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

 Collection
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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ralph Fairfax, Collector, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0845
Scope and Contents

A tax book of Monongalia County, 1855, and an estate appraisement of John Fairfax for personal property at the Glades, and Cheat Farm, Monongalia County. The appraisement refers to the sale of eleven enslaved Africans. There are also two lists of delinquent taxpayers; scrip from the Gladesville Furnace, 1877; and a list of the hands at Clinton (Furnace).

Dates: 1844-1877
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0831
Overview Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE,...
Dates: 1884-1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William McCleery (1741-1821) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0146
Overview The papers of Colonel William McCleery of Morgantown, a Revolutionary War veteran, attorney, county clerk, prosecuting attorney, representative from Monongalia County to the Federal Constitutional Convention, founder of the Presbyterian Church in Morgantown, and landholder and purchasing agent. The papers include correspondence, typescripts, land records, and some printed materials. Much of the correspondence is between McCleery and his agent, Benjamin Oden of Upper Marlboro, Maryland,...
Dates: 1770-1857, 1945; Majority of material found within 1770-1857
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Barbe, Waitman, 1864-1925 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 1
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 1
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Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 1
Churchill, Winston. 1
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Dandridge, Danske, 1858-1914 1
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 1
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Fairfax, Ralph 1
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Gay, Matthew. 1
Gilder, R.W. 1
Gladesville Furnace 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hardman, George Dencil, 1906-1972 1
Haymond, William. 1
Hayne, William H. 1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 1
Holmes, Oliver W. 1
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, Josiah. 1
Jacobs family 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lanier, Clifford Anderson, 1844-1908 1
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 1
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 1
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 1
McCleery, Isabelle Stockton. 1
McCleery, William, 1741-1821 1
McCleery, William. 1
Minor, John. 1
Monongalia Iron Works 1
Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955 1
Morgan, Zackquill. 1
Oden, Benjamin. 1
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 1
Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 1
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 1
Preston, Margaret Junkin, 1820-1897 1
Reed family 1
Reppert family 1
Rettig, John. 1
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 1
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935 1
Rogers, John, 1786-1864 1
Rutherford, John. 1
Shinn, William. 1
Staritt family 1
Swan, James. 1
Swan, John. 1
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
United States. Constitutional Convention (1787) 1
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 1
Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921 1
West Virginia University. Department of English 1
Weston State Hospital 1
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 1
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
Wilson, Robert Burns, 1850-1916 1
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938 1
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