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Clark and Krebs, Civil and Mining Engineers, Miscellaneous Letters and Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2565
Overview Letter book from the office of Clark & Krebs, Civil and Mining Engineers, the partnership of Charles E. Krebs, James M. Clark, George R. Krebs, and J. Walter Morgan, of Charleston, WV. Included in the letterbox are land deeds, property inventories, lists of unpaid accounts and land leases, land and mine surveys, equipment bills, reports on the working costs of coal mines and oil production, instructions for the construction of bungalows and a water plant, business contracts, and a letter...
Dates: 1912-1914

Hardy County Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1745
Overview A travel journal, ca. 1857; a diary, 1941; survey records, 1894-1896; account books, 1788-1811 - 1891-1894; county and parish tax levies, 1800; a book of geographic terms and facts kept by Susan I. Branson in 1836; and a Branson family record book. People mentioned include Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Places mentioned include: Cincinnati, Ohio; and, in West Virginia, Romney, Evansville, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coolville, Athens, Branch Mountain, Moorefield, Front Run Valley, Camp Branch Run,...
Dates: 1788-1941

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

National Road Survey

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Collection Number: A&M 2180
Overview

Copies of the original surveyor readings of the portion of the National Road traversing West Virginia through Ohio County. The readings are surveyor calculations of area and meridian locations. There are also side notes mentioning special features such as watercourses like Wheeling Creek. Also includes a typed copy of a letter from Richard D. Delafield, a chief engineer of the survey, to James G. Totten stating changes in the course of the National Road survey east of the Ohio River.

Dates: 1832-34, 1848

Ohio County Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 0031
Scope and Contents Court case papers, 1776-1930; court and county record books; birth and death records, 1887-1888; and account and minute books of individuals, companies, and organizations, 1772-1935. The bound volumes include records of brand registrations, deeds, estrays, land entries, marriages, military service, surveys, and wills. The private account books relate to general merchandising, coal sales, dental practice, a debating society, distilling, carriage manufacturing, hotels, steamboat freighting,...
Dates: 1772-1935

Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates: 1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884

Talbott-Tolbert Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1026
Overview Mainly papers of Samuel T. Tolbert, a onetime constable of Lewis County and postmaster at Frenchton, who operated a general store and acted as agent and surveyor for out-of-state landowners. Included are the papers of Zadock Lanham, J.S. Wilson, John L. Jacob, and W.C. Tolbert. There are surveys, legal papers, correspondence, and lottery certificates from Ohio and Delaware, and Democratic state and county election tickets. Correspondents include Lewis Maxwell, J.M. Bennett, and F.H....
Dates: 1784-1914 1931

Thomas Hanson Journal

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Collection Number: A&M 1033
Overview

Journal of a surveying party including Hanson, John Floyd, James Nocks, Roderick McCray, and Mordecai Batson. The Journal describes the route taken from Fincastle County, Virginia, to the Ohio River and Kentucky, with mention of Gauley Mountain, Coal and New rivers, and other western Virginia geographical locations. Included is a list of persons for whom the surveys were made.

Dates: 1774 April 8-August

Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1855
Scope and Contents Xerox copies of the correspondence of William White, Cregan Cave (Greenbrier County) 1871-1897. William White (II) fitted himself to become a land surveyor, and for many years held the official position of surveyor of Greenbrier County. Letters relate to surveys and sale of several acres of land for George S. and John C. Knox and E. C. Halliday.Other letters relating to property and deeds are from G. W. Black, Elvira Fenton, J. R. Crawford, J. W. Watson, Dennis Landis, Lucy A....
Dates: 1869-1964

William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1695
Overview

History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.

Dates: 1893

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Alleghany Collegiate Institute 1
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Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Branson family. 1
Branson, Susan I. 1
Brights Mill 1
Brown, John. 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Charles E. Krebs, Inc. 1
Clark and Krebs 1
Clark and Krebs (Mine Engineering Firm) 1
Clark, James M. 1
Clarke, James C. 1
Clarke, John P. 1
Clarke, John P. (1825-1900) 1
Cook family 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cumberland Road 1
Cunningham, John S. 1
Delafield, Richard, 1798-1873 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dixon, Thomas W. 1
Fleischer family 1
Floyd, John. 1
Gambrell family 1
Gambrill, Charles. 1
Grange Cooperative Association 1
Greenbrier Seminary 1
Hanson, Thomas 1
Hayman family 1
Haymond, Luther 1
Haymond, William (1771-1848) 1
Haymond, William. 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Jacob, John L. 1
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Lanham, Zadock. 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Maxwell, Lewis, 1790-1862 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McCray, Roderick. 1
McKinney, Lt. W.M. 1
Miller, Alexander McVeigh Jr. 1
Miller, Irene 1
Miller, McVeigh. 1
Nocks, James. 1
Ohio County Centennial Association 1
Ohio County Court 1
Ohio Valley Glass Company 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Poole, Ella. 1
Rector, Enoch. 1
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 1
Slack, Greenbury. 1
Talbott-Tolbert family. 1
Tavenner family 1
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 1
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 1
Tavenner, William Cabell. 1
Tolbert, Samuel T. 1
Tolbert, W.C. 1
Totten, James G. 1
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1
West Virginia Wool Growers Association 1
West Virginia. State Exposition and Fair Association 1
Wheeling Masonic Hall Association 1
White, William. 1
Wilson, J.S. 1
Wirt Oil and Mining Company 1
Withers family 1
Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 1
Zane, Ebenezer, 1747-1812 1
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